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- Methland (6)
- The Death and Life of an American Small Town
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By Nick Reding -
Finished on May 15, 2010 
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- Monstrous Affections (3)
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By David Nickle -
Finished on May 11, 2010
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- Outliers (1014)
- The Story of Success
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By Malcolm Gladwell -
Finished on May 9, 2010
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The science is a little weak, but it provoked a lot of interesting discussions with my friends
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May 20, 2010 |
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- Predictably Irrational (319)
- The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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By Dan Ariely -
Finished on Apr 26, 2010
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Great information, but suffers a bit from its own success- every behavioral econ blog takes the things he said as a given, so if you follow that crowd it's mostly old news.
I really wish he'd gone into how the various fallacies interact. Some of them are pretty obviously there to counter each othe ... (
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Apr 27, 2010 |
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- Vampire$ (39)
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By Steakley John -
Abandoned on Apr 29, 2010
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- The Child Thief (16)
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By Gerald Brom -
Finished on Apr 23, 2010
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A great story idea with so-so implementation. I wasn't at all surprised to find out the author's day job is in graphic arts: the story reads like it was written by someone who comes up with great concepts but hasn't mastered storytelling. But I stayed up late every night for a week reading it, so ... (
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Apr 25, 2010 |
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- Cell-Level Healing (3)
- The Bridge from Soul to Cell
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By Joyce Whiteley Hawkes -
Finished on Apr 5, 2010
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- Born to Run (114)
- A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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By Christopher McDougall -
Finished on Apr 14, 2010
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This is really two books: a series of athlete and competition descriptions, and several essays on disparate running-related science. I didn't care about the people at all. The science was interesting and very approachable, but clearly written by a sports writer. He gets a few things outright wro ... (
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Apr 15, 2010 |
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- Feelings Buried Alive Never Die (3)
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By Karol K. Truman -
Finished on May 19, 2010
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- In Defense of Food (84)
- The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating
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By Michael Pollan -
Finished on Mar 14, 2010
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A useful triangulation point that I believe overstates his case and ignores some important data, but makes up for it with a useful new perspective.
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Mar 15, 2010 |
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- Soulfire (3)
- Chaos Reign
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By J. T. Krul -
Started on Feb 14, 2010
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- The Final Empire (261)
- (Mistborn, Book 1)
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By Brandon Sanderson -
Abandoned on Feb 6, 2010
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- Zoo (10)
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By Otsuichi -
Abandoned
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- New Rules Of Lifting For Women (2)
- Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess
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By Lou Schuler with Cassandra Forsythe -
Abandoned on Feb 6, 2010
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- Body by Science (5)
- A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a Week
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By John R. Little, Doug McGuff -
Finished on Jan 30, 2010
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A great source of ideas, but follow through on the references, he pretty outrageously misquotes some of them.
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Jan 31, 2010 |
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Methland
Author is fundamentally incurious. He parrots the talking points of the DEA without questioning their assumptions and describes events without examining why they happened the way they did. He constructs cause-and-effect narratives without providing any data proving his point. The only data provide ... (continue)
Author is fundamentally incurious. He parrots the talking points of the DEA without questioning their assumptions and describes events without examining why they happened the way they did. He constructs cause-and-effect narratives without providing any data proving his point. The only data provided are scary, unverifiable numbers about how much meth is consumed.