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- Brothers (6)
- A Novel
- By Yu Hua
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- Waiting (135)
- By Dick Hill, Ha Jin
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Why do we wait? Depressing.
- — Jun 30, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- Wolf Totem (23)
- By Jiang Rong
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Fascinating. The metaphors must scare the Chinese government.
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- War Trash (26)
- A novel
- By Ha Jin
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- Dark Star Safari (55)
- Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
- By Paul Theroux
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He has written so many travel books and novels. I read them all. Too many to list. His views are insightful and a bit twisted...he is definitely not the guy you bring home to meet "mom". Seriously...any of them are great and if you can meet him at a book review you will see what I mean...very edgy. ... (continue)
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- Winston Churchill's Speeches (11)
- Never Give In!
- By Winston S. Churchill
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Tough it out! No one cares.
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- Tropical Classical (6)
- Essays from Several Directions
- By Pico Iyer
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So many of his books...too many to note. He is a fun travel writer. Try The Lady and the Monk or Video Night in Khatmandu...
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- The Ends of the Earth (14)
- From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia--A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
- By Robert D. Kaplan
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Now you know why the third world is so sad and dare we say, hopeless. The centuries of hate and killing go on and there is no end in sight.
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- The Perfect Storm (61)
- By Sebastian Junger
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I sailed to Hawaii three times...this book captures the power of the ocean...awesome and very scary
- — Jun 30, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- A Case of Two Cities (11)
- An Inspector Chen Novel (Inspector Chen Cao)
- By Qiu Xiaolong
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- The Return of Depression Economics (92)
- By Paul R. Krugman
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The Return of Depression Economics
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He is a thorn under Obama's skin even though he is a liberal Democrat. Very interesting read.
- — Jun 30, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- It Can't Happen Here (16)
- By Perry Meisel, Lewis Sinclair
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Read this about a right wing government and then think about the Obama government...a bit scary. Written in the thirties...read in 2009!
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- Death of a Red Heroine (27)
- By Qiu Xiaolong
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The best of the Inspector Chen I have read
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- Shanghai Diary (3)
- A Young Girl's Journey from Hitler's Hate to War-Torn China
- By Ursula Bacon
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- Freakonomics (1956)
- A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
- By Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
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Brothers
This is funny, moving, depressing. It was a book I could not put down! Baldy Li will be one of my favorite characters forever!
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