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- Rengen (1)
- By Patricia Martin
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Reading since Oct 13, 2008
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- Me Talk Pretty One Day (91)
- By David Sedaris
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Finished on Jan 19, 2009
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- A Separate Peace (45)
- By John Knowles
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Finished on Oct 13, 2008
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- The Good Earth (56)
- (Oprah's Book Club)
- By Pearl S. Buck
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Finished on Jul 30, 2008
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- The Long Tail (29)
- Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
- By Chris Anderson
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Finished in Jul 2008
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- The Last Lecture (55)
- By Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
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Finished in Jun 2008
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- Good to Great and the Social Sectors (3)
- A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
- By Jim Collins
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Finished in Mar 2008
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Good to Great and the Social Sectors
Short and sweet -
This is a short book that addresses the main ideas of Good to Great, but directly addresses the principles' application to the social sectors.
Easy to read (but not too easy) and enjoyable. I felt like I got the basics from Good to Great without having read it. - — Nov 2, 2008 | Add your feedback
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- Their Eyes Were Watching God (52)
- By Zora Neale Hurston
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Finished in 2008
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- Creative Industries (3)
- Contracts between Art and Commerce
- By Richard E. Caves
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Finished in Dec 2007
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Good information, hard to read
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This book is written by a British economist. As a creative person, it was hard to get through Caves's dry laboring ideas. My classmates agreed.
It is a staple in the arts management field. Like a right of passage. - — Nov 2, 2008 | Add your feedback
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- Cathedral (8)
- By Raymond Carver
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Finished in Aug 2007
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- Madame Bovary (61)
- By Gustave Flaubert
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Finished in Aug 2007
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- Interpreter of Maladies (41)
- By Jhumpa Lahiri
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Finished in Jul 2007
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Michele Trim…
Me Talk Pretty One Day
2 people find this helpful
David Sedaris's humor is quite unique. It's entirely possible that one person could read this and find it slightly amusing, while another cries with laughter every other page.
I've discovered via conversations with friends that listening to David on NPR's This American Life really helps to u ... (continue)
David Sedaris's humor is quite unique. It's entirely possible that one person could read this and find it slightly amusing, while another cries with laughter every other page.
I've discovered via conversations with friends that listening to David on NPR's This American Life really helps to understand his style. Listening to his voice, patters of emphasis, and overall stoic view enables one to hear his voice narrating the entire book.
I gave this one 3 stars (ratings are stupid, but I do it anyway), but I am looking forward to reading his other books with 4 stars of anticipation.
I don't know if his books are translated into other languages, but I have a feeling that the humor would be mostly lost in translation.
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