Archive for the 'Books' Category
First, the press release from the bookstore itself:
PRESS RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Olsson Enterprises, Inc., trading as Olsson’s Books & Records closes stores and petitions court for Chapter 7 conversion.
Olsson Enterprises, Inc., trading as Olsson’s Books & Records, Record & Tape Ltd., and Olsson’s Books announced today that it [...]
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Peanuts 2000: A Late Review
Yes, it took me a while as it had actually been years since I had been a steady reader of Peanuts. Having gotten all the Complete Peanuts books plus some of the other periphery items, however, I felt it was time to finally read this collection of the last year (and few extra Sundays) of [...]
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Okay, so I’m a bit late on this, but I finished reading the above listed book recently and found it a good, interesting read.
The gist of the book goes like this:
In the last two decades of the 19th century almost everyone who could vote, voted. While this excluded most of the women it included every [...]
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Two books by Malcolm Gladwell worth reading about, if for different reasons.
“Blink” is about our ability to think without being aware of our thinking. By focusing on what I would call our “unconscious thinking” (think “intution,” or think “Freud was right, only his focus was off.”). Mr. Gladwell admits that it’s not a perfect measure [...]
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An interesting book.
For those of you who’ve read The Da Vinci Code (not to be confused with the Da Vinci Cod, which hasn’t come out yet), you’ve read the book before. There’s all the same plots and devices:
A search for the truth that’s hidden from the eyes of the common people and must be deciphered [...]
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Just came home from an impromptu vacation. Finally read War Of The Worlds.
In it, Wells describes a race of beings that literally becomes parasitic while thinking themselves independent of what they ingested. One would think they’d figured out there was only enough for a certain amount, but who knows.
I’d like to see a book based [...]
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