The Assault
 A Masterwork: When my work took me to Holland for a few months, I asked people there what Dutch novels they would recommend. They all said "The Assault". It would certainly be an exageration to say that Holland has no literature, but not much [... more]
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Escape from Freedom
good insights into totalitarianism: I'm not the most intellectual of thinkers, or the best suited to evaluate a book like this, but because we live in a democracy and I'm allowed to express my opinion, I think I will. I found this study of totalitarian [... more]
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Conversations with Nostradamus
The best books ever written on the man: I have read at least 10 other authors or translators/interpreters on the quatrains of Nostradamus. This book and its associated volumes, Volume II and Volume III, are the best books ever written on the great healer. [... more]
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Valentine
Tom Savage--Valentine: A Novel: "Valentine" is a suprisingly stylish, well-written thriller that far surpasses any of Savage's other work. While "Precipice" and "Scavenger" were good novels of supense and terror, this 1997 [... more]
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Rebellion in the Backlands
The best of Brazilian literature: Euclides da Cunha was a journalist who witnessed the aftermath of the Canudos war. The book tells the story of the creation of the Canudos community by Antonio Conselheiro, a mystic figure whose family was killed by [... more]
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Black Vinyl White Powder
Hilarious history of the music biz by industry insider: A fantastic chronological account of the development of the British music business over the last fifty years. Napier-Bell, manager of 'Wham', co-writer of 'You don't have to say you love me' and [... more]
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Ancient Evil
Classic Cloak And Dagger. . . Mediaeval Style!: If you're anything like me, you hated reading the Canterbury Tales at school. OK, Chaucer is a literary genius of classical verse, and his work has undoubtedly had an enlightening effect on post Dark Age [... more]
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The Stepford Wives
What would life be like if women were perfect?: What if life was perfect? Does it mean we'd be insane? Or happy? This book leads one into the world of television-commercial perfection, the ultimate celebration and triumph of our consumer oriented society, [... more]
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The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
The best folktales.: These animal stories were banned in the late sixties from many schools and libraries for being racist (the storyteller in the book, Uncle Remus, is a slave and uses the "n" word). But it seems that it's now ok to like these [... more]
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The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
From Amazon.com: The product of an agreeably dotty cleric named Edwin Abbott Abbott and first published in 1884, Flatland distills all that the Victorian era knew of higher mathematics--and then some--into a witty, complex novel of ideas. Ian Stewart, [... more]
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Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe
The Inside Scoop From A Fascinating, Insightful Pro: Disclaimer--I know Jerry from working with him on the Director's Guild Council, and I have utmost respect for him as a professional filmmaker. But I never knew his talents extended to such cogent, fun- [... more]
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Conversations with Nostradamus: His Prophecies Explained
Volume 3 of the best books ever written on the man: I have read at least 10 other authors or translators/interpreters on the quatrains of Nostradamus. This book and its associated volumes, Volume I and Volume II, are the best books ever written on the [... more]
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