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The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, ...

26 reviews
Craig Unger

Scribner, 2007

Another great book by Unger
A very engrossing book with lots of behind the scenes information and details. Almost like the events leading up to a train wreck that you learn about after the fact and ask, Why was this allowed to happen? It's sad to see the extent to which the everyday citizen has lost control of government in this country--especially when you consider the groups who have taken over and their motives--but ...

Things Fall Apart: A Novel

525 reviews
Chinua Achebe

Anchor, 1994

A classic, with good reason
This is an extraordinary book in its ability to narrate both a story of cultural dissonance and an overarching tale about the human condition. Achebe's novel broaches the subject of morality, but demonstrates that even the concept of "evil" is subject to a cultural interpretive context. Okonkwo, the book's tragic hero, is an emblem of tradition, but also represents how tradition can be ...

The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty

51 reviews
Julia Flynn Siler

Gotham, 2008

Reads like the best fiction - but it's real!
Julia Flynn Siler's The House of Mondavi starts with everything that makes a great story: a wonderfully complex and larger-than-life character, a lush wine-country setting, a conflicted family, and a great undertaking. She brings the story to life with a journalist's eye for the telling detail and a fine fiction writer's sense of plot, pacing, and instinct for the great tragedy that so often ...

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

206 reviews
Roger Lowenstein

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2001

Entertaining read on complex subject
It's a common story, a group of extremely talented and smart individuals done in by their own hubris, greed, and carelessness. What distinguishes this story from others is that we get a reasonably lucid description of the complex world or hedge funds and exotic investments. There is also good storytelling here of a largely unkown firm of a couple hundred people, that nearly took down several ...

How to be a Super Hot Woman: 339 Tips to Make Every Man Fall in Love with You and Every Woman Envy You

6 reviews
Mandy Simons, Emily J. Terry

Outskirts Press, 2007

Be Unique and Unpredictable
I've bought two copies of this book. One for my best friend and one for me. She was in love with one very good looking guy from the company where she works but he never paid attention to her so I thought this book might be helpful for her. Now I can say that I am very proud of myself, because I really helped my friend to become more confident and the results are amazing. I hoped that this ...

Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)

119 reviews
Charles Dickens

Penguin Classics, 2002

Expectations Greatly Exceeded
Who knew that a book written almost 150 years ago could be so great? Not me. Granted, part of the reason I enjoyed this book so much was because I had expected it not to be (A Tale of Two Cities is still collecting dust on my bookshelf). The writing is flawless; characters, wonderfully varied; and plot, save an occasional feeling of contrivance at the almost uncanny character interconnections, ...

Salem Falls

122 reviews
Jodi Picoult

Washington Square Press, 2002

<3 it
I'll keep this short and sweet. This is my first Jodi Picoult book. I loved it and I am going to read more! I was in suspense until the end. Fabulous ending too! Makes you go back and think about what you read. :) buy it!

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

206 reviews
Anne Fadiman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998

great book
This was an outstanding book. You may need to be a social anthropologist at heart to really love it, but the book was so enlightening on so many different levels. The background and customs of the Hmong are fascinating, and their clash with western culture is eye opening. I learned so much, not just about the Hmong, but about my own beliefs.

Ring of Hell: The Story of Chris Benoit and the Fall of the Pro Wrestling Industry

12 reviews
Matthew Randazzo V

Phoenix Books, 2008

An indepth look into a hidden world.
Randazzo's first effort, Ring of Hell, is a sensational and lurid account of a revolting, sleazy industry pockmarked with broken backs, broken hearts, and ultimately murder. I should now post the caveat that I am not a wrestling fan like most of the other reviewers seem to be so I come at this book from a different level. But I had no idea the depths of depravity and vulgar desperation that ...

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

116 reviews
Pema Chodron

Shambhala, 2005

When Things Fall Apart
There are many books that truly can make a difference in your life. This is one of them. I first read this book after a devastating break-up that caused an emotional tsunami in my life. I went into a downward spiral for some time. I first read an excerpt from this book at the height of my break up in Shambhala Sun. It really spoke to me because it wasn't trite or sugary. It gave me ...

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

87 reviews
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar

Collins, 2003

A Big Deal
Barbarians at the Gate is a classic of the business book genre, and with the private equity boom we have seen in the last couple of years, it is still as relevant as it was when it came twenty years ago. It is the story or some extremely unlikable rich people brought low by equally unsavory, but much smarter rich people, and it gives you an inside feel for the major wall street deal like no other ...

Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies

3 reviews
Ginger Strand

Simon & Schuster, 2008

Excellent Book
As a Niagara Falls native, who has traveled all over the world and lived in several other parts of the country before returning to WNY, I found this book to be right on target. It was an engaging and easy read. Although I also thought I knew a lot about the history of the region, this wonderful book filled in a lot of blanks for me. It also made me remember the "good old days" when Niagara ...

Free Fall (Revenge of the Sisterhood)

45 reviews
Fern Michaels

Zebra, 2007

Kudos to the Sisterhood...
As I completed this last installment of the series, I felt like I was saying good-bye to friends. Each of the women has now had their revenge. Never fear, Fern Michael's new series, "Revenge of the Sisterhood" is coming. Knowing that, I feel better about the ending of this one. I found myself laughing with the sisters, as well as shedding a few tears. Kathryn caught me off guard with the reason ...

The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 2: The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to ...

26 reviews
Susan Wise Bauer

Peace Hill Press, 2007

Love it!
I love this whole series of books-- and so do my children! This year, my almost 7-year old ASKED for this book for his BIRTHDAY!!!

Empire Falls

470 reviews
Richard Russo

Vintage, 2002

A New Classic
I loved this book. It is a new classic that kids will be reading in school over the coming years. I loved the humor that so intricately interlaced itself with the mysterious, tragic plot. One of the best books I have ever read!

Christine Falls: A Novel

57 reviews
Benjamin Black

Picador, 2008

Smart and Dark
Praise for the prose and the character development. I can see Liam Neeson playing the main character in a film version. Engulf yourself in this smart and dark mystery that connects Ireland and Massachusetts and takes you back in time to the 1950s. Slainte!

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

114 reviews
David Fromkin

Holt Paperbacks, 2001

... and the foundation for Endless War.
Fromkin's seminal work is now almost 20 years old, and it is still the essential history book on the bungled making of the modern Middle East. Like another reviewer, I would gladly have given this a 6-star rating if it were possible. So much today remains the very same, save for the change from one imperial power to another. Consider from the Introduction: "The European powers at that time ...

Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)

22 reviews
John Milton

Penguin Classics, 2003

The Greatest Writing in the English Language
There's enough already said about why and how Milton wrote this book, so I don't have anything to say about that. It's a story most people will be familiar with, and any surprises will involve the beauty of the language or a random, surprising insight into a character's motivation. In the end, Milton deserves to be called the greatest writer in English because of the pure strength and beauty of ...

The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next

93 reviews
Lee Smolin

Mariner Books, 2007

A Bracing Read!
The human mind suspended in unfathomable mystery is inevitably entangled in its webs of reason. To illustrate: In his discussion of symmetry breaking (Chapter 4), Smolin states that "Much of the structure of the world, both social and physical, is a consequence of the requirement that the world, in its actuality, break symmetries present in the space of possibilities. An important feature of ...

Halo, Books 1-3 (The Flood; First Strike; The Fall of Reach)

114 reviews
Eric Nylund

Del Rey, 2004

Three of the Coolest Books Ever
These books are not going to win major awards and they aren't going to revolutionize the science fiction genre, but they are still three of the best books I've ever read, and I will always hold them dear to my heart because they were the books that led me to video gaming in general and, specifically, Halo. "Halo: Fall of Reach" is definitely the best of the three, describing the backstory of ...

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