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The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

562 reviews
Neil Strauss

William Morrow, 2005

Don't be yourself, be your best self.
After watching a few episodes of the reality TV show The Pickup Artist, I decided to buy this book. I bought this one instead of Mystery's Method because Strauss wrote Jenna Jameson's autobiography which is in my mind excellent credentials. Still, my expectations were not really that high and I anticipated nothing more than a book filled with pickup lines or some sort of humorous dating guide. ...

Plague Ship (Oregon Files)

30 reviews
Clive Cussler

Putnam Adult, 2008

Oregon files back to their best
Once again the Cussler novels mix comic book type fiction with real life hitech military scenarios so well. In the dependably entertaining if less than top-notch fifth Oregon Files thriller from bestseller Cussler and Du Brul (after Skeleton Crew), Capt. Juan Cabrillo, who heads the Corporation, a covert military company for hire, and the multifaceted crew of the Oregon, a high-tech ship ...

Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)

1098 reviews
John Steinbeck

Penguin, 2002

Must read book
The book, Of Mice and Men, has to be one of the good books I've read in a long time. The good parts about it are at the start, you get to meet the characters on how they act and the way they get along. Of course, there are some bad parts in books. One of them is when one of the bunk mates picks a fight with Lennie, because he is taller than him! Of Mice and Men, Lennie Small and George Milton ...

America America: A Novel

4 reviews
Ethan Canin

Random House, 2008

American Indeed
This lovely novel was the first I have read by Ethan Canin. As the story progressed I found myself more and more satisfied with the feeling, the sense of the novel and the time and place it evoked. Corey Sifter is the blue-collar son of a plumber and handyman, living in a one-company town in New York during the Nixon years. This is Cory's coming of age story seen in the flashbacks of his ...

Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

424 reviews
Sherry Argov

Adams Media, 2002

Great book!
I've read it twice already and will keep it around for when I need a little reminder. I've recommended it to many friends.

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 ...

Rules of the Game

36 reviews
Neil Strauss

Harper Paperbacks, 2007

Interesting and Fun
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3EHXID1I03836 Bernard Chapin saying hi. Here's a review mostly of the Diaries. The Challenge is the focus for my next INFERNO which I post over at the most famous video site. Thanks for watching.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

406 reviews
Max Brooks

Three Rivers Press, 2007

Brilliance shadowed by bias
What can I say about Max Brooks that hasn't been said already? On many levels this is an absolutely brilliant book that not only complements the zombie/post apocalyptic genre but actually transcends it. Max may well have surpassed George Romero as the authority of the Zombie genre. While George had inserted social commentary into a then new but often maligned genre and had elevated that genre ...

The Old Man and The Sea

682 reviews
Ernest Hemingway

Scribner, 1995

Rekindling the Connection
This is my favorite Hemingway work by far, although I've also enjoyed some of his other books. To me, this one stands out because Hemingway's prose perfectly matches the grace and silent strength of Santiago, who is one of the most endearing fictional characters I've ever encountered. True, there isn't a lot of plot here, and I remember thinking it was slow when I read it in high school (even ...

Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who ...

153 reviews
Ron Hall, Denver Moore

Thomas Nelson, 2008

Highly recommended
I thoroughly enjoyed this one - it's very thought provoking and insightful with many life lessons. I liked the way the narration went back and forth between the white man and the black man with their personal thoughts on the same situation. Very interesting and I highly recommend it for anyone.

Astonishing X-Men Vol. 4: Unstoppable

2 reviews
Joss Whedon

Marvel Comics, 2008

Joss Whedon's spectacular run comes to an end
Joss Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men finally comes to an explosive close with Unstoppable, as Cyclops, Wolverine, Emma Frost, Beast, Kitty Pryde, Colossus, the vengeful Ord, and the murderous Danger all find themselves on an intergalactic trip to the Breakworld: a land that Colossus is prophecised to destroy. Stunning revelations are abound, and everything comes together as the TPB races to a ...

Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy—Until You're 80 and Beyond

108 reviews
Chris Crowley, M.D., Henry S. Lodge

Workman Publishing Company, 2007

Drinking from the Real Fountain of Youth!
This is an excellent upbeat book that needed to be written. I have always believed that exercise was the key to a happy life...and potentially a long one. Looking around at the pains people have who do not exercise regularly convinced me that the small price of keeping in shape was well worth feeling great! Henry Lodge and Chris Crowley have reinforced the ideas I have had for ...

He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys (The Newly Expanded Edition)

801 reviews
Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo

Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2006

Are women really this desperate?
This book was great. It was witty and funny, and sad at the same time. Are women really this desperate? So many of the letters in this book reminded me of friends of mine who use every excuse in the book (literally) to defend their relationships with loser guys. It's nice that someone is finally telling it like it is!

For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men

210 reviews
Shaunti Feldhahn

Multnomah Books, 2004

A MUST for All Relationships
This is a "wow" book! For once, as a man, I felt understood. Women will say, "Men! They just don't get it". But, there's a lot about men that women don't get. This book will enlighten all women in a way that men often times find difficult to explain. This book will give women a very good understanding of how men tick and why they act the way they do. Armed with this information and acting upon ...

A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)

488 reviews
Ernest J. Gaines

Vintage, 1997

Book leaves you thinking...
This was a book you wanted to keep reading. It was easy reading and worth every minute.

Invisible Man

276 reviews
Ralph Ellison

Vintage, 1995

Quiet Rage Turned into High Art
This novel, a model of creative writing, describes what it is like to land in a big city and then be sucked up into the black hole of urban life in America. It is a story told by a black man coming of age in the mid-1940s, and thus is about black anonymity in a white world. But one of the primary strengths of the novel is that its "meta-messages" are all about anonymity and thus makes it ...

A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)

953 reviews
John Kennedy Toole

Grove Press, 1994

A Masterpiece of Prose and Character Description
What a book, what a masterpiece! A comedy, the likes of which I've never read, with characters so unbelievable real I had to occasional take breaks from reading it. The prose surprised me again and again with such beauty, wit and genius. From the first page, I was held in thrall to Toole's talent: "Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into ...

Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

588 reviews
John Eldredge

Thomas Nelson, 2006

Wild at Heart: Right On!
This is the first Christian book for men I have ever found that addresses men as men, and does not encourage them to be wimpy casper milktoasts. It addresses real men in a real way, gives excellent guidance on being a real man, and finding a real and honest relationship with our father of fathers, God. I would recommend for every man, and for single moms raising sons, or moms raising sons where ...

Love Letters Of Great Men And Women: From The Eighteenth Century To The Present Day

7 reviews
C. H. Charles

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

Simply Amazing
Like most I bought this book because I assumed is was the one from the Sex and the City movie. I don't think it is, but it's an amazing book all the same. The authors' writing is so beautiful, and the choice of letters reveal so much about the historical figures that wrote them. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys romance and artful writing. I'm sure this will be a book I read over ...

Fight Club: A Novel

632 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk

W. W. Norton, 2005

I'm looking forward to the movie now
I really enjoyed this book. I actually haven't seen the movie and surprisingly didn't know much about it. As a result, I read the book with open eyes, in much the same way that people did before Brad Pitt and Edward Norton beat each other senseless on the big screen. I've read a couple of Palahniuk's other novels and have found them insightful and morbidly funny. Palahniuk has a reputation ...

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