The Savior: A Novel16 reviews Eugene Drucker Simon & Schuster, 2007 Searing Paradoxes + A wonderful first novel by a great violinist! + Even art could not prevail against the Holocaust + The Guilt of the German People             Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming15 reviews Chris Mooney Harcourt, 2007 Probably the most significant addition to current issues in meteorology... + Hurricanes and Politics Should Not Mix + Science and Journalism + A complex but important issue             Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters40 reviews Donald R. Prothero Columbia University Press, 2007 Solid science counters creationist mumbo-jumbo + An excellent book... but to what purpose? + Insightful research and analysis + One of my biology books + This Book Serves Many Purposes and Does So Exceptionally             Call Me by Your Name: A Novel105 reviews Andre Aciman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 Greatly moving and affecting... Lingers with you long after it's done. + Worth the Read + the obsession of a first love + Destined to be a classic in gay literature + Beautiful and Articulate             bang BANG: A Novel21 reviews Lynn Hoffman Kunati Inc., 2007 This is a "Why didn't I think of that?" book. + Brilliant + I loved this book! + Oprah!! Clint! + Smart, Whimsical, and Racy             Broken Paradise: A Novel22 reviews Cecilia Samartin Atria, 2007 Excellent Read + Great Book! + Excellent Read + A Story for All!! + Broken Paradise             The Septembers of Shiraz54 reviews Dalia Sofer Ecco, 2007 Exquisite + Interesting and very informative This story seemed too perfect to be made up. Either this writer is a prodigy, or the book autobiographical. Either way, you will not find a more incisively written, detail oriented depiction of what life was like in Iran after the Shah left. The details of prison life were painful to read, and ...             God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything805 reviews Christopher Hitchens Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group, 2007 essential DISCLAIMER + logical, but superficial to some extent Staffers for an organization called Campus Crusade for Christ are responsible for allegations that I (Lucifer) and Christopher Hitchens are in cahoots; and that no one -- not even a born-again evangelical Christian -- can read either Hitchens' GOD IS NOT GREAT or Lucifer's TRUE HISTORY OF ...             Spook Country156 reviews William Gibson Putnam Adult, 2007 so real... + Still good + Cyberpunk meets John le Carré, but not Tom Clancy. So real after these last money melting weeks. A must read to get away from it all.             Bad Monkeys55 reviews Matt Ruff HarperCollins, 2007 Solid Read + Excellent Read + plausibly undeniable + Very compelling read             40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania26 reviews Matthew Chapman Collins, 2007 Long enough + Different From Other Kitzmiller v. Dover Books. + Witty and insightful views + humanizes all of the participants + Open-mouthed, we Europeans gaze in disbelief at America...             Head and Heart: American Christianities13 reviews Garry Wills Penguin Press HC, The, 2007 Varieties of Christian Experience in America! + intelligent, balanced, and repectful + A Very Garry Wills Version of Religion in America. + Head and Heart: American Christianites             Falling Man: A Novel83 reviews Don DeLillo Scribner, 2007 After The Planes + Don't know if this qualifies as a 'review'. + DeLillo's sad concession to a career obsession I couldn't pick this up when it first came out. I listened to it recently on CD during a long drive and with each mile, I felt the growing weight and gravity, lived with the men and women grappling with the aftermath, after the planes. There is a phrase in "Falling Man" that covers lots of ground ...             Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas6 reviews Rick Moody Little, Brown and Company, 2007 Witty, inventive, yet searing -- & searching for what's right + 3 great novelas + a "lay" review written for common, ordinary folk like myself Moody has contributed a number of glittering nuggets to our literature, and is best known for the more restrained early novels, made into movies. Yet in that longer form, I'd choose PURPLE AMERICA as his most feisty and moving, but after so enjoying my time with RIGHT LIVELIHOODS, I must put my ...             Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present97 reviews Michael B. Oren W. W. Norton, 2007 Learned piece of historical writing + Adds depth to understanding past and present Mid East/US relationship + Thanks for writing this! + Interesting and informative + Informative, almost entertaining             After Dark78 reviews Haruki Murakami Knopf, 2007 Mesmerizing + Superb. + Intriguing, but with too many loose ends. I think this is the most down-to-earth novel by Mr. Murakami that is published now but with a touch of his earliest novels. I admire his recent novels but I also love his previous ones. This one has that mysterious, voyeuristic, supernatural, surrealist feeling of his recent novels but somehow, the ...             A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools16 reviews Alec Klein Simon & Schuster, 2007 100% Realistic Portrayal + great book, a lot of interesting issues + A Truly Great School + Uplifting, Devastating, Honest             Thirteen76 reviews Richard K. Morgan Del Rey, 2007 Show me, don't tell me Very exciting premise here - in the not so distant future America has split along conservative and liberal lines into 2 separate countries and genetic experimentation has created a race of "super men" called 13's (genetic variation #13) who have either been locked up or exiled to the Mars colony. ...             The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda28 reviews Yaroslav Trofimov Doubleday, 2007 On not judging a book by its cover + This could be a smaller book + Absorbing Story + Masterful and important + Any Serious Reader Should Read This Book             A Thousand Splendid Suns1307 reviews Khaled Hosseini Riverhead, 2007 Enthralling... + Very touching + Very good BOOK + Excellent Story