Letters To A Young Conservative (The Art of Mentoring)86 reviews Dinesh D'Souza Amazon Remainders Account, 2005 A pleasant introduction to the conservative worldview + The Conservative Manifesto + A good introduction to conservatism + Wonderful book, wonderful author!             Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner (Modern Library)5 reviews William Faulkner Modern Library, 1993 WHO'S AFRAID OF WILLIAM FAULKNER? + GREAT SET OF CLASSICS + A life cannot be complete without Faulkner-- + The greatness of the long- distance runner + Nice Collection             The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising10 reviews Robert Shogan Basic Books, 2006 Fantastic + Good, but not quite enough Detailed yet highly enjoyable account of WV coal field battles. A must for labor and union advocates.             Moab Is My Washpot50 reviews Stephen Fry Soho Press, 2003 Like Wodehouse? You'll Like This. + [insert cryptic title here] + Wildean Fry + An insight I was delighted to have             On The Wealth of Nations: Books That Changed the World8 reviews P. J. O'Rourke Grove Press, 2007 That's Entertainment! + Interesting and entertaining As Thurber said (I think/paraphrase?) "Only humor can safely approach the burning column of truth" so it is possible that the ~180 pages of O'Rourke can safely approach the 900 pages of the Wealth Of Nations. You will either "get it" or you won't but I doubt *you* will ever pack so much info as ...             The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom6 reviews Martin Amis Knopf, 2008 Hey Islamists: prepare to know fear. + September 11 Consciousness Mr. Amis expresses the bile that many of us feel for these deformed, ugly, self-proclaimed 'religious' 'men.' The Islamists don't design planes, don't administer flight training, don't create or offer much of anything. They fail to evangelize as other religious people do in the civilized world - ...             Homage to Catalonia93 reviews George Orwell Harvest Books, 1980 A Supplement and an Obituary + Orwell the Objective + Orwell re-visited + Homage, Take 2: what about Aragon? + Might be his best work             Why Orwell Matters30 reviews Christopher Hitchens Basic Books, 2003 Forever taking his own temperature (on the scale from beastliness to decency) + A Defense and Appreciation of Orwell + If you admire Orwell, read this book... + The truth about the truth             God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything794 reviews Christopher Hitchens Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group, 2007 God is not Great Hitchen's book God is not Great is a thought provoking book that shows much of the violence that has been caused by people of faith. Hitchen's give historical, as well as personal examples of how religion has caused chaos, and even great ignorance around the world. personally, I am a believer in ...             What It Means to Be a Libertarian42 reviews Charles Murray Broadway, 1997 Great Help for a Beginning Libertarian + A Solid Introduction + Fantastic, clearly written book! + Murray The Part-Time Monster Shrinker             The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems2 reviews Charles Bukowski Ecco, 2008 And it is the end + very pleased Sad to say, this book exhausts the remainder of Buk's poetry. The work is not as strong as earlier books, not as pointed. But as he would have understood, all ends. So what else is new? There are some strong poems: a eulogy, "legs"("she was a great woman/with great legs/but she found life too ...             The Replacements' Let It Be (33 1/3)14 reviews Colin Meloy Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004 Air Guitar Can Save Your Soul + Don't Give Up on This Book Colin Meloy's cronicle of The Replacement's, "Let It Be" tells his story of how the album impacted his life. Meloy creates a great picture of life in rural America and how very important Rock-n-Roll became to so many of us. "Let It Be" saved him from boredom, from embarassment, from nerdhood, ...             Nobody Knows My Name4 reviews James Baldwin Vintage, 1992 Nobody Knows My Name Is Timeless + More Notes of a Native Son + Great esssays from one of America's best authors + Honest, Critical, Sincere, Moving, Black, Human!!!             No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton150 reviews Christopher Hitchens Verso, 1999 Excellent As Always + Why Is This The Best Clinton-Bash Book? + A Must Read + Required Reading + Brilliant!             Julius Caesar (The Annotated Shakespeare) William Shakespeare Yale University Press, 2006 The first tragedy to be played in the new Globe Theatre, Julius Caesar is set at a crucial turning point in Roman history, as the Republican gives way to the imperial. Safely removed in time and place from Shakespeare’s Elizabethan England, Rome makes the perfect laboratory for the playwright’s free-ranging political analysis.             Terror and Liberalism58 reviews Paul Berman W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 Balanced, Informative, insightful + Interesting viewpoint. + Liberalism is a conservative solution to Terror The negative reviewers of this book fail to judge the book on its merits.             Zoology18 reviews Ben Dolnick Vintage, 2007 Wonderful + Zoology + Growing up in the 21st Century Mr. Dolnick is a great writer. Every paragraph he describes something in such a way that you think, "Of course, why didn't I think of that? That's exactly right." Thoroughly enjoyable to read someone with such talent.             A Midsummer Night's Dream (Signet Classics)4 reviews William Shakespeare Signet Classics, 1998 "...reason and love keep little company together nowadays..." + "The course of true love never did run smooth." + A Masterpiece + Shakespeare's Done It Again             The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist46 reviews Richard P. Feynman Basic Books, 2005 Its title says it all and it is indeed one of the greates books I have ever read + If you know that you are not sure . . . + Enlighted thoughts of an intelligent man Mr. Feynman wrote in this book how the basic things in life, such as its meaning if any are. His writting style is even simpler than Einstein's while his ideas are just as profound. The book is very thin and it is an easy read, so you learn a lot by reading very few pages and this is really ...             Language Myths16 reviews Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999 A study of the nature of language + Witty and enlightening + Linguistic Myth-Busters Readers interested in linguistics will learn that language change can't be prevented because it is a self-regulating system which takes care of itself. All languages are capable of vocabulary expansion to deal with new areas of life their speakers need to talk about. The media, often wrongly ...