Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America1079 reviews Barbara Ehrenreich Holt Paperbacks, 2002 Must read for the 'Haves' in this country + A Small Peek into the world of minimum wage + Good book. Very interesting + Great Book             Annals of the Former World55 reviews John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000 Pure Pleasure + Extremely well written book! + Holocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene Hike! + A Delicious Tome + Geology for the non geologist             Animal Farm (Signet Classics)1154 reviews George Orwell Signet Classics, 1996 Animal Farm is instructive for our presidential election. + Subtle Message + Animal Farm Review + Animals Gone Wild.... + Utopian Idealism Unmaksed             Nine Stories157 reviews J.D. Salinger Little, Brown and Company, 1991 Salinger Hits Nine Home Runs. + Salinger's Little Worlds + Nine Stories More Than Just Bananafish + Nine glories             The Catcher in the Rye2773 reviews J.D. Salinger Little, Brown and Company, 1991 Will stick with you + Best Banned Books Required Reading List This is the kind of book that people of all ages remember their whole lives. It's indescribable how the story can sweep you off into Holden's life, the angst he feels, and the time in which he lived. Truly a great work that is worth reading if you have not and worth reading again if you have.             Florida Road Kill: A Novel90 reviews Tim Dorsey HarperTorch, 2000 A Guilty Pleasure + Strong, the dark farce is, Yesssssss Mr. Dorsey covers much the same terrain as Carl Hiaasen's stories but with an even more sadistic nature. He creates numerous oddball scenarios in which morally-challenged slimeballs meet their doom. I found myself repeatedly laughing despite the profusion of repugnant situations and mounting body ...             Anthem437 reviews Ayn Rand Signet, 1996 Excellent Book + A Timeless Warning + Anthem If you read only one book this year, read this one. Thought provoking, moving, soul stirring.             Tomcat in Love94 reviews Tim O'Brien Broadway, 1999 Satire at its finest... + A change of pace for Tim O'Brian + Underrated The many recent negative reviews for this amazing work of literature sadden me greatly. Granted, I may be a bit biased as a huge fan of O'Brien's other books; but, this is certainly not a typical piece of Tim O'Brien fiction. The main character, Thomas Chippering is self-centered to the ...             Going After Cacciato74 reviews Tim O'Brien Broadway, 1999 About the Power of the Human Imagination + The Best Novel of the Viet Nam War + One Strange Book - O'Brien Captures the Pointlessness + Leaving a War + a mix of realism and fantasy             Welcome to the Monkey House76 reviews Kurt Vonnegut The Dial Press, 1998 The year was 2007, and no one read short stories anymore... + Glen Williamson performs two of these stories as a play + Brilliant Young Vonnegut + Some of Vonnegut's best work - but a word of advice...             All Creatures Great and Small110 reviews James Herriot St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1998 Good Idea? + Classic Books for Animal Lovers + Great Book but Not for YA, as advertised by Amazon + A Classic + Likely the most delightful novel I've ever read             Slaughterhouse-Five701 reviews Kurt Vonnegut Dell, 1991 "So it goes....." + a short book about slaughter + Crazyness + The Why of Tralfalmadore + A great book             Bangkok 8: A Novel141 reviews John Burdett Vintage, 2004 A HODGEPODGE OF INGENUITY! + Bangkok fan + Sonchai's debut + Wonderful Read For Lovers of Thailand             Foundation (Foundation Novels)341 reviews Isaac Asimov Spectra, 1991 Good for digestion + Excellent + Science Fiction at its best + Interesting storyline + One of the best SF series ever written.             The Fountainhead966 reviews Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff Signet, 1996 "But I don't think of you" + Fountainhead + Why Was This Book Written? + Fairy Tale             Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)232 reviews Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 Feynman never got out of his box, because he never had one! + gift for someone else + The genius of curiosity... Part physicist, part prankster, part musician, part teacher, part genius, part story teller, part little boy and all human being, this is the true story of Richard Feynman. He was a man with an insatiable curiosity, and had a zest to explore the world of physics, human nature and himself. The ...             A Short History of Nearly Everything630 reviews Bill Bryson Broadway, 2004 like drinking out of a fire hose + Review: A Short History of Nearly Everything + ALMOST EVERYTHING + Entertaining and funny introduction to a lot of science fields             End of the Road, The10 reviews Tom Bodett Bantam, 1990 Barth roars out of the starting gate + Must have been a sensation in those times + A finely tuned novel + Barth 102: An Introduction to the Master, continued + A moral essay on personal responsibility             Coming into the Country28 reviews John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991 A trip around Alaska in the 70's + Excellent look into life in the bush + McPhee on Alaska + A Wonderful Relic + First Class             Lady Slings the Booze12 reviews Spider Robinson Baen, 2002 Without a doubt A MUST READ!!! + Wow! + An excellent book Ahem. Whilst reading this book, on page two, the TOP of page two, I laughed outloud so hard I sprayed milk outa my left nostral...which was kinda bad as I was in a Library at the time, but... No kidding, it is simply THAT good! More than that though... When I read this book I was going ...