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Neil Shubin - Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Your Inner Fish: We Owe Our Existence To More Than Apes~
by jankp
Pros: very well-researched; fascinating; photos; notes/sources
Cons: not much
While absorbed by the 2008 book, Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into The 3.5 Billion Year History Of The Human Body, and looking at its black-n-white photos of strange-looking fossils, it didn't occur to me that here was the making of a great horror ...
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Nov 08 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

Steven Torres - The Concrete Maze
Reviewing: "The Concrete Maze" by Steven Torres
by kevintipple
Pros: A full read....
Cons: with no cons.
Set in New York City, this novel opens in 1992. Years ago, Luis (Tio) Ramos left Puerto Rico because of the draft and was sent to Vietnam. Like a lot of vets he saw combat and never talks about the things he saw or the things he did. Wounded, he survived ...
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Nov 08 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

Linda Barnes - Lie Down with the Devil
Reviewing: "Lie Down With The Devil" by Linda Barnes
by kevintipple
Pros: The entire book...
Cons: which is a series that should be read in order. Not a con for me.
The latest in the series finds Carolotta estranged from nearly everyone and not by her choice. Sam Gianelli is on the run somewhere overseas and can't come home because of federal trouble in Vegas. He is refusing all help or contact and with things ...
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Nov 08 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 3.0

Becky Garrison - The New Atheist Crusaders and Their Unholy Grail: The Misguided Quest to Destroy Your Faith
Those Durned Infidels...
by BaronSamedi3
Pros: There are a few valid points which some atheists conveniently forget
Cons: Too many blanket statements and personal stories
Part of the reason I decided to read Becky Garrison's book The New Atheist Crusaders was because I recently had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Garrison at a bar in Chicago. A group of well known ministers representing an emerging form of ...
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Nov 08 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Marty Noble - Magic Garden Fairies
Magic Garden Fairies: An Enchanting Coloring Book For Fairy Fanatics
by Freak369
Pros: Sixteen images, perforated paged, great for fairy lovers.
Cons: Hard to find in retail stores.
Faeries. Fairies. It doesn't matter how you spell it, they are a hot selling item. When Annabelle was younger she had a thing for Tinkerbell. Try telling a four year old that Tinkerbell isn't a fairy and you ...
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Nov 07 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 3.0

Suzette A. Hill - Bones in the Belfry
Bones and paintings.....a mystery? I think not!
by hist
Pros: Cute characters, actually makes a killer sympathetic
Cons: A bit of a nothing at the end of it all
Bones in the Belfry, by Suzette A. Hill, is a very light novel. Sequel to A Load of Old Bones, it is ostensibly a mystery (it bills itself as "The Case of the Vicar and the Missing Masterpiece") but seems much more like a low-brow English ...
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Nov 07 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

Arnold Rampersad - Jackie Robinson: A Biography
Jackie Robinson: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad - Much More Than Just a Baseball Biography
by AliventiAsylum
Pros: incredible depth while maintaining readability
Cons: none
For some iconic figures in history, they are very well-known for one aspect or event in their life, and little is said about what their accomplishments were outside of that one thing. Such was what I knew about Jackie Robinson. I knew plenty about his ...
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Nov 07 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Thomas L. Friedman - Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Can America Lead a Green Revolution?
by JediKermit
Pros: Goes beyond "the easy steps," provides hopeful possibilities, patriotic, in its own way. 
Cons: A bit dry...it'll be hard to convince nonbelievers to read this one.
Like many of you, my first Thomas Friedman book was his best seller "The World is Flat."  The book about globalization of the economy and about America's changing role in that world is a perfect companion to Friedman's latest work, "Hot, Flat, and ...
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Nov 07 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 3.0

Maureen Mccormick - Here's the Story
Maureen McCormick tells all...
by knotheadusc
Pros: Maureen McCormick's life story.
Cons: Not particularly well written.
Sorry about the lack of formatting... I had a fight with the editor again. I'm no longer ashamed to admit that when I was growing up, I was a fan of The Brady Bunch, a wholesome family sitcom about the ultimate perfect family. Like a lot ...
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Nov 07 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Martin Lindstrom - Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
Buyology : I Shop Because It Feels Good!
by jcare
Pros: Scary insight into the human brain and buying. Very scary
Cons: Only goes 80% of the way. how do you know he's right?
The subtext of this book is the truth and lies about why we buy. This a little on the strong side, yet Martin Lindstrom, one of the world-renowned experts on branding, does provide some interesting insights into the science of buying; and ...
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Nov 07 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Lynn Reiser - My Baby & Me
My Baby & Me by Lynn Reiser and Penny Gentieu
by artemis8
Pros: great photos, rhymes
Cons: none
Toddlers seem to love pictures of babies. I know my son did when he was two years old. While he is four now and not so into babies as he used to be, he still generally likes books that feature babies. One of the books we read recently was called My ...
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Nov 07 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Errol Flynn - My Wicked, Wicked Ways
My Wicked, Wicked Ways || In like Flynn
by sleeper54
Pros: Exciting, action-packed, fast paced narrative, particularly the early years sections.
Cons: Depressing and sad toward the end. No pictures, filmography, etc..
...What young boy has not played at being the captain of a pirate ship..?? Or dreamed of living the life of Robin Hood..?? ( Well, young boys once had those dreams ... before MTV and video games and youtube ... who knows what they dream of ...
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Nov 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

Libba Bray - The Sweet Far Thing
The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
by funniebunny
Pros: more depth and character development than Rebel Angels; all the intrigue of the previous books
Cons: too much plot; ending
Libba Bray's The Sweet Far Thing really knocked the socks off me!!; her writing is so incredibly enthralling that, only she, I am sure, could pull off writing an 800+ page book that one could enjoyably read from cover to ...
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Nov 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 3.0

Steven M. Barrett - Disneyland's Hidden Mickeys: A Field Guide to Disneyland Resort's Best Kept Secrets
Going on a Mouse Hunt
by carstairs38
Pros: Detailed instructions make it easy to spot the hidden Mickeys.
Cons: Organization is the pits.
I must admit, with all my trips to Disneyland (and this year Disney World for the first time), I've never paid much attention to "Hidden Mickeys," the three circle designs hidden by the Imagineers in the various attractions, shops, and restaurants around ...
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Nov 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq
Iraqi poets write about the effects of the War
by henryberry
Pros: brings to light effects of Iraq War on average Iraqis
Cons: limited perspective, and little about situations of the poets
The 2003 date of the U.S. invasion of Iraq marks the first of the poems. Poems coming after this trace the changing conditions in Iraq on an emotional basis. The American occupation, daily terrorism, fears for personal safety, and emigration are for the ...
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Nov 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Flashman & the Angel of the Lord: From the Flashman Papers, 1858-59
Flashman on the Side of the Angels
by giordanobrunoNew Member
Pros: Extremely funny, artfully written 
Cons: Rank sexism and racism expressed, not always convincingly, as humor.
Arrant coward and unrepentant womanizer Harry Flashman, in the seven books of his 'memoirs' that I've read so far, expresses sincere respect (and even that respect is edged with cynicism) for only two of the many "great" men he's encountered: Abraham ...
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Nov 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Meljean Brook - Demon Bound
Alice has a bargin with a demon
by terrid
Pros: Good story
Cons: none
Jake Hawkins is a novice Guardian whose gift is teleportation.  He doesn’t seem to have complete control over his gift as every time he gets scared, he teleports.  Still, he’s working on it and feels he’s almost there. ...
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Nov 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

SANDRA KRING - Carry Me Home
It's WWII in small town America
by terrid
Pros: Characters, story
Cons: cursing
Earl “Earwig” Gunderman is finding his place in life.  It’s 1940 in rural Wisconsin and Earwig is 16.  He’s a bit slow and has problems learning things.  They pretty much threw him out of school when he ...
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Nov 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

Baby Sister
Usborne Look and Say--Baby Sister is a fun precursor to I Spy
by jurgrace
Pros: Cute pictures, easy way to build vocabulary
Cons: Not quite sure what a "crib book" is
Usborne publishing recently published two new books in their Look and Say series: Baby Sister and Baby Brother. Naturally, since my daughter has one of each of ...
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Nov 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 3.0

Mario Vargas Llosa - La casa verde/ The Green House
A long and unnecssarily difficult novel set in northern Peru
by Stephen_Murray
Pros: the great northern Peruvian novel
Cons: difficult to follow its exposition through very long paragraphs and jumps in space and time
the 1966 novel The Green House (La casa verde) by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa (born in 1936) is thought by some — though not by men — to be his masterpiece. In his fiction Vargas Llosa frequently throws readers into the middle ...
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Nov 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

R. Klanten - Data Flow: Visiualising Information in Graphic Design
latest developments in designs for information called infotechture
by henryberry
Pros: presents the full spectrum of types of designs with illustrations
Cons: text mostly discussion of content of designs, not creation of them
Pie charts, line graphs, and diagrams are typical kinds of tools to visualize data to grasp what it is indicating and to utilize it. The exponential increase with computers in collecting, storing, and processing data has resulted in a tremendous volume ...
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Nov 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

A "New and Native" Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene and Greene
comprehensive illustrated work on the arts and crafts of the Greene brothers of California
by henryberry
Pros: definitive comprehensive, multifaceted work on the Greene brothers
Cons: starts at a level above the introductory, not for general readers so much
Though given an award by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1952, the brothers Charles and Henry Greene were and still are relatively unknown in the related fields of architecture and design. The AIA award was long belated and seemingly ...
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Nov 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 3.0

J. C. McGowan - The Big God Network
Speculative Fiction as Carried to its Illogical Extreme: The Big God Network
by scmrak
Pros: interesting premise, decent characters, reasonable plot
Cons: stereotyping and caricature of "the bad guys"
Believe it or not, there are academic journals devoted to speculative fiction, one of which is named "Extrapolation." The title refers to the practice of extrapolating futures from trends a writer perceives in technology and society. Perception is, ...
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Nov 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

A Child's Life at Christmas Time_Pamela_Lawrence
Enjoying Christmas Through A Child's Eyes
by laurashrti
Pros: Good for adults and children alike; emphasizes holiday traditions
Cons: Some poems not up to par
About a month ago the children's librarian at my job suggested to me a soon-to-be published book called A Child's Life at Christmas Time.  She said the author was very local, and wondered if I might enjoy reviewing it.  It took me a few ...
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Nov 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

Elissa Wilds - Between Light and Dark
Choosen to Give Birth to the Earth Balancer
by terrid
Pros: Characters, storyline, interesting world
Cons: not enough information on the Umbra
Within the past few months Laurell Pittsman’s mother and beloved grandmother have died.  They both died with secrets that will affect Laurell for the rest of her life…..if she lives very long.  Laurell’s famous, rich, actress ...
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Nov 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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