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THE BOOKS WITH "BUZZ":
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story:

True Compass: A Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy.

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

Boran2 and maryb2004 recommend:

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde

Must-have information for all presidents-and citizens-of the twenty-first century?

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

On BooMan’s shelf:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

Here’s a good one from
Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

"Crash" * Best Motion Picture, Academy Awards * Only $11.79 at Overstock * 2006 SAG Winner, Best Ensemble

Check out
Powell's new section:
NEW FAVORITES
Selected new arrivals at 30% off

Recommended by Indianadem and ejmw:
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Wellstone

From northcountry’s bookshelf:

The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
Political Corruption and Economic Chaos by Ravi Batra

A novel about contractors in Iraq from the woman that runs The Spy That Billed Me:

Outsourced: A Novel
from RJ Hillhouse.

Great Deals
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Find mystery novels by Nancy Pickard ("Kansas")

Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power by Phyllis Bennis (interviewed on DN!)

Featured by Keith Olbermann, New (Powell's Sale): Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum (whose other books merit serious consideration)

"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen

The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review

BT's all-time best seller:

PERMACULTURE:
A Designers' Manual
$79.95 * Sale: $59.95

Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)

The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan

Green Press Initiative
----- * ^ * -----

Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists by Eleanor Mills * NYT review

Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies & Their Journey

1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus

Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
----- * ^ * -----
Check out Powell's
"At The Movies"

Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World by Noam Chomsky (Power & Terror: Post 9-11 Talks)

The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of
Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
by Madeline Levine

Save 35-70% on
name brand clothing,
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We listened to PEN American Center's "State of Emergency" and found 1940s books by Curzio Malaparte only at Alibris. (Selection (MP3) excerpted from "The Skin.")

Banned Books * Are you a fan of Film Noir, Art House, Documentaries or Hong Kong Action? * Searching for a long-lost children's book or a first printing of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue on vinyl? Find it at Alibris!

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Open Books Thread | 40 comments (40 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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I gave my mom the Guernsey...Society for her birthday last weekend. She's already finished it, and loved it.

"Life is always better with clean pants."

by CabinGirl on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 04:57:03 PM EST
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That's good to know. It looks like it would be a quick read.

Although the problem with bringing a few quick reads is ... more books to take. Maybe I should just bring War and Peace :)

by maryb2004 on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 05:02:51 PM EST
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Um, doesn't that defeat the vacation aspect of the whole thing?

"Life is always better with clean pants."

by CabinGirl on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 05:31:14 PM EST
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Well, I don't have to finish it. Now that I know that Tolstoy writes in a short chapter format - it might be easier than a book with long chapters to keep track of where I am as I fall into one of the many naps I intend to take. On the other hand, it IS heavy and would be hard to hold in one hand while I hold a drink in the other.

by maryb2004 on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 05:46:27 PM EST
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find a compilation of short stories by dostoyevsky...an oxymoron if ever there was...and you'll be set. it'll help w/ the naps and you may even find yourself spending a lot more time recreating to avoid it, then you'll be too tired to read, eh.

the revolution will not be televised...

by dada on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 06:16:50 PM EST
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Notes from Underground is a quick read. And it's brilliant. But I don't see it as happy vacation reading.

by BooMan on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 06:18:32 PM EST
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it is brilliant....but she was talking tolstoy, so l figured it was fair game.

dostoyevsky's my favorite russian writer and l have several anthologies of short stories, and they are a slog.

the revolution will not be televised...

by dada on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 06:25:08 PM EST
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Dostoyevsky is my favorite writer, period. I was very disappointed when I realized I had read everything he'd ever written. I saved the Possessed for last and put if off for years. When I finally gave in and read it, I felt dread with each passing page, knowing I was approaching the end.

by BooMan on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 06:29:08 PM EST
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I felt dread with each passing page, knowing I was approaching the end.

very apropos.

the revolution will not be televised...

by dada on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 06:34:05 PM EST
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He's one of my favorite authors as well, as are most of russian authors.....have you read Quiet Flows The Don?. Quiet and Brothersk changed my world view, and Notes used to sit on a night table by my bed.

Have you read Alice Walker? Temple of my Familiar etc.

The german novel The Tin Man?

Banned but hopefully not forgotten.

by Mattes on Tue Jun 30th, 2009 at 01:39:29 PM EST
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I read it for a Law and Literature Class. I'd agree that it isn't happy vacation reading. Although I don't remember disliking it. (it was 20 years ago so it's hard to remember).

by maryb2004 on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 06:53:54 PM EST
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War and Peace is great, but it's kind of a guy-book. Have you read all the Dostoyevsky greats? The Idiot is my favorite. The Possessed is fantastic, too, and it's a bit shorter. And Brothers Karamazov is stunningly good.

by BooMan on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 06:16:59 PM EST
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What's a "guy-book"?

Haven't read Dostoevsky except Notes From the Underground. I will someday but I don't want to have to THINK too much on vacation.

by maryb2004 on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 06:52:40 PM EST
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War and Peace is about Napoleon's invasion of Russia, so it's had tons of military elements that are more interesting to most men than most women. Anna Karenina is the opposite. It's a chick-book.

by BooMan on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 06:59:19 PM EST
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lol!

I guess my years reading Civil War histories complete with battle maneuvers qualified as "guy reading." Of course I got tired of them after a while but mostly because there was nothing new to be added to any description of the battles at Gettysburg. There's only so many ways you can describe the motion of the troops on little round top that saved the Union day. I got back into them when people finally started writing about the war in the west (that would be Missouri and the Mississippi Valley ) but there was less battle strategy out here.

Does he write the whole thing in the almost stream of consciousness way that he wrote Anna Karenina? That slowed me down in Anna - although it worked brilliantly when she finally decided to kill herself so I ended up being glad he wrote it that way. I don't know if I want to go through it again though. Pages of decisions on whether to go to the races or not, whether to go to the party or not, whether to move to the country or stay in the city ... sometimes I just wanted to shout "just make up your mind and do it!".

by maryb2004 on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 07:50:15 PM EST
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There is nothing so annoying as a book that is too heavy to lounge with while reading it.

Especially if cocktails are involved.

"Life is always better with clean pants."

by CabinGirl on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 06:30:48 PM EST
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'zactly. And cocktails are always involved.

by maryb2004 on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 06:55:07 PM EST
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