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YOU’VE GOT TO READ THIS BOOK!

Rating: 2
Review of: You've got to read this book! : 55 people tell the story of the book that changed their life

Unfortunately, heavily tilted towards new age gurus and the books that impressed them. Reads like a history of the self-help genre rather than a list of valuable books. Try something like MOrtimer Adler's 100 GREAT BOOKS if you're looking for real quality.

FOOLED AGAIN by Mark Crispin MIller

Rating: 3
Review of: Fooled again : how the Right stole the 2004 election & why they'll steal the next one too (unless we stop them) by Miller, Mark Crispin

For election junkies and Democratic whiners. Get ready for more of the same in 2009 as the 2008 election promises to be equally contested.

MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS by Tracy Kidder

Rating: 3
Review of: Mountains beyond mountains by Kidder, Tracy

This was pretty interesting. Unfortunately, I lost the book in the midst of our move from apartment to house. The library is hugely overstocked of this title because it was the focus of the annual Read-A-Thon, so I have been able to renew it 52 times so far, avoiding any overdue fines.

THE ESSENTIAL CALVIN AND HOBBES

Rating: 5
Review of: The essential Calvin and Hobbes : a Calvin and Hobbes treasury

truly essential. I love books that make me laugh.

HALTING STATE by Charles Stross

Rating: 4
Review of: Halting state by Stross, Charles

Very clever near-future espionage SF. Quite a bit of wish fulfilment going on as the novel is set entirely in an indepenedent Scotland and US is irrelevant to Stross's future EU - CHina conflict. Rather surprisingly for someone of Stross's intelligence the CHinese are treated as one-dimensional bogeymen, an almost Sax Rohmeresque approach.

Postsingular by Rudy Rucker

wfzimmerman's review: "The title alone makes this a must read for anyone who is interested in science fiction. I'm about a third of the way through and it's really drawing me in. It reads a bit like a thought experiment -- the pace of nanochange will be fast, but not *this* fast... but I like the way Rucker mixes the Big Smart Objects with the human heart in conflict. Strongly recommended so far."
Tor Books (2007), Hardcover, 320 pages
tags: First US edition, science fiction, SF