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A story about "Bringing Down the House : The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions"

nobody@allconsuming.net (veganfreak) — Thu, 26 May 2005 04:41:12 GMT

Bringing Down the House : The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

by Ben Mezrich

keeps you turning the pages as you dig into the lives of the geeks that managed to take vegas for a ride, but the writing is often unintentionally funny, mostly because of stilted metaphors.

A story about "Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (veganfreak) — Thu, 26 May 2005 04:41:12 GMT

Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies)

by Michael K. Brown

Dealing with the challenging questions of lingering social inequality along racial lines, this book destroys the weak thinking of right-wing individualists by presenting a compelling case for structural inequality.

A story about "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Today Show Book Club #13)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (veganfreak) — Thu, 26 May 2005 04:41:11 GMT

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Today Show Book Club #13)

by Mark Haddon

normally, I’d eschew any today show pick (I didn’t even know that they had a book club until I looked at this book) but the book is actually compelling.

A story about "Japanese by Spring"

nobody@allconsuming.net (veganfreak) — Thu, 26 May 2005 04:41:11 GMT

Japanese by Spring

by Ishmael Reed

a nice send-up of the academy. Reed doesn’t pull punches – he goes after white feminists, PC culture, conservatives, liberals—you name it, he nails it.