Very interesting study of the influenza outbreak and the times. Really good; science and history combined!

What is all the fuss about? Can you say cliche and boring? If this book wasn’t about Afghanistan, no one would read this…overrated.

An Amazing story about one of the most amazing American heroes.

Anyone that liked Absurdistan should go and read the real facts of the area. I appreciated the novel but this nonfiction book describes as the real world story of the Caspian Sea in the 90’s. It is entertaining to see the ex-Soviets in Baku fleece the Western oil men for hundreds of millions for oil wells that are dry.

I haven’t finished this yet and don’t know if I will. Who is this bozo? He presents lots of facts and figures, but some of the facts don’t add up. At one point he says that they could re-roof 5 million houses and plant 11 million trees in Los Angeles and paint 1/4 of the roads to negate the effects of global warming in the metro area. He thinks this would have a one time cost of 1 billion dollars. I don’t know what planet he lives on, I don’t think you could do that for that price. This kind of suggestion makes me discount all his arguments.

Sometimes you have to go back and read the classics to be reminded of what literature should really be.

Cormac McCarthy never made sense to me. But this book is the skeleton key to understanding the Border Trilogy. I still prefer Jim Harrison’s Hemingway-esque writing to McCarthy’s Faulkner-ness…but this was a great book.

This is my second reading of Into the Wild. I have been following the story since Krakauer’s original article in Outside Magazine and was very interested because the same year that Mr. McCandless was starving to death in the bus, I spent five months hitchhiking around Alaska. Even on my second reading, I still can’t understand the infatuation with this story. McCandless was an idiot. The same way i can’t understand the infatuation with Aron Ralston (who lost his arm in Utah on a solo trip).

I will continue to read these, because of my love of the Dune series, but Please Stop Writing Them! It’s seems they’ve lost all sight of the original novels. Herbert is turning over in his grave.

Probably even a more important to understanding Hitchens’ world views than God Is Not Great. Can’t wait to get Advice to a Young Contrarian from the library. Its apparent that Hitchen is someone who seems to stand on the shoulders of the giant that Orwell was, although Hitchen’s is well aware that his idol had clay feet and respects him nonetheless.