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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
Sylvia Nasar
Touchstone, 2001
Complex Man-A Bio That Runs True
+ Reads like a novel
+ An Opinion of "A Beautiful Mind" from a fellow schizophrenic
+ A Beautiful Mind
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The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
Picador, 2008
excellent read
+ Zeitgeist of 50s and 60s in Full
+ One of the finest books in the English language
+ Living on the outside of the envelope
+ Dawn's Early Light
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Vintage, 2007
"I needed to be alone so that he could come back."
+ A KEEPER!
Joan Didion is a writer of great talent, and this memoir setting forth her process of grief after the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, is powerful. And while it is not sentimental, it envokes strong emotion in the reader. Didion's pain is sharp, her sense of isolation very real, yet she ...
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Don't Leave Me This Way: Or When I Get Back on My Feet You'll Be Sorry
Julia Fox Garrison
Harper Paperbacks, 2007
I loved this book
+ Brave stuff; funny and moving
+ A must read for all health care professionals
+ An Absolutely Wonderful Read
+ Everyone Should Read This Book
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Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Paul Monette
Harvest Books, 1998
One of the best books ever.
+ beatiful
+ Love in the time of AIDS
+ How painfully, yet wonderfully, enlightening this book is...
+ Devastating, beautiful and true
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Thunderstruck
Erik Larson
Three Rivers Press, 2007
An Artful Reconstruction of History
A wonderful, exciting, and vivid look at what life may have been like for and in the time of Guglielmo Marconi, (often cited as the inventor of but, more accurately, the first to successfully commercialize wireless communication). The author painstakingly reconstructs many events in Marconi's life ...
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
Alison Weir
Ballantine Books, 2006
Read it with an open mind!
+ I'm not an expert, but I enjoyed this read
+ Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery and Murder in Medivel England
Alison Weir provides a fascinating interpretation of the facts surrounding King Edward II, Queen Isabella, Piers Gaveston, and Hugh le Despenser. If you have already made up your mind about these medieval figures and are closed off to any evidence that proves you wrong, then maybe this book isn't ...
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club)
Malika Oufkir
Miramax, 2002
A Story That Stays With You
+ Great story telling
+ Amazing Story to be Told
+ Haunting, Beautiful, Courageous!
+ Stolen Lives
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Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions
Edward Ugel
Collins Business, 2007
A Must read for anyone who buys lottery tickets!!
+ Interesting look at a seedy business
You win the lottery and think you are an instant millionaire! THINK AGAIN!! Ugel has written a true story of his experience working for a company he is forbid to name, tracking down high end lottery winners who receive monthly payments instead of one lump sums. Your number comes up, you are ...
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The Children of Henry VIII
Alison Weir
Ballantine Books, 1997
This is real history - not a whitewashed novel. I loved it!
+ Their lives and relationships
+ An Historical Treat
+ henry's children
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.)
James L. Swanson
Harper Perennial, 2007
Harrowing "Manhunt"
+ Outstanding Read
+ A gem for Civil War enthusiasts
+ The facts of Lincoln's assassination that you never learned in school.
+ Suspenseful
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The Innocent Man
John Grisham
Dell, 2007
The Innocent Man
+ The scapegoats
+ Great Book!
+ Grisham can write nonfiction too!
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Death Be Not Proud (P.S.)
John J. Gunther
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007
Death Be Not Proud A Classic
+ A Timeless Memoir
+ I was in the Barnes and Noble on Broadway and couldn't find "Death Be Not Proud."
+ Shared pain....
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My Invented Country: A Memoir
Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden
Harper Perennial, 2004
A Captivating Landscape.
+ Lovely
+ A Memoir of Chili
+ 'A Slow Dance in a Large Circle'
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
Nick Flynn
W. W. Norton, 2005
Senior Writers Seminar - Dominski
+ Having lived on the streets of Las Vegas...
+ Good memoir
+ I really liked this book!
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