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In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the... more

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  My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

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  • Posted:Oct-01-2009

  • Not funny, girl
  • This book is only what it says it is-a collection of the stories of one night stands. It is not wry, sarcastic, insightful, and the most it is not is funny. Not humorous at all. I was expecting...
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  • Posted:Sep-23-2009

  • Funny, Easy Read
  • Chelsea Handler is hilarious! This book is defintely an easy, entertaining read. Hard to just read one story at a time without wanting to read the next one.
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  • Not really one-night stands, as far as I remember
  • I DO remember she trashes New Jersey, but that's as old as can be.
    I'm trying to remember what I got out of the rapid-fire hail of bullets that is Handler's voice.
    
    She talks...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever... more

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  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

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  • A Wild and Extraordinary Ride Down a Lost Highway ...
  • The Lost Highway of the American Dream.
    
    I love social satire. I don't need my characters to be loveable; I don't even need them to be likeable. I just need them to be what they are, even...
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  • I don't see what the big deal is...
  • As a recent college grad with time to kill unemployed, I wanted to like this book, I really did. Many of my friends have recommended I read it, although I am beginning to think they never read it...
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  • Too misogynistic
  • I've read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas a few times, starting first in high school, few years later in college, and then recently now. The first time I read it, I thought it was funny, zany, and...
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Whiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death. This is the life... more

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  The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

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  • Posted:Jan-27-2009

  • Amazing book!!!
  • This book ROCKS!!!!!...literally. i've read it twice and will probably read in one every 2 yrs until I die. So, good. You won't believe what these guys got away with an how many drugs they...
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  • Posted:Mar-19-2008

  • Heartwarming, Inspirational, Should Be on Every 5th Grade Reading List!!
  • Just joking. My first concert ever was Motley Crue at Madison Square Garden back in 1987 and I still remember all those feelings of awe, rebellion, excitement and raging hormones they inspired to...
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  • Posted:Feb-06-2008

  • trash
  • If you are old enough to remember these guys when they were in thier prime, the things that were funny and impresive sure sound stupid and classless now at 45 years old. Perhaps they are running...
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The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A... more

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  A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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  • Posted:Sep-16-2009

  • Verbal Diarrhea
  • "[...] brevity is the soul of wit"
    
    Actual dialogue (page 64):
    "Are you bored?"
    "Yeah," he says.
    "Why?"
    "Because you're just lying there."
    "Well, I'm tired."
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  • Posted:Aug-26-2009

  • Book Discussion
  • We used it for a book discussion, my sons and I, we all read it from a different perspective, siblings, students, caretaker, young men starting their careers. We all enjoyed it. Funny, sad, thought...
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  • Posted:Aug-23-2008

  • Emotionally evocative, but wordy
  • I bought this book because of all the rave reviews from critics and the because it was a Pulitzer finalist. I read the first one-third of the story and really enjoyed his candid writing style. I...
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Donated to the Library of Congress in the mid-1960s, Groucho Marx's correspondence was first crafted into this... more

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  The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx

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  • Posted:Dec-16-2008

  • Groucho Marks Letterw
  • It was not a favorite. I've Woody Allen stuff and the GL's may be great for a museum but does not create the "meat in comedy" I was looking for.
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  • A good collection but not definitive.
  • This collection of Groucho's correspondence illustrates a number of things about the man. His wit was not limited to performance, his relationships with his friends were long lasting, and he wrote...
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Julia Child became a household name when she entered the lives of millions of Americans through our hearts and... more

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  Appetite for Life

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  • The Real Julia
  • Julia was a fascinating woman. I never realized what she went through to finally be able to write her 1st cookbook and have her own TV show. It made me look at her in an entirely different light....
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  • Posted:Dec-08-2008

  • Dreadful
  • (Unlike some reviewers here, I choose to review the book, not its subject.)
    
    There is no reason to read this book. As others have noted, it's chock-full of minutia, based very obviously...
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  • Dry, dry, dry....
  • Someone with such a zest for living deserves a much better biography written about her! Julia Child's life as seen through the words of this author lacks a lot of spice. You trudge through this...
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The original classic story about growing up with drugs and sex and about learning to survive on the streets of New... more

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  The Basketball Diaries

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  • Posted:Mar-10-2009

  • Great read!
  • A very entertaining tale of life as a youth on the streets of New York. The birth of a very talented author.
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  • Posted:Dec-06-2007

  • Ugh.
  • Could have been interesting, but this book was so foul (language) I had difficulty staying with it. It has remained, unfinished, on my bookshelf.
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  • The Basketball Diaries Review
  • The book "The Basketball Diaries" by Jim Carroll is about the life of Jim Carroll as a High School basketball player and a heroin attic. The book takes place in New York City's Lower East Side of...
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DESCRIPTION: In January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother Micah set off on a three-week trip around the world. It... more

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  Three Weeks with My Brother

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  • Posted:Jan-09-2009

  • A nonfiction book that reads like fiction
  • 1. A great book for all N. Sparks fans. Those who are not familiar with N. Sparks will subsequently want to read his other books.
    2. A definite 5 stars for this book. Read it and...
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  • Posted:Jul-31-2008

  • Just alright
  • I just finished this book this morning and I have to say it was just average. Having just come back from a trip with my own brother and being of similar age to the Sparks brothers, I connected...
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  • Posted:Mar-02-2008

  • Triter than Fiction
  • Famed maudlin romance author Nicholas Sparks leaves his wife and half dozen kids behind to travel the world with his brother. Interspersed with descriptions of world famous cultural sites (which,...
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Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller by one of rock?s most provocative figures Scar Tissue is Anthony... more

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  Scar Tissue

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  • Posted:Jan-24-2009

  • RED HOT SCAR TISSUE
  • What better to be said about a book then i couldn't put it down. I kept reading parts outloud to my girlfriend, and all she could say was oh-my-god. And if you're kind of a fan before reading it...
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  • Posted:Dec-27-2008

  • Heart in the right place, but still has a ways to go
  • I wasn't a big Red Hot Chili Peppers fan in their day - for one thing, I always thought of them as more a tribe of half-naked Hollywood junkies than a viable musical act, and this book seems to...
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  • Posted:Jul-24-2008

  • Glaring Error raises some obvious questions
  • I was pretty shocked that between the alleged writer, ghost writer and a major publisher that somebody didn't catch a blatant mistake that really casts some doubt as to the effort and veracity of...
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After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife... more

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  I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

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  • Posted:Dec-29-2008

  • Hostile
  • After reading "A Short History of Nearly Everything," I became a fast fan of Mr. Brysons writing style. I felt that he inserted humor and wit with accurate fact.
    
    However, this book takes...
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  • Bryson's views on America
  • A collection of essays on Bryson's experiences and views of America, sometimes annoyingly pretentious and pedantic (especially in the beginning), but more often clever, funny, and perfectly...
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  • out of the bryson norm
  • I enjoy his writing, and was still entertained by this book. But the tone caught me off guard. Now, I know that this was written for a british audience, out of weekly articles thrown together...
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From one of America?s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an... more

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  The Year of Magical Thinking

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  • Explains a Magical Marriage
  • While reading Joan Didion's memoir, which is centered on John Gregory Dunne's sudden death, my immediate reaction was that the appreciative audience is limited. Further reading proved me wrong....
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  • Terrific memoir, painting a picture of grief and loss
  • I thought Ms. Didion's description of the feelings, sounds, emotions that we experience when we've had a tragic loss were astonishingly accurate. When faced with great tragedy and grief, it is...
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  • Disappointing
  • I have read most of Didion's books and so bought this at a used bookstore without knowing what it was about. Like many of the reviewers before me, the first few chapters describing her husband's...
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Take the Cannoli is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense... more

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  Take the Cannoli : Stories From the New World

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  • Very clever essays
  • "Take the Cannoli" consists of a number of witty essays written by Sarah Vowell, who grew up in the middle of nowhere and went on to build a life for herself as a writer living in one of America's...
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  • A clever and witty delivery of truth.
  • Vowell's book is definately a clever and witty delivery of truth. Some of it is her own truth through life experience. Even if you don't share her opinions, you understand her point without...
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  • Boring
  • I think that one word says it all. I read the other reviews and expected to be rolling around laughing at this book. The first essay was promising but turned out dull in the end and the book went...
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Anne Lamott claims the two best prayers she knows are: "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank... more

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  Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

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  • Posted:Oct-18-2009

  • Yes, Jesus Loves Liberals Too. :)
  • This book just goes to show you how God specializes in "broken things" (i.e. flawed humans).
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  • A Book that Resonates
  • Anne Lamott writes with tremendous vulnerability and sincerity. She opens her veins for us and spills the contents of her life onto the page--the good, the bad, and the very very ugly. Her words...
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  • Put me out of my misery
  • Having read previously published books by Anne LaMott, I admit I was unenthusiastic about reading this book group selection. Much of the material is rehashed from previous works but now...
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Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. When Michael Crichton --... more

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  Travels

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  • Travels With Michael
  • As a book-lover, you probably have a favorite that you read a couple of times a year. It sits there in your bookcase, and as you pass by you glance at it and smile, thinking of how much it's meant...
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  • NOT a travel memoir...BEWARE!
  • I love international travel and thought that I was buying a travel memoir that would inspire new ideas for my travels. Instead, I found this book to be frustrating, annoying, irritating, and...
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  • It has its highs and lows
  • I like the idea of searching for meaning in one's life. I am impressed by the number of remote, obscure locales that Crichton visited. I am intrigued - if not entirely convinced - by Crichton's...
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The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness,... more

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  The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English...

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  • OED story
  • "The Professor and the Madman" is a fascinating story made even more so by the fact it is true. I recommend it to anyone interested in the history of the English language.
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  • An interesting tale from history
  • Simon Winchester has come up with a nifty little tale of the making of the OED. It's a fun little gem from history, and worth the read. My only complaints are: the book would have been more...
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  • How come Simon Winchester didn't know...
  • How come the author didn't know that when Dr. Minor was a student at Yale, he worked as an assistent to a professor who was helping to compile Webster's Dictionary (1864 edition), and that Minor's...
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From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Dry?the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of... more

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  Dry: A Memoir

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  • Fabulous
  • Augusten Burroughs is a testiment to the human spirit. His honesty and amazing wit are what make his books so special and DRY is no exception. This is an honest look at addiction, personel struggle...
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  • Posted:Aug-16-2009

  • 1 Star for Memoir 3 for Fiction Lite
  • I started to suspect something was wrong with this book about 15 pages in. It didn't read like a memoir--the story though entertaining felt really contrived, fake. So I scanned back to the...
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  • Posted:Feb-28-2008

  • You will enjoy this book IF...
  • You will like this book:
    *If you have not read too many other of Burroughs' books (some of the life details get repetitive)
    *If you appreciate a cynical outlook and a dry sense of...
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"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt... more

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  Chronicles: Volume One (Chronicles)

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  • Posted:Dec-26-2008

  • Enignatic read from an enigma
  • Volumes and volumes can be written about Bob Dylan, but to get into his mind and to know what and who mattered to him and in what ways, only he can provide that, which he does here. The writer of...
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  • Basically a bogus look backward
  • Around every 20 pages, there's a phrase that's faintly reminiscent of the early years, the intellect that penned "it's allright, ma" etc. But so much of what he claims happened is just not reality....
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  • Quality Autobiography
  • I found Chronicles to be a very quality autobiography. With many insightful opinions and facts about his life it is a must read for close followers of Dylan's life. There are times when Dylan...
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In Don?t Let?s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity.... more

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  Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

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  • Posted:Jan-06-2009

  • Terrible book
  • Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
    I read a review of this autobiography which raised my interest. But after reading fully two-thirds of the book, I was disheartened at...
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  • Posted:Nov-09-2008

  • Engaging story
  • This book kept me engaged to see what "diffrent" thihg would happen next. While not great writing, it is vivid and depicts things most of us can hardly imagine.
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  • Incredibly sad
  • Although mostly well-written, this memoir is very depressing. I was expecting more about Africa from this NF book, but it's largely the tale of a highly dysfunctional family that suffers blow after...
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  Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

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  • Essential Work!
  • Brilliant book. It gives you a perfect image of how exceiting the American indie- and guitarscene was, long before Nirvana. Essential work!
    
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  • Posted:Aug-26-2007

  • Rose colored histories
  • So much of this book is tripe. What you get is a cut/ paste of old interviews alongside higly romantisized band biographies. Everyone talks so highly of Azerrad's writing, but that's just make-up...
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  • Has everyone forgotten how to ask questions?
  • What is it with books on hardcore punk that have come out in the last few years? This one is much the same as many of the others that have come out (the God awful Blush American hardcore, Dance of...
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Geoff Emerick became an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1962 at age fifteen, and was... more

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  Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles

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  • Posted:Jan-20-2009

  • More than musical scores settled here!
  • The first thing I will get out of the way is that if you are any kind of Beatles fan at all, you will find the book fascinating; fascinating but not necessarily enjoyable.
    
    Geoff...
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  • Can't buy me love or good reviews
  • "People don't realize, it but George had a great sense of humor," Emerick recalled. "He was also such a gifted musician. On "Taxman," from the Revolver album, I can remember him writing the guitar...
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  • A great read, regardless of some of the criticism
  • Some of the accuracy of the information recalled in this book has been called into question by another Abbey Road staff member who was there at the time as well. Even taking into consideration the...
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