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A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

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You should probably read this when you're incredibly depressed about your own life. You'll then realize how much of a silly ass you are because it's nowhere near as bad as the people in this book. Set in India in the 1970's, at every point you just think that it can't get worse and then surprise! it does.

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

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if you feel like you're the only normal person in your family of gypsies, read the glass castle

Updated Jun 25, 2007

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The Self - Destruction Handbook: 8 Simple Steps to an Unhealthier You

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I remembered that I own this book yesterday, dug it off my bookshelf and re-read this insane little handbook. It's freaking hilarious. A friend of mine bought it because well, I am GREAT at self-destruction.

Some of the winning chapters include:

• 12 Steps to a Drinking “Problem”
• Condoms Are for Suckers
• How to Lose Way Too Much Weight in 90 Days

Some other little gems on how to be on drugs, date losers, and how to be a mistress.

With 8 different paths to self-destruction, I am pretty sure finding a friend who needs this book will be a cake walk.

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives

6 people recommended this item

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Funny and touching book of secrets. Great book to keep out on your coffee table.

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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Hyperion: Dan Simmons

2 people recommended this item

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This is philosophical, yet easy-to-read sci-fi. I really enjoyed the whole series.

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy

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Great book - reads like one long painful poem.

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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The Best Dance Moves in the World - Ever!: 100 New and Classic Moves and How to Bust Them - by Matt Pagett

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If you're out on the dance floor stuck somewhere between the Running Man and the Roger Rabbit, this book may be your key to success - success in dance moves, love - life, basically. Rock your socks off and get groovin with Matt Pagett's awesome little guide to the best dance moves in the world.

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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Cows Are in the Corn

2 people recommended this item

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wee r sposed too recamind buhks too tha buhk klub but I dunt noh hou too reed, wil yoo teesh mee?

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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Dancing on the Pedals: The Found Poetry of Phil Liggett, The Voice of Cycling: Phil Liggett, Doug Donaldson: Books

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Phil Liggett, a man with couleur in his voice, a man who appreciates a decent chamois, a man for whom the Tour de France is as much Homer-ian epic as it is a race for le Malliot Jaune, a man who has led us through most every major international tour since 1977 and raced for 12 years before that, a man with Paul Newman-caliber blues, is as well a man with poetry in his soul, and now in print.

An excerpt:

"Daily Dichotomy"
Very light winds
and very hot indeed
it will be an easy day
to destroy yourself.
(Stage 17, 1996)


Encore une fois:

"Purgatorio"
And then,
they'll be in the shadow
of the Pyrenees.
(Stage 9, 2000)

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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Perl Best Practices by Damian Conway

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This book is basically a collection of advices on how to keep your Perl code efficient, clean, and maintainable. Damian is a very opinionated guy, and I don't always agree with him (I love 'unless', and I think inside-out objects are just too kludgy to be useful), but what I like about the book is that it teaches you to write clean, standards-driven, readable code. And I like clean.

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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