DougTidwell
  • DougTidwell

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DougTidwell

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1. The Echo Maker: A Novel Richard Powers
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2. Team of Rivals -
3. The Areas of My Expertise John Hodgman
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Title Author(s) Score Avg Score
1. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More Chris Anderson
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2. Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions) John Milton
Gordon Tesky
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3. The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Amos Tutuola
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4. Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Thomas Pynchon
Frank Miller
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5. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 Tony Judt
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6. Evelina (Oxford World's Classics) Frances Burney
Edward A. Bloom
Vivien Jones
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7. The Jesus Sutras: Rediscovering the Lost Scrolls of Taoist Christianity Martin Palmer
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8. A Tour of the Calculus David Berlinski
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9. The Road (Oprah's Book Club) Cormac McCarthy
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10. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and Continuation of the Bramine's Journal Laurence Sterne
Melvyn New
Geoffrey Day
W. G. Day
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Almost, but not quite, a complete waste of time by DougTidwell

Book: A Tour of the Calculus

Author(s): David Berlinski

I read this for two reasons: 1) I never learned this stuff in school and always wished that I had, and 2) My daughter will start studying this soon and it wouldn’t hurt if I actually understood it. Unfortunately, this book contains some of the most o more ...

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Submitted: Aug 16th 2008 @ 19:31

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I'm Channeling Cary Grant Here... by DougTidwell

Book: Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Author(s): Thomas Pynchon Frank Miller

I’ve never read any Thomas Pynchon, so I thought I’d start here. According to Hollywood legend, after the premiere of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Cary Grant stood up and said, “Would somebody please tell me what the hell I just saw”? Had that feelin more ...

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Submitted: Aug 16th 2008 @ 19:24

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Book: Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement

Author(s): John Brockman

A collection of essays by scientists and philosophers against the intelligent design movement. Most of the essays are very bright people preaching to the converted; very little in the book actually makes an argument that might convince an ID proponent to more ...

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Submitted: Aug 16th 2008 @ 19:15


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