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Take the 10 ten books at any given college and graph it against the average SAT scores for that school.

From the “excerpt”:http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/gilbert/excerpts.html :
What would you do right now if you learned that you were going to die in ten minutes? Would you race upstairs and light that Marlboro you’ve been hiding in your sock drawer since the Ford administration? Would you waltz into your boss’s office and present him with a detailed description of [...]

Beautiful, although not as visceral an experience online compared to RL.

I was gobsmacked when I first heard that Oprah had actually chosen Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”:http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0307387895/ for her book club. My initial reaction was more a product of my assumption about the demographic of her readership than anything else, although I do remember mumbling to myself _Did she actually read the damn thing_?
I consider [...]

I’m always interested in reading lists, even though Knowledge Worker is really just a euphemism for morlock in the cube salt mines.

For fscking with people at the office. A non-cheap semi-effective one trick pony.

!http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/graphics/vollman_william.jpg(Willam T. Vollman)!
“Vollman’s Violent World”:www.nybooks.com/articles/18560 There is a strange disconnect when you read Vollman’s books and see pictures of the man. I imagine him as a skinny version of the main character in ??A Confederacy of Dunces?? with an AK-47.

The 1961 cover of Richard Scary’s Best Word Book Ever compared with the 1993 edition. Cautioned driver now a lighter colored fur?

What’s it like to be a reporter embedded in the real vanguard of the American invasion of Iraq? Evan Wright knows. He wrote a book about it. Here’s how it goes.

There is embedded (Geraldo mugging with pistols bared) and there is embedded: Riding in the back seat of the lead Humvee of the lead platoon [...]

I was gooja-ing (Google Groups, which uses the old DejaNews database, hence Gooja) on how to compare dates in ABAP when I stumbled on FreeBooks. Not every book listed on their site has an online version, but it’s still a nice resource. Never did find my answer, but the internet is all about finding tangents.

Central Booking: Read Like Crazy