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Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."
Years | Authors | Titles
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Pacat, C.S.

Captive Prince (Captive Prince #1)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780425274262

May 20 2020
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Pak, Greg

The Incredible Hulk: Planet Hulk
w/ Aaron Lopresti, Carlo Pagulayan, Juan Santacruz, Gary Frank, Takeshi Miyazawa

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780785122456

October 16 2008
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World War Hulk
w/ John Romita Jr., Rafa Sandoval

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780785126706

October 16 2008
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Palahniuk, Chuck

Survivor

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780099282648

May 05 2008
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Invisible Monsters

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780099285441

May 05 2008
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Fight Club

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780393327342

May 05 2008
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Papazian, Charles

The Complete Joy of Homebrewing

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780060531058

July 15 2008
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Parsons, Brad Thomas

Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas
w/ Ed Anderson

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781580083591

January 24 2014
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Peace, David

Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy, #1)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780307263742

July 17 2010
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Pearson, Marc

Mist from the Geyser (The Flamingo Diamond Series)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn

December 02 2019
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The Claw: The Terrible, Beautiful Claw (Flamingo Diamond Sseries #2)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn

December 02 2019
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The Flamingo Diamond

worldcat | bookshop | isbn

December 02 2019
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Perkins, John

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

The problem at the core of this book is trust. Do dynamics and even overt American foreign policy strategies like the ones he describes exist? Sure. Do I believe that literal "economic hit men" under the command of the NSA exist, and that Perkins was personally the key player in the economic colonization of half a dozen countries around the world? I am very dubious. And if that is poetic license, what else is?

Perkins might have done well to take the advice he says he got from one publisher, and edited this as fiction in the spirit of John Grisham - this is actually pretty good writing and it would have been more honest.

Oh, and he is super weird about women.

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780452287082

July 20 2019
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Pessl, Marisha

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780670037773

March 19 2011
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Petrini, Carlo

Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts and Traditions of the Table)
w/ William McCuaig, Alice Waters

This book is worthwhile as an overview of Slow Food and what it's philosophical and practical ramifications have been in Italy and around the world. Unfortunately, at times it strays beyond the bounds of its argumentative essay format into the domain of marketing material; it becomes difficult in certain sections to know how much to trust the claims being made.

I would recommend this (after all) modestly sized, innocuous little book to anyone trying to understand what Slow Food is all about - or to develop their ideas on how the current local food movement might be expanded for the world stage.

Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780231128452

September 10 2008
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Phelan, Peggy

Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780415147590

January 20 2010
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Phillips, Leigh

The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
w/ Michal Rozworski

Made me think about:
- Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781786635167

September 29 2023
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Piketty, Thomas

Capital in the 21st Century

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780674979857

January 29 2022
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Piskor, Ed

Wizzywig: Portrait of a Serial Hacker

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781603090971

November 03 2013
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Planck, Nina

Real Food: What to Eat and Why

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781596911444

April 26 2008
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Plath, Sylvia

The Bell Jar

worldcat | bookshop | isbn

February 26 2018
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Plokhy, Serhii

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780465094868

November 21 2020
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Portis, Charles

True Grit

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781585673698

July 07 2014
✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 

Powell, Nate

Sounds of Your Name

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780977055791

August 01 2009
✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 

Powers, Richard

The Overstory

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780393356687

February 09 2021
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Preston, Richard

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781400064892

January 03 2009
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Proust, Marcel

In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 6: Time Regained and A Guide to Proust
w/ Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright, C.K. Scott Moncrieff

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9781409019091

June 07 2013
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The Prisoner and the Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time #5)
w/ Carol Clark, Christopher Prendergast, Peter Collier

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780141180359

February 14 2013
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Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, #4)
w/ Christopher Prendergast, John Sturrock

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780143039310

July 01 2010
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The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time, #3)
w/ Mark Treharne, Christopher Prendergast

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780143039228

May 26 2009
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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
w/ James Grieve, Christopher Prendergast

Made me think about:
- Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780143039075

August 24 2008
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Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
w/ Lydia Davis

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780142437964

June 16 2008
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Puar, Jasbir K.

Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780822341147

May 15 2021
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Pullman, Philip

The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780440238157

May 10 2014
✪ ✪ 

The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780679879251

May 01 2014
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780679879244

April 15 2014
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Pyman, Mark

Sector-Based Action Against Corruption: A Guide for Organisations and Professionals
w/ Paul M. Heywood

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9783031593369

May 30 2025
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Pynchon, Thomas

The Crying of Lot 49

worldcat | bookshop | isbn 9780060913076

May 31 2009
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