Reading
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."Pacat, C.S.
Pak, Greg
Greg Pak
Aaron Lopresti, Carlo Pagulayan, Juan Santacruz, Gary Frank, Takeshi Miyazawa October 16 2008
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Palahniuk, Chuck
Papazian, Charles
Parsons, Brad Thomas
Brad Thomas Parsons
Ed Anderson January 24 2014
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Peace, David
Pearson, Marc
Marc Pearson December 02 2019
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Perkins, John
John Perkins
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.
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Pessl, Marisha
Petrini, Carlo
Carlo Petrini
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.
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Phelan, Peggy
Phillips, Leigh
w/ Michal Rozworski September 29 2023
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Piketty, Thomas
Piskor, Ed
Planck, Nina
Plath, Sylvia
Plokhy, Serhii
Portis, Charles
Powell, Nate
Powers, Richard
Preston, Richard
Proust, Marcel
Marcel Proust
Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright, C.K. Scott Moncrieff June 07 2013
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Marcel Proust
Carol Clark, Christopher Prendergast, Peter Collier February 14 2013
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Marcel Proust
Christopher Prendergast, John Sturrock July 01 2010
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Marcel Proust
Mark Treharne, Christopher Prendergast May 26 2009
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Marcel Proust
James Grieve, Christopher Prendergast August 24 2008
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