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  • Review: While Europe Slept

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    While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within, by Bruce Bawer. [rating:5/5] Bawer describes fast-growing Muslim communities throughout Europe that are basically isolated and closed off from European society. Muslims in France, Denmark, the Netherlands, haven’t been integrated into the countries they’ve emigrated into. They live in ghettos that are often…

  • Review: Phaic Tan

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    The Jetlag travel guide to Phaic Tan: Sunstroke on a Shoestring. This is the second Jetlag travel guide, coming on the heels of last year’s spot-on paradoy of an Eastern Europe guidebook: Molvania (link below). If you’ve ever read a travel guide in anticipation for a trip, you’ll appreciate the humor and the level of…

  • Review: 102 Minutes

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    102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn. This book is a meticulous account of what happened inside the World Trade Center from the time the first plane struck until the second tower collapsed, 102 minutes later. From the authors’ note: Like the…

  • Review: Revolution in The Valley

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    Reading this book, I kept seeing a comparison to the early days of computing and the early days of punk rock. Andy Hertzfeld’s account of the design and engineering of the Macintosh computer certainly takes you back to early 1980’s California. I remember going to computer shows back then with my dad, who seemed to…

  • Review: At the Mercy of the River

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    An Exploration of the Last African Wilderness, by Peter Stark, Grade: A Peter Stark’s account of a trip kayaking down Mozambique’s Lugenda River is an amazing tale. The previously uncharted 750-kilometer route is filled with rapids, waterfalls, crocodiles, hippos. And throughout the river adventure, he recounts the tales of historic explorers and wanderers throughout history.…

  • Midnight Train to Warsaw

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    Though it won’t be published for another eight months, you’ve got to check out the preview to photographer Andrew Faulkner’s book, Midnight Train to Warsaw.

  • Review: Night

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    Night, Elie Wiesel, Grade: A “If in my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one.” This new translation of Wiesel’s Night is a masterpiece in 120 pages. I know my holocaust books, and this is one of the most chilling I’ve read. This story of the young Elie being…

  • State of War

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    State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration, by James Risen, Grade: A Written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who broke the Bush domestic spying scandal, this book is amazing. Filled with secret details about the mismanagment of the war on terror, the distraction of Iraq, the complete lack of…

  • Review: January Books

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    Read a lot this month, eh? Must be winter in Utah. Ghost. Truly dreadful. If you want to read about a guy who rescues women from being raped to death by terrorists and then rapes a girl before saving the Pope from being nuked by Al Qaeda (I am NOT making this up), you will…

  • American Hardcore – Review

    American Hardcore – Review

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    American Hardcore, A for fans, B for anyone else. Thanks to Grayson, I ended up with two tickets to a showing of the punk documentary American Hardcore at the Sundance Film Festival. The film re-lives the eruption of the often brutal underground scene from 1980-1986. From the start of the film, when the frantic Bad…