Tag: 5 stars
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Motion City Soundtrack – Even If It Kills Me (10th Anniversary Edition)
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Reply All #102: Long Distance
A telephone scammer makes a terrible mistake. He calls Alex Goldman.
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Spelunky
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Review: All For a Few Perfect Waves
All for a Few Perfect Waves: The Audacious Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dora, by David Rensin Why did I never know about Miki Dora before? How nice to meet a brother on the path, even if I’m not a surfer. Check it out: Dora played the game as only a natural can.…
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Review: Roberts Ridge
Roberts Ridge: A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan. [rating:5/5] I’ve been spending a lot of time this week with the Navy SEALs in Afghanistan. This book by Malcom MacPherson, is another look at the events on Takur Ghar, where several special ops warfighters lost their lives to Taliban and/or al…
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Review: The Unquiet Grave
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The Unquiet Grave, by Steve Hendricks. [rating:5/5] This is a book I could not put down. The historic, though mostly unknown events on the Pine Ridge Reservation from the 1970s are so over-the-top that you have a hard time believing it all really happened. And it was only 30 years ago. American Indians (AIM) picked…
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Review: While Europe Slept
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…
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Review: Phaic Tan
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…
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Review: 102 Minutes
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…
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Review: At the Mercy of the River
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.…
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Review: Night
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…
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State of War
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…
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American Hardcore – Review
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…