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Lovers of irony, Whole Foods, and Arts degrees rejoice: the online phenomenon StuffWhitePeopleLike.com is now available in book form! With expanded entries and a smattering of new things white people love need to be told they love, Christian Lander’s book is perhaps the most insightfully humorous thing you’ll read all summer. Being white has never been so funny.
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McMafia's one of those books you hear your friends talking about, and they say how great it is, and then you read it, and it turns out to be pretty good after all. Balkan expert Misha Glenny took a break from writing for rags like the London and New York Review of Books to research this sprawling investigation into the lives of those involved in the business of crime, and in those three years he amassed one heckuva lot of material. McMafia is the result, of course, and it doesn't disappoint. Glenny's time spent immersed in the criminal has allowed him a unique perspective, and his book is one that shouldn't be missed.
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Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a veritable wet dream for anyone who grew up on Superman comics during their heady WWII-era peak. A fictionalized account of the rise of the Superhero genre (and loosely based on the lives of Jerome Siegel and Joseph Shuster, creators of Superman)Kavalier & Clay is a richly textured, beautifully rendered - and exhaustively researched - tome that can confidently boast as being one of the best novels of the last 10 years. Period. A must-read.
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Eat, Pray, Love is a book that I came across by chance that captured my attention immediately. Though it is sort of the authos' semi autobiography I think there are themes and situations that we can relate to and appreciate. She also wrote for GQ, how cool is that? Below is a review from the New Yorker.
From the New Yorker:
At the age of thirty-one, Gilbert moved with her husband to the suburbs of New York and began trying to get pregnant, only to realize that she wanted neither a child nor a husband. Three years later, after a protracted divorce, she embarked on a yearlong trip of recovery, with three main stops: Rome, for pleasure (mostly gustatory, with a special emphasis on gelato); an ashram outside of Mumbai, for spiritual searching; and Bali, for "balancing." These destinations are all on the beaten track, but Gilbert's exuberance and her self-deprecating humor enliven the proceedings: recalling the first time she attempted to speak directly to God, she says, "It was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work."
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
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