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review roundup 2

by John at 12/18/2006 09:37:00 AM

Reviews 1)-62) are here.

the phantom 30 second book reviews (2/4/2006)

63) Life of Pi - Yann Martel

64) The Amphora Project - William Kotzwinkle

65) Everyone in Silico - Jim Munroe

66) Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask - Jim Munroe

67) Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China - Rachel DeWoskin

68) Fifty Degrees Below - Kim Stanley Robinson

attack of the 30 second book reviews
(4/6/2006)

69) Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America - Harm de Blij

70) Ubik - Philip K. Dick

71) Never Let Me Go - Kazou Ishiguro

72) Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

73) Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind - V. S. Ramachandran

revenge of the 30 second book reviews (6/1/2006)

74) Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks

75) Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

76) The Trial - Franz Kafka

77) A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick

a new 30 second book reviews (8/2/2006)

78) Walden - Henry David Thoreau

79) On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau

80) Common Sense - Thomas Paine

81) Clans of the Alphane Moon - Philip K. Dick

82) The Simulacra - Philip K. Dick

83) Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space - Deborah Cadbury

84) Glasshouse - Charles Stross

the 30 second book reviews strikes back (9/15/2006)

85) Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) - Jerome K. Jerome

86) Radio Free Albemuth - Philip K. Dick

87) Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality - Steven Poole

88) The Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem

89) The Atrocity Archives - Charles Stross

return of the 30 second book reviews
(12/8/2006)

90) Spin - Robert Charles Wilson

91) We - Yevgeny Zamyatin

92) Erewhon - Samuel Butler

93) The Ghost Brigades - John Scalzi

94) "The Call Of Cthulhu", "The Dunwich Horror" - H. P. Lovecraft

95) The Fourth Turning - William Strauss and Neil Howe

Awards:
Best Fiction (tie) - Life of Pi, Never Let Me Go
Best Non-fiction - Space Race1
Worst Fiction - The Amphora Project
Worst Non-fiction - None2

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1. Unspeak is a sooo close second, but I wanted to be decisive.
2. Clearly, one of them has to be "worst", but it doesn't seem right to put anything here since I liked all the ones I read.
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