Book Reviews

All reviews, by rating

If you're looking for a good book to read, and you're inexplicably determined to use my web site as your source for recommendations, you can carefully scrutinize every one of my reviews ... OR, you can read this handy guide. Here's a list of my ratings for all the books I've reviewed - on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 as the best.

The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - 10
House of Leaves - 10
We Wish to Inform You ... Rwanda Stories - 10
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire - 10
Alias - 10
Murder Mysteries - 10
Here is New York - 10
The Economist - 10
Anna Karenina - 10

A Short History of the World - 9
The Traveler - 9
Snow Crash - 9
Beer & Circus - 9
Just Looking: Essays on Art - 9
Wicked - 9
Bono: In Conversation - 9
Men's Health - 9
George Soros on Globalization - 9
The Martian Chonicles - 9
World Religions - 9
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban - 9

Powers - 8
Crime and Punishment - 8
Shopgirl - 8
American Gods - 8
Pledged - 8
Breakfast at Tiffany's - 8
The Day I Swapped My Dad for Goldfish - 8
A Very Short Introduction to Gandhi - 8
When Religion Becomes Evil - 8
Coraline - 8
Life of Pi - 8
The Boondocks: Fresh for '01 - You Suckas! - 8
Box Office Poison - 8
Songbook - 8
East Timor - Genocide in Paradise - 8
The Twilight of American Culture - 8
Still Life with Oysters & Lemon - 8
The God of Small Things - 8
Modigliani - 8
Different Hours - 8
The Annotated Alice - 8
The Tipping Point - 8

V for Vendetta - 7
The Historian - 7
Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth - 7
Rumi: Hidden Music - 7
Violence & Compassion - 7
Anatomies - 7
Bob Dylan - Chonicles - 7
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone - 7
Killing the Imposter God - 7
Ultimate X-Men - 7
Islam: A Short History - 7
The Power of Nonviolence - 7
100 Bullets - 7
Palestine - 7
Taoism & Confucianism - 7
Torso - 7
100 Best Album Covers - 7
Spectrum 7 - 7
Ring of the Nibelung - 7
Alfred Stieglitz - 7
Frank Cho, Illustrator - 7
A Clockwork Orange - 7

The Final Solution - 6
Best Non-Required Reading 2002 - 6
Rolling Stone Portraits - 6
Strangers in Paradise - 6
Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets - 6
Why Do Men Have Nipples? - 6
Panel Discussions - 6
Road to Perdition - 6
e - 6
How to Read Superhero Comics - 6
The Cluetrain Manifesto - 6

Eleanor Rigby - 5
Pedro and Me - 5
Time Machines - 5
Introducing Quantum Theory - 5
Intelligence Reframed - 5
Dirty Truth - Oil Dependency of GW Bush - 5
Timequake - 5
A Painted House - 5
Skeptical Inquirer - 5

The Persistent Gappers of Frip - 4
Jesse's Word of the Day - 4
Time Travel in Einstein's Universe - 4
Faster - 4
A Friend of the Earth - 4
Something Wicked This Way Comes - 4

Adbusters - 3
Buffy: Unseen - 3
Gravity - 3
Kissing in Manhattan - 3
The Simulacra - 3
Don Quixote - 3

Strong Religion - 2
Think - 2
Introducing Keynesian Economics - 2
The No-Nonsense Guide to Class & Caste - 2

A Very Short Introduction to Choice Theory - 1
Summer of Storms - 1

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