i_have_no_process's Reviews (109)

All My Friends Are Dead

5.0

funny reflective fast-paced

Some people put a basket of books or magazines next to their toilet, with which to entertain guests. Any such basket should contain this one-of-one.

The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature

David George Haskell

4.75

informative inspiring reflective relaxing

I'll go broke buying this book for everyone who doesn't have it. Broke, I say!

The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics

Martin Williams, Bill Blackbeard

5.0

funny informative

Incredible!

Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology

Robert K. Barnhart

4.5

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

If there were but one book to put in your child's hands the day they leave home...

General A.P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior

James I. Robertson

4.25

informative

A great biography regarding an overlooked figure. For all the ridiculous fetishes people maintain for the likes of Custer, Sherman, and Stonewall Jackson, here is a man whose life captures the tragedy and tension of that harrowing time -- without all the personal baggage of bigotry, megalomania, and bloodthirst.

Babbit

Sinclair Lewis

4.75

dark funny

As relevant and stimulating now as the day it was written.

The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals

Peter Heller

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional informative sad tense

Never has a book so inflamed my passions -- then urged me to cast away my familiar life in order to join a crusade much greater than myself. In another world, I took to the arduous and futile seas. In this world, I grew old, and merely wondered...

Karoo

Steve Tesich

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

I love the joke about people who are going to write the next "great American novel." I also love that Steve Tesich actually wrote it. The greatest of all forgotten American classics. In the coming years, it should find the audience it has always deserved.

The Birth of Venus

Sarah Dunant

4.25

emotional

Superior in its genre. As deft and ensorcelling as many books, in their blurbs, pretend.

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