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GuyReading
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I write reviews of the books I read. A great site for guys who read and/or lovers of nonfiction.
- Added on: Apr 20th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Orty Ortwein
- Listed in: Books History
- Tags: sports MEN war reading nonfiction guys
Recent Posts
Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel
Matt Cruise is a teenage boy in a world much as ours was in the 1920's, except that airships are more than just doomed luxury cruise liners for wealthy Germans. In Oppel's alternate universe, zeppelins and blimps are used as extensivly as sea-faring ...
Paddy on the Hardwood: A Journey in Irish Hoops by Rus Bradburd
What makes a successful assistant basketball coach in America pack up for tiny Tralee, Ireland, to lead a team less organized than a junior high squad? Paddy on The Hardwood is the unlikely story of Rus Bradburd. Fed up with the assistant coach's lif...
Fire and Brimstone : The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 by Michael Punke
This book is in fact two books in one. The first is about the mining disaster mentioned in the subtitle. The second is about the colorful history of Montana politics that made the disaster possible. Punke alternates the two chapters in the style of D...
Where\'s my Jetpack by Daniel H. Wilson
The future is now the present, but it is not what we thought it would be. Once upon a time, the era after 2000 promised so much innovation that '2000 was tacked onto any invention meant to be futuristic. Alas, we humans still drive cars on Earth, hav...
The Soloist : a Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez (read by Hughes, William)
One of the joys of reading nonfiction is unpredictability. There is no promise of a happy ending in this story of a journalist who befriends a homeless man. Lopez first meets ex-Julliard student Nathaniel Ayers playing a two-string violin near the st...
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World\'s Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb (read by Paul Hect)
The biggest fish ever caught by Nazi-hunters in the post-World War Two era was Adolf Eichmann, the infamous behind-the-scenes-manager of the Final Solution. The "Young Spy Agency" referred to in the subtitle was the Mossad, Israel's answer to the CIA...
