Read Any Of These?

[legag]

1. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
   

A thought-experiment: What would become of the earth if humanity were to softly and silently and suddenly vanish away? What starts as a morbid parlor game becomes a mesmerizing and grandly entertaining meditation on how horrifically humanity has managed to perturb our little planet, and with what wonderful blithe resilience said planet will shrug off all our works once we're gone. Weisman writes like Malcolm Gladwell and John McPhee mashed together and set on fast-forward in this spirit-enlarging, screech-free hymn to the environment

2. Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson

3. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

4. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner

5. The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross

6. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin

7. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

8. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

9. The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks

10. Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup

[Old Croc]

Very much the top ten books in the USA.

[Naam]

not thai related. closed

[legag]

Still Open

Edited December 23, 2007 by legag

[Old Croc]

Still Open

Naam just thinks he's a mod!