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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Christopher Moore

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Total reviews: 495 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Moved to the top of my favorite book list 5 out of 5 stars.
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At first, I was a little offended by this book. But after telling myself it is fiction, I found it to be very fun and hilarious. I loved it.

GREAT LAUGH OUT LOUD SPOOF 4 out of 5 stars.
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THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH OUT LOUD...A TWIST TO THE FAMILIAR STORIES
YOU PROBABLY GREW UP WITH...GOOD TO BE ABLE TO SEE THINGS WITH A
DIFFERENT SLANT AND TO LAUGH AT THE POSSIBILITIES.

Not for those who believe the Bible is absolute truth.... 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have read this book about three times and it never fails to entertain me. Now, if you are thinking I am not a Christian- you are wrong. I am- but I choose to see this book as an "interpretation" of the greatest, and saddest story every told. I choose to keep in mind that Mr. Moore took a chance at recreating Christ's lost years. What strikes me most about the book was how beautifully Moore intertwined the teachings and lessons of Jesus so it did not take away from the importance of Christ's life. While Biff commits all kinds of absurdities, Jesus takes the opportunity to learn from Biff's actions as well as the best of what religion in that day had to offer. I liked that the story had Jesus' beliefs stemming from different parts of the world and different ways of thinking. To me, this creates an atmosphere built on tolerance, which we know our world could stand some more of. The end saddens me every time as we see Biff struggle to keep his friend alive, for Biff is nothing without the savior by his side. It's a story of friendship, love, compassion, lessons and the belief that we are all- in the end, human.

Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter

Steve Dublanica Aka The Waiter

Amazon Price: $16.47 List Price: $24.95 Usually ships in 24 hours By: Ecco Amazon Marketplace: 60 new & used starting at $11.85

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Total reviews: 137 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Fun Read 4 out of 5 stars.
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Full of The Waiter's innermost thoughts and secrets. He discusses customers, staff his likes and dislikes. From his perspective are 40 tips on how to be a good customer and 50 ways to tell a bad restaurant although many of these would be from a workers view. I wish I knew which real world establishment The Bistro is. A good quick read.

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According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths. Waiter Rant offers the server's unique point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogant misbehavior, and unseen bits of human grace transpiring in the most unlikely places. Through outrageous stories, The Waiter reveals the secrets to getting good service, proper tipping etiquette, and how to keep him from spitting in your food. The Waiter also shares his ongoing struggle, at age thirty-eight, to figure out if he can finally leave the first job at which he's truly thrived.

Influencer: The Power to Change Anything

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

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Total reviews: 144 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Necessary Reading! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Great book for educators. Should be required reading for all who work with people. Practical and effective information taught in a comprehensive and understandable fashion. Our faculty is doing a group study and application to our school with great results!

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"From the New York Times bestselling authors of Crucial Conversations . . . Whether your goal is to change minds, change markets, or change the world-anything is possible for an influencer.

Everyone wants to be an influencer. We all want to learn how to help ourselves and others change behavior. And yet, in spite of the fact that we routinely attempt to do everything from lose weight to improve quality at work, few of us have more than one or two ideas about how to exert influence. For the first time, Influencer brings together the breakthrough strategies of contemporary influence masters. By drawing from the skills of hundreds of successful influencers and combining them with five decades of the best social science research, Influencer shares eight powerful principles for changing behaviors—principles almost anyone can apply to change almost anything."

The Screwtape Letters

C. S. Lewis

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Total reviews: 367 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Enlightening read for committed (and thinking) Christians 5 out of 5 stars.
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I don't know how well this great book translates to agnostic readers, but for me it was a very enlightening and concrete way to understand what it means to try to be a good man in a world of temptation.

In keeping with the time period, I believe it was Winston Churchill who said "All evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing". In the Screwtape Letters the senior tempter, tells his apprentice, it is just as affective to get a man to stare into a fire until it turns to ash, as to get him to commit some great sin, because either keeps him from doing what he should. I wonder what Mr. Lewis would have thought of digital cable television? I am as guilty as anyone of staring at that box instead of doing good.

So here's the deal.

This is an excellent book for any believer from High School on up, that wants to be good and avoid evil.

But that's just me.

Editorial Review:

Now available unabridged on cassette and CD -- C.S. Lewis' classic Screwtape Letters -- the engaging correspondence between two devils.

Read by Joss Ackland.

My Boys Can Swim!: The Official Guy's Guide to Pregnancy

Ian Davis

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Total reviews: 166 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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Finally—A Pregnancy Book That Won't Put Men to Sleep
My Boys Can Swim! tells real men everything they really want to know about pregnancy, such as: How much is it going to cost? Why does your wife primp before seeing her doctor when she hasn't put a stitch of make-up on for you in months? And, most important, what's it going to do to your sex life?
This rollicking, laugh-out-loud book is for expectant dads in search of bottom-line pregnancy information, without all that boring touchy-feely stuff you find in those books written for women. Inside you'll discover helpful—and hilarious—information and insights on such topics as:
The Maternity Wardrobe: "A key part of the maternity wardrobe is maternity underwear—parachute-like undies big enough to fit an NFL defensive lineman."
Baby Names: "Don't give your kids mockable names like Thaddeus, which is Greek for 'I'm a dork and should be beaten up.'"
The Birth: "No one told me it's normal that babies' heads can be misshapen at birth. I was convinced that my wife gave birth to Veldar, the conehead."

Animal Farm

George Orwell

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Total reviews: 1154 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Utopian Idealism Unmaksed 5 out of 5 stars.
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It is the rare political book that is both entertaining and thought provoking. Rarer still to be unforgettable and insightful and life-changing. Animal Farm, for me was all this.

The allegory is powerful and the use of farm animals both clever and entertaining, and helped makes the story all the more vivid and memorable. The story is well know, a group of farm animals eventually led by the boar Napoleon, overthrow the capitalist farmer and create an idealistic worker's paradise. Little by little and bit by bit they become not only as corrupt as the former system, but even worse as exemplified by their ruthlessness and hypocrisy. The reader comes away much more cynical about utopian ideals, which sounds like a bad thing but is actually a good thing. Incredibly powerful book, with the weight of truth and some kind of native energy that makes a despairing fairy-tale into a life-changing lesson. I've read plenty of books that I've enjoyed more, but few I've been so drastically impacted by. This book is a must for an adolescent, and if you missed it then even if you're eighty-five pick it up and read it now. It's both historical and timeless.

Editorial Review:

George Orwell’s famous satire of the Soviet Union, in which “all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

Dearly Devoted Dexter: A Novel

Jeff Lindsay

List Price: $22.95 By: Doubleday Amazon Marketplace: 29 new & used starting at $15.70

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Total reviews: 110 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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He’s a charming monster . . .

A macabre hero . . .

A serial killer who only kills bad people


Dexter Morgan has been under considerable pressure. It’s just not easy being an ethical serial killer—especially while trying to avoid the unshakable suspicions of the dangerous Sergeant Doakes (who believes Dexter is a homicidal maniac . . . which, of course, he is). In an attempt to throw Doakes off his trail, Dexter has had to slip deep into his foolproof disguise. While not working as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, he now spends nearly all his time with his cheerful girlfriend, Rita, and her two children, sipping light beer and slowly becoming the world’s first serial couch potato. But how long can Dexter play Kick the Can instead of Slice the Slasher? How long before his Dark Passenger forces him to drop the charade and let his inner monster run free?

In trying times, opportunity knocks. A particularly nasty psychopath is cutting a trail through Miami—a man whose twisted technique leaves even Dexter speechless. As Dexter’s dark appetite is revived, his sister, Deborah (a newly minted, tough-as-nails Miami detective) is drawn headlong into the case. It quickly becomes clear that it will take a monster to catch a monster—but it isn’t until his archnemesis is abducted that Dex can finally throw himself into the search for a new plaything. Unless, of course, his plaything finds him first . . .

With the incredible wit and freshness that drew widespread acclaim to Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay now takes Dexter Morgan to a new level of macabre appeal and gives us one of the most original, colorful narrators in years.

A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)

John Kennedy Toole

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Total reviews: 960 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Either you love it or... you can't even finish it. 1 out of 5 stars.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This book was suggested to me by a friend who absolutely raved about its comic genius. Well, I couldn't wait to read it! Afterall, we have fairly similar taste in books.
After forcing myself to get through the first 100 pages, hoping it would get better, I just had to stop. This book was hands-down, the LEAST funny book I have ever read in my entire life. Eventually, trying to actually read it and not skim became completely impossible.
The story jumps from location to location so much that I wondered what was even going on and why the author chose to throw in the "bar" location. The main character is horrendously annoying and not even in a funny way, in a grotesque, childish manner. And God help you during the breaks in which Ignatius writes page after page of intensely boring "stories". This book was much too over-the-top for me and I agree with another reviewer that unless you're into "farts and burps" and finger licking this book is not for you.

Editorial Review:

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning classic hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue." A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

Naked

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Total reviews: 412 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

A WONDERFUL AUDIO BOOK 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book on audio download is wonderful because the stories are hilarious and insightful, and so very honest. It's amazing how David looks at the most serious of subjects through a lens of humor and it works!

The audio book is read by David Sedaris and that makes it much more personal and effective. I couldn't stop listening!

David Sedaris is hilarious 4 out of 5 stars.
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Naked is a collection of short stories and essays about David Sedaris' own life. He is so funny, and clever. You can really identify with his writing and it is the kind of funny that makes you seriously laugh out loud and have people turn to look at you weird. If you enjoy gay men, quirkiness, feel uncomfortable in crowds, ever felt your family was infested with aliens, had siblings, went to camp, went to college, didn't go to college. This is the book for you. It will also interest people above current trends and trival things like fashion.

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One of the most talked-about, most enjoyed bestsellers of the year, "Naked" offers a collection of hilarious, touching, genre-bending vignettes "guaranteed to make you blow milk out your nose" ("Details").

Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass LookBig, Or Why Pie is Not The Answer

Jen Lancaster

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Total reviews: 76 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Horrible Book 1 out of 5 stars.
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This book is horrible. If I could give it no stars, then I would. If you are looking for inspiration for working out and losing weight, don't even bother reading. It took like half the book until she started working out. The first half of the book talks about her dogs, husband, shopping with friends, ugh. I kept saying, when is this going to get on point? And I don't think her writing is very charming. It is somewhat amusing, although I doubt it is genuine as a "memoir" and wouldn't pass the Oprah test, if you know what I mean.
I didn't even give my copy away, I threw mine in the trash.

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A NOTE FROM JEN LANCASTER:

"To whom the fat rolls…I'm tired of books where a self-loathing heroine is teased to the point where she starves herself skinny in hopes of a fabulous new life. And I hate the message that women can't possibly be happy until we all fit into our skinny jeans. I don't find these stories uplifting; they make me want to hug these women and take them out for fizzy champagne drinks and cheesecake and explain to them that until they figure out their insides, their outsides don't matter. Unfortunately, being overweight isn't simply a societal issue that can be fixed with a dose healthy of positive self-esteem. It’s a health matter, and here on the eve of my fortieth year, I've learned I have to make changes so I don't, you know, die. Because what good if finally being able to afford a pedicure if I lose a foot to adult onset diabetes?"