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Assholes Finish First

by Tucker Max
- Rated 5 stars
“Similar stories, but with a more mature perspective.”

Brennan D wrote this review Wednesday, November 10, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
Liar's Poker

by Michael Lewis
- Rated 4 stars
“Michael Lewis writes about really cool stuff...but I find his style really clumsy. It's frustrating. Like listening to Oprah narrate Planet Earth.”

Brennan D wrote this review Thursday, October 28, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
Theodore Rex

by Edmund Morris
- Rated 4 stars
“Not as good as The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.”

Brennan D wrote this review Thursday, October 28, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Rated 5 stars
“Really liked the way he wrote about people/interactions.”

Brennan D wrote this review Monday, September 13, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens
- Rated 4 stars
“The books is under 400 pages, but it felt like a lot happened, over a long period of time.”

Brennan D wrote this review Monday, September 13, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
Barney's Version

by Mordecai Richler
- Rated 4 stars
“An autobiography of a fictional person, foot-noted by his fictional son about whether or not he killed his fictional best friend, set in Canada from 1950-1995ish? I took a while to figure that out and to remember that none of this happened in real life.”

Brennan D wrote this review Monday, July 19, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Stieg Larsson
- Rated 3 stars
“The second book was the best. Larsson spent a lot of time giving each new character a page and half background summary. It got annoying after a while with so many characters.

And why does every character only eat sandwiches? ”

Brennan D wrote this review Sunday, June 27, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
The Big Short

by Michael Lewis
- Rated 5 stars
“It was a pretty smart idea using a bunch of people as a narrative to explain how CDOs and CDSs work.

CDO - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obligation

CDS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_default_swap”

Brennan D wrote this review Tuesday, June 15, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson
- Rated 5 stars
“Very easy to get through.”

Brennan D wrote this review Sunday, June 13, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals

by E. P. Evans
- Rated 3 stars
“I didn't like the actual writing that much. Luckily, the content was so ridiculous that it didn't really matter and I managed to march through the book in a few days.

There were so many tangents. The author would open a paragraph. Follow one thought for two sentences then go off on something sort of similar for two pages. By that time you'd forget what he was trying to explain in the first place. ”

Brennan D wrote this review Sunday, June 13, 2010. ( reply | permalink )