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While Bourrie’s historical perspective is useful, he misses the chance to place Canada’s experience in an international scope. Many of the same restrictions seen in Canada are part of a worldwide trend.

Globe and Mail

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The Comeback’s tone seems downright smug at times...Fuel for apathy. This is why, regardless of your response to The Comeback, you have to read it. Don’t be an uninformed critic. Arm yourself, Canada.

Globe and Mail

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...Foer demonstrates once again that he is one of the few contemporary writers willing to risk sentimentalism in order to address great questions of truth, love and beauty.

Publishers Weekly

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Overall, the book would have benefitted from more stringent editing. The consistent use of working class Dublin colloquialism versus using the dialect only in dialogue might grate and runs the risk of making the work less accessible.

NY Journal of Books

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This is a must-read book -- most especially for every member of the Oireachtas and local authorities, for senior officials in central and local government, and -- yes -- for political lobbyists too.

Independent.ie

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The novel becomes a comic celebration of polymorphous perversity, and of literature.

Guardian

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an excellent recap of the news that starting leaking out ... in early November 2011. Those that may have come to the story a little late will find the chronology presented to be especially helpful.

Book Chase

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Those curious about the momentum behind the movement... will find plenty of illumination here. It's enough to make even a one percenter rethink the way wealth is shared.

Publishers Weekly

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They err, however, in using omniscient narration to relate Tania’s fabricated back story and experiences on 9/11: “What really struck Tania about Dave was … that he volunteered in a soup kitchen on weekends and taught children to read for a local literacy organization.

The Roanoke Times

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The real problem with Drift is that it spends its 252 pages drifting through too many topics.

AV Club

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"Chomp" is a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.

LA Times

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No Time Like the Present is written in grammar-flouting stream-of-consciousness prose that is sometimes only comprehensible when you take a run at it.

Toronto Star

60%
...meticulously researched account of the coming shortage of natural resources

Publishers Weekly

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...it is highly desirable that the book becomes widely distributed and forms part of any sustainability discussion whether in the educational, commercial or political sector.

The Zed Books Blog

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Readers of his new book, "Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues," will feast on four dozen wide-ranging conversations...

Star Tribune

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