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MSN Games

100%
Patterson's prose sometimes has the overly breathless air of an airport thriller. But it is underpinned by an invaluable piece of timely journalism that should be read by regulators and anyone with a cent in the stock market.

LA Times

100%
Given the obscurity and density of the subject matter, Mr. Blum tells a good yarn, but his infrastructure-centric approach has some serious limitations.

WSJ online

98%
Mr. Silver illustrates his dos and don’ts through a series of interesting essays that examine how predictions are made in fields including chess, baseball, weather forecasting, earthquake analysis and politics.

NY Times

92%
The story of Anonymous and its offshoots is worth telling because of the fast and unpredictable ways they have grown.

NY Times

92%
Cory Doctorow has written his best book yet . . . it should be required reading for every American.

Blog Critics

88%
If you are really serious about creating wealth for yourself then Think and Grow Rich is mandatory reading.

Blog Critics

88%
The shadows of a beginning for black-white understanding, the persistent fight that Scout carries on against school, Jem's emergence into adulthood, Calpurnia's quiet power, and all the incidents touching on the children's "growing outward" have an attractive starchiness that keeps this southern picture pert and provocative.

Kirkus

87%
Vaynerchuk’s book is inspiring and contains good suggestions, but don’t demand too much of the writing.

Blog Critics

87%
Wilbur gets to go to the fair and has many adventures in the barn. I thought this book was very good and I really enjoyed it.

Guardian

85%
Kamkwamba shows that innovation and resourcefulness are not lacking in the poorest countries...

Guardian

84%
The author introduces many individuals whose inventions and capacities contributed profoundly. An absorbing new approach to a well-worked field.

Kirkus

84%
What Christian learns along the way is that if machines win the imitation game as often as they do, it’s not because they’re getting better at acting human; it’s because we’re getting worse.

NY Times

84%
Replete with lots of nifty, whimsical footnotes, this clever, speculative book challenges our beliefs with jocularity and perspicacity.

Kirkus

83%
Exploring the intimate relationships among blackness, womanhood, and 20th-century American technological development, Shetterly crafts a narrative that is crucial to understanding subsequent movements for civil rights.

Publishers Weekly

83%
Far from being awash in sentiment, the dying man retains a firm grasp on reality. An emotionally rich book and a deeply affecting memorial to a wise mentor, who was 79 when hedied in 1995.

Publishers Weekly

82%
If I'm ever stranded on our imaginary desert isle I hope I have a trunkful of books. But if I can only take one I think Pride and Prejudice just might be it.

All About Romance

82%
This book lets you make your own opinion on each character and it's not all black and white with baddies and goodies as each of them has multiple flaws which make them all the more interesting.

Guardian

81%
And Then There Were None is highly recommended for any mystery fan . . . or any lover of literature (even if it’s not great literature) who wants their intellect piqued, their nerves strung a little tighter, and their emotions lifted by a clever divertissement.

http://www.bookdrum.com

80%
Demographers, entrepreneurs, students of history and sociology, and ordinary citizens alike will find plenty of provocations and, yes, much data in Rudder’s well-argued, revealing pages.

Kirkus

80%

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