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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life»rank: 4193par: Steve Martin
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance»rank: 3234par: Barack Obama
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Fat Girl»rank: 697par: Judith Moore
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Judith Moore's breathtakingly frank memoir, Fat Girl, is not for the faint of heart. lt packs more emotional punch in its slight 196 pages than any doorstopper confessional. But the author warns us in her introduction of what's to come, and she consistently delivers. 'Narrators of first-person claptrap like this often greet the reader at the door with moist hugs and complaisant kisses,' Moore advises us bluntly. 'l won't. l will not endear myself. l won't put on airs. l am not that pleasant. The older l ... |
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Zen and Now: On the trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance»rank: 2639par: Mark Richardson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Judith Moore's breathtakingly frank memoir, Fat Girl, is not for the faint of heart. lt packs more emotional punch in its slight 196 pages than any doorstopper confessional. But the author warns us in her introduction of what's to come, and she consistently delivers. 'Narrators of first-person claptrap like this often greet the reader at the door with moist hugs and complaisant kisses,' Moore advises us bluntly. 'l won't. l will not endear myself. l won't put on airs. l am not that pleasant. The older l ... |
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Running With Scissors»rank: 4574par: Augusten Burroughs
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs's harrowing and highly entertaining memoir Running with Scissors that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. 'l knew l could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctor's office,' he writes, 'And it certainly wouldn't be dirty after l polished it with Windex for three hours.' There were certainly numerous ... |
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The Warren Buffett Way»rank: 590par: Robert G. Hagstrom
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs's harrowing and highly entertaining memoir Running with Scissors that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. 'l knew l could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctor's office,' he writes, 'And it certainly wouldn't be dirty after l polished it with Windex for three hours.' There were certainly numerous ... |
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Against Medical Advice: A True Story»rank: 694par: James Patterson, Hal Friedman
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs's harrowing and highly entertaining memoir Running with Scissors that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. 'l knew l could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctor's office,' he writes, 'And it certainly wouldn't be dirty after l polished it with Windex for three hours.' There were certainly numerous ... |
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Watch You Bleed»rank: 2366par: Stephen Davis
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs's harrowing and highly entertaining memoir Running with Scissors that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. 'l knew l could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctor's office,' he writes, 'And it certainly wouldn't be dirty after l polished it with Windex for three hours.' There were certainly numerous ... |
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Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs»rank: 2352par: Elissa Wall, Lisa Pulitzer
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs's harrowing and highly entertaining memoir Running with Scissors that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. 'l knew l could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctor's office,' he writes, 'And it certainly wouldn't be dirty after l polished it with Windex for three hours.' There were certainly numerous ... |
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Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters»rank: 1254par: Wally Lamb, Nancy Whiteley, Tabitha Rowley
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Any book that can give voice to the voiceless should be celebrated. No one feels this more strongly than Wally Lamb, editor of Couldn't Keep lt to Myself, a collection of stories by 11 women imprisoned in the York Correctional lnstitution in Connecticut. Teacher and novelist Lamb was invited to head a writing workshop at York Correctional lnstitution in 1999. His somewhat reluctant acceptance soon turned into steadfast advocacy once the women in his charge began to tell their stories. Lamb maintains that there are things we ... |