Review:Bobos ("bourgeois bohemians") are what come of the Protestant Establishment bedding down with flower children. Bobos are the issue of WASP and Kennedy Catholic, the Left Bank and the Right. Ben Franklin making cozy with Gustav Flaubert. A marriage of Episcopalian and Jew. A prep school Adonis seducing a grad school feminist. (Or perhaps that should be the other way around.) They are what happens to yuppies in the Age of Information. Bobos realize that the bottom line should be done in... Read more

Review:Bill Bryson's idea of "discovering" America is driving a few hundred miles to a new city each day, and stepping no more than 25 paces away from his car. No wonder he's so bitter over everything he finds! Everything he sees is covered with concrete, greasy spoon restaurants and annoying tacky tourists. We don't get any useful information about any place he visits, only cynical commentary on the local fat people, or obnoxious tourist trap. There are a few funny moments, but most of his writing... Read more

Review:What a pleasant trip through some of the more interesting quirks of our language. I even learned a few new things, and I was an English major, then teacher. Bryson has an easy, casual style that makes for fun reading even when the subject is academic. Read more

Review:He's Bill Bryson: it's going to be hilarious. I think the people who are taking offense to the book have forgotten that the voice he writes with is genuine and very much his own. Sure, the cities he visits and their inhabitants are portrayed as caricatures, but I'm just grateful he does not hesitate to make fun of himself either. If you're looking for a more comprehensive, lyrical version of Lonely Planet, look elsewhere. Read more

Review:If you are a fan of trivial and unusual American history, this is the book for you. Bill Bryson delivers little-known facts about the birth and cultivation of American English with his usual unfailing wit. Enjoy! Read more

Review:This book takes on an interesting point of view, but its sole quality is the descriptive power of the author. This alone will should not create a classic. Naked Lunch is read and applauded simply because of its unconventional approach, and not for its content. It has been considered controversial ever since the first printing, and is still admired solely for that reason. If you needed to read the entire book through to get his simple message, then you probably never got it, anyway. If this b... Read more

Review:This version of play was good and the actors captured the tone of the play well. The actors playing Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew were very good. The male characters were portrayed at an acceptable level but not was good as the female characters. I would recommend this version. Read more

Review:I'll keep this short and sweet. This book is laugh out loud funny. It's crude, vulgar, obscene, and it'll have you turning pages long into the night laughing like an idiot. Shane, with his dry sarcasm and complete apathy towards life, is one of my new favorite anti-heroes. This book is HIGHLY recommended!! Read more

Review:I bought this for my son, the Lego nut! I was originally going to keep it and give it to him for Christmas, but he kept asking for it every time he would see an ad for it online, so I gave it to him a few months early!

The book itself is great. It has full-page closeups of just about every Lego Star Wars minifigure ever produced. Along with the pictures there are all kinds of fun Lego facts about the minifigures, their variations, and even what sets they are included in.

The boo... Read more

Review:If you loved Jen's first You Are a Badass book you'll love this book too! I've already read it once and did the exercises and plan on reading it again and again! If you're looking for step by step how to make money guide or how to get out of debt fast this is NOT for you. There are plenty of other books out there for that. This book is definitely a different approach to looking at money but it connected with me. I highly recommend if your looking for a new outlook on how to look at your money si... Read more