Biblion
Boys' Club2006 Selections
Biblion
Boys' Club| Location | Selection | Reaction | |
| Nov. 30, 2006 7:30PM Cherry Building |
 The Death and Life of Great American Citiesby
Jane Jacobs
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 DC SJ NM FO MW(good beer: Bell's Best Brown Ale) |
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| Sept 25, 2006 7:30PM Neil Madsen's house |
 Pompeiiby
Robert Harris
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DC SJ NM FO MW MF |
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| August
28, 2006 7:30PM Cherry Building |
 The Book Nobody Readby
Owen Gingerich
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MW Enjoyable read that makes me wonder whether
the history of science is important. DC TI
Two books that nobody read. NM
And I wish I hadn't either FO |
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| May 31, 2006 7:30PM Mike Fogliano's House |
 Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and
How They Got Thereby
David Brooks
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DC MF NM MW |
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| April 18, 2006 7:30PM Cherry Building |
 Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the
Mt. Everest Disasterby
Jon Krakauer
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DC MF NM MW |
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| Mar 20, 2006 7:30PM Cherry Building |
 The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel,
the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energyby
Peter Huber and Mark Mills
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SJ DC MF NM MW
Some good observations overwhelmed by oodles of overblown
writing |
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| Feb 21, 2006 7:30PM Neil Madsen's house |
 Isaac's Storm: A Man, A Time, and the
Deadliest Hurricane in Historyby
Eric Larson
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DC SJ NM MW Any longer
and it
would have been thumbs-down |
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| Jan 17, 2006 7:30PM Cherry Building |
 The World is Flat: A Brief History of the
Twenty-First Centuryby Thomas L. Friedman |
DC DE TI Liked
the discussion more than the book NM MW Great book
even though I don't get the "flat" metaphor |
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