<p>'Just One Look' by Harlen Coben</p>
<p>7.7/10</p>
<p>Pretty good crime/thriller book. Fantastic conclusion!! I heard that Coben is supposed to be the best crime novellist.. but I think I like James Patterson's better.</p>
<p>Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I'm really not sure how I like it, but it's definitely below OotP, which is my favorite. Maybe an 8.5/10?</p>
<p>If you've read it (spoiler warning) you can see my review in the So What Did You Think of HP? thread.</p>
<p>I think HBP was a lot better than OotP actually :)</p>
<p>Harry potter n HBP..... hmm, hard to rate , it def was gd.... perhaps 8/10 :)</p>
<p>Harry Potter - 9/10
Deception Point- 8/10
Angels and Demons- 10/10</p>
<p>Catch-22: it kicked ass. A little bit of a slow read, but a very interesting book nonetheless. 9/10</p>
<p>I'm reading On Liberty by John Stuart Mill for APLA. It can be interesting if you're in the right mood - which I haven't been in for a few weeks now...</p>
<p>Middlesex: 8.5 / 10</p>
<p>Devil in the White City: 9.5/10</p>
<p>The book is a mix between a history and a narritive of people at the Coloumbian Exposityon, 1893. Verry good writing and detail, feels like you are transported back in time.</p>
<p>The Nature of Rationality: 10/10
An attempt to elucidate on the function of principles, the non-instrumentality of rationality in decision-theory, the ordering of preferences and desires, and the addition of symbolic and evidentially-expected utility to decision-theoretic problems such as Newcomb's Dilemma and the Prisoner's Dilemma.
Utilitarianism: For and Against: 9/10
The Morality of Freedom: 8/10
Advances a conception of liberalism that is not predicated on individualism, but instead endorses the view of perfectionism, which by implication redefines the limits of the coercive apparatus of the state.
Methods of Logic: 8/10</p>
<p>The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night Time by Mark Haddon</p>
<p>9/10
Very easy to read, and very moving. One of the few books where I actually sorta felt like crying a little bit.</p>
<p>wraider - Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time was a great book</p>
<p>Last book I read? </p>
<p>Harry Potter VI - 7/10</p>
<p>Harry Potter HBP - 7.5/10
The bluest eye - 9/10</p>
<p>In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy</p>
<p>The book is basically a discussion on what the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights, mean and how they've been interpreted in various court cases. It was a really interesting read and I'd give it a nine only because I would have liked for there to be even more cases given.</p>
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<p>I read Patriot Games a few years ago, pretty good</p>
<p>The last book that I've read is The Iliad</p>
<p>10/10</p>
<p>lord of the flies 8/10
catch 22 10/10
1984 9/10
malcolm x 9/10 (currently reading)</p>
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<p>A deontological perspective, but it is good enough.</p>
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<p>I recently reread "Executive Orders" (that is one LONG book) and "Clear and Present Danger." My favorite Clancy book, however, is Without Remorse.</p>
<p>I'm currently reading the Iliad. Although it's not the easiest reading in the world, it was a lot less difficult than I had thought. The storyline keeps my attention, but I'd give it a 9.5/10, just the book spends ten full pages basically listing the names and homes of the leaders of the Achaian (Greek) army.</p>
<p>I haven't finished it yet, but I'm reading "Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883" by Simon Winchester. I'm loving it so far, because it's focusing more on the social and political climate of the time, not to mention the effect the eruption has had on the world since then. Mind you, I'm a huge geology fan, but this is a new take on Krakatoa that's refreshing to read. I like the approach, but I don't recommend it if you just want to read about the explosion itself. Also, it's not the fluff beach read some seem to think it's going to be, so prepare yourself for something a little more (but not unapproachingly so) academically-oriented than you might otherwise expect from a mass-market book.</p>
<p>I'm also reading "Locked in the Cabinet" by Robert Reich. It's assigned reading for POL 111 next semester, and it's really not too bad. I was liking it a lot at first, but now it's just getting repetitive. It's a little annoying at times because you can tell just by the way he wrote it that he was preparing it for publication all the while. It's hard to read a memoir when you know it was being planned while the events covered were being lived out. I suppose this is true of most political memoirs.</p>
<p>Finally, I'm working through "Mother Tongue" by Bill Bryson, a man who manages to be an expert on everything and nothing at all at once. Like everything Bryson comes into contact with, it's a combination of interesting if questionable anecdotes and completely false urban myths that make me want to rip my hair out. I've gotten over my urge to keep correcting things with a red pen, but I hope no one with less of knowledge of languages and linguistics, especially historical and comparative linguistics, takes this book for fact. Bryson needs to stop focusing on being entertaining and learn how to actually be factual. Maybe he should write his next book on hope to dupe lots of people (like me) into repeatedly going back to his books, knowing full well they're not going to read much of worth. That's his most impressive knowledge area; I'd like to know his secrets.</p>