Jellybooks - discovering, sampling and sharing books My First Literary Crush - The books famous people loved in college. Click hereto read more from Slate's "College Week." In celebration of College Week, Slate asked journalists, cable-news personalities, novelists, Hollywood types, and other great thinkers a question: What's the most influential book you read in college? What made you slam down your café au lait and set out to conquer the world? Eric Alterman, media columnist, The Nation I'd like to say Thucydides or Wittgenstein, or something fancy like that, but I guess it'd have to be Ronald Steel's biography of Walter Lippmann, not only because it taught me a great deal about how power worked in American politics, but also—and more important—because it gave me a model of what I might do with my life. Judd Apatow, writer-director, The 40-Year-Old Virgin Having only gone to college for a year and a half, I didn't read enough books to remember an impactful one. Nicholson Baker, author, Checkpoint Harold Bloom, professor, Yale Mark Bowden, national correspondent, the Atlantic He who hesitates is lost.
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Life Hack Ninja | life tips, self improvement, and throwing stars Read It Swap It | The UK's Free Book Swap Shop! | The Library my years in books Marble Mask by Archer Mayor (2001) read: 13 April 2014rating: [+]category: fiction Another good vaguely international Gunther mystery. Occam’s Razor by Archer Mayor (2007) read: 11 April 2014rating: [+]category: fiction This one was more my style. Perv: The Sexual Deviant In All of Us by Jesse Bering (2013) read: 4 April 2014rating: [+]category: non-fiction Was expecting this book to be different but I wound up liking it a lot anyhow. The Disposable Man by Archer Mayor (1998) read: 2 April 2014rating: [+]category: fiction Another Mayor book! Bellows Falls by Archer Mayor (1997) read: 27 March 2014rating: [+]category: fiction I may be at a stopping point with these for a while. « top »