Archive for the 'Books' Category

David DeAngelo’s DoubleYourDating - Product Review

Friday, February 24th, 2006

I have cross listed this as a product and a book because, well, it is an e-book. For reference, you can buy DoubleYourDating products here.

Somehow or other, this guy, David DeAngelo, got stuck in my head over the course of a couple years, like a smaller actor you recognize in different movies. (Note for searchers, […]

1946 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce - Book Review

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

When we were adolescents we used to mentally poke at the idea of heaven as though it were something under a blanket, the shape of which could be divined through mental probing. If everything was perfect, wouldn’t you get bored in heaven? On the other hand, if hell were such a terrible place, wouldn’t you […]

The Millionaire Next Door by Tom Stanley and Bill Danko - Book Review

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

If there is an American canon of self help literature, this book surely belongs to it.

Eating for Life by Bill Phillps - Book Review

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Bill Phillips is famous for “Body for Life,” an inspirational guide to personal health. Body for Life was published in 1999. He followed up with Eating for Life in 2003, which, as you can imagine, is sort of the ‘eating less’ part of Body for Life’s ‘eat less and exercise more.’
The ~400-page book includes […]

“My Life” by Bill Clinton

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

At 957 pages, Bill Clinton’s book is long, very long. It is so long that it is read in real time: if an hour passes in the book it takes an hour to read it. I was twenty-seven when I began this book; now I am eighty one.