Posted in Books on Apr 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Peter Mayle
While I didn’t really consider this book as part of the “travel” genre when I first started it, it made me want to pick up and travel more than any other travel book has. Every part of this book made me want to move to Provence, buy a 200-year old farmhouse, learn French, and […]
Posted in Movies on Apr 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
This film did a good job of following the excellent book it was based off of. The movie begins with the sale of little Chiyo and her sister to a geisha house in Kyoto. The are immediately separated and the beautiful, blue-eyed Chiyo is “chosen” to become a geisha. She becomes the object of another […]
Posted in Books on Apr 21st, 2006 No Comments »
James Surowiecki
Continuing with my obsession with reading books in the sociology/economics genre, this seemed like a natural pick. The premise behind this book is that, under certain circumstances, a large group (or crowd) can make a better decision than an “expert”. Surowiecki begins the book by giving an example of people at a small-town country […]
Posted in Books, Audiobooks on Apr 8th, 2006 No Comments »
Jim Collins
Good to Great could have been a great book. I decided to listen to the unabridged audio version of the book, which is narrated by the author. For this reason, I think it was only a “good” book. At parts, Collins was downright condescending. The inflection I found in his voice did not sit […]