Posted on September 9, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
The Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank, (naturally) is one of those books that I just can’t bring myself to read because of the “depression factor”. I’ve seen two Film Adaptations of the Diary of Anne Frank and I just can’t bring myself to read the book, because you know, there just isn’t going [...]
Filed under: Classics of World Literature, Family Saga, History & Criticism, Junior High & High School Assigned Reading, Movie Tie-Ins | Tagged: Anne Frank, Autobiography, Diary of Anne Frank, History, Junior High & High School Assigned Reading, World War II | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 3, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
You know, even with a site named Scathing Book Reviews, I often feel sorry for the writer who gets pilloried by bad reviews, even though getting a One Star from someone named BigTuna34JerseyBoy on Amazon isn’t the same as getting a nasty review from Michiko Kakutani. However, in the case of Reviews of Mein Kampf, by [...]
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Posted on September 2, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman isn’t exactly Airport Reading, but that’s where I bought my copy. Unfortunately, while I found the back cover blurb interesting and the introduction well written, I found that I couldn’t dig into the book the way I expected. I attributed this to the environment of the Airport, but [...]
Filed under: Business, Contemporary Culture, United States | Tagged: Business, Economics, Economy, Internet, Multiculturalism, The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman | 2 Comments »
