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    <title>bigmike - Recent Activity - Books I Am Reading</title>
    <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike</link>
    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:36:46 -0800</pubDate>
	<description>These are the last actions that bigmike have taken</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:36:46 -0800</pubDate>

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        <title>Wants to Read: Juliet, Naked: a novel</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/juliet-naked-a-novel</link>
        <pubDate>2009-11-15 12:18:12</pubDate>
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        <title>Wants to Read: High Fidelity: A Novel</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/high-fidelity-a-novel</link>
        <pubDate>2009-11-15 12:17:52</pubDate>
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        <title>Finished: Eating the Dinosaur</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/eating-the-dinosaur</link>
        <pubDate>2009-10-28 17:29:24</pubDate>
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		    		    <p>Finnished reading after 3 days.</p>			<p>"Now here's a book that i would describe as funny.  Though can we call a collection of essays a book?  Either way, I cracked up over a fictitious Q&A with someone's who Draft Value declined after he was caught pointing a gun at someone's head.  And the fact New Yorkers will crack up at everything, that is except for no-name comedians."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1100450713">
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        <title>Currently Reading: Eating the Dinosaur</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/eating-the-dinosaur</link>
        <pubDate>2009-10-25 06:55:35</pubDate>
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		    <p>Now reading after waiting 5 days.</p>		    			<p>"Now here's a book that i would describe as funny.  Though can we call a collection of essays a book?  Either way, I cracked up over a fictitious Q&A with someone's who Draft Value declined after he was caught pointing a gun at someone's head.  And the fact New Yorkers will crack up at everything, that is except for no-name comedians."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1100450713">
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        <title>Finished: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/good-to-great-why-some-companies-make-the-leap-and-others-dont</link>
        <pubDate>2009-10-25 06:51:20</pubDate>
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		    		    <p>Finnished reading after 7 days.</p>			<p>"Not too bad for a business book.  Though the same concepts were repeated over and over again (hire great people,  find the one thing your company can do great, stay focused on that one great thing), there were some good company profiles and stories to go along with it.  I read most of it, skimming over the parts about Fannie Mae (since it was written in 2001 long before the Banking scandals of 2008-09) and Merck (don't agree with the line: "we are in this to make people healthy not make money", i say bullshit)."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1382432237">
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        <title>Wants to Read: SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/superfreakonomics-global-cooling-patriotic-prostitutes-and-why-suicide-bombers-should-buy-life-insurance</link>
        <pubDate>2009-10-19 07:38:29</pubDate>
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		    		    			<p>"Did you say "sequel" to Freakonomics?  Count me in!  I do want to re-read the first one before getting into this one."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1302770621">
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        <title>Wants to Read: Eating the Dinosaur</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/eating-the-dinosaur</link>
        <pubDate>2009-10-19 07:37:04</pubDate>
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		    		    			<p>"Hopefully it reads more like IV than Killing yourself to Live.  But we shall see.  I'm always up for some Klosterman.  I think he challenged himself on this one."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1100450713">
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        <title>Wants to Read: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/what-the-dog-saw-and-other-adventures</link>
        <pubDate>2009-10-19 07:35:37</pubDate>
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		    		    			<p>"Found out about this a week before the release date.  Though its not an original book, it is a collection of his New Yorker articles and such.  Which i have read sporadically over the last year, but there have been a few i missed."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1368441254">
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        <title>Currently Reading: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/good-to-great-why-some-companies-make-the-leap-and-others-dont</link>
        <pubDate>2009-10-19 07:32:31</pubDate>
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		    <p>Now reading after waiting 3 months.</p>		    			<p>"Not too bad for a business book.  Though the same concepts were repeated over and over again (hire great people,  find the one thing your company can do great, stay focused on that one great thing), there were some good company profiles and stories to go along with it.  I read most of it, skimming over the parts about Fannie Mae (since it was written in 2001 long before the Banking scandals of 2008-09) and Merck (don't agree with the line: "we are in this to make people healthy not make money", i say bullshit)."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1382432237">
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        <title>Wants to Read: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/good-to-great-why-some-companies-make-the-leap-and-others-dont</link>
        <pubDate>2009-10-19 07:29:40</pubDate>
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		    		    			<p>"Was given to me by someone at work, who prefaced it with "i'm not a reader but this is the one book i blew through and enjoyed".  Though i promised myself i would avoid Business Books, this one gets mentioned all the time in Inc Magazine, and I'll avoid the trap of completely consuming every word (and burning out before 2/3 of the book since this things tend to repeat themselves) and just strategically skim through it."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1382432237">
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        <title>Finished: Cash: The Autobiography</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/cash-the-autobiography</link>
        <pubDate>2009-10-19 07:25:10</pubDate>
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		    		    <p>Finnished reading after 21 days.</p>			<p>"The man has done it all.  I love how it meanders and wanders from decade to decade, story to story.  Bringing up one person, leads him to remembering stories about 3 others.  It just flows like one long conversation, a conversation that i wish i could have been apart of.  But after reading this, feeling i have a better understanding of the Man in Black."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1033891729">
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        <title>Currently Reading: Cash: The Autobiography</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/cash-the-autobiography</link>
        <pubDate>2009-09-26 18:01:08</pubDate>
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		    <p>Now reading after waiting 4 months.</p>		    			<p>"The man has done it all.  I love how it meanders and wanders from decade to decade, story to story.  Bringing up one person, leads him to remembering stories about 3 others.  It just flows like one long conversation, a conversation that i wish i could have been apart of.  But after reading this, feeling i have a better understanding of the Man in Black."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1033891729">
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        <title>Finished: Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/everything-they-had-sports-writing-from-david-halberstam</link>
        <pubDate>2009-09-26 18:00:59</pubDate>
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		    		    <p>Finnished reading after 1 month.</p>			<p>"Baseball, football, basketball, fishing... though the sports vary, the stories all share the same themes: learning, friends, life."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1065748317">
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        <title>Currently Reading: Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/everything-they-had-sports-writing-from-david-halberstam</link>
        <pubDate>2009-08-13 21:03:40</pubDate>
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		    <p>Now reading after waiting 8 days.</p>		    			<p>"Baseball, football, basketball, fishing... though the sports vary, the stories all share the same themes: learning, friends, life."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1065748317">
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        <title>Wants to Read: Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/everything-they-had-sports-writing-from-david-halberstam</link>
        <pubDate>2009-08-13 21:01:29</pubDate>
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		    		    			<p>"I need to stop clicking links to book deals on Amazon.  I think i wanted to pre-order Bill Simmons new basketball book and i ended up buying this one and two others (to get free shipping).  But anyway, Dave Halberstam is suppose to be a ridiculous sports writer so i'm looking forward to it."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1065748317">
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        <title>Finished: Rock On: An Office Power Ballad</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/rock-on-an-office-power-ballad</link>
        <pubDate>2009-08-13 20:58:30</pubDate>
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		    		    <p>Finnished reading after 3 days.</p>			<p>"I have to remember for next time that any book described as "funny"... isn't really going to be funny at all.  I've laughed out loud reading a few books in my life, but i don't even think those books were described as "funny".  This was a quick easy read that i never really got into.  I could've wrote something like this, as it basically describes my daily work life."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1264944446">
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        <title>Currently Reading: Rock On: An Office Power Ballad</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/rock-on-an-office-power-ballad</link>
        <pubDate>2009-08-10 20:57:47</pubDate>
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		    <p>Now reading after waiting 2 months.</p>		    			<p>"I have to remember for next time that any book described as "funny"... isn't really going to be funny at all.  I've laughed out loud reading a few books in my life, but i don't even think those books were described as "funny".  This was a quick easy read that i never really got into.  I could've wrote something like this, as it basically describes my daily work life."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1264944446">
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        <title>Wants to Read: Rock On: An Office Power Ballad</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/rock-on-an-office-power-ballad</link>
        <pubDate>2009-08-10 20:56:17</pubDate>
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		    		    			<p>"It was written down on one of my "to read" lists in a notebook.  Not sure when i wrote it down and from where, but i read the synopsis again and i look forward to it.  Anything ripping on the Music Industry works for me."</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1264944446">
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        <title>Finished: Spaceman Blues: A Love Song</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/spaceman-blues-a-love-song</link>
        <pubDate>2009-08-10 20:53:21</pubDate>
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		    		    <p>Finnished reading after 23 days.</p>			<p>"That was kind of mess... i'm not even sure what the book was about or even how it ended... did they find Manuel or not?  Or was there ever a Manuel to begin with?  You gotta spell it out for me sometimes... i like nice neat packages"</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1044496775">
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        <title>Currently Reading: Spaceman Blues: A Love Song</title>
        <link>http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/spaceman-blues-a-love-song</link>
        <pubDate>2009-07-18 09:20:45</pubDate>
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		    <p>Now reading after waiting 2 months.</p>		    			<p>"That was kind of mess... i'm not even sure what the book was about or even how it ended... did they find Manuel or not?  Or was there ever a Manuel to begin with?  You gotta spell it out for me sometimes... i like nice neat packages"</p>			<a href="http://www.booksiamreading.com/bigmike/book/1044496775">
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