Books by Mark Kurlansky
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review 1: Great history of the social rights movement and Motown in the 60´s and 70´s... whilst I´m not particularly convinced that the song was anything more than a party dance tune, or even if it came to mean anything in the way that, only a few years later, Marvin Gaye´s masterwork "Wha...
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review 1: A very intriguing look back into what America ate in the 30's, from the Federal Writers Project. This portrait takes you region-by-region across the United States with everything from a brief paragraph to essays to full recipes highlighting what American ate and why. Because the ...
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review 1: I enjoyed reading this book. So why am I giving it only two stars? Unlike many baseball fans who were expecting something more inside-baseball, whose disappointment is apparent from one glance at the reviews here on Goodreads, my disappointment stems not from the content of the ...
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review 1: Birdseye was revolutionary in industry, wildly curious and enamored by food. Pioneer that he was, public persona that he was, Kurlansky apologized repeatedly that little of known of Birdseye by which he may have meant that Birdseye didn't leave a journal or written thoughts of mu...
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review 1: Basically the low-down on what's happening to the fish of the world and what repercussions their disappearance is having/will have on the rest of the world as we know it, written for older kids/teens. I don't like fish, but this was an interesting read. While it did seem to be ...
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review 1: I like Mark Kurlansky’s work, I really do. This one failed to resonate though. In What? Are These the 20 Most Important Questions in Human History or is This a Game of 20 Questions? every single sentence is a question. Yes, every single one.As much as I like Kurlansky and as much...
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review 1: There were three or four moments in reading this book where I found myself happily re-reading a sentence, or thinking that a particular insight was well presented. The rest of the time I was more or less annoyed by the all the questions. Clearly there is no denying the value of q...