Books by Thomas Hoover
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review 1: Anyone interested in finance would probably like this book. For those of us who aren't all that fascinated by money it's a long, slow-paced financial thriller that is sometimes hard to follow because of all the financial jargon. Even if you're just looking for an education about ...
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review 1: Have you ever read a book and the almost the entire time thought "Why is this main character so STUPID?!" That sort of applies here. I wanted to like Morgan - and sometimes I did - but mostly I kept wondering what the heck she was doing. Of course, if I were in her situation, I'd...
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review 1: I read another book by Thomas Hoover several months ago, set in India, and quite enjoyed it. This one...a bit less. I was bored several times, and actually had to force myself to finish it. The majority of the story takes place on Barbados, and tracks the settlement of the island...
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review 1: I read this fee Kindle book which I assume is very similar to this hard cover book. This is an excellent resource book which chronicles Zen in Indian Buddhism and Chinese Taoism through its development in China and migration to Japan. The book includes the biography of several C...
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review 1: A good, solid read about Barbados and the beginning of the sugar industry in 1648, Caribee is the story of a Caribbean paradise and the people who inhabit the island, from buccaneers and plantation owners to the Africans who have been brought to the island and forced into labor. ...
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review 1: I was surprised by how readable and amusing I found this history of Chinese and Japanese Zen masters to be. I've been philosophically engaged with Buddhism for years, but I'd never been very interested in the "lineage" of any particular Buddhist school — I figured I'd just skim t...