The Top Ten Most Popular Book Reviews for 2006

AlterNet. Posted December 30, 2006.

One of the finest and most demanding forms of writing, here are the most popular book reviews from the year.

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Book reviews offer one of the best ways to get a hold on a large topic, and they present the author with a chance to show their best writing. Here are the 10 most popular book reviews published on AlterNet for 2006.

10. Will They Ever Stop 'Hijacking' Jesus?
By Charles Demers, The Tyee
A new book argues the right distorts Christianity. But who doesn't?

9. Yay, Yay for USA!
By John Dolan, The eXile
Yale professor John Lewis Gaddis engages in a torrent of patriotic self-congratulation in his new book about the Cold War.

8. What to Read While the Cradle of Civilization Burns
By Deborah Campbell, The Tyee
Books that will give you the history and context of the Middle East that the media refuses to provide.

7. America's 100 Years of Overthrow
By Robert Sherrill, Texas Observer
The US is addicted to overthrowing foreign governments -- 14 in the past century -- from Cuba to Chile to Iran.

6. In Love With Ourselves
By Silja J.A. Talvi, In These Times
American culture is full of narcissists of all shapes and stripes -- George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Paris Hilton and any number of other public figures leap to mind.

5. Not Your Average Joe
By Jan Frel, AlterNet
Author Norah Vincent dressed up as a man to find out how men really behave in all-male environments. Surprise, surprise: They're nice guys.

4. Enough With the 'One God' Stuff
By James Foley, AlterNet
In the world today, one ancient religious ideology, monotheism, stands out as especially dangerous, repressive and loony.

3. Sex and the Septuagenarians
By Lakshmi Chaudhry, In These Times
Gail Sheehy's new book, about sex and the 'seasoned' woman, argues that older women should be free to have sex however -- and however much -- they want.

2. Is Overachieving Bad for Girls?
By Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet
A new book praises hyper-achieving 'alpha girls.' But their behavior may be symptomatic of a larger trend in outwardly high-achieving and inwardly self-hating young women.

1. Sex Workers' Lit Ruined My Sex Life
By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet
A host of new books by authors who entered the sex trade and wrote about it make you not want to have intercourse again, ever, with anyone.

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How about a new year's resolution? [Report this comment] Posted by: PaulC on Dec 30, 2006 4:48 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Anyone seriously interested in understanding some of the most pressing issues of our time should make a New Year's resolution to do two things, if they have not already done so: 1. See Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" - even if you are someone like me who prides him/herself in keeping current with environmental issues this movie will still blow you away, it is that good. 2. Read pulitzer-prize winner Seymour M. Hersh's book "Chain of Command: The road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib". Hersh has few peers among investigative journalists - Bob Woodward comes to mind. Hersh is wired into the intelligence community, here and across the world, and the highest levels of government like very few others. Forget the politicized 9/11 Commission Report, this is the real report on 9/11; this is the investigation of how Bush abused executive power to have his war, then mismanaged it badly, committing atrocities along the way; this is the investigation that the 9/11 Commission was afraid to conduct. Oh, and have a great New Year! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Well, nothing to give addressing the economic plight a chance ! [Report this comment] Posted by: maxpayne on Dec 30, 2006 9:07 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] All I see are those stupid sex books as somehow counting tops ! Here's some books that should have been given serious consideration: 1. "Whose Freedom" by George Lakoff 2. "Thinking Points" by George Lakoff 3. "Hostile Takeover" by David Sirota I fear that Alternet is copying the other side and fighting on their turf. Sigh ... [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] book of the year [Report this comment] Posted by: chomsky on Dec 31, 2006 7:37 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] "The God Delusion" is the book of the year and AlterNet's negative article on Richard Dawkins' masterpiece which implied it is the secular equivalent of the religious rantings of our era or controversial in any way, bent so far backwards so as to avoid offending the zealots it dissapeared up its own PC black hole. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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