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Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis

Randolph H. Pherson and Richards J. Heuer

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be

Moisés Naím

4.2 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Edward Herrmann, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Adam Hochschild and Barbara Kingsolver

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

Anu Partanen

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Quest for Cosmic Justice

Thomas Sowell

4.9 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

4.8 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Sales: A Systems Approach [Connected Casebook] (Aspen Casebook)

Daniel Keating

4.3 on Amazon

3 HN comments

You Have the Right to Remain Innocent

James Duane and Brilliance Audio

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman Jr.

4.8 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Charter Schools and Their Enemies

Thomas Sowell

4.9 on Amazon

3 HN comments

TRANCE Formation of America: True life story of a mind control slave

Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Contracts

Barcharts Inc

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem

Stacy Schiff

3.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

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_mhr_onJune 16, 2016

I had no idea The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar was for adults. I read that when I was only eight or so after reading other Dahl books like Matilda and The Witches. I loved the premise.

moron4hireonApr 19, 2021

I've been going through Roald Dahl with my 5-year-old and it's been delightful. It has kind of made me want to do my own audiobook recording of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. James and the Giant Peach was a hit, of course, as was Matilda. We're doing The Witches right now, which I had never read as a kid. It's kind of at the edge of what my son finds too scary, though.

My son has started to notice that all of Dahl's heroes have terrible family lives in some way, and he's questioned why it's necessary. I think he starts to worry that it might happen to him. I've tried to explain to him that, because the stories aren't real (which is a concept he's comfortable with already), it's a useful shortcut for a writer to make us sympathetic to them. I think he gets it.

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