David Michael Slater
Goodreads Author
Born
in Pittsburgh, The United States
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Member Since
January 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/davidmichaelslater
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The Boy & the Book
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2015
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The Book of Nonsense (Forbidden Books 1)
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2008
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The Vanishing
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Bigfoot (Mysterious Monsters, #1)
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The Bored Book
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2009
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We're Doing It Wrong: 25 Ideas in Education That Just Don't Work and How to Fix Them
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2018
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Bear With Me
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Fun & Games
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2013
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Seven Ate Nine
4 editions
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2007
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The Book of Knowledge (Forbidden Books)
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2009
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Winner of this year's Hugo, The Tainted Cup is an absorbing mystery set in a fascinating world in which the Empire consists of lands formed in concentric rings until they reach the Sea Wall, which precariously protects all the races of augmented peop ...more | |
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David Szalay has been hailed as one of the best writers on contemporary masculinity, and his latest novel has been highly acclaimed. Can't say I understand either, having read Flesh, which is the rags-to-riches story of a young Hungarian man who drif ...more | |
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The Housemaid is an entertaining and original take on the Sexy-Housemaid-Destroys-A-Marriage story with a great twist. Unfortunately, it has a very weak ending. Fortunately, the epilogue surprises by setting up a series you didn't see coming, with a ...more | |
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You, like me, probably have a general feeling that FB is a net negative for the world, but, like me, you probably don't know the half of it. Sarah Wynn-Williams, a Kiwi working on human rights issues at the UN, fell in love with the promise of Faceboo ...more |
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The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny
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Maybe, like me, you're generally aware that there are horrible ways women are being abused with technology. But you likely don't know the half of it. In The New Age of Sexism, Laura Bates will incense you to the point of despair because seriously dys ...more |
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers should be required reading for every American who is clueless about how hard life is for people in so much of the world. Katherine Boo spent three years in Annawadi, a makeshift slum of ragged huts on a garbage dump adja ...more | |
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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
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A plainly written but fascinating account of how Stéphane Breitwieser, with the help of his girlfriend, stole upwards of 2 billion dollars-worth of art all over Europe during the late nineties--in broad daylight and with, if any tool was necessary, a ...more | |
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The Safekeep, set in 1961, is about Isabel, a repressed thirty-year-old Dutch woman whose brother installed her as the caretaker of the family home, which has become both her prison and her only joy. Much to her chagrin, he leaves his latest girlfrie ...more | |
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Strange Pictures is a unique novel in the way its interconnected mysteries all hinge on the fascinating interpretation of various drawings, each of which requires a different type of expertise. But... the writing is very poor (or the translation is p ...more | |
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The protagonist of Trust & Safety is Rosie, a woman seeking an authentic way to live. She feels increasingly trapped in her marriage to her generationally wealthy, tech start-up husband, Jordan, and convinces him that moving from Brooklyn to a disast ...more | |
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