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Book Description Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook... more

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  My Life in France (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Random House Movie Tie-In Books)

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  • Posted:Jul-31-2009

  • Ebullient Memoir
  • Julia Child's joie de vivre and distinctive voice shine through in this ebullient memoir which celebrates the love affair she shared with her husband just as much as the passion she had for French...
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  • Posted:Jul-28-2009

  • Enjoy the History, the Food, Ignore the Snobbish Biases and Political Hackery
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So much has how been said and written about the life and career of Michael Jackson that it has become almost... more

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From this book's first chapter: "To be able to float free, with gravity exerting no impact. To live in Neverland. To... more

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In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the... more

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  My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

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  • Posted:Oct-01-2009

  • Not funny, girl
  • This book is only what it says it is-a collection of the stories of one night stands. It is not wry, sarcastic, insightful, and the most it is not is funny. Not humorous at all. I was expecting...
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  • Posted:Sep-23-2009

  • Funny, Easy Read
  • Chelsea Handler is hilarious! This book is defintely an easy, entertaining read. Hard to just read one story at a time without wanting to read the next one.
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  • Not really one-night stands, as far as I remember
  • I DO remember she trashes New Jersey, but that's as old as can be.
    I'm trying to remember what I got out of the rapid-fire hail of bullets that is Handler's voice.
    
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"Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part... more

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  On Writing

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  • Posted:Sep-29-2009

  • for those who hate to write
  • I recommend this book not only to those reluctant writers, but for teachers for those students. I am a teacher and i found this very inspiring. I read part of it aloud to my students and they loved...
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  • Posted:Sep-28-2009

  • Why
  • If you want to be brow beaten this is the book for you. It is one thing to say you will never be a good writer in person but why take negative feed back just because of a name. It is like take a...
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  • Posted:Aug-04-2008

  • Constant reader left wanting
  • After finishing this book, I wasn't quite sure how I felt about it.
    
    It is seperated into three parts. The first are some brief snapshots of the author's life. Telling memories from his...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever... more

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  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

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  • Posted:Sep-06-2009

  • A Wild and Extraordinary Ride Down a Lost Highway ...
  • The Lost Highway of the American Dream.
    
    I love social satire. I don't need my characters to be loveable; I don't even need them to be likeable. I just need them to be what they are, even...
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  • Posted:Jul-08-2009

  • I don't see what the big deal is...
  • As a recent college grad with time to kill unemployed, I wanted to like this book, I really did. Many of my friends have recommended I read it, although I am beginning to think they never read it...
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  • Posted:Jul-31-2008

  • Too misogynistic
  • I've read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas a few times, starting first in high school, few years later in college, and then recently now. The first time I read it, I thought it was funny, zany, and...
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Whiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death. This is the life... more

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  The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

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  • Posted:Jan-27-2009

  • Amazing book!!!
  • This book ROCKS!!!!!...literally. i've read it twice and will probably read in one every 2 yrs until I die. So, good. You won't believe what these guys got away with an how many drugs they...
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  • Posted:Mar-19-2008

  • Heartwarming, Inspirational, Should Be on Every 5th Grade Reading List!!
  • Just joking. My first concert ever was Motley Crue at Madison Square Garden back in 1987 and I still remember all those feelings of awe, rebellion, excitement and raging hormones they inspired to...
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  • Posted:Feb-06-2008

  • trash
  • If you are old enough to remember these guys when they were in thier prime, the things that were funny and impresive sure sound stupid and classless now at 45 years old. Perhaps they are running...
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Outrageous, raw, and painfully funny true stories straight from the life of the actor, comedian, and much-loved cast... more

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The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A... more

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  A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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  • Posted:Sep-16-2009

  • Verbal Diarrhea
  • "[...] brevity is the soul of wit"
    
    Actual dialogue (page 64):
    "Are you bored?"
    "Yeah," he says.
    "Why?"
    "Because you're just lying there."
    "Well, I'm tired."
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  • Posted:Aug-26-2009

  • Book Discussion
  • We used it for a book discussion, my sons and I, we all read it from a different perspective, siblings, students, caretaker, young men starting their careers. We all enjoyed it. Funny, sad, thought...
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  • Posted:Aug-23-2008

  • Emotionally evocative, but wordy
  • I bought this book because of all the rave reviews from critics and the because it was a Pulitzer finalist. I read the first one-third of the story and really enjoyed his candid writing style. I...
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Julia Child became a household name when she entered the lives of millions of Americans through our hearts and... more

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  Appetite for Life

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  • Posted:Sep-12-2009

  • The Real Julia
  • Julia was a fascinating woman. I never realized what she went through to finally be able to write her 1st cookbook and have her own TV show. It made me look at her in an entirely different light....
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  • Posted:Dec-08-2008

  • Dreadful
  • (Unlike some reviewers here, I choose to review the book, not its subject.)
    
    There is no reason to read this book. As others have noted, it's chock-full of minutia, based very obviously...
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  • Posted:Jan-28-2006

  • Dry, dry, dry....
  • Someone with such a zest for living deserves a much better biography written about her! Julia Child's life as seen through the words of this author lacks a lot of spice. You trudge through this...
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RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to... more

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  Running with Scissors: A Memoir

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  • Posted:Jan-21-2009

  • Hilarious and touching
  • Is this fiction? Is this memoir? I am not sure. I write this review years after reading the book, and know that all that matters to me today is that I thoroughly enjoyed Burroughs book. His...
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  • Posted:Jan-02-2009

  • READER BEWARE! LITERARY TRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • First off let me state that the first half of this book was well written. When you get to the middle of the book it goes straight downhill. I really didn't need to experience the vivid details of...
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  • Posted:Dec-28-2008

  • A great start in your Burroughs obsession.
  • This was a great memoir. My first Augusten Burroughs read AND memoir. Strange, witty, and sometimes uncomfortable to read, but all around enjoyable. The ending did upset me a bit... and please,...
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The original classic story about growing up with drugs and sex and about learning to survive on the streets of New... more

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  The Basketball Diaries

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  • Posted:Mar-10-2009

  • Great read!
  • A very entertaining tale of life as a youth on the streets of New York. The birth of a very talented author.
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  • Posted:Dec-06-2007

  • Ugh.
  • Could have been interesting, but this book was so foul (language) I had difficulty staying with it. It has remained, unfinished, on my bookshelf.
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  • The Basketball Diaries Review
  • The book "The Basketball Diaries" by Jim Carroll is about the life of Jim Carroll as a High School basketball player and a heroin attic. The book takes place in New York City's Lower East Side of...
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DESCRIPTION: In January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother Micah set off on a three-week trip around the world. It... more

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  Three Weeks with My Brother

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  • Posted:Jan-09-2009

  • A nonfiction book that reads like fiction
  • 1. A great book for all N. Sparks fans. Those who are not familiar with N. Sparks will subsequently want to read his other books.
    2. A definite 5 stars for this book. Read it and...
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  • Posted:Jul-31-2008

  • Just alright
  • I just finished this book this morning and I have to say it was just average. Having just come back from a trip with my own brother and being of similar age to the Sparks brothers, I connected...
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  • Triter than Fiction
  • Famed maudlin romance author Nicholas Sparks leaves his wife and half dozen kids behind to travel the world with his brother. Interspersed with descriptions of world famous cultural sites (which,...
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Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller by one of rock?s most provocative figures Scar Tissue is Anthony... more

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  Scar Tissue

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  • Posted:Jan-24-2009

  • RED HOT SCAR TISSUE
  • What better to be said about a book then i couldn't put it down. I kept reading parts outloud to my girlfriend, and all she could say was oh-my-god. And if you're kind of a fan before reading it...
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  • Posted:Dec-27-2008

  • Heart in the right place, but still has a ways to go
  • I wasn't a big Red Hot Chili Peppers fan in their day - for one thing, I always thought of them as more a tribe of half-naked Hollywood junkies than a viable musical act, and this book seems to...
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  • Posted:Jul-24-2008

  • Glaring Error raises some obvious questions
  • I was pretty shocked that between the alleged writer, ghost writer and a major publisher that somebody didn't catch a blatant mistake that really casts some doubt as to the effort and veracity of...
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In a career spanning more than thirty years, Patrick Swayze has made a name for himself on the stage, the screen, and... more

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  I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

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  • Posted:Dec-29-2008

  • Hostile
  • After reading "A Short History of Nearly Everything," I became a fast fan of Mr. Brysons writing style. I felt that he inserted humor and wit with accurate fact.
    
    However, this book takes...
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  • Bryson's views on America
  • A collection of essays on Bryson's experiences and views of America, sometimes annoyingly pretentious and pedantic (especially in the beginning), but more often clever, funny, and perfectly...
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  • out of the bryson norm
  • I enjoy his writing, and was still entertained by this book. But the tone caught me off guard. Now, I know that this was written for a british audience, out of weekly articles thrown together...
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From one of America?s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an... more

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  The Year of Magical Thinking

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  • Posted:Dec-26-2008

  • Explains a Magical Marriage
  • While reading Joan Didion's memoir, which is centered on John Gregory Dunne's sudden death, my immediate reaction was that the appreciative audience is limited. Further reading proved me wrong....
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  • Terrific memoir, painting a picture of grief and loss
  • I thought Ms. Didion's description of the feelings, sounds, emotions that we experience when we've had a tragic loss were astonishingly accurate. When faced with great tragedy and grief, it is...
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  • Disappointing
  • I have read most of Didion's books and so bought this at a used bookstore without knowing what it was about. Like many of the reviewers before me, the first few chapters describing her husband's...
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From his Glaswegian childhood and American adolescence to his starring role in the Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood,... more

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  Take the Cannoli : Stories From the New World

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Aug-14-2009

  • Very clever essays
  • "Take the Cannoli" consists of a number of witty essays written by Sarah Vowell, who grew up in the middle of nowhere and went on to build a life for herself as a writer living in one of America's...
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  • Posted:Oct-25-2007

  • A clever and witty delivery of truth.
  • Vowell's book is definately a clever and witty delivery of truth. Some of it is her own truth through life experience. Even if you don't share her opinions, you understand her point without...
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  • Posted:Nov-04-2003

  • Boring
  • I think that one word says it all. I read the other reviews and expected to be rolling around laughing at this book. The first essay was promising but turned out dull in the end and the book went...
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