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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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  • 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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Take the Cannoli is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense... more

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  Take the Cannoli : Stories From the New World

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  • 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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  • 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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"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt... more

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  Chronicles: Volume One (Chronicles)

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  • Posted:Dec-26-2008

  • Enignatic read from an enigma
  • Volumes and volumes can be written about Bob Dylan, but to get into his mind and to know what and who mattered to him and in what ways, only he can provide that, which he does here. The writer of...
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  • Basically a bogus look backward
  • Around every 20 pages, there's a phrase that's faintly reminiscent of the early years, the intellect that penned "it's allright, ma" etc. But so much of what he claims happened is just not reality....
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  • Posted:Nov-06-2007

  • Quality Autobiography
  • I found Chronicles to be a very quality autobiography. With many insightful opinions and facts about his life it is a must read for close followers of Dylan's life. There are times when Dylan...
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This is the most comprehensive, accurate, and thought-provoking reference ever published on Phish - the quirky rock... more

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  The Phish Companion: A Guide to the Band and Their Music, Second Edition

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  • The Phish Companion: A Guide to the Band and Their Music, Second Edition
  • Every fan would be lucky to have a guide like this to their favorite band's music and history. This is a wonderful document giving incredible detail about every aspect a great band.
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  • Where's the artwork?
  • It was hyped as being a collection of essays, photos and artwork from the fans. Instead it's chart after chart after chart..... It's good, informative and many thanks to those who put it together...
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  • YAAAAAAWWWWWNNNN...
  • The much hyped Companion is finally out and to be honest it is quite a let down. Forget coffee table material, this goes next to your encyclopedia britanica collection. Sure it's good for...
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A dramatization of the American Helene Hanff's 20-year correspondence with a London antiquarian bookshop. Also on... more

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  84, Charing Cross Road

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  • Posted:Aug-23-2009

  • 84 charing Cross Road
  • fast delivery and merchandise in very good condition. 84 Charing Cross Raod. Wonderful book that I read over 20 years ago and loved it all over again.
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  • Posted:Nov-23-2008

  • Charring Cross
  • The book was delightful. The copy was old which gave me the feeling that I was reading the book when it was written. I'll pass it on to another book-lover friend.
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  • Posted:Oct-20-2008

  • A passion for books (3.5*s)
  • This book is a collection of a series of letters exchanged by the author, Helene Hanff, a New York writer, and the employees, though primarily Frank Doel, of Marks & Co, a London-based antiquarian...
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Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary... more

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  Teacher Man: A Memoir

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  • Posted:Sep-24-2009

  • Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
  • Would recommend this book to anyone who is a teacher, and most of us are, whether in the classroom or not. Mr. McCourt overcame an unbelievable childhood to attain great success. One that shows...
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  • Posted:May-13-2009

  • Disappointing
  • I liked his other books much more. I thought this book would be stories about teaching and his individual students' struggles to learn, his relationships with them, etc. Instead, it seemed to be...
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  • I LIKE McCOURT BETTER AS A KID
  • Doggone it....... one of my favorite books of all time is ANGELE'S ASHES: A MEMOIR by Frank McCourt. It is the story of this author and his horrendous childhood years growing up in Ireland during...
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  Rain of Gold

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  • Posted:Sep-03-2009

  • Rain of Gold is a great book!
  • Our book club read Rain of Gold and every one of our 12 or so members greatly enjoyed the book.
    Since we live in an area which population includes many Mexican immigrants,I felt it was a...
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  • This book is worthless trash, except is you want to exhalt .....
  • Senior Villasenor's criminal family background. This is the type of book that gets awards from liberal hispanics and the politically correct establishment.
    My Mexican Americans Family grew up...
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  • My opinion of Rain of Gold
  • It was entertaining reading however I felt that the author put the characters in a much better light than what was the truth. For starters he made his father look like an honest businessman when to...
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David Herbert Donald's Lincoln is a stunningly original portrait of Lincoln's life and presidency. Donald... more

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  Lincoln

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  • Posted:Sep-21-2009

  • Very focused and very complete
  • The author stays very focused on the subject, which is Lincoln himself. He covers Lincoln's entire life and the biography stops at the moment of his death. His style is very readable and very...
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  • Lincoln Biography
  • The author, a native of my home state, Mississippi, died recently, and I wanted a copy of his famous Lincoln biography for our library. This used copy was as represented - slightly "loved." I'm so...
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  • Posted:May-03-2009

  • Having problems
  • Having problems reading this book---I read about 50 pages, put it down, read another book, started again,
    
    put it down, reading Meacham's great biography of Jackson and I'm not convinced...
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  Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

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  • Posted:Jul-18-2009

  • Funny, smart and humorously smart aleck!
  • This is a wonderfully engaging book! It is written like a diary and as such I didn't feel like I had to complete the chapter in order to get the information in tangible pieces.
    
    Funny,...
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  • intresting
  • i have been in the motion picture world for a very long time, i also know alot about low budget filmmaking and i love the way how he got into the industry, i think he tells his story in a very...
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  • Interesting insight into a very talented man
  • A great tale, but not so well written that I could recommend on its literary quality alone. I admire Rodriguez - even more, knowing what he went through to make this film (and I'm a fan El...
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Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his... more

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  If I Die in a Combat Zone : Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

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  • Four stars (when comparing O'Brien with himself, . . .
  • . . . but the writing is five stars when compared with others).
    
    When I read O'Brien's memoir/novel "The Things They Carried," I came away incredibly impressed with O'Brien's storytelling...
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  • Posted:Aug-29-2008

  • numb
  • More or less everything I know about the Vietnam War I have taken from American movies. This, I accept, is not the ideal grounding on the subject. If there is a decent Vietnamese account, on...
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  • Another Tim O'Brien sham
  • Another book that is written like hearing a narrative. I would not recommend this bok for any reader.
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The author of "Women, Race and Class" suggests that "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday represent a black... more

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  Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

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  • Posted:Jan-31-2006

  • You would think our own would know the score.
  • No one with a true understanding of Billie Holiday would consider her a Blues Singer. As such to truly study Blues Legacies, it would be better if a Blues singer like Memphis Minnie, one of the...
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  • Posted:Aug-19-2004

  • Poetics ARE Politics for many people. No exceptions here.
  • Davis work is a powerful re-reading of Blues women, and firmly places them in the center, rather than the margin, of Black oppositional and autonomous culture discourse. The book is mostly devoted...
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  • Posted:Feb-12-2000

  • Research concerns
  • I am a resident of Columbus, Georgia, the birthplace and hometown where Ma' Rainey was raised and died. It is from this premise that I will address this publication, especially since Ma' has...
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"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to... more

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  On Writing

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  • 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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  • 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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  • Constant reader left wanting
  • After finishing this book, I wasn't quite sure how I felt about it.
    
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  Storm of Steel (Penguin Classics)

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  • Interesting Perspective
  • "Storm of Steel" by Ernst Junger provides the reader with a very different perspective of WWI, at least to a reader from the U.S. The German perspective given by Mr. Junger in this book confirms,...
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  • Awful book or awful translation?
  • The translator of this edition, Michael Hofmann, goes to great lengths to distance himself from Basil Creighton's 1929 translation, quoting verbatim passages from Creighton's version which Hofmann...
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  • Good but not as good as all the hype
  • This book is well written, well translated and flows well on the memoirs of a german private at the start of WW1 and officer by the end, but for all the hype that I had heard about this book it is...
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  Oscar Wilde

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  • Very complete and well written biography
  • I am a biography buff and am really enjoying this book. I have to read it with a dictionary but I like that. It is a very complete and heady biography. Check it out if you really want to sink...
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  • A tad trudging, but worth the read.
  • It is obvious that Ellman is passionate about Oscar Wilde. It appears to be well researched, unfortunately this leads to a rather trudging first two-thirds. The last third reads a lot easier,...
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  The Tender Bar: A Memoir

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  • I Don't Even Like Memoirs
  • I don't know why I bought this book, I don't like memoirs and can count on the fingers of one hand how many I've read. However, this book grabbed me from the first chapter and wouldn't let me go....
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  • Incidental Bar Banter became excessive..wanted more pure JR
  • I loved the first third, or so, of this book; thought it was a funny fascinating memoir. Moehringer is a good story teller: articulate and insightful into the outrageousness of his childhood and...
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  • If you are a glass-half-empty type of person, then J.R. Moehringer is the man for you!
  • Mr. Moehringer manages to harp on every mishap in excrutiating detail, no matter how insignificant, while downplaying every positive experience in his life. And the positive experiences he does...
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  Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

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  • Fabulous book!
  • A masterful biography of one of the 20th century's most fascinating writers, too long unknown outside her native Brazil. This engaging, authoritative work should change that!
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  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself (The Bedford...

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  • Moving Disseration
  • Douglass presents his agenda very well to the reader. While the heartbreaks he experience are emotionally moving, there is "hope" interlaced throughout. A must-read for all modern Anericans who...
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  Teacher Man: A Memoir

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  • Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
  • Would recommend this book to anyone who is a teacher, and most of us are, whether in the classroom or not. Mr. McCourt overcame an unbelievable childhood to attain great success. One that shows...
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  • Disappointing
  • I liked his other books much more. I thought this book would be stories about teaching and his individual students' struggles to learn, his relationships with them, etc. Instead, it seemed to be...
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  • Reluctant teacher man
  • Frank McCourt was one of those teachers who fell into the job whilst secretly wishing he could do something else (in his case, a writer - an ambition he has now achieved). As a result this is a...
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  A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

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  • Review of A Midwife's Tale The Life Of Martha Ballard
  • I actually was a bit disappointed when I read the book. I thought it would have more of the actual diary entries, and less of the author's interpretations of what Martha was trying to say. I think...
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  • Buy a book on Amazon
  • This was a new experience for me and Amazon helped me find what I could not find in my home town library. I love history, and wanted to read this book,"A Midwife's Tale" because it had been...
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  • Not worth it
  • I bought this book after seeing a review on another site that indicated it was an interesting look at life for women in the late 1700'- early 1800's. The story is extracted and told from the...
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Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary... more

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  James Joyce (Oxford Lives)

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  • James Joyce comes alive
  • Biographies frequently fail to convey the personality of their subject but not this one. James Joyce jumps off the page in all his vainglorious, self-centered, generous, mooching, fearful and...
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