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Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of... more

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  The Reader (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage International)

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  • Posted:Feb-17-2009

  • Left Me Wanting a Bit More
  • Let me start by saying I have not seen the movie version of this book starring Kate Winslet. It did help having the vision of Kate playing Hannah in this book because you can visualize the story...
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  • Posted:Feb-17-2009

  • One of my favorites
  • I have two little girls, which makes it difficult for me to find time to read. This book was so good, it was difficult to put down. I finished it in two days, even woke up earlier than my daughters...
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  • Posted:Feb-16-2009

  • Disappointed in The Reader
  • I have to admit to reading this book due to the movie hype I have seen recently of it. That said, I'm certain this will be one of the rare instances we find the movie to be better than the...
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Best-selling novelist Jeffery Deaver edits this latest collection of the genre's finest from the past year. Featuring... more

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An English lawyer and statesman, Sir Thomas More was a kind father who put as much emphasis on educating his... more

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A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Civil War, the... more

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  The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II

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  • Posted:Aug-24-2009

  • a big chunk of WW2 action and thought
  • I haven't been sucked into such a war novel since the first time I read War and Peace. I just finished Steel Wave, as well. Wow, I am speechless. I only know one thing,..that I'd have definitely...
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  • Posted:Jan-27-2009

  • Disappointing, Mediocre
  • Poor Jeff - he has to live in the shadow of his father, Michael Shaara, who wrote the excellent novel Killer Angels. I thought Jeff did a good job with his civil war novels, and ok with the WWI...
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  • Posted:Dec-16-2008

  • historical fiction of world war two
  • This is an interesting book and would be a painless way for those unfamiliar with the story of the North African campaign to learn the history. The author fictionalizes the thoughts and...
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In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells... more

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  The Known World: A Novel

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  • Posted:Sep-09-2009

  • The Known World--Edward P. Jones
  • The Known World by Edward P. Jones is an inspired work of historical fiction intended to shine some light on the connotations of slavery in the United States during the 19th century.
    
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  • Posted:Aug-13-2009

  • Manchester County, Virginia--R.I.P.
  • I had a great deal of difficulty getting close to Edward P. Jones's novel about slavery in the antebellum south, specifically of the no longer existing county of Manchester, Virginia. The only...
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  • Posted:Jul-08-2009

  • Could have been better.
  • I give this a little lower rating than I normally would because this book seems so over rated.
    
    -The good.
    Makes you think and look at the complex issue of slavery from many...
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Leif Enger's rhapsodic novel about a father raising his three children in 1960s Minnesota is a breathtaking... more

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  Peace Like a River

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  • Posted:Jul-17-2009

  • A MUST READ!!!!
  • You've read the synopsis, a wonderful epic tale in a book that you won't want to put down. However, there is far more that will captivate you as no other book has done. I am a voracious reader,...
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  • Posted:Jun-30-2009

  • Not my cup of tea
  • "Peace Like a River" has some things to recommend it. The character development is good. It has a story within a story which can be interesting if you like the tale the storyteller is sharing....
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  • Posted:Mar-16-2008

  • hated it
  • Ugh, I could not finish this book, which is a rarity.
    
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    "Leif Enger's best-selling debut is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, and a...
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Just in time for the 20th anniversary of Spy?s creation comes the definitive anthology, inside story, and scrapbook.... more

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  Spy: The Funny Years

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  • Posted:Jan-21-2009

  • Spy lives!
  • The greatest magazine of my youth is reprised here in book form! Anyone familiar with how wonderful and fascinating Spy magazine was back in the late 1980's should read this one. Spy broke new...
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  • Posted:Mar-30-2007

  • Run Away!
  • I thoroughly enjoyed this magazine when it was published. I assumed I would enjoy this book! No. I expected a recap of witty stories, fun articles, and the mirth and humor I used to enjoy.
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  • Posted:Nov-27-2006

  • Not as funny as I expected or hoped
  • While it's (marginally) interesting to me to learn about the backstage goings-on that went into creating this magazine that I used to love, what I really wanted was lots of reprints of articles...
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The Conjurer?s Bird is a beautiful story in the spirit of Possession that is as exciting as The Club Dumas, inspired... more

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  The Conjurer's Bird: A Novel

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  • Posted:Jan-26-2009

  • A clever plot and a good mystery
  • Martin Davies' The Conjurer's Bird wraps two stories around a handful of intriguing historical facts: A thrush-like bird, called here the "Mysterious Bird of Ulieta," was discovered on James Cook's...
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  • Posted:Oct-15-2008

  • Good story, mediocre writing
  • It is very possible that this book is the victim of my natural editor, but I found the writing in this book to be rather mediocre. Specifically, there was way way too much narration. Too much...
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Award-winning chef Phil Randazzo, owner of the trendy Tasso Restaurant in New Orleans, and his new wife, Michelle,... more

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  The Year of Past Things

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  • Posted:Jul-12-2009

  • Well told story, with just enough ghost added to make you feel a chill..
  • Adrien died 3 years ago. He died but he didn't actually leave.
    The reasons are not immediately apparent, but his presence is.
    This creates a situation that is not comfortable for Adrien's...
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  • Posted:Mar-28-2006

  • Almost a "4" but loses its way the last 60 pages
  • Terrific writing and characters but somehow, this book got away from the author. It's not "really" a ghost story -- there is some ghost-stuff but it's really about choices made and divorce and...
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"' What a picture! ' She shivered, making her breasts quiver, and I realized that this confession, far from... more

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  Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess

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  • Posted:Oct-06-2008

  • dedoxical empiricism
  • Les Caprices de Marianne was written by Alfred de Musset in 1833 and followed by "Rolla", authorially subtitled "a symptom of the maladie du siècle". The poem, a grotesque, pathetic languorous...
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'All eyes and hair' a courtier had said disparagingly of her - and certainly the younger daughter of Tom Boleyn... more

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  The Concubine

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  • Posted:Jul-19-2009

  • The forever enchantress
  • If you love things Anne Boleyn and perhaps missed this splendid novel written 50 years ago, grab it and savor its riches!
    
    Norah Lofts has enriched her novel with wonderful personalities,...
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  • Posted:Sep-24-2003

  • A Good Book for Anne Boleyn Fans...
  • A number of reviewers have said that they have read everything they could about Anne Boleyn. I have done the same. I was quite thrilled to find this book, and really enjoyed Norah Lofts opinion...
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This is what we dream of: to be so swept away, so poleaxed by a book that the breath is sucked right out of us. Brace... more

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  The Religion: A Novel

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  • Posted:Oct-13-2009

  • The Author is Tedious - The Siege of Malta is Fantastic
  • Mr. Willocks is unlikely to be accused of modesty. This first volume of the "Tannhauser Trilogy" is still waiting for sequels but it typifies the overblown pretentions of this project. What kept me...
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  • Posted:Jul-28-2009

  • Love and War are Double-Edged Blades
  • Mattias Tannhauser was 12 years old when he saw his home burned, his siblings slaughtered, his mother raped and killed. In a small village deep in the Hungarian mountains, the year is 1540, and is...
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  • Posted:Apr-29-2009

  • The Religion: Overwritten, Overwrought, Overkill
  • The Religion is trash fiction in every way: it's 50% Conan-esque blood and guts Medieval action (the smell of feces always ripe in the air upon each and every blood-soaked death-in-combat), the...
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In 1934, a "sickly pathetic marmoset" named Mitz came into the care of Leonard Woolf. After nursing her back to... more

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  Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury

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  • Posted:Sep-08-2009

  • Absolute delight
  • MITZ: THE MARMOSET OF BLOOMSBURY by Sigrid Nunez is one of those rare and special books that light up our imaginations and transport us to another place and time. I'm a fan of the short novel or...
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When the vision came, he was in the bathtub. So begins the madness of Louis Daguerre. In 1847, after a decade of... more

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  The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre: A Novel

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  • Posted:Feb-07-2009

  • This book is an insult to Daguerre and his process!
  • This novel is so bad in its claim to be about Daguerre, it is pathetic. Daguerre is described as a lifelong bachelor seeking connection with a prostitute. What about Daguerre's wife, Englishwoman...
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  • Posted:Dec-29-2007

  • Facinating
  • I would love to see this book translated into film. Merchant Ivory is the one production company that could do justice to the cinimatic version. But, readers must remember this facinating story is...
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  • Posted:Aug-02-2007

  • Flowery
  • The subject, Louis Daguerre was fascinating for me as a lover of photography and a tinkerer with the cyanotype process, pin hole cameras and all things not digital about photography. I think I...
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Returning to the Furey-Cooper family Martha McPhee introduced in Bright Angel Time, Gorgeous Lies opens two decades... more

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  Gorgeous Lies

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  • Posted:Jan-03-2006

  • somewhere a novel lurks
  • Somewhere between the beautiful prose and richly drawn character a novel lurks. Unfortunately, I was never able to find it. As I read I became deeply enthralled with the characters, but as in a...
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  • Posted:Mar-05-2005

  • Lost....!
  • This book is so confusing. There are so many different characters and timelines going on that it's difficult to understand. The characters bored me, frankly. Each new chapter was like reading a...
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  • Posted:Mar-07-2003

  • Well written novel of interesting characters
  • I had no idea that this book was a sequel and I thought it held together very well. I'll probably go back and read the first book but I didn't feel I'd missed anything.
    Anton is dying of...
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Bailed out of jail and holed up in a low-rent motel, amnesiac Eric Ashworth?s only memory is a woman?s name: Desiree.... more

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  Dermaphoria

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  • Posted:Jan-21-2009

  • A must have
  • this book is amazing, psychadelic, just the right amount of confusion and everything falls into place in the end. i hope Clevenger has more to come
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  • Posted:Nov-23-2008

  • Spiders and Bugs
  • Lots of spiders, bugs, and colors in Clevenger's second novel, Dermaphoria - maybe too many for a person without the prerequisite delusional mindset to follow the story which is in there somewhere....
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  • Posted:Mar-16-2006

  • At least its short.
  • Luckily you dont have to invest to much time to finish this book. There is really only about 20 pages of actual story the rest are descriptions of visual effects. Its as if Clevenger is pleading...
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This is a love story set in a fictional Tibet of the future. It is an exciting and suspenseful fictional love story... more

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  She Still Lives

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  • Posted:Aug-30-2008

  • Adventure in the Himalayas
  • "She Still Lives" is a delight. An adventure story set in a future Tibet suffering under the Chinese. Outlaws and revolutionaries vs tyranny and oppression. Sex and romance. Brutality and...
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Florence, June 1300. The body of an artist, his face covered in quicklime, is discovered next to the mosaic he had... more

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  The Mosaic Crimes (A Dante Alighieri Mystery)

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  • Posted:Oct-22-2008

  • An interesting subject made boring
  • For two stars, I will keep this short. This book looks like it would be great. The topic is one that seems full of mystery and intrigue. Yet, the book is quite dull overall. Certainly as a...
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  • Posted:Sep-26-2007

  • So far, so good . . .
  • I'd say I'm about 3/4 through, and while this may not be the appropriate time to write a review, I read through books so fast that I can't keep up with my own reviews. So here is a premature but...
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  • Posted:Feb-01-2007

  • "Destiny leaves its mark on places, just as it does on men's lives."
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    Circa 1300, Florence, Italy is a hotbed of political and religious intrigue, the devastating rout of the Christians at St. John of Acre in 1291 still a black memory to the vanquished....
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Set in the Middle Ages during the brief yet glittering rule of the Norman kings, The Ruby in Her Navel is a tale in... more

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  The Ruby in Her Navel: A Novel of Love and Intrigue in the 12th Century

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  • Posted:Mar-10-2009

  • The ruby on my bookshelf
  • Oh I love this book so much! I was so thirsty for one good historical novel and Unsworth never disappointed me so far.
    
    This book is telling story about 12th century Sicily during the...
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  • Posted:Dec-22-2008

  • Premature Renaissance
  • The sparkle is real but the title misleading. The dancer with the jeweled navel is a secondary character, and the implied sensuality is only a small part of the book. But the glittering background...
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  • Posted:Jan-19-2008

  • A low point for Barry Unsworth
  • I am a great fan of Barry Unsworth and so I was quite disappointed in this book. It is so far below any of his other books. The plot is disjointed and some of the writing is actually silly. So sorry.
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  Girl in Hyacinth Blue

  • From:Amazon
  • Posted:Jun-28-2009

  • Has the qualities of a Vermeer painting
  • Some people might be disappointed with this book after reading Tracy Chevalier's "Girl with a Pearl Earring." Yet like a Vermeer, Vreeland's book drew me in with elements of mystery. And also...
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  • Posted:Feb-18-2009

  • Contrived
  • Not much of a book but maybe entertaining for those who want a book for the beach. Tracy Chevalier's book, The Girl With the Pearl Earring, is a much more engaging treatment of the same topic...
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  • Posted:Dec-02-2007

  • Short and sweet
  • Girl in Hyacinth Blue is a series of vignettes chronicling the reverse history of a fictional Vermeer painting of the same name. Vreeland's colorful portraits of Dutch life, from the wealthy to the...
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