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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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This book, Mark Z. Danielewski's experimental first novel, has been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award,... more

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  House of Leaves

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  • Posted:Sep-26-2009

  • Buy This!
  • I finished this book last year and still think of it occasionally. This story has so many sub-plots going, you can't put the book down - the page number seems daunting, but I finished this rather...
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  • Posted:Sep-21-2009

  • Ugh
  • I was extremely interested in the Navidson story. I was waiting for everything to make sense, but it never did. I can't help but feel I missed something big, but at the same time, I know I...
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  • Posted:Aug-05-2009

  • FAIL.
  • I read 4-5 books a week. I love to read. I've only ever quit reading one book...ever. And to tell you just how worthless this 700-page door stop is, I struggled to finish this book over a 3-week...
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Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be... more

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  The Historian

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  • Posted:Sep-20-2009

  • a fantastic read
  • i love her combination of historical facts and a supurb fictional tale. ive been looking for years for her next book which does not appear to be forecoming.
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  • Posted:Sep-11-2009

  • Fascinating if a little slow to begin
  • This particular book was recommended to me by a friend-librarian, and I started reading it as a paper copy, but got distracted half-way through and did not return. This was not, however, because it...
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  • Posted:Aug-30-2009

  • Not so great
  • Although very readable, THE HISTORIAN suffers a ridiculously slow pace (yes, stuff is happening, but it's the same stuff--over and over again), a plot that's chock full of coincidence, and...
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Ex-policeman Bernie thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin. Then he went freelance and each case... more

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  Berlin Noir (Crime, Penguin)

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  • Posted:May-01-2009

  • Bernie is the Best
  • I have read the trilogy twice. This second time to prepare for The One from Another, as well as, A Quiet Flame. Kerr does such a great job in the characterization of Bernie Gunther providing us...
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  • Posted:Oct-26-2008

  • An Intriguing Concept Which Falls Short
  • It's an interesting premise. What if a Hammett or Chandler story took place in Nazi Germany? Setting the noir genre in a fascinating period of history seems like a winning idea. The problem with...
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  • Posted:May-14-2001

  • This mystery sags under the weight of its pretentions
  • I was thoroughly prepared for the exciting possibilities that surround the setting for this mystery. I even purchased the book, which is something I rarely do, as I would much rather visit my...
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When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause c?l?bre because of the freedom and sophistication... more

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  Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

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  • Posted:Sep-03-2009

  • what a way with description
  • Lolita is one of the finest novels I have ever read. It doesn't take a genius to perceive that Humbert Humbert is not a valid role model for his readers! He is a degenerate with a hopelessly...
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  • Unparalleled Prose...
  • Nabokov's Lolita is a master-class in the artfully composed sentence. I'm not sure I've read a book that was written with such sparkling, perfectly evoked prose. In addition, Nabokov channels the...
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  • Posted:Jul-31-2006

  • Disappointing, overrated, and overwritten
  • I had always wanted to read this book because I'd heard so many great things about it. Words can't express how disappointed I am.
    I am not some dumb, uneducated high school kid. I have a law...
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Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary... more

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  The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series)

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  • Posted:Oct-06-2009

  • John Updike's Usual Savviness
  • It truly is a 20th century history of the best in American short story writing.
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  • Posted:Jun-12-2009

  • Used book failure
  • The book I ordered from Briguy 107 through Amazon was never delivered to me. I'm waiting for a refund.
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  • Posted:Oct-10-2007

  • Not what I really wanted
  • Only unknown authors to me. I was expecting some works by Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry and/or Agatha Christie (maybe I ordered the wrong volume!). Also, some of the stories are quite dull and end as...
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A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of... more

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  The Pillars of the Earth

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  • Posted:Oct-25-2009

  • Pillars of the Earth
  • Without question, The Pillars of the Earth is the best book I have ever read. I have a doctorate in education and have read thousands of fine books in my life. Reading the book was exactly like...
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  • Posted:Oct-22-2009

  • Interesting but Hard to Get into to
  • My Boss gave me this Book and said that I would Absolutely Love it. Having felt a Need to Read it I started and while I didn't hate it, it's something I would only recommend to select people. The...
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  • Posted:Jul-24-2009

  • Puh-leeze
  • Oh my God, will this book never end? Starting with Follet's masturbatory explanation, in the Preface, of how and why he wrote this book (do we really care about this? "...it is my best book, and...
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The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out... more

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  Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)

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  • Masterpiece
  • It is impossible to distill the complex mysteriousness of this great work in a review. Faulkner's 'Absalom, Absalom!' is perhaps his most difficult and experimental novel-a novel that is composed...
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  • Posted:Jul-16-2009

  • Utter waste of time
  • I don't get it at all. To my way of thinking, Faulkner takes an interesting story and entraps in page after page of blathering and rambling. I made myself finish it ... but I probably never would...
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  • Posted:Oct-20-2007

  • Style too far
  • The story of a small Southern town in the years leading up to, during, and following the Civil War. The action is centred on Thomas Sutpen, whose arrival upsets the local applecarts. Through a...
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The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis teaches the skills of complete musicianship, integrating theory and... more

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  The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis: Workbook

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  • Gets the job done
  • This book helps you learn everything you need to know about counterpoint and music theory.
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For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary"... more

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  The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel

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  • Gorgeous Writing
  • In an alternate history, the Jews who were victimized during the Holocaust are resettled to Alaska, instead of Israel. They are given control over the region for sixty years, at which point this...
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  • Posted:Sep-21-2009

  • Too much going on
  • To me, this was like Chabon trying to be Dan Brown (and I am a fan of Chabon, but not Dan brown). Too many characters, the plot line is too complex and fantastic. I like fantasy, I like...
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  • Posted:Sep-11-2009

  • Great setup, disappointing payoff.
  • As science fiction, it worked. As a mystery, not so well. I loved the alternate history created in this book, but overall I can only rate the book as so-so. To keep this spoiler-free, I can only...
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The New York Times bestseller, "a marvelous new collection of stories by . . . one of the most remarkable writers of... more

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  Borges: Collected Fictions

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  • never received this
  • not sure why this Borges book hasn't arrived yet, been over a month. just sayin.
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  • Intelligent fiction - makes you think
  • My first experience with the writing of Borges. I enjoy his ability to bring the reader into the middle of an ongoing experience - that is, to create the sense that the story had been going on...
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  • Excellent Book, Grating Translation
  • I will admit that my Spanish is not amazing, but I understand enough to get a sense of Borges' work, and I have read enough translations to be able to speak with a certain degree of confidence....
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  World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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  • Fun Read, Very well thought out.
  • Fun read. The original Zombie survival guide was fun for about 30 pages, then grew tiring. World War Z tells a compelling story. Very well thought out.
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  • Why did this book receive so many 5 stars?
  • I don't get it, this book is a total waste, this is NOT a novel but rather comprised of various accounts from survivors AFTER a zombie holocaust.
    
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  • Fun Read, A Bit Too Long
  • I enjoyed this book. However, as I went through the story, the more I was "checking my watch" (to steal a phrase from movies). If it had been about 25% shorter, and focused on either the human...
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  The King Must Die: A Novel

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  • subtle, brilliant, highly recommended
  • Perhaps it's a bit late to respond to Mark H. Cohen's post, but in criticizing Renault's 'gibberish,' he unintentionally reveals his own lack of understanding of the book's main themes. Now I'll...
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  • Too much testosterone
  • I love mythology and history, and after reading the reviews I had high hopes. I could not finish this book. Theseus is portrayed as an oversexed macho twerp. I could not finish because at a...
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  • Theseus myth retold
  • This is Renault's retelling of the story of Theseus and his rise to power as king of Athens. It is loosely based on Greek mythology, but the events have been fleshed out and modified to tell a...
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  The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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  • A very pleasant surprise--not really five stars, but more than four
  • This compact tale of a young Pakistani man forced to leave New York and return to his home country after 9/11 makes for a gripping read. True, there's a slightly contrived element to the narrative...
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  • Hamid, THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
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    This sad, status-obsessed novel reminded me of Browning's "My Last Duchess" in the way the narrator becomes progressively more despicable. The envious sensibility...
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  • Grow up
  • Meh. Quickly read and finished the book. As only a few minutes have passed, and I do not want to devote too much mental energy at this time because such energy is wanted elsewhere, I will quickly...
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  Spartacus (North Castle Books)

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  • Class Struggle In Ancient Rome
  • In one of the ironies of political life I found a copy of this book under review, Spartacus by Howard Fast, in the Young Adult section of the local library. The irony in 2008 is that the author had...
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  • This is NOT history!!!
  • Howard Fast's novel has pretty much become the seminal work on Spartacus, which is really sad. It's like basing a final essay on the movie Gladiator and thinking it's historically correct!
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  • not as good as the movie, but fun
  • ...Of course, as kids we little suspected that this was acontroversial movie--that the book and screenplay had been written byAmerican Communists or that Laurence Olivier's Crassus was...
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  Dracula (Norton Critical Editions)

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  • "For the dead travel fast"
  • Surprisingly "Denn die Toten reiten schnell" or "For the dead travel fast" is more than an opening line to this tale of love in the dangerous moon light. After watching several Drac movies and a...
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  • Good Book, Atrocious Editor
  • I love Norton Critical Editions, but the footnotes in this volume are maddening. I'm puzzled that no one seems to have mentioned this. Example, a passage where Dracula appears in disguise and...
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  • Harrowing at times; boring at others
  • The first part of the book when Hawker is at Castle Dracula is the best part of the book. It's creepy, it's gothic, it is the best written part of the book. Unfortuanetly it goes down scale from...
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  Sarum: The Novel of England

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  • astounding masterpiece
  • This is an astounding masterpiece. It's scope and research is breathtaking. The families are believable, likable, hateable and thourally entertaining. I highly recommend this work.
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  • I love historical fiction but this was not for me!
  • I am just putting it out there that I am an avid reader, I love historical fiction, and sweeping epics are my favorites. I read a couple of books a week and I cannot remember in recent history not...
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  • Entertaining yet tedious
  • Rutherford's Sarum is a sweeping epic tale of the history of Salisbury as he chronicals five families from the Neolithic Age through the 1980s. What begins as an easy comprehension of the relations...
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  You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe

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  • Excellent Variety, Neat Format
  • This was a textbook for an online course I took from UCLA on writing fiction. I can highly recommend it. The selection of stories offers great variety, ranging from Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"...
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  • Ehh. Whatever. Take it or leave it.
  • The concept for the format of this book is really intriguing. The content, however, is not especially dazzling. As I suspect most readers of this book will do, I jumped from story to story...
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  5001 Nights at the Movies: Expanded For The '90s With 800 New Reviews

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  • The definitive critic's guide to films
  • This covers - as you may have gussed - 5001 movies, and her views are clear, intelligent and valuable. I find myself looking in this for reference and just curiosity. This lady knew a great deal...
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  • A Disappointment...
  • This book should be entitled " 5001 Nights at the Movies ( and about a dozen that I actually enjoyed ). I've never seen so many negative film reviews. I am lifelong movie fan. When I buy a book...
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  • 3.5 Stars
  • Reviewing a reviewer is always tricky, especially one as celebrated as the late Pauline Kael (d. 2001). She is famous for her love of some movies, such as Citizen Kane, and her dismissal of other...
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