This is an interesting look at the Vietnam war forty years later. Intriguing and manipulative woman showing up on his secret operation to take place throughout the Vietnamese countryside changes...
Nelson DeMille is hit-or-miss from my perspective; his John Corey novels deliver, but he occasionally writes a mediocre book (Up Country and Spencerville). This sequel to "The General's Daughter"...
I am a Nelson DeMille fan, but this book took me forever to get through. Unless you are really interested in the "Vietnam conflict", it might take u a while to get through. I did not enjoy this...
I read this book out of sequence, after starting my 'Sharpe Experience' with 'Sharpe's Rifles.'I think I might have enjoyed it more if I'd read the chronologically earlier book in the series,...
The Richard Sharpe novels of Bernard Cornwell rank among the great works of military fiction and are all wonderful adventure stories, but 'Sharpe's Triumph' doesn't quite have the same punch as...
You are in for an exciting ride that will take you from Italy to England to the United States.
My brother is perhaps the world's biggest Dick Francis fan, but to date, I have read little by the author who builds horse racing into all his stories . . . however after listening to THE...
I am a great fan of Poe and really enjoyed listening to this. If you love Poe you will like this. Only complaint, wish there were about three or four more cd's to this package.
I've enjoyed Brad Melzer in the past and the plot in The Zero Game seemed interesting so I had great expectations. Unfortunately the book was very much a disappointment. I gave it a two star rating...
The story is far fetched but I could look past that if not for the writing style. The best books to me are the ones that involve you in the story, the ones that pull you in and make you feel like...
Saw this book in a bargain hopper at the grocery store. I have a rule about buying books, regardless of price, without taking a look at a review first. I made a note to check out some Amazon...
This is the first Anita Shreve book I've read and I understand why she is so popular. This title is from the perspective of the main male character in the story and he is recording a time period of...
I realize that the story is told from the perspective of a stuffy, boring professor over 100 years ago. Shreve does manage to capture that - the entire book is stuffy and boring, with a gratuitous...
Having always had a good opinion of Anita Shreve's writing style (if not all of her stories, for instance, I loved A Wedding in December and Fortune's Rocks but was only mildly pleased by Sea...
This book has a great start, but when the story moves to the lifeboat the weight of the allegory sinks the book (no pun intended). As soon as the animals on the boat were listed I immediately felt...
I listened to the audio CD, which until the end I hugely loved ... The ending is a serious literary error. Gratutitious, sophomoric. It wouda took GUTs for Martel to just end his fabulous story...
I purchased a 'used' DVD. When I watched it there were a couple of skipped spots that the movie slowed down but then clicked back into place. this was around the middle. I decided they weren't...
This book is a fictionalized account of a woman in a Vermeer portrait. Chevalier recreates the landscape and environment of Delft, Netherlands while exploring Vermeer's relationship to Griet, the...
I will confess that I watched the film before reading the book, and I will also admit that I did enjoy the film version a bit more. I am a fan of the artist Vermeer, and was more interested in his...
How in the name of God the Father Almighty could a collection of CD warrant a one thousand dollar price tag? Is it autographed by the author himself? I the complete collection on cassette. Fine,...
Some hits, some misses - to be expected with such a large collection
Caught with a long layover and a longer trans-Atlantic flight, I picked up _Nightmares and Dreamscapes_ to kill the time. It has been over 15 years since I last read a book by Steven King...
He is listening to the steady quaking of his own voice
In the introduction to this book Stephen King writes: "The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything I have to say, and am now listening to...
A must read! Thrilling, intellectual, cultural depth...this book will keep you guessing! It takes a lot for me to love a book and this was one novel in which the characters were detailed,...
The author was recommended to me by a friend whose opinion I respect. Perhaps Perez-Reverte's other books are better, but this one was very dull and the characters were lifeless. I can see that...
Perez-Reverte was a reporter and a good one, and we know he's a superb novelist. In this book describing the international drug trade however he's both. He writes as a reporter interviewing people...
I don't know how she does it, but Maeve Binchy never fails to take everyday people with their joys and sorrows, and create wonderful stories around them. When I finish one of her books, I feel as...
After "Scarlet Feather," "Tara Road," "Quentins" and "Evening Class," this book was a dreadful disappointment. To anyone familiar with her books, it seemed obvious that there were plot lines...
De-focused onto two plots, not Cussler's best effort
Dark Watch by Clive Cussler was not as interesting as his other works. This abridged audio book was the story of modern day pirates who take not only the cargo of a captured ship but they also take...
Good yarn as Clive Cussler goes but it appears somebody didn't check the facts....again. SIKH is a race AND a religion which does not relate to Islam. No Sikh would call his son Mohammed nor in...
Imaginative, but best left to historians and the well-read
This book is extremely imaginative, exploring Little Women from the absent father's perspective. However, on that note, it can be said that this novel is not going to be everyones' cup of tea....
My book group had just finished "People of the Book," and we thought we'd stay with the same author, feeling as if we'd be in good hands. It's no doubt that Geraldine Brooks writes beautifully but...
March- an "outtake" from Alcott's Little Women- could have been a sentimental and mawkish tale of the father's experiences while seaparated from his family during the Civil War. But it was much...
A must read! Thrilling, intellectual, cultural depth...this book will keep you guessing! It takes a lot for me to love a book and this was one novel in which the characters were detailed,...
The author was recommended to me by a friend whose opinion I respect. Perhaps Perez-Reverte's other books are better, but this one was very dull and the characters were lifeless. I can see that...
Perez-Reverte was a reporter and a good one, and we know he's a superb novelist. In this book describing the international drug trade however he's both. He writes as a reporter interviewing people...
I found this book's perspective startling and thought-provoking. While some may find the basic conceipt farfetched or the sexuality gratuitous, the reflections of modern perceptions of race and...
When I heard of this book for the first time just a few days ago I couldn't wait to get ahold of it. Sadly, it's one of the worst things I've ever tried to read. How can one "repair" or "correct"...
I actually read this book a few years ago, but only now did I finally get around to reading the autorized GWTW sequel, 1979's "Scarlett," and I thought it important to know all three before...
Take a trip around the world with some of your old favorite authors and find some new favorites. From China to Wales, these stories take you around the globe.
I'm always on the look-out for a good short story - either for my own enjoyment or to use in my reading classes, or to recommend to a friend. So, every year, I buy "The Best American Short...
Welcome to the world of fantasies - It is fiction!
Fiction writing is indeed an art. If there is an absolute freedom in any form of writing, its definitely in fiction writing. The point where your own situations could be made, your own characters...
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...
--my viewpoint: So many of these are great works--for both mind and the deep heart-of heart that H. Klemp writes about. Wideman is tuned in to the best of this form!
If nothing else, the story by J. Diaz makes it worth your money to buy the anthology. I enjoyed it, and although I haven't yet read the entire collection, it's definitely on my list of things to do!
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