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  The History of Love: A Novel

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  • I might have enjoyed it
  • I like a good convoluted story. I like to figure out what's going on. I liked Leo and contemplating his loneliness. I don't like profanity. I could have really enjoyed this story without the...
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  • so sad and happy and full of words. and. yet. life!
  • so sad and happy and full of words. and. yet. life! it made me cry.
    the loss and the life and the loneliness and the love and madness.
    a little slow to tango, but ultimately shockingly...
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  • Not Many Answers - But Questions Well Asked (3.5 stars)
  • I'm not so sure "The History of Love" is about love as much as it is loss...or maybe searching for loves that have been lost. It's a sad but beautiful book about people trying to regain and...
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Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission.... more

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  The Aeneid

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  • Posted:Feb-16-2009

  • excellent
  • Book is in great condition,and it made a great gift for the person I bought it, so I'm happy!
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  • Posted:Feb-23-2008

  • Review for Kindle ed.
  • I am writing this review for The Kindle ed of this book. (The Fagels translation). It is not formatted for the kindle. The sample looks fine because it is the introduction. But when you buy and...
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  • aweful translation, but not quite as bad as Fagles
  • See my review of Fagles' Aeneid for more on the travesty of modern English translations of Virgil, also my review of Lombardo's translation of the Aeneid.
    
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Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading... more

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  Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.)

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  • Read this, and go back to the classics
  • I'm only 60 pages into the paperback version, which I just bought a few days ago....and I can't wait to finish it, just so I can go re-read all the classics that I feared, like Moby Dick....
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  • Another similar book
  • I saw some of the preview pages and got the impression that there is a lot of talking around the subject without getting to the nuts and bolts. Comparatively, a book that has a lot more meat and...
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  • Great concept. Poor execution
  • The concept is great. The product did not meet the promise. The presentation style was just too artsy-fartsy, like a bunch of undergraduate girls from the Seven Sisters, sitting around saying "Look...
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"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama." Irving Howe. -- The New York Times Review Of Books more

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  Silence

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  • Faith
  • Based on true events in 17th century Japan when Christianity has been outlawed and its practioners persecuted, 'Silence' follows Father Sebastian Rodriques fate as he illicitly enters Japan with...
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  • WARNING TO DEVOUT CATHOLICS
  • Endo is a great writer, but devout Catholics will want to avoid this book. Yes, at the time, Endo was reputedly a Catholic. At the end of his life, however, he was writing about reincarnation and...
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  • Textbook-like writings on the persecution Catholics in Japan in the 1600's
  • In the 1600's, Portuguese priests Rodrigues and Garrpe sneak in to Japan to proselytize. Kichijiro, a Japanese Catholic, helps them find a village of Christians, to whom they provide religious...
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Feel bad about not reading or not enjoying the so-called great books? Don?t sweat it, it?s not your fault. Did anyone... more

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  Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits

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  • Seaside or Lakeside
  • I just finished reading this hysterical homage to the classics. And, I found it so enjoyable that I voluntarily read it to a dear friend, who also pronounced it: "thoroughly entertaining."
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  • Gives New Meaning to the Term "Sophomoric"
  • On page 39 of his new book, former web critic Jack Murnighan asks of the authors of the Greek New Testament (and by extension the translators of the Septuagint, where the spelling "Emmanuel"...
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For discerning bibliophiles and readers who enjoy unforgettable classic literature, 1001 Books You Must Read Before... more

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  1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

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  • I agree this book is misnamed
  • I agree with some other folks that this book should not be called "1001 Books" but rather "1001 Novels." One reason that people compile lists like this one is to get people arguing about what was...
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  • WHY MUST I READ THESE?
  • Recently I have been in a "reading rut" and purchased this book hoping to get some really great recommendations. My first thought after reading the first book suggestion was "why should I read this...
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  • Excellent resource for what it is, a simple run down of books
  • I was prepared to be annoyed and dislike this book, I was fully prepared to feel let down by its casual reference to various books and eras - but I have come away from it inspired by it. I think it...
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Kathleen Parkinson places this brilliant and bitter satire on the moral failure of the Jazz Age firmly in the context... more

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  The Great Gatsby (Penguin Critical Studies Guide)

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  • E'gads Gatsby
  • Well written and researched book on the Great Gatsby by an insightful and thoughtful scholar. I found it interesting to see her take on a major, popular, male American author during an intriguing...
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  • Posted:Apr-23-2009

  • One of the worst of the so called "classics"
  • This book should be pulled from high school curriculum as it really has no redeeming value. Basically if the Fitzgerald name was not associated with it, it would be out of print today.
    Who...
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  • Posted:Mar-23-2002

  • 3 and a half stars actually
  • The novel is beautiful written. I have one problem is with the theme: money doesn't buy. I don't disagree with that statement, it is just king of obvious. I mean it is not exactly an epiphaney.
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With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is... more

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  A Poetry Handbook

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  • Mary Oliver's Passion for Poetry
  • 
    Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is a lover of language, its sounds and syntax. In her book, "A Poetry Handbook," Oliver shares with the reader her deep feeling for the mechanics of...
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  • Worth a read, but not crucial.
  • I find, if I really need inspiration and great ideas on writing, art and life in general, I get more from Brenda Ueland's, "If You Want To Write". But Ms. Oliver's Handbook offered some good...
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  • Too Technical
  • I did not like this book. I thought it was too technical. Ms.Oliver stresses the structure of the poem too much.
    I know this is important but still it was hard for me to understand. This book...
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The timeless classic of love and sacrifice during the French Revolution! With insight and compassion, Dickens casts... more

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  A Tale of Two Cities (Bantam Classic)

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  • Makes a Decent Movie, But the WORST Book Dickens Ever Wrote!!
  • It's almost criminal that this book is so popular. Anyone who is a true admirer of Dickens' work would toss his or her copy in the trash as I did mine. Admittedly, it's one of his shorter works. I...
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  • Epic tale of the Human Spirit
  • Was Charles Dickens a poet? Conversely, perhaps his structure and style are no longer suited to today's rushed lifestyle, as some reviewers lament. I believe Dickens is one of the most...
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  • Ho-hum
  • Haven't we all had to read A Tale of Two Cities for some high school English class? I did, and it was the last time I really read it until recently. It's still hard to read and I still found myself...
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Terry Eagleton once wrote in the Guardian, 'Few post-colonial writers can rival Homi Bhabha in his exhilarated sense... more

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  The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics)

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  • My order got lost by the mail and Amazon was great at their service and got me another order asap.. Great services
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  • I'd rather stick my hand in a blender than read this again
  • The fact that this book is influential is generally beyond argument. What astonishes me, however, is that so many people had the endurance to sit through the horrific writing; the author's style...
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  • Mimicry, Mockery, Menace
  • Ambivalence is a key term in Bhabha's Location of Culture. Accordingly, Bhabha's prose might be considered poetry or gibberish, but certainly not scholarship. There is no thesis, no argument, no...
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the... more

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  Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

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  • Great book
  • I agree with V. Patel. "I think Peo's genius hardly needs discussion on this forum.
    So, I offer a small review on the physical book itself."
    
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  • Take another flight to fantasy, but the mystery and humor are classic
  • This collection is hard to rate. The "Tales of Mystery and Horror" are very good, such classics that you have to remind yourself reading them that the tinges of romanticism are a function of the...
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  • Tales of Edgar Allen Poe
  • I love Poe's writing, but this book is in the original "olde" English and is very difficult to read for me. So I am really not too happy with this particular version. I should have read the "small...
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Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as... more

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  The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics)

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  • Found lacking compared to Homer
  • First off, I'm neither a literary expert nor Latin scholar. I'm a guy that enjoys Roman history in his free time and has been riveted by the Illiad and enjoyed the Odyssey. So when I found out...
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  • A solid literal translation
  • I purchased this particular translation of the Aeneid to help me read the original Latin text, and it has done a good job of helping me understand complicated grammatical phrases filled with...
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  • Aeneid (Story of Aeneas)
  • Unlike Homer or many who came before him, Virgil didn't believe in the myths like the ancient Greeks did. So where the "Iliad" was probably based on some real event, the "Aeneid" is completly made...
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Coming down from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, Jack Kerouac undertakes a mature confrontation of some of his... more

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  Big Sur

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  • Blast of Ocean
  • I think true Kerouac fans will not look at this book as only an account of his continuing descent into alcoholism during this time period of his life. If you have read any of Kerouac's other books...
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  • may have some value as an artifact of the era
  • I stumbled onto _On the Road_ in my high school's library in Fresno in the mid-70s. Even at that time, the book struck me as very dated. I enjoyed reading it because I was very curious about all...
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  • the truth, at last
  • Were it not for this book I would have entirely scartched Kerouac off my list of folks worth reading. A perfect antidote to "on the Road," which in and of itself is not a bad book, but the...
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The dark side of On the Road: instead of seeking kicks, the French narrator travels the globe to find an ever... more

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  Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)

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  • not to be missed
  • The second funniest novel for me--after the incredible A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole.
    
    I'd say Henry Miller was influenced by Celine, as was Bukowski--and a few...
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  • OK Celine
  • Celine has a knack for making esoteric pseudo-philosophical observations about his own life and trying to apply them to everyone's life. The topics of these observations can be quite banal and only...
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  • Catch-22 meets Notes from Underground...
  • ...get the drift? Not in a good way, either. It's as if Dostoevsky's Underground Man had replaced Yossarian, and the goofy names and obnoxious anti-logic of Catch-22 had been toned down...
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  The Art of the Short Story

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  • the best anthology I own
  • This is the most-read and loved of my anthologies. In fact, it's the best I've ever glimpsed, skimmed through, picked up in a bookstore or library, or been given a reading assignment from. It...
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The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi was the child of... more

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  Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

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  • The quintessential Japanese adventure
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  • a marginally good novel turned mediocre by bad translation
  • the legendary musashi saga is part of the japanese culture. now the japanese even arrange tours for people who love musashi to visit stop by stop of the paths that musashi once traveled. there are...
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  • Long live the anti-hero!
  • I consistently found myself enjoying "Musashi" less when the narrative focused on its main protagonist while my interest waxed when given glimpses into the darker characters. Sasake Kojiro and...
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Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics?series, which offers quality editions... more

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  Great Expectations (Barnes & Noble Classics)

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  • Terrible edition
  • I'm just starting to read it but I'm sure the novel will fulfill my "great expectations". But I have to complain about the physical book. The pages came incredibly badly cut and the cover was thorn...
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  • I had no idea that Dickens was such a damned fine writer!
  • This particular book is just the right physical size, as are the type and font, to make it easy to read, unlike any paperback version you are likely to find.
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  American Short Story Masterpieces

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  • just what I ordered
  • The item was just what I ordered. And it came in reasonable time. I'm am happy with this purchase.
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More than fifty books debunking the religious claims of The Da Vinci Code have been published.? This is the first... more

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  The Catholic Church and American Culture: Why the Claims of Dan Brown Strike a Chord

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  • A "must read": insightful, well-researched, and highly engaging
  • Eric Plumer has written a riveting expos? of the religion and culture wars that dominate America, and one that packs more information into 300 pages than even the most demanding critic could ask...
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