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The illuminating national bestseller: "Vertiginously exciting?vibrantly imagined?.[Krauss is] a prodigious... more

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  The History of Love: A Novel

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  • Posted:Oct-02-2009

  • 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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  • Posted:Sep-30-2009

  • 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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  • Posted:Jul-09-2009

  • 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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  • Posted:May-29-2007

  • 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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Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when... more

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  Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

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  • Posted:Aug-27-2009

  • Missing one key piece...
  • DFW's content is not the object of this review. Rather, I am reviewing (and objecting to) the Kindle version of the book, which does not include the marvelous essay, "Host." Although I (now)...
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  • Posted:Aug-17-2009

  • Refreshing ...
  • David Foster Wallace's, "Consider The Lobster," was the type of book I find myself drawn to. It is a collection of essays that DFW wrote without coming across as trying to force feed to his...
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  • Semi-Ugh (updated)
  • I gave this one star, but I should update it to 2. The essay that attracted me first was on English usage, but it seemed daunting to tackle it. But once I got into it, that alone lifted my rating...
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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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  • Posted:Sep-21-2009

  • 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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  • Posted:Jul-03-2009

  • 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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  • Posted:Jul-10-2008

  • 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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No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Hamlet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an... more

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  Hamlet (SparkNotes No Fear Shakespeare)

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  • Posted:Sep-13-2009

  • Makes literature accessible to everyone
  • I've been using the free online resource version of this product and it has changed my life. I wish could buy an entire series of no fear shakespeare for all of his works.
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  • Posted:Jan-19-2009

  • No fear? No proper understanding.
  • I'll use one line to show the problem with this text. Many other lines have a similar problem. Shakespeare has:
    
    "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,
    trippingly...
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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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  • Posted:May-24-2009

  • 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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A leading American poet reclaims the realm of criticism in distinctive and impassioned readings of poems and other... more

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  The Great Gatsby (Penguin Critical Studies Guide)

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  • Posted:Jun-26-2009

  • 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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  • Posted:Sep-08-2009

  • 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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  • Posted:Apr-14-2006

  • 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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  • Posted:Jun-09-2003

  • 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 classroom standard for readers and aspiring writers of fiction, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction offers... more

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  The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

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  • Posted:Sep-27-2009

  • Confusion!
  • The vendor stated they did not recieve my order from Amazon. Yet Amazon charged my credit care and sent appropriate follow up correspondence. After contacting the vendor who apologized after i...
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  • Posted:Sep-09-2009

  • Very pleased
  • It's a great book though I've only leafed it. I'm very pleased with its state and condition. I'm looking forward to start reading it. I might use it in my MA thesis. Thanks Better World Books.
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  • Posted:Oct-28-2005

  • An extensive collection of shorts from 183x to 187x
  • There are always a few short stories which are favorites. Here's a list of the stories in this book (the Second Edition)
    
    Woody Allen, 'A Giant Step for Mankind'. Sherwood Anderson,...
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Adds twenty-nine new authors to the 1966 collection of short stories that includes ""A Voice From the Wall"" by Amy... more

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  Points of View: Revised Edition

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  • Posted:Apr-05-2008

  • Great Book for Studying Point of View!
  • This book offers an excellent selection of stories written in various points of view. If you want to accent your studies or if you need to see the point of view element in action, this book is the...
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  • Politically correct and not much else...
  • Why revise and update a collection of short stories that included some of the best examples of craft from the last 150 years? To be inclusive, to be fair, to be PC.... What is the ultimate effect...
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The Dharma Bums was published one year after On the Road made Jack Kerouac a celebrity and a spokesperson for the... more

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  The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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  • The Zen Of Jack Kerouac
  • Some of the general points made below have been used in other reviews of books and materials by and about Jack Kerouac.
    
    "As I have explained in another entry in this space in a DVD...
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  • His Most Optimistic Work!
  • I love all of Jack's books, but this is possibly my favorite. I felt it was one of his most upbeat books. Buy this book and read it while standing on your head!
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  • Don't bother
  • I tried to give Kerouac a chance to revive himself after reading his most notable mess 'On the Road.' Now I'm thoroughly confused as to why he's so popular.
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Forster?s lively, informed originality and wit have made this book a classic. Avoiding the chronological approach of... more

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  Aspects of the Novel

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  • Aspects of the Novel is a series of classic lectures on the topic by the great novelist E.M. Forster
  • In the spring of 1927 at Cambridge the Clark Lectures were delivered by Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970). Forster is well known for his Edwardian age classics "A Room With a View"; "Howard's End";...
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  • Bites and Tidbits
  • This dissection of the novel and an exploration of its constructs - its 'aspects', is not a book to read if you are looking for criticism or specific advice or ideas, no matter whether it is...
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  • I've tried for the fourth time to read this book. For the fourth time, I had to give up half-way. This book is just too dense for my simple mind.
    
    I am sure that it contains more...
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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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  • Posted:Oct-03-2008

  • 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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  • Posted:Sep-23-2008

  • 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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This comprehensive lexicon provides definitions of nautical terms, historical entries describing the people and... more

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  A Sea of Words, Third Edition: A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick...

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  • Excellent addition to your O'Brian collection
  • All the words and phrases to fully understand the meaning behind the words of O'Brian. Also insight into the world of the Royal Navy in Aubrey's time including the ships and the surgeon's life. I...
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  • Valuable reference, could use more contextual quotes
  • Second Edition.
    
    A valuable companion for O'Brian's books that would be even better if included more contextual quotes or explanations of how O'Brian used some of the terms in the...
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  • Too Incomplete To Be Worthwhile
  • It is clearly too ambitious a project to explain, in a 500-page trade paperback, every potentially confusing term and name in the Aubrey / Maturin series. But I expected a better effort than...
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  The River Why, Twentieth-Anniversary Edition

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  • Learning to ask "why?"
  • David James Duncan's moving coming and hilarious coming-of-age story follows fishing prodigy Gus Orviston. For Gus there has never been anything except fishing. But like many of us, Gus is forced...
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  • After the first few chapters, throw it away...
  • Even though I hate fishing and have maybe done it once, the first few chapters of this book are humorous and interesting, in particular Bill Bob, Gus' younger brother. Unfortunately, Bill Bob's...
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  • Good, but a bit uneven
  • Although it took me a while to decide if I should keep reading, by the end of THE RIVER WHY I was glad I did. Duncan basically makes the argument that a life worth living arises from building...
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Bjartus is a sheep farmer hewing a living from a blighted patch of land in Iceland. After 18 years of servitude to a... more

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  Independent People

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  • Sheep talk : the ultimate small government novel!
  • He who keeps his sheep alive through winter lives in a palace.
    A free man can live on fish. Independence is more important than meat!
    
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  • Bjartur's Saga
  • This novel is set in the Iceland of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The main character, Bjartur of Summerhouses, is a small independent crofter who takes his name from the...
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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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  • Great Services from Amazon Customer Service
  • 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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  Sherlock Holmes : The Complete Novels and Stories (Bantam Classic) Volume I

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  • The one book to take to a deserted island
  • Thirty-six stories plus two of the four novels: that's more than half of the canon. All for seven bucks? We're talking about one of the classics of modern English literature. Even if it's been...
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  • Unreadable Text. It's WAYYYY TOOO SMALL TO READ
  • The text is so small a normal human being can't read it. I was so excited to get this book and the text was so small. I tried to read it but was getting headaches and serious eyestrain. Why are...
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  Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts

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  • 1 great essay, 1 good essay, and 14 essays to waste your time
  • After finishing book 7, but before rereading all of the HP books, I wanted to read something that was about the HP books, to see what other people had to say.
    
    This book, consisting of 16...
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  • A Good Excuse to Enjoy Harry Potter as an Adult
  • I very much enjoyed reading "Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts". As one who reads the Potter books mostly for the escapism, it was interesting to have the help of professional...
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  • A Fun Read: Take it for what it is
  • While the contributors only gloss the topics, it is better than reading a romance novel. If you want a better look at begging level philosophy, buy an introduction to philosophy text book: you can...
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