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When it was first published in 1993, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established Sherman Alexie as a... more

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  The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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  • Posted:Aug-03-2009

  • I loved this book!
  • I was originally required to read this book for my English class, but I ended up really enjoying it. Sherman Alexie is an outstanding author and I plan on reading more of his work. I think...
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  • Posted:Aug-10-2008

  • Parents Beware!
  • My son was required to read this book for his freshman high school class. It is full of the f-word and other foul language. It also is replete with drugs, binge drinking, and overt sexual...
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  • Posted:Sep-03-2007

  • "Everybody in this book is drunk or in love with a drunk."
  • States Alexie in the introduction (pp xviii, xix) to this collection of short stories. Of his leap from literary obscurity to published author and member of the middle-class, he writes, "all...
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Perfect for beginning students of Spanish, this affordable anthology is filled with 41 delightful stories and... more

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  First Spanish Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book (Beginners' Guides)

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  • Posted:Sep-22-2009

  • First Spanish Reader Review by James
  • This is James from James Spanish (the learning Spanish blog). Reading your first book in Spanish is a thrilling experience, but trying to read a Spanish novel without help can be frustrating and...
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  • Posted:May-23-2009

  • Confusing interpretations
  • It is what I wanted--stories matched in Spanish and English. However, confusing from the standpoint that translated words (*from Spanish to English) did not match the dictionary's definition for...
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  • Posted:Oct-24-2008

  • Not for Beginners
  • This book is not for beginners for sure. One needs to know the basics before you buy this one. For me, I'd say waste of money.
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Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa... more

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  Interpreter of Maladies

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  • Posted:Sep-16-2009

  • Disappointed
  • The stories are well written and would likely be given an "A" in a college composition class but are not the least memorable or even particularly entertaining.
    I don't understand why this book...
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  • Posted:Aug-26-2009

  • Couples
  • This is a compelling short story collection. For example, a couple suffers a loss of a baby and a loss of their lives together, belief in their future together being absent on the part of one of...
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  • Posted:Jul-12-2009

  • Interpreter of Maladies - depressing genius
  • Interpreter of Maladies makes it clear why Jhumpa Lahiri has garnered so much critical acclaim. She tells stories with such honesty and portrays the everyday lives of her characters so accurately...
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This outstanding collection features short stories by great writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and... more

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  The World's Greatest Short Stories (Thrift Edition)

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  • Posted:Jan-31-2009

  • A constant bargain!
  • These Dover books are always a prize. Always priced right, interesting, durable and attractive covers with priceless selections. Can't go wrong any way you look at them. ~Bruin~
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THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's... more

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  The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition

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  • Posted:Jan-02-2009

  • A Very Good Collection, With A Few Exceptions
  • Having read several of Hemingway's longer novels (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls) I looked forward to this collection with great anticipation. My appetite was...
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  • Posted:May-01-2008

  • Well crafted
  • I agree that Hemingway wrote well crafted stories. He was definitely a master at this. However, writing stories that hold the readers attention, is a quality that was lacking. Overall, the stories...
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  • Posted:Jun-17-2000

  • The short happy life of Francis Macomber
  • I like Hemingway, I have never developed the passion for him that so many others have had. The Old Man and the Sea was really, really well done, as was For Whom the Bell Tolls. As for most of the...
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In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce... more

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  Self-Help

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  • Posted:Sep-14-2009

  • Surprisingly Good
  • I love Lorrie Moore, but I tend to avoid second person narration. She's one of the few that pulled it off for this reader. I highly recommend this book.
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  • Posted:Jan-07-2008

  • This book should try medication
  • Maybe it was the mood I was in when I read this book, because I really loved "Birds of America," but man, did this book depress me. Every single story with the exception of maybe two ("How to Have...
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  • Posted:Nov-09-2005

  • Some strong stories with filler
  • "Self-Help" is an uneven collection of short stories, but the bad outweighs the good here. I suggest sticking with the standout pieces and skipping the rest. The opening piece, "How to Be an Other...
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Since the publication of The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, the works of J.D. Salinger have been acclaimed for their... more

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  Nine Stories

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  • Posted:Jul-04-2009

  • Love this book
  • I'm never without it. It's a constant companion for me. I bought this edition to replace 'For Esme With Love and Squalor' (the same collection under a different name) which I gave to a friend.
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  • Posted:May-10-2009

  • I couldn't get into this book
  • A friend I work with loaned it to me because he adores Salinger and I just couldn't get into it! It was for me, kind of boring and I hate to say that because I adore the classics and I really,...
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  • Posted:Jan-21-2009

  • A mediocre collection outside the context of the Glass family saga . . .
  • Salinger's cultish adoration and said cult's focus on the Glass family may be the only reason this collection has been canonized and subsequently adored (or vise-versa). That's not to say the...
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Veteran filmaker Ruth Ozeki's novel has been hailed as "one of the heartiest and yes, meatiest debuts in years"... more

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  My Year of Meats

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  • Posted:Aug-21-2008

  • wholesome and tasty food for thought
  • This book is funny, sexy, informative, and touching. I resisted reading it for a long time because I thought it was just going to be anti-meat propaganda, filled with info I already knew about,...
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  • Posted:Aug-03-2007

  • Good, but still a rough draft
  • What starts off as an exploration of personal identity--about a half-Japanese, half-Caucasian woman who is connected to both cultures through her family and job but feels she belongs to...
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  • Posted:Feb-21-2006

  • a poorly written novel
  • Have you ever had a really attractive girl wholeheartedly recommend a book to you? And have you ever been annoyed that this book turned out to be shallow propaganda, where there are no characters...
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Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in... more

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  Collected Stories

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  • Posted:Oct-10-2008

  • Overrated
  • I have never thought that Gabriel Garcia Marquez deserved his 1982 Nobel Prize for literature. I think that it was manifestly an award given because of the politicized nature of the author's work....
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  • Posted:Mar-13-2008

  • Incredible, as always!
  • Gabo is something else. He is, to put it simply, an astounding writer, with a verve of language and a capacity for fleshing out great characters and fantastic stories unparalleled by any living...
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This collection of Vonnegut's short masterpieces share his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary creative vision. more

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  Welcome to the Monkey House

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  • Posted:Aug-05-2009

  • My first Vonnegut experience was a pleasure
  • This really is a five-star collection of stories--varied in theme--ranging from science fiction (the title story, "Harrison Bergeron," "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow," "Report on the Barnhouse...
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  • Posted:Oct-22-2008

  • Good service
  • I received my book promptly, however it was missing its front cover, which had not been mentioned in the description. I contacted the seller and they promptly refunded my money. I would have been...
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  • Posted:May-15-2008

  • embarassing at times
  • I was surprised at how bad some of these are. Definitely not his best. A story like "Who Am I This Time?" is dull, contrived, and when you come down to it, kind of cornball.
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Ten unusual stories by French literary masters from Voltaire to Camus: "Microm?gas," by Voltaire; "The Atheist?s... more

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  French Stories (Dual-Language)

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  • Posted:Mar-23-2009

  • Voltaire, who cares?
  • When I was in college I was fluent in French. I have lost some of that ease in the ensuing years, but can still read French. I decided to get some dual-language books to polish up my reading...
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  • Posted:Jan-24-2009

  • Boss is enjoying this book gift
  • My boss, who has been taking French lessons, is enjoying this book and it arrived promptly and in good shape.
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Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. This celebrated volume gathers together her complete work -- four short... more

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  The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

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  • Posted:Aug-28-2009

  • One of the worst books EVER
  • I don't know how she ever got published, let alone won any awards. The average 4 year old can dictate a more compelling story.
    She came highly recommended, from strangers and Palahniuk...
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  • Posted:Jun-02-2009

  • Exhausting and Unmemorable
  • This was definitely a difficult book to get through. Most of the stories are scattered and messy. Some are too minimalist and difficult to comprehend. This can work well for a play or movie, but...
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  • Posted:Aug-27-2008

  • Thoughtful eloquence
  • Amy Hempel has the ability tell a whole life in a few pages. Her stories are perfect.
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A National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Pulishers Weekly Best Book of the... more

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  Birds of America: Stories

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  • Posted:Jul-05-2009

  • Interesting stories
  • I read these stories a few years ago now. They are a little dark and disturbing....which is good (for some). I enjoyed them, and think it's about time to re-read them.
    Good book...but buy it...
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  • Posted:May-27-2009

  • I know she was going for something minutely empathetic, but...
  • I feel like kind of a jerk reviewing this lowly. I mean, it was...it was nice. They're sweet, funny-ish, lovely-written. Just loses it's charm after five or six stories where.... "I hold an odd job...
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  • Posted:Jun-03-2004

  • good not her best
  • Apart from the fact that I was put off by the author's piece on her son's cancer (she was writing about a heart-wrenching subject in a too dryly ironic mode - that repelled me), the rest of the...
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This collection could possibly represent the first flowering of post-postmoderism: visions of the world that... more

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  Girl With Curious Hair (Norton Paperback Fiction)

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  • Posted:Jun-23-2009

  • Just Not What I'm Looking For
  • True to form, D F W offers some very "literary" story, some po-mo fireworks, and caps it off with a silly sitcom feel. But I kept asking myself through the read, "Is this worth it?" Some stories,...
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  • Posted:Dec-23-2008

  • another great fusion of ideas despite some of DFW's oddities
  • DFW is obviously brilliant. The last story had me in rapture, the story about David Letterman was perfectly written, and the first story left long lasting traces on me. That being said, DFW has no...
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  • David Foster Wallace
  • David Foster Wallace is not the type of writer who writes for the mass-market reading public. That is by no means a bad thing. He is I guess what you would call a "writer's writer" -- a writer...
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In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite... more

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  Oblivion: Stories

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  • Read this to study for the GRE, but not to be entertained
  • This is fiction of a style I would label A.D.D. prose: there is very little action yet we spend pages reading about dribbly insignificant details. It is easy to lose focus while reading this book....
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    where the vast majority of "literary fiction" writers say to themselves "i need some detail to add color to this scene, what's a generic characteristic that would be...
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  • Brilliant
  • The best collection of short fiction from the best living writer in the English language. It demands patience and attention, but the rewards for the effort are incredible. The best story in the...
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  Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories

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  • Where are the Raymond Carver's of Today?
  • These stories are so perfect. They are concise, compelling and convey their meaning by showing rather than telling. I wish there was someone who wrote like this today, although it isn't really...
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  • I'm disappointed
  • John Gardner praised Raymond Carver; many authors I respected became his fans. So, I get this book to try to see what all the fuss was about. He's been called a master stylist and so on, so what...
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  • A voice so minimal it's barely audible
  • After having read `Cathedral' for an English Composition class I was teaching last semester, I bought this book in earnest and waited eagerly for its arrival. I wanted so much to like it. I wanted...
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  Collected Stories

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  • Bill, if we ever needed you, there's no time like the present.
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  Old School

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  • Great literary work, although a little pretentious
  • I recently read Old School by Tobias Wolff after hearing about it from several friends who had read it for book club. Although it is pretentious at times and has a literary snob quality, the author...
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  • Old School V. Real Life
  • I cannot stand the privileged, especially the "old school", white boy, head bowing privileged, though I certainly wouldn't mind if my own son were one of them--privilege after all, has its...
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  • "Nothing to hold on to.. though now have the urge to revisit Hemmingway"
  • Chalk up this review to unmet expectations...Great Title, book cover, the 60's, an all boys prep-school, Robert Frost, Ann Rynd, Ernest Hemmingway. You'd think this would be closer to Catcher in...
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  Espresso Tales

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  • Espresso Tales
  • Very witty and touching.... holds your interest.........love it! Love all of Alexander McCall Smith's writings...
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  • Good second novel but not as good as the first!
  • The old characters are back! Pat, Bruce, Matthew, Domenica, Little Bertie and his parents are great in this series.
    
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  • Not at all like "The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series
  • Having read and thoroughly enjoyed several books in McCall Smith's "#1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series, I purchased the audio version of "Espresso Tales" to accompany me during frequent long...
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  The Complete Stories of Truman Capote

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  • Posted:Jun-28-2009

  • YOU CAN DO MUCH WORSE THAN THESE JEWELS.
  • You'll enjoy reading most of these stories.
    
    I read the book before I bought it, then just had to get my own copy.
    
    MIRIAM is a classic ghost story. Excellent.
    
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  • Beautifully written, but not my cup of tea
  • Maybe I just have issues with the genre. Short stories can be unsatifying when they are left open ended. I am sure this is meant to leave us with a "what happened next?" feeling and that's supposed...
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  • Overrated
  • Of the twenty stories that comprise the surprisingly slim (for a writer of his renown) The Complete Stories Of Truman Capote, only two can be classified as great, or at least excellent, while only...
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