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After I had gone through some intense emotions over my rape experience, a friend suggested I read this book. The first chapter was very difficult to get through. I was able to picture it all very vividly, and it brought back some memories of my...
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As one who enjoyed "The Lovely Bones" (until the end, which struck me as more artifice than art), I was severely disappointed by Ms. Sebold's memoir. Like "The Lovely Bones," the beginning of "Lucky" starts strong, the events she relates are...
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When Imre Kertesz writes about Auschwitz, he does so in a way of mid-european intellectual, who knows his history, his philosophical predecessors, his native background and all that may be connected to it in some way. Kertesz survived notorious...
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... that works well on several different levels. Starting with the presentation. I recently reviewed another book on the evolution of the cuisine in France, and the book's "presentation" was truly dreadful, and I docked one star simply for that;...
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I understand why so many people gave this book positive comments: someone even compared it to The History of the Senses, but I have to say that Ackerman's book is vastly better. Allende puts too much of her ego in here which swamps any eroticism...
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Two of the most exquisite pleasures put together ! Through receipts coming from all over the world , Isabel Allende is funny and writes an enjoyable book . But in the end , the reader has the feeling that all kinds of food can be aphrodisiac . Of...
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This book is an accurate book on Borderline Personality Disorder and all the struggles that patients with it go through. I was so happy to learn that I was not the only one that has the struggles. It was a relief to see an extremely accurate...
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Quite personally, I found this book to be boring. There just wasn't enough real substance to it. An argument here, a blow up there... a few instances of cutting. I think the author could have made the story much more captivating and suspenseful....
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I could not put this book down, as if I had been sucked into the void with Caroline. I knew it would end eventually and I had to read to that point to find out how she finalized things with Jane. I can understand much of what Caroline was sucked...
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This is a memoir of how a middle-aged woman becomes an ordained Methodist minister, but it's so much more-- it's about how a girl raised on an island in Lake Erie ends up in divinity school at Duke; how a wary, twice-divorced mother of two with...
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I wish I could be as positive as the other reviewers, because I liked the author's personality that came through in this book--she's feisty, irreverent, and not afraid to speak her mind. But ultimately this book disappointed me. It strikes me...
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What a poitive, gritty, yet appreciative woman hlding dear the basic human values of life that hold our country together. Truly, she was one of our greatest first ladies--she put "first things first," meaning her family and husband first. A must...
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This is not the book you think you're buying. I thought I was buying "Barbara Bush: A Memoir" by Barbara Bush, which has the exact same cover. But this one is a biography in the third person by someone named Pamela Kilian. Unfortunately I...
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Ordinarily, this is not the type of book that I would have chosen to purchase or read, but it was given to me as a gift.

With all of the mass media infatuation with the Kennedy family, it is interesting to note that it is the Bush...
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This eye-opening book gives new insight into the enigma that is Carly Fiorina. It was fascinating to see how Carly's corporate ladder-climbing (AT&T/Lucent/HP) meshed with her hobby of selling narcotics to neighbors, co-workers, and local...
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The reader who knows what "narcissistic personality disorder" and "malignant narcissism" (see Otto Kernberg, Theodore Millon, Michael Stone and Samuel Vaknin) are may enjoy yet another sample of the glib misrepresentation by ommission and...
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The 'Prologue' has her comments on her firing; "they did not explain their decision ...". She was hurt by this treatment after 6 years at HP. Carly's revenge was to tell that it wasn't her choice. She felt betrayed. Chapter 1 tells of her...
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This is a very good read. The chapters are relatively short so you are able to cart this book to appointments and feel confident that you won't be left mid-chapter. There aren't subtle details that you need to keep track of so if you need to set...
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This memoir is about the author's incestuous relationship with her father. The book is riveting, chilling, and a painfully insightful account of the pain, longing and dissociation from 'normal' that the author experienced.

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I can remember years ago when Kathryn Harrison appeared on Irish TV to be interviewed by Gay Byrne. The studio audience - unlike that of many other shows - were allowed to ask the guest questions, and they seemed to be singularly unimpressed with...
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I give Ms. Harrison credit for writing this part of her life's story. I could not stop reading, and finished it in one sitting, I found her writing style very good in many ways...her description of her mother and maternal grandparents and how they...
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A prolactinoma is a pituitary gland tumor that produces excessive amounts of the hormone prolactin. This slow-growing tumor accurs in both men and women and is often not identified as the source of health problems until it has grown to a rather...
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