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The Alchemist (Plus)

The Alchemist (Plus)

My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the... more

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    The Alchemist (Plus)

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    • Profoundly insipid
    • Profoundly vapid, insipid, merit-less, pseudo-spiritual tripe. If Cinderella is your idea of a good read, this will appeal to you. Could have been written in the time it takes to read. Next to...
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    • An eye opener
    • In my search for the universal truth of the universe an my own believes, i bumped in to The Alchemist. I was inspired, thrilled, and most of all it was a great "eye opener" for me, as the story,...
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    • Posted:Jan-21-2009
    • Will have to read again one day...

    • I sat down and read this book late one night when I probably should have been sleeping. I liked it overall, and I liked the messages it "preached". But I think I'll have to sit down and read...
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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

Noted Fitzgerald biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli draws upon years of research to present the Fitzgerald's Jazz Age... more

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    The Great Gatsby

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    • Deja Vu All Over Again
    • My daughter's AP English teacher assigned Gatsby to her as a summer reading project. I read it along with her and now, thirty years after my frst read, am struck by how this book's greatness....
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    • Another horrible classic forced upon America's youth
    • I found the whole book vastly dull and quite creepy, Gatsby's obsession with the vapid Daisy just doesn't make for that great of a read. All he does is obsess over the vile woman Daisy, I could...
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    • The not so Great Gatsby
    • The Margin
      I have to say Gatsby, by Fitzgerald was another classic disappointment. Like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, both drew world-wide acclaim, but for me neither went anywhere. That is...
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The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are... more

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    The Catcher in the Rye

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    • Good, but overrated
    • This book is generally considered a classic, and I can understand why. The plot elements are great, but the main character/narrator is not. Holden Caulfield is one of the least sympathetic...
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    • The Puzzle that is Holden
    • A great read for any age, from 10th grade to adulthood. It really makes you remember or really helps you have a kind of camaraderie with Holden Caufield. It is a deceptive book that it only takes a...
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    • Posted:Oct-20-2009
    • one of the most overrated books in the literary world
    • Salinger's catcher in the rye was shoved down so many of our throats as an adolescent, like so many others in that genre of so called 'classics' like Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies, The...
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The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried

One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short... more

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    The Things They Carried

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    • Interesting Mix of Fiction and Story Telling
    • After the first few chapters...this review was headed towards a negative input. I didn't like the idea of a story being 95% BS and 5% "maybe" truth of some kind. But, I found as I continued that...
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    • Posted:Jan-22-2009
    • satisfied
    • I'm overall very satisfied with this purchase. I received a shipping confirmation from the seller, received it promptly after ordering, and the book was in decent condition.
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    • Posted:Nov-23-2008
    • never even received product
    • i never even received what i ordered, which i had gotten from know hope auctions or something like that. i had to go to border's and buy it because i needed it for school. and the best part is i...
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Invisible Man

Invisible Man

Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance... more

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    Invisible Man

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    • Posted:Oct-26-2009
    • Painful Read
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      Hell no! I didn't read this damn book!

      I read the Cliffs Notes though, and...
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    • Posted:Jul-30-2009
    • A Classic
    • I was at Harvard University for the commencement ceremonies when Ralph Ellison received an honorary Doctor of Letters. A most deserved honor.

      Here is a work that is deep and intriguing,...
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    • Posted:May-31-2008
    • Invisible Man
    • This is an important book in the sense it sheds light on the trials and tribulations of an educated black man in the mid 1900s. Not my favorite piece of literature, but it was well worth my time...
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Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)

Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)

Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie... more

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    • Mice= Lennie, Men= George
    • A powerful short story by Steinbeck that,like many of his novels, occurs in his hometown of Salinas, California.
      Lennie and George, the protagonists have a mutual care for each other. Lennie...
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    • Posted:Dec-10-2008
    • Worst Book I have Ever Read
    • I did not like this book at all. I had to read it in eighth grade. It was so difficult to understand the interactions between the characters. Although the story itself was okay, it was nothing...
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    • mice and men
    • Horton Foote's adaptation of John Steinbeck's tragic tale about two migrant farmworkers in Depression-era California. Lennie, a sweet-natured, mentally-retarded man who doesn't realize his own...
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Things Fall Apart: A Novel

Things Fall Apart: A Novel

This is Chinua Achebe's classic novel, with more than two million copies sold since its first U.S. publication in... more

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    • One man's struggle...
    • You can feel for Okwonko in this book. On the outside, he is a hard man, but on the inside you can see that he cares for his ward (who ended up having to be killed) and his family. He is a man who...
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    • Posted:Jan-05-2009
    • Yam Yam Yam Yam
    • !!!Spoiler Alert!!!
      Yam yam yam yam, beat my wife, yam yam yam yam, kill whitey, yam yam yam yam, beat my kids, yam yammity yam.
      There, you have now read things fall apart. My version...
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    • Posted:Jun-04-2008
    • Better for a historic understanding rather than it's literary aspect
    • I read this book in College in one of the courses I took to obtain my degree in his history. Each of us were required to read the book an write an essay. I don't think there were many people who...
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The Namesake: A Novel

The Namesake: A Novel

Jhumpa Lahiri's debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, took the literary world by storm when it won the... more

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    The Namesake: A Novel

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    • East meets West
    • The Namesake deals with themes on culture clash between the first generation Bengali Americans and the second generation. Crediting the writer of the "Overcoat", Nikolai Gogol,with saving his life...
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    • Posted:Sep-13-2009
    • This COULD have been a great book
    • What a disappointment. This could have been a great book. And parts of it are extremely good. The author clearly has a gift for describing everything...people...environments...milieu. But the book...
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    • Posted:May-22-2009
    • Nice
    • This was a nice book I got a little frustrated with the character but it was probably a cultural thing. but I would recommend it especially if you like to learn about cultures and attitudes.
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A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)

A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)

In this novel, a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime... more

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    • After effects of prison
    • One of the reasons I love using this book in the classroom is because so many have been affected by relatives in prison. Our society does not talk enough about or examine the after effects of...
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    • Posted:May-26-2009
    • Terrible Lesson, Excellent Book
    • This book gives keen, painful insight on the realities faced by African-Americans of the southern United States in the recent past. The main settings of the story are a plantation, the plantation...
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    • Posted:Jul-27-2008
    • Obsurd
    • I thought I had purchased the actual novel but instead I got sent the sparknotes version of it. Went back to the site to see if anyone made a mistake only there is no listing anywhere that it is...
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The Pearl: (Centennial Edition)

The Pearl: (Centennial Edition)

A fisherman finds the great pearl, only to lose it again. Re-issue of Steinbeck's classic. more

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    The Pearl: (Centennial Edition)

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    • Posted:Dec-15-2008
    • the pearl
    • The Pearl is about a poor pearl diver who is trying to sell one of the biggest pearls ever seen in his hometown in Mexico. I thought that this book was very good. It describes how greed can corrupt...
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    • Posted:Nov-02-2008
    • Not really useful
    • I bought this book for my daughter. Her 8th grade Pre A.P. Literature class was reading it and the teacher encouraged us to buy our own copy. Well, when we got it, the page numbers did not match...
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    • Couple hours of reading
    • From a variety of different influences comes Steinbeck's 'The Pearl'. There is a Hispanic parable that this is largely based on and basically covers how sudden wealth does not necessarily change...
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The Natural

The Natural

The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new editionIntroduction by Kevin BakerThe Natural,... more

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    The Natural

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    • Posted:Dec-08-2008
    • "Yes!" reviewed by former minor leaguer and ENG teacher turned principal and writer
    • Even if you have already seen the movie, which I happen to consider the greatest sports film of all-time, this book is worth buying. There are some notable differences and many more interesting...
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    • Posted:Jun-20-2008
    • A hideously BAD book
    • I love books. I collect, preserve, protect and treasure books. After reading this one, I immediately threw it in the trash.

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    • A supremely outstanding baseball player is not supremely outstanding off the field, and ends up having a lot of problems because of his stardom and inability to cope with that in general.
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The Inheritance of Loss

The Inheritance of Loss

Published to extraordinary acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful... more

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    The Inheritance of Loss

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    • A mixed bag for me
    • This story holds clear moments of brilliance, no doubt, but I found a strange lack of focus within the pages that was unsettling. I also felt there were far too many characters. The depiction of...
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    • Painful Inheritance
    • An excellently written account of characters caught up in the struggles of modern India to deal with separatist groups who suffer from lack of economic and educational opportunities and resort to...
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    • Rambling story, contrived characters
    • This book is rambling and lacks cohesion. Don't expect to connect with any of the characters, since they appear so randomly and scattered that you'll barely have a chance to get to know them in...
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Peony in Love: A Novel

Peony in Love: A Novel

?I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.?For young... more

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    • Imaginative and entertaining - a new favorite!
    • This is an imaginative and entertaining story about women living in 16th century China. One woman in particular is an avid fan of "The Peony Pavilion", an opera that remains controversial, even...
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    • Too predictable, long-winded, arduous
    • Reading should not feel like work, and with this book, it did. It captured my attention in the beginning, but after about 20 pages or so, I got sick of reading about the main character's obsession...
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    • Posted:Jul-26-2009
    • Not as good as Snowflower and the Secret Fan
    • This book was very strange...how the young girl starves herself to death because she doesn't marry the man she loves.

      Then all the strange things start to happen after death....it was...
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Breaking Her Fall

Breaking Her Fall

Just before eleven on an ordinary summer night in Washington, D.C., Tucker Jones picks up the phone, expecting to... more

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    • Posted:Sep-06-2008
    • terrible
    • This is one of the worst books I've tried to read in a long time, and that's saying a lot - I read 1 or 2 books a week!
      I'm only 60 pages in, and every possible conflict or point of interest...
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    • Caught me first, then too long.......
    • This book captured my attention immediately, and I recommended it to my book club after reading the first four chapters. Then, I was sorry I did. The subject matter was riviting, but I found it...
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The Journey to the East

The Journey to the East

In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German... more

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    • Read this Hesse Classic Along with Kundera's Book of Laughing and Forgetting
    • Hesse's Journey to the East - to my mind - is a thematic twin of Kundera's Book of Laughing and Forgetting. For me, it is a treatise on memory. Post-modern in its recursive self-referencing, it is...
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    • 'Journey to the East 'or into Hesse's mind?
    • 'The Journey to The East' by Hermann Hesse is one of various biblical references disguised in Indian mysticism, which can leave the reader a little confused. Nevertheless their are some statements,...
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Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime: A Novel

Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime: A Novel

Widely acclaimed for his groundbreaking crime novels Booked to Die and The Bookman's Wake, award-winning author John... more

The Pleasing Hour

The Pleasing Hour

The first novel from a new literary voice brimming with sensitivity and lyricism, The Pleasing Hour is the story of... more

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    • Not pleased
    • I never really got absorbed into this book, though I think Rosie (what an idiotic name) having sex with a boy who looks like her sister's husband just so she can give her barren sister a baby was...
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    • Posted:Jun-09-2006
    • Not overly complex
    • I found that Lily King didn't delve in quite far enough into her characters for me to really become attached. Even so, I did want to keep reading after each chapter ended. Good quick read.
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    • The Pleasing Hour is the story of an American au-pair who comes to Paris after her life in the states has been shattered. While struggling with emotions for what she left behind, Rosie makes her...
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Pinkerton's Sister

Pinkerton's Sister

Trapped in a suffocating life of convention and party chatter, Alice Pinkerton has turned to the liberating worlds... more

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    • a little goes a LONG way...
    • Ok, I get it...but this style is at best really annoying when it is ever present. These mental amblings and (yes, pretentious) references are effective only when placed within a, shall I dare say...
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    • Posted:Jan-31-2006
    • Like being alone inside someone's mind.
    • The first thing to warn potential readers of this book about - it isn't a story so much as the dialogue happening in a woman's mind. Imagine sitting down in the morning and daydreaming and...
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Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature

Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature

What can elephant seals tell us about Homer?s Iliad? How do gorillas illuminate the works of Shakespeare? What do... more

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    • A must read to understand men/women "logic"
    • This is a fascinating reading for any women or men interested in better understanding the opposite sex. Through a well documented stories David and Nanelle Barash guide the reader from literature...
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    • Posted:Apr-17-2006
    • A distortion of true Darwinism that does no service to literature
    • I came to this book expecting something wonderful. Instead, what I got was pseudoscience with no sense of scientific method, and pseudo-criticism with no sense of having read at more than a shallow...
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Dread: Poems

Dread: Poems

A collection examining America's loss of innocence, the poems in this title range from the horrific flight of a World... more

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    Dread: Poems

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    • Posted:Feb-26-2008
    • Amazing contemporary poet and book
    • _Dread_ is Ai's most recent addition to the world of contemporary poetry. I'm an avid reader, but even I was surprised by how much I wanted to KEEP reading this book, something I'm not used to when...
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