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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 House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street

2 cassettes / Approx. 2 1/2 hoursUnabridged, and read by the Author"It's not always that a luscious writer can be a... more

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    The House on Mango Street

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    • This book will always hold a place in my heart
    • This book was assigned reading in my Junior English class, over 10 years ago. For some reson I couldn't put it down. I absolutely loved it. Even though my childhood was different than Esperanza's,...
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    • Posted:May-30-2009
    • Never got product or refund
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      It is May 30th and I don't have the book yet. I contacted the seller twice. No response the first time, then on May 27...
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    • A tale of its time
    • If my son finds this book on his required reading list some day, I know exactly what his reaction will be: What the hey?!? He's never had the slightest interest in any children's book with a...
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel,... more

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    • Extremely Loud--------an Incredible Book!
    • I recently reread this book; it's a magical storytelling of grief & loss. The book opens a year after the worst day; Oskar Schell lost his father on September 11th. The date is never mentioned in...
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    • Extremely boring and Incredibly Indulgent
    • You are not supposed to say anything negative about the book if there are 9/11 victims. This book is very indulgent(what a clever little fellow that author) while at the same time managing to be...
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    • I thought this novel was ok, however it did not interest me that much.
    • This was the first 9/11 related book I have read. The main character is a nine year old boy named Oscar who finds a key in his dad's closet and want to find the lock it opens in order to learn more...
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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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The Stranger

The Stranger

Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored... more

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    The Stranger

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    • strange is The Stranger
    • Pretty unique story. Haven't read anything like it thus far. It's written so simply and with ease. The short story builds little by little until your emotions pick up and you notice your inhaling...
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    • Not The Perfect Stranger
    • The Stranger, translated by Matthew Ward, was not a great story, but it was easy to read and slightly interesting enough to continue on with it. Although in the end I did feel like it had been a...
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    • Posted:Jun-02-2009
    • Depends on what you're looking for...
    • First and foremost, I probably don't have to write about what a famous and influential book this is since, odds are, if you're looking at this book (and my review) you are already somewhat familiar...
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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
    • I know what you're thinking, because I titled my review "Painful Read," I must have read it right?

      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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The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel

The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel

In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies?Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She... more

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    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel

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    • Amazing
    • The Handmaid's Tale tells the story of Offred, who has become a handmaid in the Gileadian society. It is set in the "near future" (at the time of writing, it would be "now" today) America after a...
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    • Posted:Jul-25-2009
    • Politically Correct Slander
    • This novel is not a work of genius designed to make you think. It is a politically correct straw man designed to indoctrinate you. Even Hitler's Germany produced no such culture as Gilead; indeed,...
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    • Posted:Jul-30-2008
    • A story without a story
    • If you are looking for a fascinating plot, The Handmaid's Tale might not be for you. In re-creating her dystopic, monotonous world, the typical event structure of novels is sacrificed. The...
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Beloved

Beloved

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful... more

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    • Poignantly beloved.
    • Mesmerizing. Passionate. Excellent. Flawed. These are some of the words I see describing Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. What I do not see is recognition that what is seen as the author's flawed,...
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    • Posted:Jan-05-2009
    • Thought Provoking.
    • This book was actually supposed to be one of the books for a class I cancelled due to scheduling conflicts. It was also listed as one of the best American novels of the past 25 years...so I kept...
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    • Posted:Oct-07-2008
    • It was a struggle...
    • Well I'd like to start off by saying that the prose in this novel is absolutely stunning. Morrison writes with beautiful and poetic language. That aside, I struggled through this book despite the...
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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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American Pastoral

American Pastoral

As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an... more

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    • Definitely not one of his lighter offerings
    • I didn't just read this book - I felt that I actually lived it too. I was so caught up in "The Swede's" great life turned horribly bad that it was a real relief when it was over! Roth saturates...
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    • Posted:Dec-19-2008
    • Pulitzer?
    • The characterization in this book is admirable, but it flounders in the plot and narrative departments. Much time is spent in pondering ontological and deterministic questions, as well as...
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    • Posted:Sep-20-2008
    • Pulitzer, really?
    • I can not think of why this book won the pulitzer prize. Of course is well written, but that's about that. Unless you love gloves...
      Very boring.
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A Farewell To Arms

A Farewell To Arms

The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American... more

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    • Why Even Bother With This?
    • I don't even care to describe the plot. The prose is flat and toneless and emotionless and totally devoid of any passion. It's as if Hemingway didn't even care when he wrote it. He has one of...
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    • A Farewell to Summer Reading
    • I odered this book for my son's summer reading assignment for school. IT arrived in plenty of time and in exactly the condition that the seller stated. It even had some notes in it to help my son...
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    • Posted:Nov-23-2008
    • Hemingway,Humm....
    • Frankly, I dont know what to say. I waited for a few hours after I finished it before starting to write the review.

      I liked the book as an old fashioned love story at certain times. The...
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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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    • 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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    • 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 Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

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    • Rather Dissapointing
    • It is hard not to be dissapointed in "The Remains of the Day" after reading beforehand the latest Ishiguro's novel, "Never Let me Go." I have to say the former is nowhere close to the latter when...
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    • Class and Culture
    • In the novel The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro appears to have used the protagonist Stevens to illustrate how trapped humanity is by the social classes they are born into, and the difficulty...
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    • Like Watching Dust Settle on My Grandmother's Finest China
    • There is a reason why there are so few books written about the lives of butlers: they're BORING! Indeed, half-way through and I think I shall retire this book in favor of re-organizing my linen...
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The Sun Also Rises

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a... more

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    • Hemingway's first masterpiece
    • The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's second novel but his first masterpiece. It centers around the relationship between Jake Barnes and Britt Ashley who fell in love during WWI when Jake was a wounded...
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    • Posted:Oct-04-2009
    • Disappointing is giving too much credit


    • I thought the following review, written for On The Road, was exactly the way I felt and did not want anyone to miss reading it. Call me lazy but.. (all credit to uofm84 for writing it...
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    • Posted:Nov-07-2008
    • Maybe 3 1/2 stars
    • This book has to be considered in the time it was written to appreciate it. Some books are timeless--theme, characters, etc.--and others are best viewed in the year they were published. I think...
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Song of Solomon

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at... more

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    • Posted:Jan-19-2009
    • Beautifully written
    • It is the best book I have read in a long time. Toni Morrison is masterful. Her sentence construction is amazing; the story grabs you and it is a delight to be able to read a book where the story...
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    • Posted:Jun-02-2008
    • A total distortion of the novel
    • I can't believe that an artist like Toni Morrison would allow the book to be slashed and altered with this abridgment. The result of this Reader's Digest style alteration is a work that bears no...
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    • I'm probably missing something.
    • Every time I read a novel by Toni Morrison, I feel like I must be missing something. I am able to take a step back and appreciate the beauty of her writing. Sentence by sentence, she puts...
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Lolita

Lolita

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    • what a way with description
    • Lolita is one of the finest novels I have ever read. It doesn't take a genius to perceive that Humbert Humbert is not a valid role model for his readers! He is a degenerate with a hopelessly...
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    • Unparalleled Prose...
    • Nabokov's Lolita is a master-class in the artfully composed sentence. I'm not sure I've read a book that was written with such sparkling, perfectly evoked prose. In addition, Nabokov channels the...
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    • Disappointing, overrated, and overwritten
    • I had always wanted to read this book because I'd heard so many great things about it. Words can't express how disappointed I am.
      I am not some dumb, uneducated high school kid. I have a law...
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Don Quixote

Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest... more

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    • REALLY FUNNY ... and then Cervantes tries to make a point.
    • I haven't laughed at book this much since Superfudge. I actually laughed out loud. This is pretty much slapstick comedy that is popular today... except that it was written around 1600. I only...
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    • Posted:Dec-13-2008
    • Amazing performance
    • Sadly Amazon cannot keep reviews linked to the proper product but this is for the audio CD and not the text version of the Grossman translation. This is the best audio book I have ever heard. The...
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    • "Don Quixote"--the pure definition of the word "boring"...
    • Yep. I read it. Boring? Yes. Boring beyond belief.

      It is also mundane, vapid and worthless.

      Read Hemingway or Faulkner. Read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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In the Time of the Butterflies

A fictional account of the young lives of Mirabal sisters Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa, otherwise known in the... more

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    • Courage versus Tyranny
    • The book recounts the life of four sisters during the time of Rafael Trujillo during part of a regime that spanned many years and controlled the Dominican country on the island of Hispaniola. Haiti...
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    • Posted:Nov-05-2008
    • Have your Spanish to English translator nearby
    • A very fine read, but it's helpful if you know a little Spanish. He lapses into it throughout the book, especially when speaking about sex it seems. Often one can discern the translation from...
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    • In the time of the Butterflies was a confusing book. This book was confusing to me because it was hard to understand. Some parts of it didnt make since to me. When Dede was writing in her little...
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The Big Sleep

When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters,... more

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    • Not a snoozer
    • I listened to this version which was narrated by Elliot Gould. I could not ask for a better narrator. His reading of the book gave the perfect voice for Philip Marlowe. The story centers around...
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    • Tough going
    • Why is it that books that are labeled as "classics" often seem to disappoint? That's a question that has a longer answer than I'd care to write about here, but that thought did occur to me several...
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    • Even if you don't like mysteries, you might like this.
    • Although I understand the popularity of the genre, murder mysteries like The Big Sleep are not usually satisfying reading experiences for me. I frequently feel like I'm missing or overemphasizing...
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Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 2)

Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 2)

Precious Ramotswe is the eminently sensible and cunning proprietor of the only ladies? detective agency in Botswana.... more

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    • a book to heal the heart
    • This wonderful book takes the promise of the first in this series and turns it into a fully realized novel. The reader arrives at the end of the book with a sense of satisfaction and simple...
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    • Mma Ramotswe is back!
    • In this second book in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe is newly engaged to her friend Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni. Her fledgling detective business in Gaborone, Botswana, is doing...
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    • Posted:Jan-11-2007
    • Not going to read this book
    • I loved Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Detective Agency books enough that I ordered all of his other books. I was so dissapointed by his book of short stories, one of which included what must be...
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