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A Reader posted a review at 2009-10-29 12:47:44 for Welcome to the Monkey House (Dell).
(Language: English)
  
Just the best book of short stories you'll ever find.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-07-13 08:08:01 for The Grifters.
(Language: English)
My third book by Jim Thompson and I loved it. I love reading Jim Thompson. He reminds me of Cormac McCarthy in that there are no heroes and there are no happy endings, with one exception, he has a sense of humor about it. Highly recommended. Fast read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-01-14 10:53:43 for The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.
(Language: English)
This is not a pick up and read when you have a chance kind of book. It is chalk full of information. Read it consistently but do not expect to breeze through it. Take your time and ponder on it. Wow! Lots and lots of information. I am not even sure how to interpret all of this, but it definately changes your perspective of how we approach the middle east and how F&?*( up our priorities are over there.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-01-14 10:47:36 for Lonesome Dove Part 1 Of 3.
(Language: English)
900 plus pages, I've read it twice and will read it again soon. I've owned two first edition copies of this book, left one on top of my car when leaving the dog park. Bye, bye $100. The only way to read an epic like this is in a large edition.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-01-14 10:42:28 for Watership Down (Puffin Modern Classics).
(Language: English)
This is a book I will re-read throughout my life. Truly a story that leaves breaks your heart when it ends. I couldn't say enough about this book, but one review on the cover of my edition put it best, "anyone who speaks english should read this book."
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-07-04 09:18:55 for Atlas Shrugged.
(Language: English)
Girl I dated bought this for me. Took me a while to get into it, but suddenly found myself absorbed in Howard Roarks struggle. Don't ever give up on your own ideals, even when the weight of the world is coming down on you. Even if you are wrong, you are right.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-06-30 10:30:42 for The English Patient.
(Language: English)
Beautiful. Vascular Sizoods, Propinquity, Love, and Pain. It's poetry.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-06-30 10:28:17 for True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel.
(Language: English)
I'll probably bring this one up to at least four stars after I read it. Unfortunately the advent of school starting has significantly slowed down my leisurely reading time. So far I am very impressed by the vernacular and the prose. Gives you a great insight into just how Australians came to be who they are. I want to read certain passages out loud to hear myself sound like a cowboy in the Australian outback. Reminds me a lot of The Preposition.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-06-30 10:23:42 for The Road.
(Language: English)
Few books have affected me like The Road. When one reviewer described it as Biblical in it's scope they were not kidding. Cormac seems to have actually put himself into the future and has described the awesomely horrifying and sad reality that a post-apocalyptic wasteland would be. No Mad Max, no living off the land, there is nothing romantic or adventurous about it once we've messed everything up. Having read most of McCarthy's other works I can say this one has something in it surprisingly that the rest do not. Hope. Not much, but hope as only he could envision it. I actually cried when I came to the end of this book and it was that hope that did it. Still, when I reflect on it I get teary eyed. My favorite last paragraph of any book... "Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery." I am a huge McCarthy fan, and by no means a well read person. But this is by far my personal favorite of his. I had actually put off reading The Road for some time, tried to take a break from the hopelessness of all of his books. But though The Road is set in a post-apocalyptic world without any chance of hope, the slight glimmer of it that he gives you at the end will literally bring you to tears. I read the last few pages over and over again. This man is a master of his craft, there are no flaws.
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