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Beloved
Toni Morrison
Vintage, 2004
Raw & Powerful
+ couldn't put it down
+ Oh My God! Are You Kidding Me?
Toni's Morrison's Beloved is a hard, frustrating, and emotionally draining piece of literary art. Saying this, her prose is written like something I've never read. She throws you in the middle of the narrative and does not tell you why her characters are saying or acting like they are. It is a ...
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 1999
Inspirational Literature
+ Makes good writing seem easy
+ my review?
+ Now I Love This Book (But I Didn't Always)
+ Easily one of the best books I've read
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Howard Zinn
Beacon Press, 2002
Great Book
+ "Being hopeful in bad times..." *
+ A Different Kind of Zinn, But a Must Read!
+ Full of experiences we all need to be aware of
+ School Paper Gone Right
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Jack's Black Book: What Happens When You Flunk an IQ Test? (Jack Henry)
Jack Gantos
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1999
Jack's Black Book
+ Emily's Review
+ My L.A. Homework ;D
+ A Boy Who Wants To Write About His Bad Experiences
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The Third Brother: A Novel
Nick McDonell
Grove Press, 2006
A complex and engaging sophomore effort
+ "We are all invisible until the first heart attack"
Young and passionate authors, celebrated for their raw and fiery prose, are often allowed to get away with less-than-skillful technique, hole-ridden plots, unrealistic characters and messy dialogue. Authors whose first books are published before they can legally drink are lauded (and rightly so) ...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
J. K. Rowling
Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007
Best Book Yet
+ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
+ A must for any Potter fan
+ Best in the series by far
+ Who wouldn't love Harry Potter?
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The Corrections: A Novel (Recent Picador Highlights)
Jonathan Franzen
Picador, 2002
The Corrections
+ I think I know them
+ Overhyped? Yes. A great book? Yes
+ A Modern Classic
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Eloise: The Ultimate Edition
Kay Thompson
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2000
It starts with Eloise.
+ delightfully illustrated book
+ Essential for your library
+ Great Stories for kids!
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My Friend Leonard
James Frey
Riverhead Hardcover, 2005
"Leonard" continues the saga . . .
+ a good follow up to 'A Million Little Pieces'
+ A touching story of friendship...
After reading "A Million Little Pieces," I immediately bought "My Friend Leonard." Whether or not these stories are literally true in every aspect, there is no question that they are largely autobiographical and completely fascinating. James Frey may not be writing great literature, but he sure ...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Ballantine Books, 1996
A Great Work
+ a moving read
+ "A line, a short line, trudges off into the morning."
+ Murder on the Western Front
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Prep: A Novel
Curtis Sittenfeld
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005
when I think back on all the crap I learned in high school...
+ good novel of a teen struggling to grow up
+ Great
I didn't want to like this book. It looked like cheesy chick-lit, and something about reading about the adolescent trials and tribulations of a working-class Hoosier girl named Lee...well, I got through being an adolescent working-class Hoosier girl named Lee once and I was not really interested ...
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The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Harper Perennial, 1998
The Glimmer of An Immense Sea
+ Star-Crossed Lovers
+ Great used book
+ Breathtaking First Novel
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Everything and a Kite
Ray Romano
Bantam, 1999
Holy Crap!
+ everything and stuff that might not have been put on the show
+ Ray is too easy to love
+ The quick and the funny ...
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A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks
Grand Central Publishing, 2004
Sparks at his best again........
+ GREAT book............
+ great quick read
Well I have read 8 out of the 13 books that Sparks has out and I own all of them and I just finished this one and this is Sparks at his best. It has the Sparks trademarks with its love, drama, and tragedy. This is a true survivor story and it is one of my favorite. It really takes you into both of ...
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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (rack): Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
Louise Rennison
HarperTeen, 2003
A young Bridget Jones
+ I Want More...
+ One of the Funniest Things I've Read in a Long Time!
+ Great Series...
+ A funny (slightly guilty) pleasure
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