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The History of Love: A Novel
Nicole Krauss
W. W. Norton, 2006
I might have been there...
+ Artfully constructed and full of suspense
+ Magnificent and Beautiful
+ Once upon a time, there was a book, about a book, about a girl. And yet.
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The Compleat Moonshadow
John Marc DeMatteis, Kent Williams, ...
DC Comics, 1998
Compleat Indeed!
+ Muth's best
+ Startling work, a unique masterpiece.
+ Better reading
+ A work of art
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The Witches of Eastwick
John Updike
Ballantine Books, 1996
Scathing Social Satire
+ Dessert for your mind
+ I loved it... but not in the way I thought
Likely many will be giving this book a new look now that Updike has published a sequel. Since Updike became a realist at mid-career with his Rabbit novels, not many understood this book. But it is a scathing social satire on post-Protestant America, in the vein of his earlier Couples and Month of ...
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A Boy's Own Story
Edmund White
Vintage, 2000
Eloquent, Elegant, Incisive, Provocative
+ Lots of washing, less to hang out
+ So beautiful and so important
+ A touchstone for millions of young gay men
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
Anchor, 2007
A tough one to read
+ An interesting approach of adventurers psychology through this tragic story
+ Fascinating story of a life outdoors
+ Good Movie, Great Book
+ Haunting and spellbinding
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The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
Grand Central Publishing, 1994
Time in a Bottle
+ i can relate to this book!
+ Jorie's Reads on The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
"... they were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived -- bound, in other words, for life."
The Virgin Suicides is not just a story of the loneliness of being female. It is also a story of the loneliness of life and understanding what it is to be female; the ...
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Odd Nerdrum: Storyteller and Self Revealer
Jan Ake Pettersson, Odd Nerdrum
H Aschehoug & Co, 1999
The best chioce for studying Nerdrum's technique
+ Incredible
+ Look no further than this
I love this book! I also have the other Nerdrum title by Hansen and Kuspit, but this is the volume that I refer to more often. This book has great full page details! As a painter, I find myself poring over these details. I have yet to see an original Nerdrum, so this book is the next best thing. ...
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House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
Pantheon, 2000
A Genre-Defying Monolith
+ Labyrinthine doesn't begin to describe this.
+ oh boy
+ ummm.... wow
+ A Highbrow Oubliette of Surreal Horror
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Complete Poems and Plays,: 1909-1950
T. S. Eliot
Harcourt, 1952
Still Point of the Turning World
+ The Twentieth Century's Greatest Poet
+ For a T.S. Eliot amateur, this was an excellent introduction!!
+ Eliot Update
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The Shipping News
E. Annie Proulx, 1994
Good News
+ Sequel please
+ Perfect
+ Wonderful Writing
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Amelie
Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz
Miramax Home Entertainment, 2002
Absolutely Charming !!!
+ Best movie Audrey Tautou has done
+ 2nd time viewing..
+ j'adore!
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Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
Neil Gaiman
Avon, 2005
Book Review: Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
+ Not Free SF Reader
+ Good Compilation
+ What more can be said
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Caedmon, 2006
Stop What You're Doing And Read This
+ I loved hearing Sissy Spacek read this classic story.
+ A Must Read for all Readers and Non-Readers
+ Race and Class in the Deep South
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The Wasp Factory: A Novel
Iain Banks
Simon & Schuster, 1998
The calmness and clarity of a disturbed mind...
+ A quick and interesting read...
+ Wasp Factory: a Scottish House of Horror
Few admit that, when they were children, they scorched ants with the sun's rays under a magnifying glass, or tossed insects into spider webs to be eaten alive. We own up to flushing bugs down the toilet, and smashing flies with newspapers, books, and fly swatters.
In The Wasp Factory, Frank ...
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Madeleine Is Sleeping (Harvest Book)
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Harvest Books, 2005
Beauty in Language and Form
+ Interesting book, worth reading
+ How We Read...
+ "What terrible things we do in our effort to be admired."
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