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City of Ashes (Mortal Instruments) 39 reviews
Cassandra Clare
Margaret K. McElderry, 2008
LOVE! love love love love.
Alright. So let me point this out to everyone: Yes, there is incest in this book. No, I don't mind it. Yes, there is homosexuality in this book. Again, I don't mind it.
For all of those people who are like: 'Omg! it's terrible because of what's going on with the characters!'Please, keep in mind that the author started out writing fanfiction. Incest and Homosexuality are seen in ...
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The City of Ember (Books of Ember) 406 reviews
Jeanne Duprau
Yearling, 2008
A Great Start To A Fantastic Series
This is the type of book that gets you hooked. You start reading and are enjoying it, but then the more you read the better it gets, the more you like it, you feel involved in the drama and action and want to help the characters, help them solve the mysteries and problems. I highly reccommend this book. It has an air of mystery and intrigue about it that fills you with curiosity for what will ...
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Dark City: A Novel (Dark City)490 reviews
Frank Lauria (Adapter), Lem Dobbs, ...
St. Martin's Press, 1997
Wonderful
The movie was released in 1998 under the title of Dark City, starring Rufus Sewell as a man who awoke one morning in a bathtub with no recollection of his past, or why there was a brutally murdered prostitute in his hotel room. All the evidence that he can compile from the situation points to him as the culprit of the ghastly crime. Once dressed he receives a call from an individual named Dr. ...
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City of God (Penguin Classics)38 reviews
Augustine of Hippo
Penguin Classics, 2004
Tough going, but worth it
It took me about five months of off-and-on reading to slog through City of God--it was time well-spent. Here is one of the rare 1000-page books that not only deserved its length, but could have been longer.
What astounded me about reading St. Augustine was how relevant he is, even after 1600 years. The vast majority of what he discusses throughout this monumental book still matters--only the ...
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul88 reviews
Karen Abbott
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
CANNOT PUT IT DOWN
For those that love to read a book that grabs them and doesn't let go - Karen Abbott's Sin in the Second City is a MUST. Not only does the reader get an enjoyable history lesson- but along the way Karen shows us how so much of what we know and experience today - is not new at all.
The portrait of the Everleigh sisters is simply fascinating, Chicago of the early 1900's was made for Abbott's ...
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series) 64 reviews
Modern Library, 1993
Great read
I bought this book as a required reading for school. It was very easy to read and covered many interesting topics. I would recommend this book to anyone that is interested in learning more about the urban environment.
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America764 reviews
Erik Larson
Vintage, 2004
Creepy-cool slasher history
Creepy-cool history of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, intertwined with the history of the serial killer H. H. Holmes who was operating at and around the Fair and may have accounted for anywhere from 9 (confirmed) to 50 (suspected) to even 200 (conjectured) murders.
Reads like an atmospheric slasher novel, except it is history, and thoroughly footnoted from contemporary accounts as well as ...
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Sex and the City 204 reviews
Candace Bushnell
Grand Central Publishing, 2006
Carrie Fever
I'm an absolute Sex and the City nut. Been addicted to the show for years. Happy to finaly have the book it all come from.
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Sex and the City43 reviews
Amy Sohn
Collins Living, 2008
a fabulous compulation to a fabulous movie -
This beautiful photo sassy hard cover text is a "fabulous" read for anyone who loves fashion, New York City, or HBO's Sex and the City.
The book covers all four of the girls post-season 6 and highlights every major theme and scene in the recent release "Sex and the City the Movie." There is a forward by Jessica Parker and some very interesting behind the scene looks at the taping of the movie. ...
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City of Thieves: A Novel51 reviews
David Benioff
Viking Adult, 2008
City of Thieves
It is WWII and Lev Beniov is a 17 year old Jew who has stayed in Leningrad while his sister and mother fled for the Russian countryside for safety after they are invaded by the Germans. Lev is caught looting a German paratrooper's corpse with some of his "friends" by the Russian army. As they all try to run away Lev stops to help the girl he likes. The girl gets away and does not even look ...
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Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life22 reviews
Richard Florida
Basic Books, 2008
Location is EVERYTHING
Excellent book! From personal experience I agree that choice of where to live is the most important factor in one's personal happiness.
I grew up in Canada in a Rocky Mountain town called Calgary (home of the Calgary Stampede) north of the Montana border. When I was 16 I skipped town and ran off to Toronto. I fell in love with the city at first sight because I felt welcome in its ...
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Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell, Updated Edition40 reviews
Amy Sohn
Pocket, 2004
Excellent book.
Can't say I read the book myself, but my Girlfriend loved it. She was very happy with it; could not put it down until it was done. The seller had gotten it here quickly too. I thought I ordered it late but I received it 2 days before I expected.
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City of Bones (Thorndike Press Large Print Literacy Bridge Series) 111 reviews
Cassandra Clare
Thorndike Press, 2008
The Ultimate Thrill Ride
I've read most of the other reviews here and must say, this is definitely a love it or hate it book. Personally, I loved it. A YA Writer myself, I'm not normally a fan of urban fantasy. There have been some rare exceptions, such as Melissa Marr's Wicked Lovely, but as a whole I'm not a heavy reader of the genre.
City of Bones has changed my mind. Unlike other reviewers, I had no problem with ...
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A Tale of Two Cities (Saddleback Classics)382 reviews
Charles Dickens
Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc., 2003
Epic tale of the Human Spirit
Was Charles Dickens a poet? Conversely, perhaps his structure and style are no longer suited to today's rushed lifestyle, as some reviewers lament. I believe Dickens is one of the most magnificent story tellers ever to put pen to paper, portraying vivid landscapes that are often as vital as his characters in affecting events. Dickens, like Shakespeare, could never be told in TV length ...
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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)53 reviews
Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics, 2003
Rewarding
Some honest disclosures. My strongest academic credentials relevant to literary criticism are that I minored in English. I have never been a "student" of Dickens. I enjoy Shakespeare plays in the same manner that I enjoy analyzing baseball games: I always get the point and relish in the general purpose of the production, but there are finer nuances that are beyond me and most of the people ...
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The Image of the City4 reviews
Kevin Lynch
The MIT Press, 1960
The psychology of urban designs
This book describes mental maps obtained from residents in several cities such as Boston, Los Angeles and Jersey City. The mental maps were materialized on paper through an interview process and combined with maps from many individuals. And the results are surprising. Each map is a composite image of the city (and hence, the book's title) that reveals not only the character of the place, ...
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The City of Falling Angels210 reviews
Berendt has a talent for finding interesting people whearever he goes
I am almost done with this book, and have not been able to put it down. Berendt has a talent for finding interesting, unique people who make up the fabric of a society. This book gives you a real view of what Venice is like behind all the tourist attraction edifices. If you are interested in Venice, this is the book to read if you want the rest of the story that lies beyond all of the ...
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A Tale of Two Cities: 150th Anniversary (Signet Classics)
Charles Dickens
Signet Classics, 2007
150TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION With dramatic eloquence, this story of the French Revolution brings to life a time of terror and treason, and a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime.
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Invisible Cities86 reviews
Italo Calvino
Harvest Books, 1978
A Midnight Scent, A Cloudy Vista
I had never read any Calvino before this spring and loved If On a Winter's Night a Traveler. Calvino writes like a more patient Borges, exploring the passages one at a time branching off the main cave gallery. In this breathtakingly elegant work, Calvino shows us cities rife with contradiction, told by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan, with dialogues bookending the city descriptions. The short, ...
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Vintage)153 reviews
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Vintage, 2007
A damning indictment
Since I lived for a year in Baghdad's Green Zone, I felt it was necessary for me to read what happened before I got there, under L. Paul Bremer, bureaucrat extraordinaire. That is why I recently found myself reading Imperial Life in the Emerald City, by Rajiv Chandrasekaran.
To say that the Bush Administration and its chosen Iraq occupation overlords made poor choices during and immediately ...
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