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In Bed With the Devil (Avon Romantic Treasure) 18 reviews
Lorraine Heath
Avon, 2008
Great read...
Very, very enjoyable book. I've read a previous book by this author and also liked that one a lot. She's a good writer and tells a compelling story. Well worth your time. Excellent beach or plane read. (I read it at home since I can't afford a plane ride LOL) Looking forward to her next book.
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The Devil Wears Prada 1021 reviews
Lauren Weisberger
Anchor, 2006
Top Read!
This was a great book and far better than the movie - had details and storyline that were not replicated in the film, and I loved this book. Read it all in one sitting and it had me hooked from the first page. I have since read this authors other books, and enjoyed them all very much.
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The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure 70 reviews
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Holt Paperbacks, 2000
Outstanding book for all ages
I purchased this book at a college book store. I think it was there because it was required reading for math education majors. It also might have been a book for elementary teachers that were taking a math methods course. Regardless of why it was there, I purchased it and read it. It was a fun and interesting look at lots of different math topics.
My son has enjoyed this book since he ...
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Devil Bones: A Novel (Temperance Brennan Novels)2 reviews
Kathy Reichs
Scribner, 2008
Excellent
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is in Charlotte, North Carolina working as an instructor at UNC-Charlotte and also at the office of the Chief Medical Examiner. She is called out of a boring college meeting by ME Dr. Larabee, who asks her to go to a house where a plumber broke through a wall only to see a previously concealed cellar with a cauldron with a skull on it behind the wall.
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America752 reviews
Erik Larson
Vintage, 2004
Very entertaing!
Not too many people these days have heard of the infamous Doctor HH Holmes or the Columbian Exposition. Both were major news stories over a hundred years ago, but now are forgotten.
This book aims to change that, and it does so admirably. You get a real feeling of what life was like in Chicago and, indeed, much of America in the Guilded Age. You also see that serial killers like John Wayne ...
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The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions 52 reviews
David Berlinski
Crown Forum, 2008
It will offend some, but what doesn't these days?
I would say with a modest amount of certainty that the topics of darwinian evolution and creationism/intelligent design are probably the most controversial topics one can discuss or even suggest in this modern society. Couple a controversy of such magnitude with an "empowerment" of sorts for today's atheists in the form of individuals such as Richard Dawkins and his vehement tirades against any ...
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story37 reviews
Luis Alberto Urrea
Back Bay Books, 2005
A MUST read for every American
Definitely worth reading. This is in my top-five of all time. Well written. Great research. Easy to read. Compelling story. Read it.
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Devil May Care (James Bond) 64 reviews
Sebastian Faulks
Doubleday, 2008
Close, but no cigar
Faulks has the time frame down well - the smoking, the attitudes towards sex, the weapons, etc., but he lacks the finesse of Fleming.
He is dead on with his decription of Tehran - from the mountains to the "jubs" - but, somehow the plot never really seems to excite the reader the way the old Bond novels did.
It was nice to have this one additional Bond novel - but we don't need any more ...
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The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics)268 reviews
Jane Yolen
Puffin, 2004
Courtesy of Teens Read Too
THE DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC by Jane Yolen is required reading at my school, as it is in many middle/junior high schools across the country. I've been meaning to read it for several years but never did, until my son read it this year as an eighth grader. He insisted I read it. How could I resist that?
Hannah is celebrating Passover Seder with her family. It's the same thing every year. Grandpa will ...
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The Devil You Know4 reviews
Jenna Black
Dell, 2008
Second in series
Morgan Kingsley is an exorcist with a rather unusual attribute - she's the host of the king of the demons, Lugh. In Jenna Black's world demons are beings who can live inside a human and can take over their body, giving them extra strength and the ability to heal themselves from most injuries. There are many laws about demons and humans and Morgan's job is to exorcise illegal demons. However since ...
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The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef9 reviews
Marco Pierre White
Bloomsbury USA, 2008
The Pride of Leeds
Marco Pierre White is both an award-winning chef and the product of a council block in Leeds. The Devil in the Kitchen demonstrates the relationship between those two facts, as Marco is driven to succeed, leveraging his blue collar work ethic and personal pride. His drive is all-consuming, with 17 and 18 hour days at the stove a common pattern. He is animated by a love of food--nature's great ...
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Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation59 reviews
Edward Chancellor
Plume, 2000
It's been the same for hundreds of years
After reading this book, I believe all markets, investment schemes etc, are just reflection of crowd behavior and demonstrate group think syndrome. Valuation of assets is controlled not by scarcity of the assets but by how people think these assets are worth and by people who make people think how much the assets are worth. It's been the same for hundreds of years. Subprime for example, highly ...
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Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood26 reviews
Jennifer Traig
Back Bay Books, 2006
The Devil, indeed, is in the Details!
I just finished reading Jennifer Traig's incredibly engaging memoir. Who knew a book about a serious condition- OCD, more specifically srucpulosity- would be so entertaining, yet endearing? I was constantly reading parts of the books outloud to my husband, who was wondering why I was giggling.
Traig is both a gifted and clever author as she gives us an inside peak into a world of extreme ...
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Devil's Pact5 reviews
Samantha Cruise
Siren Publishing, Inc., 2008
This book was like dark chocolate, yummy!
This probably is one of the HOTTEST books I've read in a while. It was sort of like when I first discovered Lora Leigh. A definite eye-opener. The author writes very steamy scenes and has actual plot. This book is expensive and suprisingly thick but I am so glad I finally broke down and bought it instead of getting the ebook version, beacuse if I got the ebook version first I would have ...
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Devil May Cry (Dark-Hunter, Book 11)137 reviews
Sherrilyn Kenyon
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2008
I Loved it.
I loved Devil May Cry. It answered many questions I had and was a lot of fun to read. I really liked Sin and I love Kat. The book even humanizes Apollymi.
This one read like an 'end of the world' episode of Buffy. Since I love Buffy, that was fine with me. The interactions between Xirena and Simi was also a hoot but I was a little disappointed there wasn't any mention of Alexion and Danger ...
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The Devil in the Junior League31 reviews
Linda Francis Lee
St. Martin's Griffin, 2007
What a great, fun read!
This book was well written and gave outsiders a sneak peek into the world of the Junior League. It is a fun book. I've given it as a gift to many younger people (nieces, etc.), friends who may not read often and others whom I thought might enjoy this delightful book. EVERY single person I've given this book to has told me they thoroughly enjoyed it and asked for another selection just like this ...
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The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America17 reviews
Lauri Lebo
New Press, 2008
Journalists' Dilemma - How to Give Balanced Coverage To Unbalanced Views
The lead attorney and the lead defendant appeared disinterested during the infamous Dover trial. Attorney Thompson didn't brighten up until his daily exit from the courtroom, when he became alive - playing to the press about how successful that day was. Defendant Bonsell just smirked most of the time - a higher power had already told him he was right. Thompson was willing to accept this ...
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Lie Down with the Devil (Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries)1 review
Linda Barnes
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008
Excellent mystery
Boston Private Investigator Carlotta Carlyle remains engaged to her mob-tied fiancé Sam Gianelli, although she has humongous doubts about his recent activity; Sam vanished rather than confront rumors tying him to a dead female (see HEART OF THE WORLD). While Carlotta considers ending their relationship, Jessica Franklin shows her a picture of Sam in a compromising position. Carlotta knows how ...
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Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans138 reviews
Malachi Martin
HarperOne, 1992
As Heavy Metal Band Iron Maiden Sang, "6...6...6...The Number of the Beast!!!!!!!!! 6...6...6...The One for You and Me!!!!!!!!!"
Hostage to the Devil is a meticulously sourced, scholarly analyzed and academic treatise on demonic possession; this book is THE classic to pick up to familiarize oneself with the proverbial Dark Side of life. Hostage to the Devil is what The Art of War is to warfare and corporate raiding; what Machiavelli's The Prince is to political science and government; what Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey ...
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda75 reviews
Roméo Dallaire, Samantha Power
Da Capo Press, 2004
Well written book about what never should have happened
This is a long book, but still you don't get bored while you are reading it. Mainly I just got upset as I read how Romeo Dallaire tried to stop this genocide from happening. There was an informant telling him that the Hutu extreemists planned to kill the Tutsis. The UN's reaction was to order Dallaire to inform Rwanda officials about what he had been told. This was a very grave mistake, since ...
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