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37 reviews
Jack Kerouac

Flamingo, 2001

Timid Before God
Jack Kerouac's 'Desolation Angels', written about a period of his life roughly 10 years before his death, acts as a nice bridge between 'On The Road' (which was awaiting publication during the course of events described in "Angels") and a subsequent publication, Big Sur, both of which I've read. During his two month self-imposed exile to work as a fire ranger on Desolation Peak, Jack Kerouac ...

Lucy: Beginnings of Humankind (Paladin Books)

13 reviews
Donald C. Johanson, Maitland A. Edey

Flamingo, 1982

Great Introduction to Paleoanthropology
As a reader who has a sparse knowledge of anthropology, I can say this book was a pleasurable and informative read. Dr. Johanson divided the book into a prologue and five parts. The prologue describes the events of November 30, 1974, the day Lucy was discovered. The first part covers a brief background to the earliest fossil finds and is invaluable to any reader who is interested in who's who ...

Trespassing

14 reviews
Uzma Aslam Khan

Flamingo, 2003

Beautifullly Written, Unapologetically Truthful - A Powerful Combination!
An amazing story of love, lust, power, greed, self-preservation, and self-loathing. The author does an amazing job of challenging our own value system by pushing us to see how all of these powerful states of being emanate from the universal "need to belong". Trespassing is a scintillating tale of the existential angst experienced by its characters, as well as an poignant cautionary essay on how ...

Iced (Flamingo Original)

15 reviews
Ray Shell

Flamingo, 1993

Harrowing
Looking through some old books in my Attic, I happened upon this novel; first released back in 1995.It chronicles the down-ward spiral of a young Man with hopes an dreams, into a never ending slide towards his worse nightmare, a walking, Zombie. This is a harrowing depressing read, which I've often thought would make a great movie. It written in a very matter of fact way (Mr. Snell is an actor by ...

The Story of San Michele

19 reviews
Axel Munthe

Flamingo, 1990

A Magnificent Raconteur
I came to this strange and wonderful book without the slightest inkling of what it was about -- simply because it was in the recommended reading for many guidebooks about Italy. First and foremost, it is an autobiography of a great physician and animal lover who just happened to spend some years of his life on Capri. Autobiographies can make for strange reading, especially when there are obvious ...

Life and Fate (Flamingo)

43 reviews
Vasilii Grossman

Flamingo, 1986

Genius of the highest order
This masterpiece published by New York Review of Books Classics enters my Top 5 among novels by James Joyce (Ulysses), Proust (La Recherche du Temps Perdu), Tolstoy (War and Peace) and Gaddis (JR): it is pure genius in its epic scope. Inspired by Tolstoy's War and Peace and the siege of Russia by Napoleon, Grossman depicts the siege of Stalingrad by Hitler. Grossman narrates the epic from the ...

The Bridge to Holy Cross

16 reviews
Paullina Simons

Flamingo, 2003

Epitome of Romantic Reading
Finishing this the second book in The Bronze Horseman Trilogy by Paulina Simons- is no small feat. A 500+ page tome- it's no light read. (By the way, here in the states, the second novel in the trilogy is titled Tatiana and Alexander- but most elsewhere in the world, it's Bridge to Holy Cross.) But finish I did and loved every minute of it! If you've never read The Bronze Horseman and its ...

Flamingos on the Roof

12 reviews
Calef Brown

Houghton Mifflin, 2006

A very fun read!
We love rhyming stories, and Flamingos on the Roof is no exception. I read a great review about Calef Brown in Wondertime magazine and was not disappointed. Whereas Shel Silverstein is a bit gruesome and crude, Brown's poetry is simple yet creative, fun and silly, and all around great reading with your little one. My 18 mo old loves the iambic pentameter rhythm of the rhyming, and the ...

Of Marriageable Age

20 reviews
Sharon Maas

Flamingo, 1999

An Absolute Delight
As lush and as breathtaking as the bougainvillea, the hibiscus, and the vibrant oleanders that enrich the landscape of Madras, India, Sharon Maas weaves a mesmerizing tale of custom, culture, love, and human resiliency in the pages of her novel, OF MARRIAGEABLE AGE. And these accolades come from a guy who wouldn't know a 'sari' from Saran wrap--who before now couldn't even find British Guiana ...

Maybe We Are Flamingos

12 reviews
Safari Sue Thurman

Guardian Angel Publishing, Inc, 2008

You are what you eat!
This adorable tale of young flamingos who aren't sure they fit in will thrill youngsters. Your children will be wondering what kind of flamingos they would be. A must read for children.

The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh (Flamingo)

7 reviews
Vincent Van Gogh

Flamingo, 2000

An Intimate Look
I bought this book several years ago in a college bookstore. How fortunate these students were to have been able to read and discuss this with others! I have had a long interest in Van Gogh and found this book to be fascinating, an almost voyeuristic look into his short life. I am glad to see that it is available * * and would hope that people now seeing the traveling Van Gogh portraiture ...

Testimonies

9 reviews
Patrick O'Brian

Flamingo, 1995

O'Brian's first novel is simply brilliant
Patrick O'Brian is more than a writer. He's a publishing phenomenon via his superb Aubrey-Maturin series. But TESTIMONIES was his first novel, originally published in 1952. It tells of an English professor of Welsh origins, Joseph Pugh, who abandons teaching at Oxford and moves to a cottage in Wales. There he explores the primal mountain back country and tries to understand the farming culture of ...

The Best of Myles Na Gopaleen (Paladin Books)

8 reviews
Flann O'Brien

Flamingo, 1993

YES! I Can Finally Own My Own Copy!
A friend lent me his copy (an Irish edition) of this book five or more years ago, and I've been searching for my own copy ever since. I'm delighted to find it's been reprinted and I just placed my order. I envy anyone who has not yet read this book of collected columns and essays -- the outrageous details of the Ventriloquists' War, the intricacies of the Catechism of Cliche, and the wisdom ...

The Barista Diary

10 reviews
Michelle Murphy

BookSurge Publishing, 2007

Didn't Want to Put it Down!
This is a great read especially for people who LOVE espresso. This book makes me want to live in the mountains of Washington and open an espresso/gift shop. The journal entries are simple, funny, and fun to read. I highly recommend this book and am looking for a similar read since I am 3/4 done with this book.

VESSIE FLAMINGO OUTSHINING THE MOON: A Tale of Self-Mastery and Love

8 reviews
JERELYN CRADEN

AuthorHouse, 2006

Charming, witty adventure of self-discovery.
Written by Jerelyn Craden, Vessie Flamingo Outshining the Moon: A Tale of Self-Mastery and Love is a novel about Vessie VanCourtland, a burned-out, thirty-year-old former psychic and levitator-mediator turned jingle writer. Determined to turn her life around and place a new value on authenticity, she dares to make drastic changes with the aid of ancient yoga techniques, the insights of her ...

Let's Put the Future Behind Us

9 reviews
Jack Womack

Flamingo, 1997

The Best Novel About Post-Soviet Russia That I've Read
Jack Womack returns to the present in his sly, humorous tale set in contemporary Russia. Only a writer of Womack's prodigious literary gifts could pull off a great novel about Russia that isn't written by a native. He's done an excellent job examining both the business and political elites of Boris Yeltsin's Russia; every word sounds as though it could be written by a distinguished Russian ...

Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers (Paladin Books)

9 reviews
Nick Danziger

Flamingo, 1993

Authentic or not, I liked it.
This was a great read. I have an Iranian friend who expressed serious doubts as to the authenticity of Danziger's one-night stand with his Iranian hostess, as well as his other improbable adventures. But fabrication or not, I liked the book a lot.

Africa

8 reviews
Blaine Harden

Flamingo, 1992

Great analysis of Africa's troubles
It's a pity that the book was written in the early nineties, since the only drawback I can point out of this work is the lack of information about the last fifteen years in the different countries (Sudan, Nigeria, Zambia, etc.) the author describes (this is not his fault, obviously!). Deeply educational, this is phenomenal journalism. If I had to pont out a chapter, the most interesting one is ...

Nova Express (Panther science fiction)

9 reviews
William S. Burroughs

Flamingo, 1969

thirty-six years old and still ahead of its time
Oh, this book is superb; thrilling. Burroughs' critique of media/information culture has never been more relevant (he even predicts, in 1964, the emergence of something that sounds very much like the Web - "more and more images in less space pounded down under the sex acts and torture ever took place anywhere"). Great chunks of the book function practically as a Machiavellian instruction ...

The Country of Marriage

7 reviews
Anthony Giardina

Flamingo, 1999

Giardina could make a cereal box interesting!
Just when I thought there was not one man in this world who understood themselves, let alone other men, I stumble onto this book. Giardina writes such truth. His voice hits the mark on every imaginable relationship. It is hard to except such weak, yet successful, crap fiction from say....Nicholas Sparks, when there is an intelligent writer like Giardina, in the wings, waiting to save us ...

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