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Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain

17 reviews
Martha Sherrill

Tantor Media, 2008

My favorite dog.
I have read the other reviews written by Amazon readers and am so impressed with them. For my part, I agree with the others, and then some. I found that Morie and Kitako are elegant and honorable, much as their dogs were. As with any book one reads and thoroughly enjoys, I dreaded that the words would end and I took my time with every story. I found hardship, honesty, love, respect and great ...

Life Is So Good

93 reviews
George Dawson, Richard Glaubman

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001

This book is so good!
This book is amazing. This is one of a handful of books that have, and will continue to change my life.

Utopia and Cosmopolis: Globalization in the Era of American Literary Realism (New Americanists)

23 reviews
Thomas Peyser

Duke University Press, 1998

Please help me!
Please say this review is helpful to you. They told me that if I post another unhelpful review they're going to kill my ferret.

The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (Galaxy ...

16 reviews
Norman Cohn

Oxford University Press, USA, 1970

As ever, the millennium is just around the corner
Cohn's "Pursuit of the Millennium" has aged well and nearing 50 years of age it is deservedly a classic. Its subjet might be considered by some to be esoteric: it deals with prophets from middle age Europe who led others to believe that the end of times was at hand, and that they had been chosen by God to purify the world in preparation for the Kingdom of the Last Days, and with pantheistic ...

Dreaming of Columbus : A Boyhood in the Bronx

27 reviews
Michael Pearson

Syracuse University Press, 1999

Familiar Themes in Dreaming of Columbus
Despite the images of sea voyages inspired by its title, Dreaming of Columbus is not the story of a young man spending his salad days in exotic, foreign settings. Instead, Michael Pearson takes the road less traveled and keeps his story closer to home. The reader looking for journeys will not be disappointed, however, in the imaginative way the Pearson uses literature to break away from the ...

About Town: The New Yorker And The World It Made

15 reviews
Ben Yagoda

Da Capo Press, 2001

Tiny Mummies revealed
There are two types of writers: those who aspire, no, dream of being published in the "New Yorker", and those who, after several rejections, bitterly deride the very institution they hoped to conquer. I am solidly of the first camp, though give it a few years and I might be a latter-day grouch. The work of Ben Yagoda brings the magazine alive, from the heyday of such luminaries as Thurber and ...

Democracy In America

33 reviews
Alexis Tocqueville

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1981

Preaching to the Choir
Praising this book is a bit like saying Huckleberry Finn was one of the great American novels - it's a profound statement of the obvious. Even so, it must be said: Alexis de Tocqueville's magnum opus is a brilliant sociological analysis of America, with his genius made all the more evident by how applicable his observations about 1830s America are to its twenty-first century counterpart. ...

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

19 reviews
Valerie Boyd

Scribner, 2002

The Best Biography I Have Ever Read
Valerie Boyd does what most biographers cannot; she makes facts as savory as fiction. As a great admirer of Zora Neale Hurston--the woman, I had long been searching for a piece of work that captures her emminence and vitality. I stumbled across "Wrapped in Rainbows" at Borders and resolved then and there that I HAD to have it. I do not at all regret this choice. Order this book, and I guarantee ...

Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture

32 reviews
Richard Burt

Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

On the Money
Whatever you think about Shakespeare, it is impossible not to agree with the points Burt makes in this book. His analysis is right on the money and you will never be able to look at Shakespearean movies or literature in the same way. A fantastic book and a must read.

Finding Fish

44 reviews

HarperCollins e-books, 2008

Must Read
If you have any interest in human behavior, this is a must read. It is a true story of a man who has to overcome so much to succeed. The challenges he faces are so harsh, as he struggles through life as a foster child.

El Laberinto De LA Soledad / The Labyrinth of Solitude (Letras Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)

12 reviews
Paz, Octavio

Catedra, 2006

Una Obra de Arte
Aunque no estes de acuerdo con todas las ideas de Octavio Paz, las reflexiones y los analisis de esta mente birllante ayudan a entender nuestra magnifica raza. La escritura lleva al lector al pasado y al presente, para poder entender la condicion de Mexico y su gente. Todos los Mexicanos deberian de sentarse a devorar este libro que clarificara las costumbres de nuestra gente y nos ayuda a ...

Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory

13 reviews
Peter Barry

Manchester University Press, 2002

This is the one I recommend to my students
As a literature professor, I have a professional responsibility to know about literary theory. And let's face it: it's a pretty scary and complex subject, feared by many and mastered by few. In fifteen years in the business, I have read many books about lit crit and literary theory, and Peter Barry's book is BY FAR the best. It is, indeed, "only" an introduction to the subject, rather than an ...

Writing Home: Collected Essays and Newspaper Columns

14 reviews
Cindy La Ferle

Hearth Stone Books, 2005

one woman's world
Rebeccasreads highly recommends WRITING HOME as a lovely bouquet of womanly thoughts about things little & big, sad & funny, & topical to today's modern life. Cindy La Ferle's essays are grouped together by subject rather than eras: first she welcomes us into her House and Garden, & then introduces us to the muggy swamp of Child Care; to her Social Life (such as it is being a ...

The Dream of Spaceflight: Essays on the Near Edge of Infinity

14 reviews
Wyn Wachhorst, Buzz Aldrin

Basic Books, 2000

A Book Of Visionary Scope
I have been a space buff ever since I got my first telescope for Christmas, 1968, and got to use it on Christmas eve 1968 and looked at the crater filled moon as Apollo 8 orbited the moon, what magic, a time long gone. So I can relate to Wyn Wachhorst as he narrates this journey through our coming of age in the cosmos, from Kepler, Goddard, and others, to the present, always writing in symbolic ...

Finding Celia's Place

12 reviews
Celia Morris

Texas A&M University Press, 2000

A Polestar for Young Women
Celia Morris' memoir should be a permanent fixture on the syllabus of any Women's Studies course - or American History, for that matter. Morris' wrenching account of a woman struggling to keep up appearances at the same time that she is developing intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically throws into high relief the relative comfort in which the daughters of her generation (like me)are ...

Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building

11 reviews
Terry Wolverton

City Lights Publishers, 2002

Fascinating memoir!
What a pleasure to read. Wolverton weaves through the book personal history and her experiences at the Los Angeles Woman's Building to bring art history and feminism in LA to life. Wolverton easily evokes engaging images with just a few strokes of the pen.

From Lowbrow to Nobrow

14 reviews
Peter Swirski

McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006

From Lowbrow to Nobrow - A Book WELL Worth your time!
Peter Swirski is on a mission! Peter Swirski's book From Lowbrow to NoBrow is a compelling and ambitious work in the area of literature studies. As has been mentioned, Swirski's main argument lies in the fact that he is trying to "wipe the brow" (pun intended) of distinction amongst works of literature, essentially calling for the banishment of the title "lowbrow" for those books deemed "not ...

The Japan Journals: 1947-2004

12 reviews
Donald Richie

Stone Bridge Press, 2004

humble and honest obervation of life
I have only known Donal Richie as a film scholar having admired his commentaries on Bresson and Ozu DVDs. Naturally, I bacame interested in the man himself who continues to live in Japan. In this journal, he meets such notables as Kawabata, Kurosawa, Takemitsu, but what is more interesting is his interaction and friendship with regular people. Mr. Richie goes to a park in Tokyo (his usual hang ...

"Socialism Is Great!": A Worker's Memoir of the New China

14 reviews
Lijia Zhang

Atlas & Co., 2008

Timely, Informative, and Beautifully Crafted Story in post Mao China
I have met Lijia Zhang by a chance encounter as we shared the same row seat on a recent trans Pacific flight. At the onset of our casual conversation, I was impressed by her command of the English language, quite uncharacteristic of a native Chinese. I naively asked, "where did you learn to speak such good English?" She modestly replied that she is a writer, just having returned from a US book ...

The Library at Night

11 reviews
Alberto Manguel

Vintage Canada, 2007

The Romance of Reading
Alberto Manguel has produced a romantic history of libraries which incorporates their best feature: the ability to wander down hitherto unsuspected byways and make new discoveries, often winding up far from your original objective but still satisfied by what you have found instead. This is a discursive history of libraries through various categories: Myth, Order, etc. with fascinating essays for ...

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