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You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management

671 reviews
Mehmet C. Oz, Michael F. Roizen

Free Press, 2006

Physicians On Diet
How refreshing to have physicians write scientifically-based books that promote a healthy body, healthy living, and disease prevention. Maybe these authors will inspire their colleagues to talk more to patients about living healthfully. The book is written in a way that makes nutrition and physiological insights readable and understandable by people who do not have a strong science background. ...

The Road (Oprah's Book Club)

1437 reviews
Cormac McCarthy

Vintage Books, 2007

Heartbreaking, heartwrenching, powerful, disturbing...
If you are not capable of true literature, not able to recognize truly moving writing, not able to see a world though words, not able to experience a tale through another man's mind, then you will hate this book, and give it 1-2 stars. However, if you truly recognize great literature for what it is, and can immerse your heart and soul into it, then this book is for you. Only the stupid and ...

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

1508 reviews
Elizabeth Gilbert

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007

Fantastic read
This book is incredibly well written, the writer has the gift to connect whoever reads the book with the story. It does not matter if you are religious or spiritual, you will connect with her in so many ways. Best book I've read in a very long time and you definitely walk away with something at the end, no doubt.

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)

1091 reviews
Eckhart Tolle

Penguin, 2008

Some Inaccuracies but a Good Underlying Message
First, I really recommend you start by reading Eckhart's previous book, The Power of Now, first. A lot of ideas glossed over in A New Earth were fully explained back in The Power of Now. This makes sense to me. You don't want Eckhart to write two books with the exact same content. It's like reading Harry Potter #2. You assume you know the relationships of people, their fears and goals and go from ...

The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.)

1402 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005

Amazing!
I started this book after I had surgery as a way to pass time and I regret not reading it earlier. Poisonwood Bible contains the rich story of a family of a reverend, his wife and four daughters. Each daughter brings her own perspective to the novel and I love the language and the plot itself. It rarely had a dull spot that didn't pertain to the plot or development of characters, which in a large ...

The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah's Book Club)

1180 reviews
Ken Follett

NAL Trade, 2007

Just like everyone else said in review...
A terrific, albeit long, book but one that demands being read and is hard to put down. If one wants to quibble, yes there are terms and language used that did not exist in that time of history. But that is easily forgiven, with good character developement, a story line backdrop, the building of a cathedral, that demands attention, and I found myself moaning in grief whenever the cathedral ...

Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)

165 reviews
Leo Tolstoy

Penguin Classics, 2004

Big and beautiful...
Anna Karenina is probably the most detailed work on relationships, families, society, and spirituality ever written... It is detailed to the point of being its own universe - and one that moves with the consistency of a fine tuned machine. One can only approach such a work by abandoning to it completely - allowing it to take you in whatever direction it wills - with the full acceptance that the ...

The Secret

2166 reviews
Rhonda Byrne

Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2006

The Secret Has Opened the Doors to a New Reality
This landmark book and DVD open the doors to a new reality for millions. People have begun to understand the power of their thoughts and universal principles like the Law of Attraction. Once you take responsibility for creating your life and partner with the infinite intelligence of the universe, anything is possible. Divine Wisdom at Work: 10 Universal Principles for Enlightened Entrepreneurs

Night (Oprah's Book Club)

615 reviews
Elie Wiesel

Hill and Wang, 2006

WE MUSTN'T FORGET!!!
Night is the accounts of one man's one year survivial of one of our worlds worst atrocities. Clearly, while reading this book I too would question with every turn of the pages, "where was god?". If anything would test one's faith, I couldn't imagine anything more befitting. There are countless survivors of millions of different struggles. Mine has been a congenital heart disease. Many of us have ...

A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)

488 reviews
Ernest J. Gaines

Vintage, 1997

Book leaves you thinking...
This was a book you wanted to keep reading. It was easy reading and worth every minute.

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)

152 reviews
Carson McCullers

Mariner, 2004

Story that will stay with you...
This is one of my favorites! This is the first McCullers' book that I have read and it has become one of my favourites. It felt like a timeless story that could have been written only yesterday instead of in the 1930's. It also could have been written by a much older, experienced person instead of a young girl of 23 years. It is a gentle, sad story that might have been typical of small town ...

The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories

47 reviews
Nicholas Gurewitch

Dark Horse Comics, 2007

The Best Comic Ever
A pleasure to review. Wonderful illustration talent (a là Bill Watterson), with a deranged humor we've never seen before. One can read the same comic over and over again, and continue to laugh. And because Nicholas Gurewitch has announced a semi-retirement, we may have to.

Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)

240 reviews
Alan Paton, 2003

Still Relevant
Cry, the Beloved Country, written in 1948, is relevant after all these years. Alan Paton cries for South Africa his beloved country. He cries for the Valley of Umzimkulu the home of Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis. He cries for the city of Johannesburg, the harsh city that spits at the weak with poverty, crime, prostitution and addictions. Paton uses a third person narrative voice to tell ...

A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)

551 reviews
Rohinton Mistry

Vintage, 2001

Phenomenal Book
I devoured A Fine Balance like a very fine meal and at the end wanted even more. The only real problem I had was I guessed what was going to happen 3 times in advance but that didn't bother me the slightest. Mistry is an absolute genius and the Indian World he writes about is both enchanting and tragic all at the same time. John

The Best Life Diet

117 reviews
Bob Greene

Simon & Schuster, 2006

BEST way to change your life
At 50 years old I stopped smoking and started on Bob Greene's, THE BEST LIFE DIET. I hadn't exercised in a very, very long time. I was figuring to gain a considerable amount of weight after quitting smoking, but by being on THE BEST LIFE DIET, not only did I not GAIN any weight, I LOST 17 pounds. I didn't follow it exactly to the T, because I am a sweet eater and I do like to indulge once ...

A Million Little Pieces

1819 reviews
James Frey

Anchor, 2005

saved my life
I wrote a review years ago after I read this book. Still today, regardless of all the notoriety, I give thanks to James for writing this book. Unless someone has walked in the shoes of very early sobriety and recovery from drug addiction as well as alcohol abuse there can be no understanding of how powerful this book is. Bottom line: it saved my life and my MIND. Without this book God only ...

O, The Oprah Magazine Cookbook

8 reviews
Editors Of O Magazine

Hyperion, 2008

The Oprah Magazine Cookbook
I was always tearing out recipes from her magazine. Nice to finally put them all into a cookbook. Pictures are great. I have had the book a week and have made 3 recipes, Mango Couscous is delicious and easy.

Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)

439 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Vintage, 2007

Great
Gabriel Garcia Marquez at his best as a storyteller. Un libro precioso, no solo para los que amamos a Don Gabriel, si no para cualquiera que ama una buena historia.

She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club)

1669 reviews
Wally Lamb

Pocket, 1998

One of my favorite books and authors...
My mom was cleaning out closets and came across "She's Come Undone," which I had read several year ago. It is one of my all-time favorite books, one that I still bring up when discussing novels. I thought it was an amazing story, and I have always been amazed that it was written in first person by a man. The character of Dolores is so real and believable. I took the book from my mom and read it ...

Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

822 reviews
Jeffrey Eugenides

Picador, 2002

Wonderful audio book!
I drive 2 hours round trip each day to work. As such, I listen to LOTS of audio books. Middlesex was a treat!!! The story itself is beautiful, but it really comes alive with the narrator's depiction of the characters. If the book is too big and time is too short, try the audio version. You won't be sorry!!

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