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Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order

108 reviews
Robert Kagan

Vintage, 2004

America is from Mars, Europe is from Venus
In a sense much of what Kagan says in this work has been obvious for some time. The U.S. is the great power of the world constantly intervening throughout the world. The Europeans no longer have military power and are concentrated on building their economic strength. The U.S. defends Europe and gives it a free ride in many ways. Europe shows its ingratitude by being increasingly reluctant to ...

Fool's Paradise

3 reviews
John Gierach

Simon & Schuster, 2008

another instant classic
John Gierach has written another book for the fisherman, and like his others, this one is an instant classic. Reading Gierach is both entertaining and enriching, as this trout bum has paid his dues and spent a lifetime in felt soled shoes. A classic, a fun read, and perfect for any fisherman or sportsman with an affinity for the outdoors. I bought this book while on my way to fish John ...

Stranger in Paradise (Jesse Stone Novels)

49 reviews
Robert B. Parker

Putnam Adult, 2008

Maybe the best of the Stone series...
Perhaps I was just in the right mood, but I devoured this one in two sittings, and the break I took in order to go to sleep was done regretfully. For a change, the actual suspense/mystery/thriller plot was better than the personal relationships depicted. Thus, it qualified for me as a hard-to-put-aside read. Stone teams up with "Crow", a guy supposedly from the dark side who does many right ...

Paradise Regained

23 reviews
John Milton

Wilder Publications, 2008

the Signet edition is my favorite
I have maybe a half-dozen editions of "Paradise Lost." Whenever I need to reread it quickly, I pick up the Signet Classic edition. It's got to be my favorite. There are more thorough editions, certainly. But the thing I like about the Signet edition is that it's got this whole Goldilocks thing going on with the footnotes. Not too few, not too many. In the text, words and phrases that ...

Paradise Lost

9 reviews
John Milton

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Very Nice Edition of Paradise Lost
Of course Milton's poem greatness one of greatest ten classics of English Literature. This edition is wonderfully easy to read with good paper, margins, typeface. This is not collectors quality but it will serve to be my libraries copy of Paradise Lost. Loved the essay by Pullman.

Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions)

8 reviews
John Milton

W. W. Norton, 2004

Justifying Milton's Ways
I am always glad for an occasion to tread "with wand'ring steps and slow" through the lines of "Paradise Lost" yet once more. When I found out that Gordon Teskey, to my mind the great poet's strongest reader in many years, had edited a new Norton Critical Edition, I knew it was time to travel the path again. As his predecessor Scott Elledge did for a previous generation, Professor Teskey has ...

Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)

22 reviews
John Milton

Penguin Classics, 2003

The Greatest Writing in the English Language
There's enough already said about why and how Milton wrote this book, so I don't have anything to say about that. It's a story most people will be familiar with, and any surprises will involve the beauty of the language or a random, surprising insight into a character's motivation. In the end, Milton deserves to be called the greatest writer in English because of the pure strength and beauty of ...

Trouble in Paradise (Jesse Stone)

59 reviews
Robert B. Parker

Berkley, 1999

Flamingo Blood Rains Thin in Paradise
TROUBLE IN PARADISE, # 2 in Parker's Jesse Stone series, is a quietly seething thriller with explosives to boom. In this type of deep plot action, here's how one chapter should end and the next one begin: Chapter ending: >> When the police car was halfway across, the bridge began to ripple. The ripple turned into a heave. And, as the sound of the explosion came rolling into the real ...

This Side of Paradise

95 reviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tutis Digital Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2008

A brilliant, serious, and triumphant first novel
Fitzgerald's brilliant, serious, and triumphant first novel can be summarized as follows: Bittersweet experience transmutes Amory Blaine's youthful enthusiasm for wealth and romance and art into a mature understanding of self and of the need to serve others. Fitzgerald is a watercolorist, not an oil painter. He conveys meaning with deft gestures that allow a part (of a room, a person, a ...

The Collected Strangers In Paradise (Strangers in Paradise)

20 reviews
Terry Moore

Abstract Studio, 1994

The way it should be
I have to say that I have tried to read the individual comics that comprise this book. I just couldn't really get into the characters and had no desire to read the series. These pocket books are the way these characters need to be represented. With this format, the reader has a greater chance of seeing the depth and all the turns in the lifes of Francine, Katchoo and David. We see how minor ...

Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean

24 reviews
Les Standiford

Three Rivers Press, 2003

A must-read for anyone traveling to Key West!
If you do one thing before visiting the Florida Keys and Key West, PLEASE make time to read this book! We flew to Miami recently and drove this amazing route all the way to Key West. I finished the book right before our return trip, so I couldn't stop talking about the feats of engineering and perilous conditions during the entire car ride! (I think the fam got a little bored with ...

Paradise Lost

18 reviews
John Milton, David Scott Kastan, ...

Hackett Publishing Company, 2005

Zenith
Milton in Paradise Lost unfurls a morning star banner heralding the cosmic story of the fall of angels and men in language eminently civil. I am sure that Homer and Dante were Milton's schoolmasters yet Milton almost exceeds them in the slendid language and poetry of this epic creation. Philip Pullman said "No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the ...

On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense

50 reviews
David Brooks, 2004

An humorous and thought-provoking read
After writing "BoBos in Paradise," David Brooks certainly had a tough act to follow. I found that BoBos captured the psyche of the affluent baby boomers in a way that was both enlightening and rip roaringly humorous. For me, it's no overstatement to say that BoBos was a joy to read. I haven't enjoyed reading a writer as much since I faithfully read the columns of the late and legenday Mike Royko ...

Death in Paradise (Jesse Stone)

62 reviews
Robert B. Parker

Berkley, 2002

Jesse Stone is Parker's most alive and best character yet.
Robert B. Parker, best known for his Spenser series, delivers one of his finest, most absorbing works yet. This third entry in the Jesse Stone series finds Stone--a former LAPD cop fired for drinking on the job--serving as chief of police in the town of Paradise, Massachusetts, and investigating the murder of a teenaged girl whose decomposed body turns up in the local lake. As he follows slender ...

Paddock Paradise: A Guide to Natural Horse Boarding

5 reviews
Jaime Jackson

Star Ridge Pub, 2007

Ingenious and refreshing
A whole new way for the average person with a bit of land and a drive to practice optimal husbandry to create a stimulating world for their horses, to their health and deep contentment. The difference between Jackson's approach and the usual fenced acreage is like the difference between an animal safari park and an old-fashioned bars-and-walls zoo. Creating physical, social, and ideally even ...

Paradise

236 reviews
Judith McNaught

Pocket, 1992

such an enjoyable read!
You will love this book. It is such an enjoyable read - as are all of McNaughts other reads. I am looking forward to my re-read already!

Cold Paradise (Stone Barrington Novels)

62 reviews
Stuart Woods

Signet, 2002

got me hooked quickly
what can I say about Woods that I haven't already said? Once again he builds on what happened before, takes it further and makes it better...this book would be great on its own, but you really have to read the Barrington series in order to to get the full effect of each entry in the series... I don't want to get into the story because I hate to ruin the experience for anyone who hasn't read ...

Paradise Lost (Dover Giant Thrift Editions)

2 reviews
John Milton

Dover Publications, 2005

Cheap and well done
A heafty volume for a thrifty price. Good binding, clean & easy to read font and enough room in the margins for notes if you are a student. A great side item if you get the Dore' engravings of Paradise Lost [which are just quotes from the book and not the whole poem] and want to read more than just the famous lines. Unabriged and yet small enough to get away with lugging around.

Paradise

324 reviews
Toni Morrison

Knopf, 1997

Divisive and Fantastic
I find it disturbing that many reviews, some of which are listed on this site, devalue this book because it doesn't deliver "a point"; but I would find this, or any devaluation, disturbing since this is one of my favorite books by Morrison. There is something to be said for subjectivity in the enjoyment of any work; often this is what separates a fine or noteworthy novel from a disappointing or ...

Paradise of the Blind: A Novel

24 reviews
Duong Thu Huong, Nina McPherson

Harper Perennial, 2002

An Uncomprising Critique of "Revolutionary" Vietnam
A short response to any book by Duong Thu Huong is a good deal like a short response to the Bible--it will be lacking. This is especially the case with Huong's 1988 work Paradise of the Blind, the story of a young Hanoi woman, Hang, forced to give up her university studies and work in the Soviet Union in order to support her mother. This is only half the story though. Hang reached adulthood ...

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