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Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected Stories

60 reviews
Raymond Carver

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1988

"Who knows why we do what we do?"
It's awfully hard to live up to praise - especially when said acknowledgments include "one of the great short story writers of our time - of any time" and comparisons to the great Hemingway himself (considered by many to be the all-time master of the form). Happily, Raymond Carver's estimable work stands up to the plaudits. "Where I'm calling from" is a collection of Carver's work from four ...

The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

50 reviews
Ron Chernow

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1990

Great Book if Specifically Interested in JPM
This book took me a long time to read. I started the book and found the first half of the book regarding Pierpont Morgan's life, his family and the bank he built quite interesting. The book drags on with details at points throughout the last half of the book and focuses much of its time on Morgan Stanley, but the author's strong research and writing ability stays constant. The last several ...

Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member

180 reviews
Sanyika Shakur, Kody Scott

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1993

Ought to be on a lot more reading lists!
Monster Kody Scott, leading gunman of the Eight Tray Gangstas, recounts his gory murders, robberies and exploits as a member of the notorious Crips. A sickening tide of violence visited this man's life in the span of a decade, from gunning down enemy Bloods to facing death at the hands of rival Crips. Whether you're an at-risk youth or an activist against the system, you need to read Shakur ...

My Secret Fishing Life

1 review
Nick Lyons

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1999

Nick, Mari, Tony & Sparse: highly personal matters
Mr. Lyons, whose books (both edited and written) fill a significant portion of my fly fishing library, has written a very personal book. The title is accurate at many levels. I doubt that many of us would share so much about our personal lives - or that we would be able to do so with such candor and joy. Mr. Lyons description of the travels (and travails) of a special copy of Sparse Grey ...

My War Gone By, I Miss It So

66 reviews
Anthony Loyd

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 2000

Remarkable book
This is an amazing account of a terrible war, and it's beautifully written. If you don't know the background of the wars in the former Yugoslavia, be sure to read a quick history online first to fill you in. But don't let a lack of knowledge of the situation deter you from reading the book - it's incredible.

The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History

139 reviews
Howard K. Bloom

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1995

Unique Analysis
This book provides a fascinating perspective on history and current society. If you are looking for a strictly academic work, this is probably not for you. Instead, this book looks at parallels between trends and processes in various parts of the world, and in various parts of history. If you are looking for brilliant insights and a unique perspective, strongly consider this book.

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

48 reviews
Jeanette Winterson

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1987

Great introduction to Winterson
This is not "Well of Loneliness" (Radcliffe Hall) and for that we can all be grateful.

Random Acts of Senseless Violence

31 reviews
Jack Womack

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1994

Impossible to put down, too easy to pick up time after time
This is one of the finest novels of near-future America ever written. That may sound like a sweeping statement, but Womack's terrifying vision of the final years of a 20th century where an adolescent army exerts a brutal discipline on New York, global warming and pollution have turned summers into poisonous nightmares and the country's economy is disintegrating almost as fast as accepted social ...

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

196 reviews
Gary Kinder

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1998

A Real Life Indiana Jones Saga Of Sunken Treasure
This book seamlessly blends three stories. Two are adventure related with one begatting the other, that is the story of the sinking of the S.S. Central America, creating great panic due to about half of the U.S.A.'s gold being lost in addition to the death of over 400 passengers, and the subsequent story of how it was found and reclaimed some 130 years later. The other, the third story if you ...

Mobbed Up: Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the FBI

4 reviews
James Neff

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1989

Propaneguy Reviews Mobbed Up.
James Neff, is a great writer. At first glance this book looks like a collage textbook. But he has a ton of well researched information. The book just flows and doesnt get boring. It gives you an idea what the Mob had the power to do. And how they accomplished it. What is amazing to me is these thugs actually meet with our presidents. This book is a must read.

Under a Sickle Moon: A Journey Through Afghanistan (Traveler (New York, N.Y.).)

5 reviews
Peregrine Hodson

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1987

Provides A Useful Perspective on Islam
I agree with the other reviewers. More important for me was the perspective Hodson gives concering Islamic attitudes and beliefs. That those fighting the Russians often saw Russia and the US as similar is sobering and can help us to better appreciate Islam and its adherents. As a WASP, personal experience and books like "Under a Sickle Moon" have contributed to my recognizing that the concerns ...

The Dark Side of the Force: A True Story of Corruption and Murder in the Lapd

1 review
Jan Golab

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1993

The Case of the Convicted Cops
This 1993 book is about two rogue cops in the LAPD. They ran prostitutes, sold automatic weapons, committed insurance fraud, armed robbery, and murder-for-hire. Their plan to kill an erotic dancer to collect life insurance failed, and exposed their schemes to Federal investigators. This landmark ruling expanded First Amendment rights for freelance writers in California. This book lacks ...

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
Gary Kinder

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1998

The Price of Experience: Power, Money, Image, and Murder in Los Angeles

7 reviews
Randall Sullivan

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1996

A Classic
This is one of the great overlooked books of the 90's. It was overlooked, I believe, because of its length and the timing of its release: over a decade after its subjects, Joe Hunt and the Billionaire Boys Club, were in the media spotlight. What a shame because it a flat out masterpiece. As far as true crime books go this is a landmark and the top of the heap. Not only is it incredibly ...

Yardie

3 reviews
Victor Headley

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1993

Reads like a movie
This is one of the most vivid books ive read. Perhaps it wass because i had been there (lived the yardie story) and done that. But this book really came alive for me, and I was unable to put it down. I literally read the entire book, in maybe 3 or 4 sitting during one particularly cold winter in London. Would-be movie producers need to take a serious look at this novel.

Sad Movies

3 reviews
Mark Lindquist

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1987

1980s Rule
I bought this because of the "Trailer Park Chicks Dig It" review below. It came out about seven years before Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" and it's sharper, funnier, cooler, and, of course, American. It's very 1980s, I agree with the other reviewer, but it's also "timeless" I suppose in that it's a guy in his 20s coming of age and all that. The author has a new novel coming out, "Never Mind ...

United Nations: The First Fifty Years

6 reviews
Stanley Meisler

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1995

Underrated
I cannot recommend this book enough. Get it before it disappears from the world! (It was written in 1995) It is an easy, quick read filled with interesting quirks and quotes from the most important figures in recent history. It provides a condensed history of crisis, war, leaders and resolutions from 1945 to 1995. Definitely worth reading, it's the most entertaining way i have come ...

Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

50 reviews
Peter Godwin

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1996

An Insider's View of Zimbabwe
While traveling on an overland safari, I ran out of books to read. (Although I brought plenty, as an English teacher, I was devouring them as we drove through the African countryside.) Fortunately, one of the French girls in the back of the truck had just finished a book and was willing to lend it to me. She said that Mukiwa was captivating and that I wouldn't be able to put it down, and she was ...

Composing a Life

14 reviews
Mary Catherine Bateson

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1989

A great general framework on how to compose an enjoyable life
I agree with the previous reviewers that mentioned the scope of the book is narrow focused, in that it certainly deals with the life of 5 successful women all middle to upper class. Still, if you are in the situation of dealing with multiple tasks at the same time - and so many women nowadays are, independent of the country where they live or how they came into it - this book is really helpful in ...

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