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18 reviews
Pope John Paul II

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1994

This Book Changed my Life. Tolle, Lege.
This is a poetically dangerous book. I first read it some ten years ago, just after having graduated college, when I was emerging from my adolescent decadence & skepticism.. I was searching for understanding, for faith. The thought herein is so limpidly potent it made me high, like great poetry. It radically changed my thought & heart for good. For better. It made me actually embrace the ...

Jesus' Son: Stories

94 reviews
Denis Johnson

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1992

Children of loneness
In Denis Johnson's stunning collection of short stories "Jesus' Son", there is an image that stays with you most of the time. This is the picture of loneness and desolation. In one of the best tales, called "Emergency", the main character whose name goes by FH and a friend drive through the country. They eventually find a drive-in. But the weather is awful and there is no one in there - even ...

On Photography

24 reviews
Susan Sontag

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1977

Amazing essays!!!!
I loved this book! It is so refreshing to read an unpretentious art criticism book. Her views are simple but breathtaking. The fact that one is reading essays about photography, written by someone who is not inside the art world, makes a huge a difference. She is not trying to create the new "it" artisitc concept, she's just speaking as a photography lover and admirer.

Thoughts in Solitude

25 reviews
Thomas Merton

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1998

Reflections in a Life of Solitude
Perhaps meant more as his inner reminders of purpose than for the general public, Merton's "Thoughts in Solitude" show him to be reminding himself of his mission. As is implied in the title, this book discusses Merton's thoughts about the solitary life as he journeys though that life. Told in chapters that average 2-3 pages long, these passages are easy to digest for the average reader. ...

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

30 reviews
Joan Didion

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1968

Yeats, The Grateful Dead, and All That
This book starts out citing W.B. Yeats and Peggy Lee, co-equals in esteem and regard. Yeats and his slouching towards Bethlehem, "Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold...And What rough best, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" and this lovely gem from Miss Peggy, "I learned ...

Boy: Tales of Childhood

138 reviews
Roald Dahl

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1984

''Some are funny. Some are painful. Some are unpleaseant. Perhaps this is why I have remembered them so vividly. All are true.''
So says Roald Dahl in the introduction to his autobiogrophy,BOY. The book is a collection of his childhood memories, from the magical summers in Norway to the dreary days at St.Peters boarding school. As in all of Dahl's works the characters are quirky and memorable,but more fascinating here because they really existed. The auther recounts the adventures of his childhood with tenderness and dry ...

Smilla's Sense of Snow

178 reviews
Peter Hoeg

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1993

snow flurries.....
Thank you Peter Hoeg for the best book I've read in ten years, deeply sensitive and meaningful characters. Transportive to the point one feels a lowering of body temperature while savouring this expressive writing, every chapter a flurry of impressions that settle in snowy layers. Absolute depth perfection....

The Witches

252 reviews
Roald Dahl

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1983

The Witches
This is an excellent book for 3rd grade readers. It is very exciting and keeps my child interested. I recommend this book.

The Bonfire of the Vanities

155 reviews
Tom Wolfe

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1987

The Best Mainstream Novel of the Last Two Decades
On the plus side, The Bonfire of the Vanities compares well with Balzac's stuff. I mean, the methods are similar. The story follows several very different characters living in New York, and each scene is detailed, particularized, analyzed, painted with a very fine brush. Many layers of New York's society are represented. There are no moral messages, no lessons to be learned, just life in New York ...

The Complete Poems

22 reviews
Elizabeth Bishop

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1969

Great poetry
We all know that Elizabeth Bishop was a great poet but this book, with the complete poems, give you a deeper understand her work.

Moth Smoke

69 reviews
Mohsin Hamid

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 2000

A Political Parable About Modern Pakistan
There's no doubt about it: "Moth Smoke," by Mohsin Hamid, is an unforgettable reading experience. No matter what background you bring to this book, you'll come away entertained and enlightened...and don't be surprised if you feel a bit jet-lagged, as well. This novel immerses you in a fascinating cultural experience. For the duration of the book, you feel like you are living in modern Lahore, ...

Collected Poems

29 reviews
Philip Larkin

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1989

This be the verse
There are two different types of Larkin poem. The first type, mostly written before 1955, are influenced by Yeats and Auden and are mediocre. The second, written when he found his voice, are amongst the most wonderful works of English literature ever written. So what was his voice? Basically that of twentieth century man - atheistic, obsessed with sex, regretting the loss of faith and the old ...

Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art

14 reviews
Lewis Hyde

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1998

Masterful non-fiction writing
A brilliantly written, funny and moving book--filled with substantial scholarship and honest about its own stakes. To tell you the truth, I was moved to write this review by the two reviews below, both of which fall pretty wide of the mark. First, this is an amazingly well-written book, and that goes for both Hyde's prose style and his winding structure. His reflections of his own project do ...

Norwegian Wood

159 reviews
Haruki Murakami

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1990

Norwegian Wood
What can be said about this brilliant novel that has not been said before? Haruki Murakami is a genius. Norwegian Wood ranks amongst the top five best books I've ever read and each time I read it, I only love it more. An infinite number of stars.

The Fixer

48 reviews
Bernard Malamud

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1966

our modern selves
malamud is an excellent writer. he stoicly captures something that is undefined, but really reflects for me suburban life in jersey and nyc in the sixties (even though this is a book about russia). i liked this book for the humanity it places on the face of suffering at the hands of injustice; how despite all the beatings and deprivations, the character holds on to his essential jewishness. but ...

Games for Writing: Playful Ways to Help Your Child Learn to Write

12 reviews
Peggy Kaye

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1995

Great for Homeschooling
This is a wonderful book for the homeschooling environment. First, the author is a tutor for children struggling with public school methods, so she offers enjoyable, imaginative alternatives to the plug and chug kids get in school. Second, as a tutor, the author works with children primarily one-on-one. These games, therefore, lend themselves naturally to the experience of home schooling. ...

Play It As It Lays: A Novel

28 reviews
Joan Didion

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1970

In the Thick of Nothingness [T]
I have now read two books by Didion - this and the Pulitzer Prize winning "The World of Magical Thinking." Each is devilishly depressing. The similarities do not end there. The main character of this book, Maria Wyeth, physically resembles the author. Her roots are similar. And, she is an actress in the Hollywood that the author wrote and wrote more for. But, there are differences too. ...

Crash

116 reviews
J. G. Ballard

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1973

Sex and Car Crashes
I first read J.G. Ballard's "Crash" in early 1997, in anticipation of the release of the film adaptation by David Cronenberg. It stuck with me--it's the kind of novel that is impossible to forget--and now, eleven years later, I have just finished my second reading. As austere and steely as the automobiles that the characters live out their sexual fantasies within, "Crash" is a mesmerizingly ...

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