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12 reviews
Norman Lewis

Pantheon Books, 1978

Rare gem
Lewis left us with a fascinating account of this small but very human part of WWII. And gathered some very interesting details that otherwise would have been lost forever.

India's China war

14 reviews
Neville Maxwell

Pantheon Books, 1970

Unpopular but honest account of the Sino-Indo Conflict
Since the book tells the truth of Nehru's government's foolishness, arogance, adventurism and opportunist mentality, this otherwise excellent book however was not very popular in India, even to this date. The disputed McMahon Line was a unilateral imaginary line drawn by the British colony authorities without the awareness of the Chinese and without consulting to the Chinese government. ...

Behold the spirit;: A study in the necessity of mystical religion

10 reviews
Alan Watts

Pantheon Books, 1971

One of His Best!
_Behold The Spirit_ is one of the most clearly written, profound, and enlightening books on theology I have ever read. This book represents the ideal combination of profundity and readability - never again will you say that a book must be difficult to read just because it deals with extremely complex and deep subject matter. Like most of Alan Watts' books, _Behold the Spirit_ is an absolute ...

The Animal Family

20 reviews
Randall Jarrell

Pantheon Books, 1985

A fairy tale brought to life
Every once in a while, an author manages to pull off a novel that carries with it the exact tone and magical feeling of a fairy tale. In the genre of The Last Unicorn and The Princess Bride, this beautiful story takes you into a peaceful world where a lonely hunter lives by the sea. The story follows the hunter's efforts to make a family for himself, and to keep that family safe. I don't ...

The archetypes and the collective unconscious (Bollingen series)

9 reviews
C. G Jung

Pantheon Books, 1959

An Essential Work by Jung.
This work, along with _Modern Man in Search of a Soul_, is one of the best places to start if you are new to reading Jung. It is also the companion piece and predecessor to _Aion_, which is another spectacular and groundbreaking work. If you want to read _Aion_, it would make sense for you to read this one first, since it is part 1 of volume nine, while _Aion_ is part two. Overall, I would say ...

The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits

12 reviews
Lewis Carroll

Pantheon Books, 1966

The best nonsense I've ever read
I have read a great deal of nonsense in the past, but this was by far the best nonsense that I have ever read. There is no point, no meaning, no sense, and no boringness. It is a delightful poem (which is well written and very fun to read aloud) about a crew on a ship hunting a snark. The crew includes a captain who only rings a bell, a beaver, a cook who only cooks beavers (the beaver and the ...

The Crusades

11 reviews
Zoé Oldenbourg

Pantheon Books, 1966

Lively and Approachable
Zoe Oldenbourg's "The Crusades" was one of the first books I ever read about the subject, and still remains an unsurpassed introduction to the topic in my experience. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it is still one of my favourites. Oldenbourg covers the main events of the major Crusades, and informs the reader in great detail of the situation at hand. Oldenbourg gives a very detailed ...

ASSAULT

23 reviews
HARRY MULISCH

Pantheon Books, 1985

Haunted and haunting
In a Haarlem street the Dutch Resistance kills an active collaborator. In retaliation the Germans have destroyed a house in that street in which live ten-year-oldAnton Steenwijk with his parents and elder brother. Anton survives, but his parents and brother are killed. As Anton grows up, he wants to suppress all memories of that time, and it is not a coincidence that he chooses to become an ...

Maus I

20 reviews
Art Spiegelman

Pantheon Books, 1986

Shoah in Metaphor
A few years ago, when I first read MAUS, I was filled with trepidation at the thought of a comic book about the holocaust. As a holocaust educator, I worried that any trivialization of the topic might do more harm than good. After I finished reading MAUS, I walked away believing it did a better job of communicating the loss, suffering and lifelong consequences better than almost any novel or ...

Wisconsin death trip

29 reviews
Michael Lesy

Pantheon Books, 1973

American Gothic Death Rattle
I read this book over 16 years ago. It left a lasting impression that will stay with me forever. It may not have the same affect on others but reading some of the reviews posted here, I know that it has on most. You can't really ask somebody "did this really happen?" becuase they either died then or in the 100 years that have past. We have no perspective on these people, places and times ...

The winners

6 reviews
Julio Cortazar

Pantheon Books, 1965

Ducks and Eagles
Cortazar places his characters in categories I've found people all fit--one or the other--like it or not--we are each either a duck or an eagle. Ducks follow of course and eagles set new paths. Ducks may have easier less lonely lives. Unless of course they inherit wealth and power--in which case they must be very confused and inflict chaos on the less entitled. Eagles succeed in endeavors ...

The book of strangers

6 reviews
Ian Dallas

Pantheon Books, 1972

A great introduction to the world of Sufism and Islam.
I came across this book entirely by chance, and only picked it up because the back cover claimed that it was the "Sufi Siddhartha." Being already interested in Sufism, my curiosity was piqued. And once having read it, I felt compelled to read it again and again. This is no mere introduction to either Sufism or Islam in a purely intellectual sense, as is so common in Western books on the subject. ...

The Alphabet Tree

7 reviews
Leo Lionni

Pantheon Books, 1985

The Alphabet Tree
The Alphabet Tree is a wonderful spring board book to help emergent readers understand the importance of putting letters together to create words. I have used this book as an addition to other ABC books at the beginning of the school year for 1st grade children. They were excited and immediatly suggested ways that they could make words. Our classroom now has our own "Alphabet Tree" that the ...

Cronopios and Famas

9 reviews
Julio Cortazar

Pantheon Books, 1969

Makes me happy.
This is on my list of favorite books of all time; it is a great book not because it subtly describes the frivolties of life and not because it shows the persistence of human spirit, blah blah blah... It is a beautiful and great book because it makes you laugh - in its own great non funny way. It is not laughing out loud, of course, more like chuckling to yourself as you read it. You even get ...

Black Jack

6 reviews
Leon Garfield

Pantheon Books, 1969

The Most Beautiful Feeling in The World
My sister, the unstoppable Codemaster Talon, gave this book to read as part of our literary exchange program (she gives me books to read, and I give her books to read). When I first glanced at this book, I thought it would be an easy read (it's just over 200 pages). Then, when I started reading it, I found myself stumbling over some of the old-fashioned English phrases. I asked her when it was ...

Good luck Arizona man

8 reviews
Rex Benedict

Pantheon Books, 1972

Be sure you've been to the bathroom before opening
This book is one of the funniest ever! Years ago, when I drove my latency-aged children across country, we had the book in the car, and to avoid sibling conflict on the long road trip, I had my daughter read it aloud. It's one of my most treasured memories. It has everything: Treasure, bad guys, good guys (Indians), clever kids who win the day. The publisher needs to get its head examined ...

African folktales: Traditional stories of the Black world (The Pantheon fairy tale and folklore library)

5 reviews
Roger D Abrahams

Pantheon Books, 1983

African folktales with an unusual twist
Great tales that help to bring the African storyteller experience home, help teach issues of morality, introduce some of the animal life, paint the lifestyle of women as well as men, and provide the usual creation myths etc. one is accustomed to finding in a book of myths. Explanations to the set of tales, and each section of tales is provided by the author, along with why he believes them to be ...

Design for the Real World;: Human Ecology and Social Change

9 reviews
Victor J. Papanek

Pantheon Books, 1972

An inspiring book on environmental design
I first heard a lecture by Victor Papanek about 20 years ago, shortly before this revised edition was released. He was a very impressive speaker, drawing from a seemingly bottomless well of ecological design ideas. His work has taken him far and wide and in the process allowed him to revamp many of his views on environmental design. This book is an extensively updated version of his seminal ...

Fear of falling: The inner life of the middle class

8 reviews
Barbara Ehrenreich

Pantheon Books, 1989

Piercing the narrative, telling the truth
I hope that with the success of her acid dipped expose of what's really going on in the marketplace of the working poor( Nickel and Dimed) all of Barbara Ehrenreich's books will be back in print because she is a species of writer on the verge of extinction. Unabashedly pro union and anti compassionate conservatism and faith based charity and decidedly not glamorous in her pursuit of topics and ...

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