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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (International Export ... 1494 reviews
Elizabeth Gilbert
Penguin Books, 2007
A memoir worth reading
I could relate to this memoir - everyone is dysfunctional in their own way, but Gilbert isn't afraid to put herself out there. I admired her writing style, her wit and ability to laugh at herself. She is poignant about issues that many people face everyday. Interesting perspectives on three different cultures which richly contrast with American life.
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Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)124 reviews
Leslie Marmon Silko
Penguin Books, 2006
A MASTERPIECE
Stepping Off the Edge: Learning & Living Spiritual Practice
A classic in Native American literature, Ceremony tells the story of Tayo, a young Native man who returns from W.W.II with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Silko's masterful writing interweaves the personal, social and societal causes for Tayo's illness with traditional Native legends and cures. Beautiful, inspiring and very harsh. Like ...
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Escape 247 reviews
Carolyn Jessop
Penguin Books Ltd, 2008
didn't want to put it down
This book was extremely entertaining, but at the same time disturbing and incredulous. It is particularly relevant now with the raid on the FLDS compound in Texas (the same one from the book, they have moved). Reading it, I found it hard to believe that there are people living that way in modern times in the U.S. Even more difficult to understand is why she didn't escape much earlier. These ...
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Love in the Time of Cholera 437 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Penguin Books Ltd, 2007
Outstanding Love Story
Fermina and Florentino are portrayed in "Love in the Time of Cholera" as an eternal match of lovers. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a master in his writings. Florentino is able to maintain his love for his chosen beauty throughout his life. He reluctantly accepts her marriage to another, but he continues to cherish and adore the one true first love of his life. Marquez is a true master at his ...
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The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) 1 review
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Penguin Books, 2007
Shines Brilliantly Like a Just-Discovered Piece of Cameo Jewelry from a Bygone Era
It's difficult to give any even-handed critique F. Scott Fitzgerald's standard-setting Jazz Age novel since it was required reading for most of us in high school. However, if you come back to it as a full-fledged adult, you'll find that the story still resonates but more like a just-polished cameo piece from a forgotten time. At the core of the book is the elaborate infatuation Jay Gatsby has for ...
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The World Is Flat1124 reviews
Thomas Friedman
Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 2007
flatenning but biased
The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
"What else but sensationalism could you expect from an American Journalist" My friend commented when I told him I was on a most sensational book by New York Times' Thomas Friedman. I thank my friend and my kids favorite 4th Grade teacher Michael Citrino to have recommended "The World is Flat" which has introduced me to a rapidly flattening world, of which I ...
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The Black Swan303 reviews
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 2007
We have to remember, it is a model about the world, not a world about the model
If you ever questioned what your history teacher told you, you will find this book very interesting. If you ever hated grading on the curve, you will find out your were not alone. If you ever built a portfolio and it was perfect, and later you had asked yourself what in the world were you doing, you will find an answer in this book.
If you ever had to decompose a forecast at your work to get ...
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A New Earth1048 reviews
Eckhart Tolle
Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 2006
this book changed my life
i have read ' the power of now" and i liked it but i just did not seem to get it. a friend told me about ' a new earth" and Oprah doing the book for her book club so i bought it. i also took the classes they did. this book opened my eyes to things in a big way. it made all the things i did not understand understandable. it all made sense to me. Tolle talks a lot about Jesus in this book. it made ...
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The Annotated Alice40 reviews
Lewis Carroll
Penguin Books Ltd, 2001
Genius takes on genius
I grew up reading Martin Gardner in Scientific American, and although I didn't get interested in Lewis Carroll until I saw the original "Alice" manuscript in a display at the British Library, I've been a fan of children's stories all my life. Having Gardner expound Carroll is (dare I say it?) pure genius. I have a number of annotated works, but I think this is the only one where the notations ...
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Live Right for Your Type48 reviews
Peter D'Adamo, Catherine Whitney
Penguin Books Ltd, 2002
New and improved
The new and improved version of the blood group diet that customizes eating plans to your blood group.
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In This Mountain (The Mitford Years, Book 7)99 reviews
Jan Karon
Penguin Books, 2002
Mitford Series - In This Mountain
Jan Karon does a great job with this whole series - haven't found a book yet I didn't enjoy!
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I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell231 reviews
Tucker Max
Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 2006
funniest. book. ever.
I laughed so hard, I cried while reading this book.
if you like the tv show 'it is always sunny in Philadelphia, you will love this book.
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The Shock Doctrine215 reviews
Naomi Klein
Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 2007
Corporations gone wild
This book presents a gripping portrait of what corporations seek to do when they have no restraints upon them. Klein's analysis of corporations and the Iraq war is the best I have seen. The book is worth buying for this alone.
Much of the book is devoted to historical analysis of events over the last few decades in Chile, Argentina, Russia, and the like. I don't have enough background in the ...
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The Tortilla Curtain232 reviews
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Penguin Books, 1996
Boyle's Crowning Achievement
This is by far Boyle's best work yet. He was initially deeply vilified for writing this novel, but as California's political and social climate shifted, and became part of mainstream cognizance the same people who labeled him as 'human garbage' now praise him and this novel for what it suggests about the nature of California's immigration and the vast social connections it makes within the ...
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The Catcher in the Rye2750 reviews
J.D. Salinger
Penguin Books Ltd, 1994
the one American classic novel you really should read
If you're only going to read one classic American novel, this is the one. It is well written, lighthearted, even though the story does have its dismal moments; it is told in such a comical way it won't bring you down. I bought this book along with Grapes of Wrath, Mice and Men and Fahrenheit 451 when I was taking some time off from my English degree to have a baby and wanted to catch up with some ...
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The World Is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century1124 reviews
Thomas Friedman
Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
flatenning but biased
The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
"What else but sensationalism could you expect from an American Journalist" My friend commented when I told him I was on a most sensational book by New York Times' Thomas Friedman. I thank my friend and my kids favorite 4th Grade teacher Michael Citrino to have recommended "The World is Flat" which has introduced me to a rapidly flattening world, of which I ...
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To Kill a Mockingbird1738 reviews
Harper Lee
Penguin Books Ltd, 1969
A Teenager's Perspective of To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird is a relief after the numerous tedious pieces of "classic literature" forced upon us by our county's curriculum. This book interlaces themes related to both adulthood and childhood which parallel the stage of our lives which we currently live.
To Kill A Mockingbird centers around the lives of Scout and Jem Finch and their explorations of the facets of ...
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