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Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium

9 reviews

Random House, Inc., 2008

Journalist and Author Dick Meyer Sees Us as a Country That Has Succumbed to Learned Helplessness
Writing with thoughtful intelligence and keen insight, Dick Meyer, author of Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium, is sincerely haunted by several questions regarding our country's current malaise: Why are so many of us lonely? Why are so many of us depressed and angry? Why are so many of us defensive and paranoid? Why are so many of us distrustful of everyone? Why are we so ...

Fox in Socks (Beginner Books)

60 reviews
Dr. Seuss, Theodore Geisel

Random House, Inc., 1965

Super bedtime book for little boys
There's so much silliness and tongue twisting going on in "Fox in Socks" that my 5-year old and 4-year old end up rolling around in their beds they laugh so hard. This is one of our favorite bedtime books. We've been reading it for a couple years now. The book provided new vocabulary at the start but now the attraction is the tongue twisting rhymes that Mr. Fox delivers.

The Best and the Brightest

58 reviews
David Halberstam

Random House Inc., New York, 1972

History repeating itself
I read this book for the first time over ten years ago and returned to it for the bitter relevancy it has as I reflect on our situation in Iraq today.

Waiting for Godot

161 reviews

Random House Inc (P), 1984

Waiting and Waiting and Waiting and ...
Waiting and Waiting and Waiting and ... Review of Play: Waiting for Godot - A Tragicomedy in Two Acts Written in: 1949 Premiere in: 1953 By: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989) Originally written in French and translated to English by the author himself. This play takes place on a desolate road next to a barren tree. There are two aimless men loitering and passing the time in ...

The Erotic Silence of the American Wife

15 reviews
Dalma Heyn

Random House, Inc., 1992

nothing to fear from this book
First of all I agree with the reviewers who do not perceive this book as a threat to marriage, or to fidelity. Rather, what this book does is help women understand some very difficult and painful emotions that may come up within a long term relationship. I agree, that if anything, she is trying to help women make their relationships better, not by having affairs, but by trying to help them ...

Buffalo Before Breakfast (Magic Tree House #18)

15 reviews
Mary Pope Osborne

Random House, Inc., 1999

School Book Review
Would you ever want to be chased by a big buffalo? I read a book about two kids that did. It is called Buffalo Before Breakfast by Mary Pope Osborne. This book is about a boy named Jack, a girl named Annie and a dog named Teddy. They travel back in time. This story is also about the buffalo and Native Americans. This is a really cool book. One of my favorite parts is when they saw a huge ...

National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe

10 reviews
Roy A. Gallant, Margaret Sedeen

Random House Inc (T), 1995

Jarringly beautiful
Besides my own copy, I have never seen another one of these books. It's a shame really, because this book combines information and illustration in the way only National Geographic can. The nine planets of our solar system make up the majority of text material here, which goes a long way in preserving the shelf life of this book. Our Universe begins with a brief history of astronomy entitled ...

Readers Digest North American Wildlife

6 reviews
Reader's Digest Editors

Random House Inc, 1982

The best facts and pictures of any Wildlife book published.
This book has the best fact-filled text and color portraits of any I have read. It includes over 2,000 plants and animals of all types. It is easy to read and research because each section is color tabed. If you wont to exolore Wildlife you need this Book!!

The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose

7 reviews
Robert Graves, Alan Hodge

Random House Inc (T), 1979

The Granddaddy of Fisking
THWACK! Down comes the headmaster's birch-rod on the sensitive knuckles of the bumbling pupil. Botch that passage again, lazybones, and I'll have your hide! Poet-novelist Robert Graves and historian Alan Hodge have written a delightful book containing a very quirky 126-page critical history of English prose, a few short chapters listing every conceivable principle of clear & graceful writing, ...

The Exception

17 reviews

Random House, Inc., 2008

astounding
I bought The Exception on a whim after seeing a positive review of it in the New Yorker this past summer, and it turned out to be possibly the best contemporary novel I've read in the last couple of years; I read the last 200 pp in a day. The prose is clean, spare, taut, the characters well drawn. The use of the Danish Center for Information on Genocide is fantastic--the novel is presented as a ...

Living on the Earth: Celebrations, Storm Warnings, Formulas, Recipes, Rumors, and Country Dances Harvested by ...

2 reviews
Alicia Bay Laurel

Random House Inc (P), 1971

A new way of living on the earth
Living On The Earth is a wonderful book, whether you are just reading it for fun, or using it as a guide for daily life. The reader feels a strong connection to the author, who we get a good picture of through her handwritten antecdotes. I picked up my mother's copy a few years ago, and I have been looking for my own copy ever since- I am thrilled that someone finally reprinted this book!

Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals

38 reviews
Saul David Alinsky

Random House Inc (T), 1971

how to effect change
This book describes the model of community organizing practiced by successful leaders such as Barack Obama and Cesar Chavez. Very effective but difficult to practice.

Poetic Meter and Poetic Form

10 reviews
Paul Fussell

Random House Inc, 1985

Not for the neophyte, but a tremendous study
When I was 21 and in my first year of graduate school, Paul Fussell's "Poetic Meter and Poetic Form" was one of the first text books assigned to me. When I bought the book and saw how slim it was, I snickered, "Grad school's gonna be a walk in the park!" Yeah, RIGHT! This densely packed tome is not for the uninitiated and definitely not absorbed in just one reading. On and off, over ...

Swanson on Swanson

6 reviews
Gloria Swanson

Random House Inc (T), 1980

Silent Screen Legend and so much more...
Gloria Swanson exuded something special from every inch of her tiny frame. Unfortunately if Gloria Swanson is known at all today, it is for her role as Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard" and too many people assume Gloria was Norma in real-life. Her very candid autobiography reveals a women who was more than just a clotheshorse. Her formal education was limited but like Joan Crawford who came ...

A Guide for the Perplexed

3 reviews
Jonathan Levi

Random House, Inc., 1992

The tanscendent power of a story.
I was drawn in by Levi's ability to craft a sentence, and forever affected by what he has to say. Yes, the Levi treads the line between the uncanny and the preposterous. Some of this is delightful (the origins of baseball and the name Florida), and some is nearly intolerably silly (deep historical references in Led Zeppelin lyrics). Through most of the book, these "what if" takes on history as ...

Approaching God: How to Pray

7 reviews
Steve Brown

Random House, Inc., 1996

A must read for new Christians
I find this book easy to read and hard to put down. I've had it for half a day and have already read half of it. It feels like Mr. Brown is sitting in the room talking to me. I have read some other books regarding prayer and how to pray, but this one is the best I've read so far. I'm new to faith and Christianity and this makes me feel more deserving and willing to carry on the every ...

Sacred Trees

1 review
Nathaniel Altman

Random House, Inc., 1994

Informative,Eye opening
Sleepers awake! Those whose minds have been benumbed by modern civilization need to awaken and grasp the Important fact that trees play an integral part in our life. Mr. Altman brings such issues into clear and sharp focus. Consider how much trees have shaped our civilization, how much it is part of our daily life, how much trees contribute to our quality of life, Fall on your knees and thank ...

The Catch Trap

43 reviews
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Random House Inc (T), 1979

A must read.
The people who are browsing through these reviews, wondering whether they will buy the Catch Trap, are very fortunate. They are very fortunate because they have yet to discover something that is very rare and very precious - a book that totally engulfs and captivates the attention of the reader. Only a very few books have done that to me - maybe half a dozen - and it happened mostly a long time ...

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