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134 reviews
Dave Eggers

Vintage, 2007

What is the What
The book is a captivating story of one lost boy's journey. It is at times funny, sad, heartwarming. The reader adds a dimension of accessibility and warmth that makes the whole experience wonderful. I highly recommend it.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

214 reviews
Jeff Lindsay

Vintage, 2006

Good Quality
I saw the series first and then decided to buy the book. The story showed in the series is not exactly the same than the original one in the book, which is very good, otherwise it wouldn't be any surprise. Regarding the book itself, the quality is what I expected, good, and the shipping was quick even when I am out of the US.

Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International)

427 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Vintage Books, 2007

Review of Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera is an emotional story of love and its hardships. Throughout the novel love is compared to things such as flowers, water, and birds. In this story, the emotion of love is so great, that it literally makes men sick. Dr. Urbino is a very sophisticated, well-respected doctor. He is not a very emotional man. The story begins with him finding his best friend lying on the ...

Suite Francaise

342 reviews
Irene Nemirovsky

Vintage, 2007

Suite Francaise
The style of writting is so unique, so individual. Not your common style of writting. & the story so convincing too. At the end, reading the author's notes also made it all so real too. I really felt for her

The Road (Oprah's Book Club)

1378 reviews
Cormac McCarthy

Vintage Books, 2007

Not an English Cozy! Existential Despair Ahead!
No Cormac McCarthy work should be approached carelessly. This is Serious Business - real literature not intended for the meek, those with weak stomachs, or the suicidal (I'm not sure I'm entirely joking). And keep a good thesaurus handy. As always, McCarthy takes the English language out for some vigorous exercise. McCarthy has not used all 475,000 words (according to Webster) in the English ...

Stumbling on Happiness

200 reviews
Daniel Gilbert

Vintage, 2007

Best book I've read in 2 years
This is an awesome book written with no little wit and incredible insight. It's like Blink but with humor. If you want to know why you make bad decisions, why you think like you do and why having kids isn't what it's cracked up to be, you need to check this out.

Dearly Devoted Dexter

100 reviews
Jeff Lindsay

Vintage, 2006

Love it
When I first heard about this show, I was disgusted at the concept and wasn't going to watch it. But curiosity go the best of me and I downloaded a couple episodes from Itunes. I was HOOKED. I then bought the entire season 1 and signed up to be notified when season 2 available. The show is unique and the characters are interesting. I would recommend at least giving it a chance.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

733 reviews
Erik Larson

Vintage, 2004

Amazing
I found "The Devil in the White City" to be a truly amazing book to read. I expected that the portion of the book dealing with the serial killer, H. H. Holmes, would have been fascinating, and that ended up being true. Reading about the diabolical operation of this man, who had no moral problem murdering women who loved him and small children who had done nothing to harm him, was shocking and ...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

1395 reviews
Mark Haddon

Vintage, 2004

The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time
Mark Haddon is a novelist known best for his book, The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time, in which he won the WhitBread Book of the Year Award. His book is about a boy named Christopher who has Asperger's Syndrome, a mental disorder, in which people have difficulties in social interactions. He fears strangers and new places, and screams when people touch him. Yet, he has an amazing ...

No Country for Old Men (Vintage International)

381 reviews
Cormac McCarthy

Vintage, 2007

"ANY TIME YOU QUIT HEARIN SIR AND MAM THE END IS PRETTY MUCH IN SIGHT"
Anarchy. Drugs. Gang violence. Desperation. No Country For Old Men resonates with today's times and for those, like Sheriff Bell, that can't wrap their mind around the meaningless chaos in today's papers. This book is loaded with wisdom and introspection beyond a solid suspense novel and deserves all the accolades it has recieved. This is also a rare instance where the movie is as good as the ...

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman (Vintage)

320 reviews
Nora Ephron

Vintage, 2008

LOVED every word
Wow, could I ever identify with much of what Ephron wrote in this book. Her essays on aging were so on-target...I kept thinking "I could have said this". But the thing is, I could not say it in such wry, lively, entertaining prose. Ephron excels at this kind of writing, poking fun at herself and at the world in which she lives. She shows us that a bit of humor and learning from our past goes a ...

The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage)

268 reviews
Lawrence Wright

Vintage, 2007

An Informative, Devastating, Essential Book
It's encouraging that this is the #1 book on the topic of 9/11 in Amazon. It deserves to be. Not content with depicting the terrible events of 9/11, Wright brilliantly and logically draws out the origins of the nihilist religious movement that formed the ideological motor of 9/11. The roots of 9/11 are twofold: in the writings of Egyptian expatriate Sayyid Qutb, who ironically wrote his most ...

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

314 reviews
Kay Redfield Jamison

Vintage, 1996

An Unquiet Mind
This is the most "on key" book I have read about an unquiet mind. Jamison's depiction of the disease is easy to read and to the point. If you want an informative read, don't let this one slip away. It is a must have.

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

378 reviews
Joseph J. Ellis

Vintage, 2002

A Superb and Excellent Book
If I had to recommend one book to read in a year, I would recommend The Founding Brothers. Joseph Ellis recounts the early stages of American history with six historically-based tales about the Founding Fathers or, as he thinks of them, the Founding Brothers. The stories of Jefferson, John Adams, Madison, Washington, Hamilton, and Franklin (more of a Founding Grandfather, Ellis asserts) ...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

407 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson

Vintage, 1998

Amazing
This book changed my view of literature and journalism and reminded me how important individuality is. Hunter S. Thompson, is amongst the best literary minds of his genration. He is able to draw a reader in with detail and inventive use of the english language.

Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage)

595 reviews
Sam Harris

Vintage, 2008

Live and Let Live
Mr. Harris makes a very important point very effectively. At our nation's founding, a great many of the people had a consciousness of how important it was not to deny the freedom of conscience to anyone. The history of Europe and Christianity is full of the oppression, persecution, and brutal violence of people who disagreed on what God commanded people to kill for. Through the slaughter of ...

The Double Bind (Vintage Contemporaries)

200 reviews
Chris Bohjalian

Vintage, 2008

Sad To See It End
I am almost finished with the Double Bind and I am sad that it is almost over. I am ambivalent. I really want to finish it, to see what happens, but, then, I will be sorry that I am done. I can always gauge how much I enjoy a book by finishing it, and wishing there were more. That is exactly how I feel about this book. I find it very interesting and entertaining and I have to keep reminding ...

Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One

21 reviews
Edward O. Thorp

Vintage, 1966

The Book that Started the Blackjack Revolution
Edward O. Thorp started the blackjack revolution way back in the early 1960s with a difficult but successful card counting system. This book explains that early system and why blackjack is a beatable game. There are now many easier card counting systems such as the Hi-Lo, the KO, the High Opt and the easiest of all Speed Count. Thorp's book is a must have for your gambling library as he ...

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

27 reviews
Martin E. Seligman

Vintage, 2006

Applied Psychology With Leadership Implications
When I picked up this book, I was in hopes that since it was in the Sociology section, that it would be more than a useless text that suggests for people to "think positive thoughts", regardless of whether these thoughts have substance or whether one actually believed these thoughts. Thankfully, I did not experience any disappointment with this book. Seligman takes a different angle from this ...

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

286 reviews
Cormac McCarthy

Vintage, 1992

A terrific book, with qualifiers
OK, this is the third Cormac McCarthy book I've read in a row, following 'The Road' and 'No Country for Old Men'. Each is alike in some ways yet different in many. All are written, quite obviously, by the same author. I say obviously for the two reasons of his name is on each and his stamp, his method of writing is in each. To talk about McCarthy's books is to talk about his style along with the ...

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