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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

379 reviews
Joseph J. Ellis

Vintage, 2002

A tasteful look into each of those fascinating men
In the afterglow of the HBO series on John Adams, I grew interested in some of the founding fathers, many of whom had seemed boring to me ever since I read their bios in grade school. Ellis does a highly intelligent and readable job of laying out the personalities, conflicts and battles of the whole group during the first years of the nation. I particularly like the chapter on the duel between ...

Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)

1099 reviews
John Steinbeck

Penguin, 2002

Must read book
The book, Of Mice and Men, has to be one of the good books I've read in a long time. The good parts about it are at the start, you get to meet the characters on how they act and the way they get along. Of course, there are some bad parts in books. One of them is when one of the bunk mates picks a fight with Lennie, because he is taller than him! Of Mice and Men, Lennie Small and George Milton ...

Life of Pi

1808 reviews
Yann Martel

Harvest Books, 2003

An Astonishing Read
Every so often, a book finds you, instead of the other way around, and this was very much the case when I came across "Life of Pi". It is a book that asks deeply philosophical and religious questions, while giving you a handful of answers that are subtle and mysterious. In this fantasy-like (and very grown-up) story, our hero, Pi Patel, finds himself stranded on a boat, in the middle of the ...

The Chosen

304 reviews
Chaim Potok

Fawcett, 1987

By Andy K., a 7th Grader
Two Brooklyn Jewish boys live a few blocks away, but a world apart. One feels imprisoned by his family's long-held tradition. The other one is secretly very lonely. Although they hate each other at first, they grow to become best friends. This is the story of The Chosen by Chaim Potok. It takes place in the mid to late 1950's, and it is the story of Reuven Malter, a Modern Orthodox Jew, and Danny ...

Beloved

76 reviews
Toni Morrison

Vintage, 2004

Difficult, But a Must-Read
This novel was rated by the New York Times as the best American novel of the last 25 years and has been accorded the status of a classic great American novel. This amount of hype, Morrison's iconic status, and the difficulty of the book can cause a great amount of skepticism in the reader. One wants to hate the book and toss it aside. It took me quite a while to warm to the book, and I did ...

All the Pretty Horses

289 reviews
Cormac Mccarthy

Vintage, 1993

Life, death, love, horses and hand rolled cigarettes
I can't believe I've waited this long to get into Cormac McCarthy. We Texans have always known him to be one of the great Texas western writers, right up there with Larry McMurtry, earning a place in our hearts. But Cormac is bigger than that. Bigger than Texas, you say? His craft has been compared to Faulkner and Conrad. We're talking about literature here. After I saw the movie, "No ...

The Wednesday Wars

20 reviews
Gary D. Schmidt

Clarion Books, 2007

One of the most entertaining books I've ever read
Wow! If I could give this book 6 stars-I would. I have read lots of middle school books, and yes a few have been excellent. This one was nearly impossible for me to put down. The book was so funny in parts, that I had a difficult time trying to stop laughing. Other parts were exciting, touching, a bit sad, and very thought provoking. Yes, this book is easy to read, but not at all shallow by ...

The Great Gatsby

1117 reviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Scribner, 1999

Fantastic! One of my Favorite Books!
Aside from making a powerful statement about the so called "American Dream," this novel is brilliantly written. Mr. Fitzgerald's mastery of the English language is evident in his genius sentence structure and meticulous word choice. One cannot help but stop reading to simply marvel at some of his phrasing. I highly recommend Gatsby to anyone out for great read.

Things Fall Apart: A Novel

525 reviews
Chinua Achebe

Anchor, 1994

A classic, with good reason
This is an extraordinary book in its ability to narrate both a story of cultural dissonance and an overarching tale about the human condition. Achebe's novel broaches the subject of morality, but demonstrates that even the concept of "evil" is subject to a cultural interpretive context. Okonkwo, the book's tragic hero, is an emblem of tradition, but also represents how tradition can be ...

To Kill a Mockingbird

1738 reviews
Harper Lee

Grand Central Publishing, 1988

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 ...

Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China

347 reviews
Jung Chang

Touchstone, 2003

The reality of China for three generations of women
Some books are to be savored slowly and take me months to finish. Other books, like this one, are a delicious overindulgence of reading, the narrative sweep so compelling that I gobbled up all 505 in almost one fell swoop. Subtitled "Three Daughters of China", this 1991 autobiography is the story of 20th Century China itself. Here we meet three women, the grandmother and mother of the ...

Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)

33 reviews
William Shakespeare

Washington Square Press, 2003

If you want to read Shakespeare its has to be The new folger Library
If you ever thought about reading Shakespeare but was turned off or intimidated by the old english, not so with the new folger editions. Your basically reading the play on all the right sided pages , with the left pages reserved for all the definitions and explanations of the sayings and words that might be dificult to understand. This makes it very easy and enjoyable to read.

Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives)

48 reviews
Bill Bryson

Eminent Lives, 2007

Shake it Up!
Bryson is funny - so there is no better choice of writers to explore a rather dull topic. I was hoping for some new bits of information. Basically, Bryson sifts through other historian's theories & research. Bryson avoids speculation, but doesn't present any new possibilities. The end result is what you'd expect: we really don't know much about England's most celebrated writer. Irony, the ...

The Catcher in the Rye

2750 reviews
J.D. Salinger

Little, Brown and Company, 1991

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 ...

The Book of Air and Shadows: A Novel

80 reviews
Michael Gruber

Harper Paperbacks, 2008

World Of Men, Women and Books
There is such a thrill as a reader when one finds a "new author!" I loved this book. Not in the way one goes insane as with the "DaVinci Code." And I do hope Dan Brown does another something. But this book was anomalous, at least in my world. It was a man talking about men. There are all kinds of James Bond types and some of those books, even as the woman, I like. But this one was trickie. I ...

The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)

29 reviews
Geoffrey Chaucer

Penguin Classics, 2003

The strength of Chaucer's verse shines through....
Chaucer was a master story teller. He was a master poet. He was a master writer. He was just blessed, gifted... there aren't enough words to express the depth of Chaucer's talent... his gift. This collection reminds me why I fell in love with Chaucer's work back in college. It's one of the more complete collections and I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end. I will read it a ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classics)

355 reviews
Mark Twain

Bantam Classics, 1981

One of my favorites! Why do people hate it?
First off, I love this book and I was very mad to hear stuff like "All people who like it are stupid" I read one review where the person said "It shows how stupid Anericans can be" You misspelled Americans buddy! People did talk like that. I know because they still talk like that. I loved the language, and snobs who just turn their noses up and say "that's not proper English!" are obnoxious and ...

The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)

451 reviews
Pearl S. Buck

Pocket Books, 2005

And to the Earth we shall return
"The Good Earth" is the saga of one man, a humble and simple farmer named Wang Lung, who rises from poverty to wealth throughout the course of his life. No matter what befalls him, one thing is constant in his life - the land that provides for his livelihood, whether in harvest or in drought. Pearl S. Buck crafted a masterful, if somewhat slowly unfolding epic, of one man's journey through life ...

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

238 reviews

W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

Wow
This was incredible. Why wasn't I assigned to read this in high school? I want to read more like this. This is up there with Homer. This new translation is a very easy-to-read one, I sat down and pretty much read this straight through. I really enjoyed looking back and forth at the old English vs. the contemporary. This was really really great.

Into the Wild

1155 reviews
Jon Krakauer

Anchor, 1997

A Wild Story
Please forgive me if this review is a little rambling. This is my first time as an Amazon reviewer, but several books I've been into recently really pushed me to start writing reviews, just so people won't miss out on great reads, and this is one of them. As a librarian, I see thousands of books every day, and normally, people's requests don't change my mind on what I like to read - historical ...

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