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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays 30 reviews
Joan Didion
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990
Yeats, The Grateful Dead, and All That
+ A fantastic classic by Joan Didion
+ Joan Didion A Voice for the Sixties
+ Great Collection
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Julie of the Wolves (HarperClassics) 237 reviews
Jean Craighead George
HarperTrophy, 1972
Classic
+ After Reading This Book You Will HATE Sarah Palin
+ a perculer adventure! 11 year old buy Mohmad sabha
This is a haunting story that still symbolizes the greatness of Jean Craighead Goerge. It is more than a mere survival story, but the story of a girl who is torn between the modern world and her native Inuit ways. When a rape incident encourages her to flee to California, tragedy occurs and she ...
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Auschwitz and After 3 reviews
Charlotte Delbo
Yale University Press, 1997
If you read no other book on the Holocaust, read this one.
+ Delbo and the survivors
+ Amazing account
The other two reviews are so insightful and accurate, in my opinion, I should have little to add. Yet, after reading "Auschwitz and After", I felt I had to express something of how the book made me understand and grow. As a convert to Judaism (born in 1951, I was on the pathway my whole life, ...
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Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi18 reviews
Jonathan Raban
Vintage, 1998
A Wonderfully Written Book
+ miserable bastard, but he can write
+ An Englishman on the Mississippi
+ Borak down the river
+ Raban's Pursuit of A Dream
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda215 reviews
Philip Gourevitch
Picador, 1999
One of the best books I have read in a long time
+ "The Idea is the Crime"
+ The best, most educational and most gripping account of the genocide
+ Never Again, again
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments89 reviews
David Foster Wallace
Back Bay Books, 1998
Sheer genius.
+ YES, YES, YES.
+ Excellent
+ A national treasure
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Bad Land: An American Romance42 reviews
Jonathan Raban
Vintage, 1997
A Local Habitation And A Name
+ Rewriting Little House on the Prairie . . .
+ Sunning and fascinating
+ The Great American Desert
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family35 reviews
Thomas Mann
Vintage, 1994
Genetics As A Sieve
+ Decline and fall of a bourgeois family
+ Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
+ A realistic story of a family and the ordinary wear and tear of life
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American Pastoral 217 reviews
Philip Roth
Vintage, 1998
Horror Story
As an analysis of Weather Underground types, or homegrown violent terrorists the story fails completely. The book says almost zip about the 60's. This is yet another book by Philip Roth about the mindset of Philip Roth. Basically the US is a horror story for Philip Roth. Roth sees a littleness in ...
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Auschwitz and After3 reviews
Charlotte Delbo
Yale University Press, 1997
If you read no other book on the Holocaust, read this one.
+ Delbo and the survivors
+ Amazing account
The other two reviews are so insightful and accurate, in my opinion, I should have little to add. Yet, after reading "Auschwitz and After", I felt I had to express something of how the book made me understand and grow. As a convert to Judaism (born in 1951, I was on the pathway my whole life, ...
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family35 reviews
Thomas Mann
Vintage, 1994
Genetics As A Sieve
+ Decline and fall of a bourgeois family
+ Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
+ A realistic story of a family and the ordinary wear and tear of life
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays30 reviews
Joan Didion
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990
Yeats, The Grateful Dead, and All That
+ A fantastic classic by Joan Didion
+ Joan Didion A Voice for the Sixties
+ Great Collection
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Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi18 reviews
Jonathan Raban
Vintage, 1998
A Wonderfully Written Book
+ miserable bastard, but he can write
+ An Englishman on the Mississippi
+ Borak down the river
+ Raban's Pursuit of A Dream
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda215 reviews
Philip Gourevitch
Picador, 1999
One of the best books I have read in a long time
+ "The Idea is the Crime"
+ The best, most educational and most gripping account of the genocide
+ Never Again, again
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Julie of the Wolves (HarperClassics)237 reviews
Jean Craighead George
HarperTrophy, 1972
Classic
+ After Reading This Book You Will HATE Sarah Palin
+ a perculer adventure! 11 year old buy Mohmad sabha
This is a haunting story that still symbolizes the greatness of Jean Craighead Goerge. It is more than a mere survival story, but the story of a girl who is torn between the modern world and her native Inuit ways. When a rape incident encourages her to flee to California, tragedy occurs and she ...
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American Pastoral217 reviews
Philip Roth
Vintage, 1998
Horror Story
As an analysis of Weather Underground types, or homegrown violent terrorists the story fails completely. The book says almost zip about the 60's. This is yet another book by Philip Roth about the mindset of Philip Roth. Basically the US is a horror story for Philip Roth. Roth sees a littleness in ...
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments89 reviews
David Foster Wallace
Back Bay Books, 1998
Sheer genius.
+ YES, YES, YES.
+ Excellent
+ A national treasure
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Bad Land: An American Romance42 reviews
Jonathan Raban
Vintage, 1997
A Local Habitation And A Name
+ Rewriting Little House on the Prairie . . .
+ Sunning and fascinating
+ The Great American Desert
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