Style and Idea: Selected Writings2 reviews Arnold Schoenberg University of California Press, 1984 one-of-a-kind + The Work of a Genius This book is nothing short of an institution in attidude,insight and understanding toward art. Shoenberg was an amazing teacher,artist and musician. That book is definitely a keeper,and I have bought A LOT of textbooks about harmony,counterpoint,you name it. But that one is really unique. It's ...             The Book of Lights14 reviews Chaim Potok Fawcett, 1982 This book just sucked me in. + An ideal fiction + Memorable Journey + Slowly Finding the Good of Darkness             Kitchen God's Wife161 reviews Amy Tan Ivy Books, 1992 Riveting, inspiring and educational + Savory! + Beautifully written work by amy tan My wife and I will often read a novel to each other if it has plenty of drama, and tells a great story. The Kitchen God's Wife is such a story! The novel starts off slow but interesting, and as the end nears it becomes harder and harder to put down. Most of the narrative is anchored around ...             Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms to Watch Out For4 reviews Alison Bechdel Alyson Books, 2003 As always, Bechdel's got the Zeitgeist's pulse! + Funny, poignant and vividly real + FABULOUS!!! + Not just for dykes, feminists, and liberals!             The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven13 reviews Charles Rosen W. W. Norton & Company, 1998 Classic writing about Classical music + Notice the rising smoke screens whenever truth is trying to escape obscurity + Utility in interpretation + A good introduction into the evolution of the classical styl + If this is a three star book what's a five star book?             Structural Hearing: Tonal Coherence in Music (Two Volumes Bound As One)8 reviews Felix Salzer Dover Publications, 1962 Excellent Book!, but try rebinding it. + necessary book + A must have for serious musicians + Quintessential Schenkerian Theory + GREAT book, but get an older copy             The Thurber Carnival (Perennial Classics)13 reviews James Thurber Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999 THURBER!!!! + A great book is timeless + Hooray for Thurber! + The Artistic Humorist             Counterpoint in Composition3 reviews Felix Salzer, Carl Schachter Columbia University Press, 1989 The best (and most serious) counterpoint text to date + Good book if you are patient with the writing + Kind of lofty in tone, but a pretty good book The Salzer counterpoint book is a must for any serious musician. This book adresses counterpoint not as a theoretical abstraction but as a concrete musical experience. All too often counterpoint is reduced to meaningless exercises not connected with real world music. This book combines Fux's ...             Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883213 reviews Simon Winchester HarperCollins, 2003 Fascinating, interesting, but wordy. + Thorough and interesting + Exceptionally interesting, detailed account of the worst volcanic eruption in recorded history This is a generally well-written account of the famous volcanic eruption which was one of the first such major events to take place after the development of worldwide communication technology. The author has been criticized for including details - many details - about not only geology, but also ...             The Shaping Forces in Music (The Dover Series of Study Editions, Chamber Music, Orchestral Works, Operas in ...2 reviews Ernst Toch Dover Publications, 1977 Great for aspiring composers A composer friend of mine recommended this book to me as a good introduction to composition. After reading it, I agree. Have you ever wondered why you can write something that obeys all the rules of classical music theory but has no life to it? Toch takes a good look at the practice of ...             The Fountainhead963 reviews Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff Signet, 1996 Attractive Book + "But I don't think of you" + Excellent Book! + no atlas shrugged             Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft56 reviews Thor Heyerdahl Pocket, 1990 An impossible almost crazy epic adventure + Kon-Tiki Across the Pacific in a Raft + Kontiki paperback received + Non-Fiction + Hippies before their time             The Moor's Last Sigh80 reviews Salman Rushdie Vintage, 1997 Wonderful book + Big Fan of Rushdie + Lovely and Complex + Simply magical             Love Hina, Volume 157 reviews Ken Akamatsu TokyoPop, 2002 Guilty pleasure + where it all began... + Extreme Shonen Manga... + Excellent             J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings)1239 reviews J.R.R. Tolkien Del Rey, 2001 "The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings", book set by J.R.R. Tolkien + Good Book + Great books but too descriptive + Great Series + Tolkien collection             Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian: More Than 650 Meatless Recipes from Around the Globe54 reviews Madhur Jaffrey Clarkson Potter, 1999 This Carnivore's Desert-Island-Cookbook + Great World Cuisine, even if not vegetarian + My Favorite Cookbook + Scrumptious! + The Ultimate Veggie Cookbook             Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster1489 reviews Jon Krakauer Anchor, 1999 Utterly riveting, un-put-downable + Mountain Madness + Rare Insight into a Perilous Set of Events + My Favorite Book             The Once and Future King325 reviews Terence Hanbury White Ace, 1987 creative, rich and wonderful + Wow. Wow! WOW!!! + How I wish I was thirteen again ... + An Arthurian Masterpiece             The Complete Saki (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)29 reviews H. H. Munro Penguin Classics, 1998 A Fine Collection + very funny book + A great joy to read + Master of the Sublime - H.H. Munro - aka Saki + -             Kitchen109 reviews Banana Yoshimoto Washington Square Press, 1994 Solid 4 Star Read Yosimoto's first book is part romance, part coming of age story, written in an easy style that draws in the reader. It felt real, believable, and had characters that I cared about, that I could be friends with, that I could expect to meet going about my daily life. The story follows Mikage after ...