I Am No One You Know : Stories10 reviews Joyce Carol Oates, 2004 Exquisite Trauma from the Personal to the Global + Oh My! Oh My! Where is the Six Star Button ? + Stories that grab you and hang on + America's Master Short Writer             The Confessions (Penguin Classics)18 reviews Jean-Jacques Rousseau Penguin Classics, 1953 A classic autobiography + It is a work of a genius!!! + 'Feelings can only be described in terms of their effects' + How to understand your life-- the best autobiography ever written + The authenticity of a personal fiction             I'll Take You There: A Novel25 reviews Joyce Carol Oates Harper Perennial, 2003 Beautifully written sad, upsetting and very real coming-of-age story + An Unflinching View of an Obsessive College Student + Intense! Joyce Carol Oates grew up poor on a farm in Upstate New York. Most of her books invoke this background and all its bleakness. Perhaps her 2002 novel "I'll Take You There" is based on her life. I don't know. It sure does seem real. But that might just be because it is written in the first ...             Emile: Or, On Education5 reviews Jean-jacques Rousseau, Michael Wu, ... Basic Books, 1979 The Unread Masterpiece + Post-Modern Child Rearing + great book, great translation + Nature, Education and Democracy             The Falls: A Novel (P.S.)75 reviews Joyce Carol Oates Harper Perennial, 2005 Captivating book that I purchased on impulse + pretty eerie NO SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW: I picked this up in an airport bookstore on impulse - I'd never read anytihng by Joyce Carol Oates and felt like I ought to read something of hers given her reputation. There were several books by Oates on the shelf but I found that this one had won an award so I ...             Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions)106 reviews James Joyce Dover Publications, 1991 Great Vignettes Of Dublin Life and A Great way to introduce yourself to James Joyce + INCLUDES "The Dead" + Irish Stew Admittedly Joyce's better known works can seem quite daunting to the uninitiated but here in these short character sketches a reader can begin to understand what all fuss is about and enjoy some wonderfully written short stories in the bargain. The stories are consistently good and from the very ...             Big Mouth & Ugly Girl75 reviews Joyce Carol Oates HarperTeen, 2003 Pleasantly surprised + Be yourself in High School + B MUG + big mouth and ugly girl + Compelling             A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)239 reviews James Joyce Penguin Classics, 2003 Best Kindle edition of Joyce's "Portrait" + Supersaturated with the religion that he had stopped believing in: growing up in a colony + challenging but worth it There are many editions of James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" available, but this is easily the best Kindle edition. The text is based on Chester Anderson's 1964 text. There are also a good number of annotations by Seamus Deane--fewer than in Anderson's Viking Critical ...             The Social Contract (Penguin Classics)26 reviews Jean-Jacques Rousseau Penguin Classics, 1968 Still a Timely Study on Liberty + A civil society, dream on my friend... Immanuel Kant had one portrait hanging in his house in Konigsberg. The portrait was of Rousseau. What an honor, to be memorialized while alive by THE leading figure of the enlightenment! Rousseau never coined the term 'noble savage'. This is a popular misunderstanding and outright lie. He was ...             Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed.11 reviews Rene Descartes, Donald Cress Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1999 Rene Descarte + The Cart was put before the horse + It is what it is...I recommend a book with more commentary for beginners + Readable translation of two seminal works of philosophy             We Were the Mulvaneys (Oprah's Book Club)475 reviews Joyce Carol Oates Plume, 1996 Not to be missed - a quintessentially American story + Elegant & Heartbreaking Prose We Were the Mulvaneys tells the story of the Mulvaney family: handsome, successful patriarch Michael Mulvaney Sr., who owns a thriving roofing business and enjoys the friendship and contacts of many of the movers and shakers in small Mt. Ephraim, New York; blue-eyed, lithe, religious Corinne, ...             My Heart Laid Bare9 reviews Joyce Carol Oates Plume, 1999 it is worth the wait. + An American Tragedy when i initially began the book, i almost gave up. it didn't seem to make that much sense...the sentence structure was a bit unconventional. who are these people? it didn't make sense. after the first chapter the entire scene changes and the characters are completely different. Then we are let ...             Ulysses393 reviews James Joyce Vintage, 1990 Mount Everest for Readers + Great performance. + Uses the reader as an active part of the story I can offer little in the way of literary criticism that has not been expounded by scholars about Joyce's masterpiece. What I can offer is the viewpoint of an 'average' reader. My edition was the 1922 text, and it was prefaced by the original publisher with a simple disclaimer: "The publisher ...             Marya: A Life4 reviews Joyce Carol Oates Plume, 1998 True to form, the last sentence came through. + Oates' most autobiographical novel + Good but Oates has done better + Character development like only Oates can deliver             A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)239 reviews James Joyce Penguin Classics, 2003 Best Kindle edition of Joyce's "Portrait" + Supersaturated with the religion that he had stopped believing in: growing up in a colony + challenging but worth it There are many editions of James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" available, but this is easily the best Kindle edition. The text is based on Chester Anderson's 1964 text. There are also a good number of annotations by Seamus Deane--fewer than in Anderson's Viking Critical ...             Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed.11 reviews Rene Descartes, Donald Cress Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1999 Rene Descarte + The Cart was put before the horse + It is what it is...I recommend a book with more commentary for beginners + Readable translation of two seminal works of philosophy             Marya: A Life4 reviews Joyce Carol Oates Plume, 1998 True to form, the last sentence came through. + Oates' most autobiographical novel + Good but Oates has done better + Character development like only Oates can deliver             I'll Take You There: A Novel25 reviews Joyce Carol Oates Harper Perennial, 2003 Beautifully written sad, upsetting and very real coming-of-age story + An Unflinching View of an Obsessive College Student + Intense! Joyce Carol Oates grew up poor on a farm in Upstate New York. Most of her books invoke this background and all its bleakness. Perhaps her 2002 novel "I'll Take You There" is based on her life. I don't know. It sure does seem real. But that might just be because it is written in the first ...             The Social Contract (Penguin Classics)26 reviews Jean-Jacques Rousseau Penguin Classics, 1968 Still a Timely Study on Liberty + A civil society, dream on my friend... Immanuel Kant had one portrait hanging in his house in Konigsberg. The portrait was of Rousseau. What an honor, to be memorialized while alive by THE leading figure of the enlightenment! Rousseau never coined the term 'noble savage'. This is a popular misunderstanding and outright lie. He was ...             Ulysses393 reviews James Joyce Vintage, 1990 Mount Everest for Readers + Great performance. + Uses the reader as an active part of the story I can offer little in the way of literary criticism that has not been expounded by scholars about Joyce's masterpiece. What I can offer is the viewpoint of an 'average' reader. My edition was the 1922 text, and it was prefaced by the original publisher with a simple disclaimer: "The publisher ...