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Freaky Deaky 37 reviews
Elmore Leonard
HarperTorch, 2002
Have Fun in Dee...troit City
+ Not His Best, But Still Great!
+ Characters are the highlight of an excellent thriller
Funny how things happen. First, you're a cop; then you're not. You got an acting dream; then it's more than a dream. You got some dynamite; then, it's not there. Funny how Elmore Leonard makes things disappear in FREAKY DEAKY.
You gotta like the atmosphere he creates in Detroit: kinda grungy, ...
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 916 reviews
Dave Eggers
Vintage, 2001
A dizzying book
+ I really liked it, but it's not for everyone - 4 1/2
+ A.H.B.W.O.S.G. Review
+ The Work of A Staggering Genius
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories 37 reviews
Raymond Carver
Vintage, 1989
Master of the Short
+ Beautiful and Melancholic
+ A Walk on the Dark Side We Should All Take
+ good book
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Paradise325 reviews
Toni Morrison
Knopf, 1997
Divisive and Fantastic
+ I'm No English Major, And This Was Great
+ About as near perfection as you can get!
+ beautifully written but confusing story
+ Worth the Effort
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Lives of the Saints: Seven One-Act Plays4 reviews
David Ives
Dramatist's Play Service, 2000
Better than Church
+ excellent work
+ Short and Sweet
David Ives is clever and understands the necessary mechanics of a play as well as the gloss that faces the audience. These short plays are by turns funny and brilliant. (And rating it low simply because one did not research it's content seems a bit ignorant and unfair.)
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A Prayer for Owen Meany1074 reviews
John Irving
Ballantine Books, 1990
Great book, beautiful edition!
+ my favorite book
+ The Best of Irving
+ AWESOME
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Tourist Season80 reviews
Carl Hiaasen
Warner Books, 1987
Get everything he writes!
+ In the beginning.
+ A little darker than usual, but still good for some laughs
+ One of Hiassen's best
+ A Modern Pop Crime Masterpiece
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A Long Way Down224 reviews
Nick Hornby
Riverhead Hardcover, 2005
Classic Hornby -- brilliantly funny
+ Very different from his early work
+ Good read.
+ Funny and an all around good book
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An American Dream30 reviews
Norman Mailer
Vintage, 1999
I 've listened about 12 times in the car
+ The devil's in the details of the American Dream.
+ American nightmare
I never get tired of this book by Norman Mailer as read by MacDonald Carey. He has a great voice and a great acting style that make you see the book in your head like a movie! I am not kidding, sometimes I forget it was a book and think I saw this movie! I protect this tape like the special item ...
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Underworld: A Novel321 reviews
Don DeLillo
Scribner, 1998
An Utterly Non-Porus Book.
+ Detritus of the modern age
+ In Search of a Latin Lover
+ "Under the surface of ordinary things"
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Choke472 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor, 2002
Great Ideas
+ Gutsy readers only--this is not for the faint-hearted
Well, I didn't this book was that funny and written so smartly, a lot of jokes not only sexual jokes, but those about death are awesome... this is a great book for people who likes jokes and are not afraid of laughing at death, addictions and oder human abilities....
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Four Stories: Bum Rush * The Little Fellow * Kazredlaw * Fools1 review
J A Walderzak
iUniverse, Inc., 2006
Stories about life
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (5/07)
The author, J.A. Walderzak, has written a collection of short stories combining the formats of stage plays, screenplays and novels. Each story focuses on characters in various stages of their lives. "Fools," is about five friends whose ...
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Me Talk Pretty One Day735 reviews
David Sedaris
Back Bay Books, 2001
Do Not Read While Eating Because It's So Funny You Might Choke
+ David Sedaris does it again!
+ Not heartwarming... in a good way.
When I opened this book I had limited time so I decided to look for the shortest essay in the book so I could sneak in a quick read. I selected "Big Boy" which started on page 97 and ended before the next essay that started on page 100. By the end of the first paragraph I was already laughing and ...
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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)273 reviews
Thomas Pynchon
Penguin Classics, 1995
Fear and Loathing in Peenemunde
+ Nothing but the best
This is the mother of all post-modern novels. Much has been said about Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow; even more written about it since it was published 35 years ago.
There are a myriad of threads running through this novel. I have read Gravity's Rainbow four times in my life thus far; each ...
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel319 reviews
Jonathan Safran Foer
Mariner Books, 2006
Incredible
+ Good book for a book club discussion
+ Beautiful
+ A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
+ Flawed but still very good.
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Infinite Jest: A Novel350 reviews
David Foster Wallace
Back Bay Books, 1997
GREAT AUTHOR,GREAT BOOK
+ Infinite Jest
+ A True Classic
WHAT AN INCREDIBLE BOOK..JUST STAY WITH IT & IT TAKES ONE ON A JOYRIDE RIGHT UNTIL THE VERY LAST WRITTEN WORD.
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The Everlasting Story of Nory 27 reviews
Nicholson Baker
Vintage, 1999
perfect nothingness
Baker manages to perfectly encapsulate the mind of a nine year old in all its semi-logical, semi-nonsensical glory. Nory feels like a living, breathing child, as do her classmates and younger brother. A beautiful book.
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The Hundred Secret Senses207 reviews
Amy Tan
Vintage, 1998
the hundred secret senses
+ So nice I read it twice.
+ Good...
+ I love this book !
+ Another great read
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The Passion3 reviews
Edward Benedict Lentoni
Xlibris Corporation, 2000
FALLEN ANGEL
+ Best Kept Secret In Writing
+ Great Novel
AS I READTHIS BOOK, I CAME TO REALIZE THAT LUCIFER REALLY WAS A FALLEN ANGEL. I READ THIS BOOK IN 2000 AND IT STILL AFFECTS ME TWO YEARS LATER. THE STORY HAS A GREAT PLAY ON SHAKESPEARE AS WELL, BY USING SIMILAR NAMES IN THIS BOOK. THE STORY CONFIRMS MY BELIEFS AND AT THE SAME TIME GIVES ME ...
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The Music of Chance41 reviews
Paul Auster
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991
Paul Auster's best novel
+ Extraordinary Piece of Work.
+ Interesting premise, ambivalent reaction
+ great convoluted story, full of absurdities and nonsense, extremely enjoyable
+ The first half is far better than the second
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