Clockers: A Novel32 reviews Richard Price Picador, 2008 Brilliant, mind blowing and extremely well researched + Evolution of an Author + Exceptional + Beyond its genre...             Suite Francaise374 reviews Irene Nemirovsky Vintage, 2007 One of the best, by far. + Unfinished masterpiece + Wanted more and more!! .such a tragedy she is gone... + Subtle, Powerful, Unfinished - An Astonishing Survival             The Professor of Desire8 reviews Philip Roth Vintage, 1994 An Intricate and Powerful Narrative + The Professor of Desire is Philip Roth at His Best + Coming of Sage + Finally, a Roth novel I like! + Rambling of Thoughts             Zuckerman Unbound10 reviews Philip Roth Vintage, 1995 Roth's version of Misery... + Fame and Pain + Roth's 'Zuckerman Trilogy:' Part 2. + More Zuckerman zaniness + The novelist as celebrity             Factotum66 reviews Charles Bukowski Ecco, 2002 A Tour of Bohemia + Great Tour of Bohemia + Brilliant. Buy this book and borrow it to you friends. + The novel as photo album             Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)76 reviews J. M. Coetzee Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999 Timeless and Timely + Miracles of Creation Too The Nobel Prize committee has a history of honoring writers with a strong political or social message. WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS (1980), Coetzee's short, approachable, but devastating fable about the abuse of power, must have played a major part in their decision to award him the prize in 2003. ...             The Road1590 reviews Cormac McCarthy Knopf, 2006 The Road - A Must Read + People Who Like A Gritty Story Are Going To Love The Road + Living with No Hope As the father of two young children I found this book timeless, heart wrenching and tragically beautiful. McCarthy's prose is stripped down of all pretense. He manages to convey the horror of a post-apocalyptic world in a way that is singularly powerful. The bond between the father and son, the ...             The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)103 reviews Graham Greene Penguin Classics, 2004 I was a reporter, I had no real opinions about anything + A Bird's Eye View of 1950's French Colonial Vietnam + The Quiet American + I Read it while in Vietnam! What are the chances? + Leaves you with a good bad taste             The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)59 reviews Saul Bellow Penguin Classics, 2006 Excellent writing + This is Not Carl Sandburg's Chicago + Growing up in the depression + Inchoate Bellow tries to flex his genius (with mixed results)             The Life and Times of Michael K46 reviews J.M. Coetzee Vintage Books, 2005 A tale at once subsumed by race and yet never mentioning it + A masterpiece of the oppressed human condition + un shock + A novel you won't forget             The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel241 reviews Milan Kundera Harper Perennial, 2008 great + I lived in this book those days + Mystical Love + great but not the best             Indignation39 reviews Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin, 2008 Brief but Intense + Roth At His Best + To be or not to be indignant + Phillip Roth at his best             South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life21 reviews Charles Bukowski Ecco, 2002 Nighthawks at the diner... + An excellent intro to Bukowski + Excellent + Good short stories + The Buried Life             Play It As It Lays: A Novel29 reviews Joan Didion Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990 In the Thick of Nothingness [T] + New Hollywood Gomorrah + Memorable Book I have now read two books by Didion - this and the Pulitzer Prize winning "The World of Magical Thinking." Each is devilishly depressing. The similarities do not end there. The main character of this book, Maria Wyeth, physically resembles the author. Her roots are similar. And, she is an ...             The Sirens of Titan155 reviews Kurt Vonnegut The Dial Press, 1998 My Favorite Vonnegut + Very Good Book + The Meaning of Life.... + amazing + Good stuff             Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel Susanna Clarke; Portia Rosenberg Bloomsbury USA, 2004             Howards End (Norton Critical Editions)3 reviews E. M. Forster W. W. Norton, 1998 "Connect the prose and the passion...both will be exalted." + Homecomings. + Lessons in Connection In this 1910 story of Edwardian England, Forster illustrates the conflicts between the superior attitudes of the aristocracy and a developing feeling of obligation toward the "lower" classes which World War I will soon bring into sharp relief. Margaret and Helen Schlegel are intellectual and ...             The Fermata55 reviews Nicholson Baker Vintage, 1995 Fascinating; High sexual content + Adolescent it its sexuality, mature in its view + Almost Shocking Without question, one of the most original and fascinating premises I've ever encountered. What would you do if you were able to stop time? Think about it. This is a relatively short book and extremely sexually charged. Not for the prudish or even the moderately straight laced.             Flight: A Novel56 reviews Sherman Alexie Grove Press, Black Cat, 2007 Come and check out this FANTASTIC EVENT for FLIGHT + FLIGHT: Book Review + One of Alexie's Best + Powerful + I was blown away             The Things They Carried702 reviews Tim O'Brien Broadway, 1998 Great read - Not what I expected + The ThingsThey Carried + Come and check out this FANTASTIC EVENT for THE THINGS THEY CARRIED + REVIEW OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED