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The Lords of Discipline 170 reviews
Pat Conroy
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2002
Amazing
+ little slow but great read towards the end
+ Excellent Writing
+ Lords of Discipline
+ One of Conroy's Best
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The Kitchen God's Wife 163 reviews
Amy Tan
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
A Story of a Woman's Relationship With Her Daughter
+ Great Service!
+ Riveting, inspiring and educational
+ Savory!
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The Great Santini 60 reviews
Pat Conroy
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2002
Penetrating portrait of fathers and sons, and of America
+ Very fine purchase
+ Conroy the Great
The Great Santini is Colonel Bull Meecham, husband to his lovely Southern enabling wife Lillian, father to Ben, Mary Anne, Matt, and Karen, Marine, fighter pilot, bully, creep, alcoholic, and all around jerk. Bull rules his family as he does the marines that serve under him. A bad drunk, Bull ...
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The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions)2517 reviews
Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead Trade, 2005
Ki
+ Wonderful
+ Fantastic
+ powerful and moving
+ Could Not Put it Down
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Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)903 reviews
Jane Austen
Penguin Books, 2002
Boy oh boy was I ever wrong about Lady Jane!!!
+ Worth paying for on the Kindle
+ What a Year for the Bennets
+ as always, better than the movie
+ Pride and Prejudice
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Beach Music286 reviews
Pat Conroy
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2002
Beach Music
+ beach music
+ A Book To Always Remember
+ Beach Music
+ Beach Music is an ALL TIME BEST
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Empire Falls477 reviews
Richard Russo
Vintage, 2002
Thoughtful
On the surface this is a book about an average guy who is stuck in a rut in an average small town. But when you delve deeper, you see that the book is about how pivotal choices and events shape who we are and where we end up in life. The characters in this book are memorable, realistic, and well ...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)553 reviews
Betty Smith
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
One of the best that I have ever read
+ Kimberly B.
+ Could relate well
+ an endless classic
+ Masterpiece
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Poisonwood Bible, The1419 reviews
HarperCollins e-books, 2007
A Gem of Postcolonial Literature
+ An Eye Opener
+ A book for the Colonialists, not the colonised: for Westerners, not Africans
+ The Poisonwood bible
+ A Retrospective
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The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)461 reviews
Pearl S. Buck
Pocket Books, 2005
Pearl S. Buck's masterpiece...'The Good Earth'
+ Unforgettable classic
+ If You Are Going to Read This Book . . .
+ Mentally Challenged Character
+ It's all here, in The Good Earth
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The Bonesetter's Daughter: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)307 reviews
Amy Tan
Ballantine Books, 2003
A Stunning Read
+ Mother/daugher generational must read
+ Classic Tan
+ Into the Orient, across generations.
+ I loved this story !
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Gap Creek : The Story Of A Marriage (Oprah's Book Club) (Oprah's Book Club) 362 reviews
Robert Morgan
Touchstone, 2000
I liked this one....
+ Vivid, elemental, relentless
+ Beautiful book, must appreciate simplicity!
+ Time exposure of a young marriage in hard times
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The Great Gatsby1123 reviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 1999
As American as apple pie...
+ What Can I Add?
+ The Summer of '22
+ The Great Gatsby
+ An intimate, touching story that deserves its praise while still being thoroughly relevant despite its age; a solid "A"
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The Prince of Tides217 reviews
Pat Conroy
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2002
Amazing
+ lyrical masterpiece...
+ bookcritic
+ Amazing Storyteller
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Memoirs of a Geisha2478 reviews
Arthur Golden
Vintage, 2005
MEMOIRS OF A MASTERPIECE
+ The best book by far
+ Excellent Portrayal of Geisha Life
+ Definitely Worth Reading
+ Memoirs of a Geisha
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Poisonwood Bible, The1419 reviews
HarperCollins e-books, 2007
A Gem of Postcolonial Literature
+ An Eye Opener
+ A book for the Colonialists, not the colonised: for Westerners, not Africans
+ The Poisonwood bible
+ A Retrospective
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Empire Falls477 reviews
Richard Russo
Vintage, 2002
Thoughtful
On the surface this is a book about an average guy who is stuck in a rut in an average small town. But when you delve deeper, you see that the book is about how pivotal choices and events shape who we are and where we end up in life. The characters in this book are memorable, realistic, and well ...
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Gap Creek : The Story Of A Marriage (Oprah's Book Club) (Oprah's Book Club)362 reviews
Robert Morgan
Touchstone, 2000
I liked this one....
+ Vivid, elemental, relentless
+ Beautiful book, must appreciate simplicity!
+ Time exposure of a young marriage in hard times
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The Prince of Tides217 reviews
Pat Conroy
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2002
Amazing
+ lyrical masterpiece...
+ bookcritic
+ Amazing Storyteller
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The Great Gatsby1123 reviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 1999
As American as apple pie...
+ What Can I Add?
+ The Summer of '22
+ The Great Gatsby
+ An intimate, touching story that deserves its praise while still being thoroughly relevant despite its age; a solid "A"
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