The Mother Tongue123 reviews Bill Bryson Harper Perennial, 1991 Amazing! + Spreading the Word :) + A book worth rereading + Flawed but Effective Introduction to What Makes English, and Language, Fascinating.             Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck18 reviews Bill Veeck, Ed Linn University Of Chicago Press, 2001 A Baseball Storyteller + Divine Diamond Madness + The hundredth read's as good as the first + A great gift + Simply the best book EVER written on the inside of baseball             In Search of Lost Time, Vol. III: The Guermantes Way10 reviews Marcel Proust Modern Library, 1998 High Society + Proust is Tough + Wonderful and challenging + save your money for the new translation + In touch with the high spheres of society             Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution50 reviews Simon Schama Vintage, 1990 "The Terror was merely 1789 with a higher body count." + Literally couldn't put it down + Extraordinary and Timely + The French Revolution From The Top             Go Down, Moses22 reviews William Faulkner Vintage, 1991 City of Man, City of Nature + Gasp! + You CAN read "The Bear" alone-- just omit part four. + Opaque and Exuberant + Beautifully Written but Fragmented             The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation5 reviews Diane Ravitch Harper Paperbacks, 2000 What We've Lost Is Found Again + LOVE THIS BOOK! + A wonderful book! + Excellent, outstanding read for home or school!             Memoirs of the Second World War (An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War)16 reviews Winston S. Churchill Mariner Books, 1991 Well worth the time to read + A Wonderful 6 Volume Abridgement + A Masterpiece of Literature + Very detailed and well written document + Very biased and incomplete, but good             In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library Classics)23 reviews Marcel Proust Modern Library, 1998 PROUST: NEED ONE SAY MORE? + Philosophy as narrative + Perception and cognition + In Search of Lost Time Volume II Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library Classics) + beautiful             The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare26 reviews John Keegan Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990 A very detailed book... + A Slightly Different Keegan + Keegan Classic + not Keegan's best, but still good + Great book             Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid244 reviews Douglas R. Hofstadter Basic Books, 1999 Computer Science + An Incredible Intellectual Romp + Literate, Facinating, Readable + My favourite book - ever!             Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck18 reviews Bill Veeck, Ed Linn University Of Chicago Press, 2001 A Baseball Storyteller + Divine Diamond Madness + The hundredth read's as good as the first + A great gift + Simply the best book EVER written on the inside of baseball             Go Down, Moses22 reviews William Faulkner Vintage, 1991 City of Man, City of Nature + Gasp! + You CAN read "The Bear" alone-- just omit part four. + Opaque and Exuberant + Beautifully Written but Fragmented             Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid244 reviews Douglas R. Hofstadter Basic Books, 1999 Computer Science + An Incredible Intellectual Romp + Literate, Facinating, Readable + My favourite book - ever!             The Mother Tongue123 reviews Bill Bryson Harper Perennial, 1991 Amazing! + Spreading the Word :) + A book worth rereading + Flawed but Effective Introduction to What Makes English, and Language, Fascinating.             The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare26 reviews John Keegan Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990 A very detailed book... + A Slightly Different Keegan + Keegan Classic + not Keegan's best, but still good + Great book             Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution50 reviews Simon Schama Vintage, 1990 "The Terror was merely 1789 with a higher body count." + Literally couldn't put it down + Extraordinary and Timely + The French Revolution From The Top             In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library Classics)23 reviews Marcel Proust Modern Library, 1998 PROUST: NEED ONE SAY MORE? + Philosophy as narrative + Perception and cognition + In Search of Lost Time Volume II Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library Classics) + beautiful             In Search of Lost Time, Vol. III: The Guermantes Way10 reviews Marcel Proust Modern Library, 1998 High Society + Proust is Tough + Wonderful and challenging + save your money for the new translation + In touch with the high spheres of society             Memoirs of the Second World War (An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War)16 reviews Winston S. Churchill Mariner Books, 1991 Well worth the time to read + A Wonderful 6 Volume Abridgement + A Masterpiece of Literature + Very detailed and well written document + Very biased and incomplete, but good             The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation5 reviews Diane Ravitch Harper Paperbacks, 2000 What We've Lost Is Found Again + LOVE THIS BOOK! + A wonderful book! + Excellent, outstanding read for home or school!