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POSH 28 reviews Lucy Jackson
St. Martin's Griffin, 2007
Humorous and Heartbreaking
+ One of the best books I've Read in a While + One of the most entertaining novels I've read in a long while + Not What It Seems
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Old School 118 reviews Tobias Wolff
Vintage, 2004
First Rate Novel by Great Short Story Writer
+ A real-world lesson in morality + Excellent story, draws you right in + Who knew I would actually like a book assigned in school? + Wolff is a masterful conductor
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The Secret History 536 reviews Donna Tartt
Vintage, 2004
A Very Powerful Novel
+ This is a great book - a must read for the winter. + Well written page turner + The Heart of the History + A Modern Classical Tragedy
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I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel 603 reviews Tom Wolfe
Picador, 2005
A Really Good Read
+ How not to go to college + Maybe not Tolstoy or Trollope but an enjoyable read.
I thought this book quite accurately, granted it used extremes, depicted the continual decline of American culture. Of course, one must believe American culture is declining to appreciate the books non-judgmental view of it. The book shows college life the way it is on most campuses, it leaves the ...
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Prep: A Novel 488 reviews Curtis Sittenfeld
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005
when I think back on all the crap I learned in high school...
+ I could relate
I didn't want to like this book. It looked like cheesy chick-lit, and something about reading about the adolescent trials and tribulations of a working-class Hoosier girl named Lee...well, I got through being an adolescent working-class Hoosier girl named Lee once and I was not really interested ...
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Gentlemen and Players: A Novel (P.S.) 19 reviews Joanne Harris
Harper Perennial, 2007
Excellent addition to the British Grammar School drama.
+ Great story + Smart, British Grammar School Mystery + A labryinth of unexpected twists and turns
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POSH 28 reviews Lucy Jackson
St. Martin's Griffin, 2007
Humorous and Heartbreaking
+ One of the best books I've Read in a While + One of the most entertaining novels I've read in a long while + Not What It Seems
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Gentlemen and Players: A Novel (P.S.) 19 reviews Joanne Harris
Harper Perennial, 2007
Excellent addition to the British Grammar School drama.
+ Great story + Smart, British Grammar School Mystery + A labryinth of unexpected twists and turns
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The Secret History 536 reviews Donna Tartt
Vintage, 2004
A Very Powerful Novel
+ This is a great book - a must read for the winter. + Well written page turner + The Heart of the History + A Modern Classical Tragedy
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Prep: A Novel 488 reviews Curtis Sittenfeld
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005
when I think back on all the crap I learned in high school...
+ I could relate
I didn't want to like this book. It looked like cheesy chick-lit, and something about reading about the adolescent trials and tribulations of a working-class Hoosier girl named Lee...well, I got through being an adolescent working-class Hoosier girl named Lee once and I was not really interested ...
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I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel 603 reviews Tom Wolfe
Picador, 2005
A Really Good Read
+ How not to go to college + Maybe not Tolstoy or Trollope but an enjoyable read.
I thought this book quite accurately, granted it used extremes, depicted the continual decline of American culture. Of course, one must believe American culture is declining to appreciate the books non-judgmental view of it. The book shows college life the way it is on most campuses, it leaves the ...
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Old School 118 reviews Tobias Wolff
Vintage, 2004
First Rate Novel by Great Short Story Writer
+ A real-world lesson in morality + Excellent story, draws you right in + Who knew I would actually like a book assigned in school? + Wolff is a masterful conductor
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