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Falling Man: A Novel 82 reviews
Don DeLillo
Scribner, 2008
After The Planes
+ Don't know if this qualifies as a 'review'.
+ DeLillo's sad concession to a career obsession
+ A moving novel from a normally stoic writer
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Life of Pi 1836 reviews
Yann Martel
Canongate Books Ltd, 2003
Great Fable
+ A masterpiece
+ THE RIGHT BOOK AT THE RIGHT TIME
+ Leaves you thinking about it long after you are finished
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The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage International)1586 reviews
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage, 2008
Riveting, Spare, and Great
+ Living with No Hope
+ Awesome read
This is a great book that is also an absorbing and easy read. The brutal and brilliant simplicity of the book is remarkable. McCarthy imagines the world after the nuclear apocalypse in which everything is stripped away and then asks, "what's left?"
In part, the answer is the kind of evil ...
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Unaccustomed Earth 119 reviews
Jhumpa Lahiri
Knopf, 2008
A Perfect 10
+ Book of short stories - Cover to cover without a break?
+ It was so good, it made me cry
+ Rich with detail and complexity, these short stories are novels that end too soon
+ Emotions will linger long after you've finished the book
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The History of Love: A Novel275 reviews
Nicole Krauss
W. W. Norton, 2006
My Highest Recommendation
+ Read this Twice before you Decide
+ A Wonderful novel about a novel about love
+ Loved this, very bittersweet
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The Sign for Drowning: A Novel8 reviews
Rachel Stolzman
Trumpeter, 2008
A New Favorite
+ Conversation with a friend.
+ A powerful, beautifully nuanced tale
+ An authentic story of love and loss, tragedy and triumph
+ A beautiful first novel
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Continental Drift (P.S.)30 reviews
Russell Banks
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007
The Loa Narrator
+ A Novel of Great Passion!
+ The world as it is
In reading Continental Drift, a tragedy in every sense, I was struck by how usual the novel was in its structure and its distinct narrator. Banks employs a Haitian loa (a spirit of the dead) to tell us the story of Bob Dubois, a frustrated, blue-collar resident of New Hampshire, and Vanise ...
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Three Day Road32 reviews
Joseph Boyden
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
Terrific gut wrenching story...
+ A 'must read' literary work for medical students
+ Simply terrific
+ Three Day Road
+ Something new (for a change)
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Ironweed57 reviews
William J. Kennedy
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1984
They 're not really bums at all
+ SHALL THE DEAD RULE THE LIVING?
+ Excellent tale of tragedy and redemption
+ Francis Phelan is Fascinating
+ A masterpiece.
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The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage International)1586 reviews
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage, 2008
Riveting, Spare, and Great
+ Living with No Hope
+ Awesome read
This is a great book that is also an absorbing and easy read. The brutal and brilliant simplicity of the book is remarkable. McCarthy imagines the world after the nuclear apocalypse in which everything is stripped away and then asks, "what's left?"
In part, the answer is the kind of evil ...
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Life of Pi1836 reviews
Yann Martel
Canongate Books Ltd, 2003
Great Fable
+ A masterpiece
+ THE RIGHT BOOK AT THE RIGHT TIME
+ Leaves you thinking about it long after you are finished
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The History of Love: A Novel275 reviews
Nicole Krauss
W. W. Norton, 2006
My Highest Recommendation
+ Read this Twice before you Decide
+ A Wonderful novel about a novel about love
+ Loved this, very bittersweet
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Continental Drift (P.S.)30 reviews
Russell Banks
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007
The Loa Narrator
+ A Novel of Great Passion!
+ The world as it is
In reading Continental Drift, a tragedy in every sense, I was struck by how usual the novel was in its structure and its distinct narrator. Banks employs a Haitian loa (a spirit of the dead) to tell us the story of Bob Dubois, a frustrated, blue-collar resident of New Hampshire, and Vanise ...
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Ironweed57 reviews
William J. Kennedy
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1984
They 're not really bums at all
+ SHALL THE DEAD RULE THE LIVING?
+ Excellent tale of tragedy and redemption
+ Francis Phelan is Fascinating
+ A masterpiece.
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The Sign for Drowning: A Novel8 reviews
Rachel Stolzman
Trumpeter, 2008
A New Favorite
+ Conversation with a friend.
+ A powerful, beautifully nuanced tale
+ An authentic story of love and loss, tragedy and triumph
+ A beautiful first novel
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Falling Man: A Novel82 reviews
Don DeLillo
Scribner, 2008
After The Planes
+ Don't know if this qualifies as a 'review'.
+ DeLillo's sad concession to a career obsession
+ A moving novel from a normally stoic writer
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Three Day Road32 reviews
Joseph Boyden
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
Terrific gut wrenching story...
+ A 'must read' literary work for medical students
+ Simply terrific
+ Three Day Road
+ Something new (for a change)
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Unaccustomed Earth119 reviews
Jhumpa Lahiri
Knopf, 2008
A Perfect 10
+ Book of short stories - Cover to cover without a break?
+ It was so good, it made me cry
+ Rich with detail and complexity, these short stories are novels that end too soon
+ Emotions will linger long after you've finished the book
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