Desert Solitaire122 reviews Edward Abbey Ballantine Books, 1985 Not just desert love + I now understand why this is considered a "Nature Classic". + Must reading + Fantastic Book             The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)592 reviews John Steinbeck Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002 Get ready to relive these times soon! + Take in the magic of Steinbeck's writing + A handsome edition + A master storyteller + [Good] required reading             The Frontiersmen: A Narrative53 reviews Allan W. Eckert Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2001 One of my all time favorites. + Skillfully done + Wonderful!!!!!!! + A great, exciting read! + A Man's Man in a wild land             Slaughterhouse-Five708 reviews Kurt Vonnegut Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999 Like Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto. + A highly creative and simultaneously amusing and thought-provoking novel that hammers home its themes; "A-" + One of the best + Slaughterhouse-Five             Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West167 reviews Dee Brown Holt Paperbacks, 2001 The True Story of How the West Was Won + A Shocking, Monumental Work + COWBOYS AND INDIANS + Amazing + A Classic             The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics)22 reviews Jack London Scholastic Paperbacks, 2001 Calling all dog lovers! + Great Read for Kids or Adults + Free SF Reader + The Call of the Wild + Its a dog's life.             A Christmas Carol7 reviews Charles Dickens Prestwick House Inc., 2005 Even the Blind Mans Dog avoided Scrooge! + God bless us, every one. + A Story for Everyone's Christmas + The Hobo Philosopher + Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...             Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness38 reviews Pete Fromm Picador, 2003 Indian Creek Chronicles + Indian Creek Chronicles + I hope you like snow + Enjoyable reading... + A great adventure painted vividly & honestly...........             In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations28 reviews Jerry Mander Sierra Club Books, 1992 "All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent." + In the Absence of the Sacred + The Technological Juggernaut against the "Indians Shmindians" and Us All + Why the Problem in the Middle East? + Good, if disjointed.             1984 (Signet Classics)1373 reviews George Orwell New American Library, 1961 A Warning, A Prediction...A Terrifying Truth + Ninteen-Eighty-Four: Still a Classic + Perfectly Horrific + Still Relevant + Timeless classic on the dangers of communism/big government             Wilderness Empire: A Narrative (Eckert, Allan W. Winning of America Series.)12 reviews Allan W. Eckert Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2001 A Dangerous Time in Colonial America + Wilderness War + Exceptional + Great series + History coming alive             Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)1104 reviews John Steinbeck Penguin (Non-Classics), 1993 One of the classics of literature + Capturing + One of the most popular books in American Literature-and for good reason! This is the first book by Steinbeck that I ever read and like many other people, it was required reading in my language arts class. It was so moving that some of the girls in the class were crying at the end. George and Lennie are two workers that move from job to job. George is small and ...             The Big Sky25 reviews A. B. Guthrie Jr. Mariner Books, 2002 Wild in the Country + Awesome + Beautifully written Western tragedy + Big Sky Decent book OK movie. + as good as The Way West             My Name Is Asher Lev109 reviews Chaim Potok Anchor, 2003 Art, sacrifice, and religion. + My Name is Asher Lev + An Artist and an Hasidic Jew Let me start by saying Chaim Potok is my favorite author - so my review may be slightly bias....but judging the favorable reviews his books receive my opinion may be the norm. The emotions and passion conveyed in his writing is nothing short of masterful - Chaim Potok is truly an author that has ...             To Kill a Mockingbird1762 reviews Harper Lee Grand Central Publishing, 1988 Excelent Book! + There is a reason this book will be read for centuries and centuries... + Tequila Mockingbird + Great!!Love this book + LOVE THIS BOOK!             The Conquerors (Winning of America Series)8 reviews Allan W. Eckert Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2002 Great Book! + Hooked on Eckert + Great book, great series + Winning of America Series + The Conquerers...Allan Eckert Winning of America Series.             Lost Horizon: A Novel98 reviews James Hilton Harper Perennial, 2004 Love it, love it, love it!!! + Free SF Reader + A classic but a bit of a letdown at the end + My favorite book of all time + Excellent Fantasy             A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition120 reviews Norman Maclean University Of Chicago Press, 2001 Haunting + Book vs. Movie: A Comparison + A great book turned into a good movie + Wonderful             All the King's Men176 reviews Robert Penn Warren Harvest Books, 1996 The Web Of Things + Why did I wait? + A Great Book Read By A Great Voice + great literature, sinfully delicious             The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author290 reviews Richard Dawkins Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 Possibly my favorite read of all time + Neo-Darwinian Genetic Evolution of Altruism and Social Behaviour that shook Group Selectionists + Dissecting "The Selfish Gene" Wow. When I finished this book, I did something I had never done before: I read the same book again. The second time through, I underlined things and scribbled thoughts on the inside covers and in the margins and wrote emails to friends about questions forming in my mind. After that second pass, ...