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Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems 685 reviews
Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier
Three Rivers Press, 2007
Inspiring.
+ huge fan
+ Cesar's Way... the Best Way
+ Wish I knew about this a few years ago
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Fahrenheit 45110 reviews
Ray Bradbury
HarperVoyager, 2004
a great book of our time
+ Timely now that we're entering into the new dark ages...
+ Written in the basement of the UCLA library
+ True Fiction
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Fight Club 643 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk
Vintage, 1998
a thought-provoking book
+ A sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness.
+ Every teenager needs to read this novel!
+ Fight Club - Palahnuik can do no wrong
+ This book is still a beautiful and unique snowflake.
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Amsterdam: A Novel 295 reviews
Ian McEwan
Anchor, 1999
Cutting Your Nose Off to Spite your Face!
+ classic tragedy: the structure mirrors the tale
This is a little sneaker of a story. I've never read Ian McEwan's work and it took a couple of chapters to get into the rhythm of the story, but it was worth it. I had no idea what to expect when I started, but it certainly wasn't what I received! In a word, IT WAS GREAT! Read this book before ...
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Naked414 reviews
David Sedaris
Back Bay Books, 1998
Absolutely fantastic
+ Painful to read, mostly plotless, but entertaining
+ FRANCINE!!!
This has become a very famous book and it deserves to be. It is certainly the type that has you lending it to all your friends and telling them about which pieces are your favorites. I love reading about his family and am a big fan of sister Amy so whenever there's a mention of her I get ...
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An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England: A Novel61 reviews
Brock Clarke
Algonquin Books, 2007
Witty and Intelligent
+ At last, something smart to read
Smart and highly stylistic, AAGTWHINE is not for everyone, as the range of reviews here shows. If you're looking for a book to get lost in, with characters of great depth and emotion, where a man facing great personal disappointment overcomes tragedy and becomes a better person, don't read it. If ...
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My Sister's Keeper: A Novel1032 reviews
Jodi Picoult
Washington Square Press, 2005
A Heartbreaking Page Turner
+ Heart-wrenching, but captivating
+ Should we be?
+ Wonderful read
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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream285 reviews
H. G. Bissinger
Da Capo Press, 2000
A fantastic book
+ Best Sports Book Ever Written
+ Friday Night Lights
H.G. Bissenger's book Friday Night Lights is a non-fiction account of a football team in Odessa, Texas spanning the decade of the 1980s. A once financially successful town dependent on oil revenues, Odessa's fate makes an about turn as profits dwindle, families face bankruptcy, and the crime rate ...
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Atlas Shrugged: 35th Anniversary Edition17 reviews
Ayn Rand
Signet, 1992
Those who preach selflessness do it for selfish reasons
+ A Fabulous Book on Individualism
+ A review for young people in their late teens
+ Who is John Galt?
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 916 reviews
Dave Eggers
Vintage, 2001
A dizzying book
+ I really liked it, but it's not for everyone - 4 1/2
+ A.H.B.W.O.S.G. Review
+ The Work of A Staggering Genius
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Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)34 reviews
William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2003
If you want to read Shakespeare its has to be The new folger Library
+ Greatness
+ Review
If you ever thought about reading Shakespeare but was turned off or intimidated by the old english, not so with the new folger editions. Your basically reading the play on all the right sided pages , with the left pages reserved for all the definitions and explanations of the sayings and words that ...
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Falling Man: A Novel83 reviews
Don DeLillo
Scribner, 2007
After The Planes
+ Don't know if this qualifies as a 'review'.
+ DeLillo's sad concession to a career obsession
I couldn't pick this up when it first came out. I listened to it recently on CD during a long drive and with each mile, I felt the growing weight and gravity, lived with the men and women grappling with the aftermath, after the planes. There is a phrase in "Falling Man" that covers lots of ground ...
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Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)832 reviews
Joseph Heller
Simon & Schuster, 1999
Lighthearted and comical, yet dark and meaningful
+ 25 words or less
+ Incredible
+ Great Characters Living With Death
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Gabriel García Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera (Continuum Contemporaries)3 reviews
Thomas Fahy
Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003
Useful and engaging
+ Love in the Time of Cholera
+ Love in the Time of Cholera
Just picked this up and am already planning to assign it to one of my classes on modern lit--that ideal book that explains what Marquez is up to without either oversimplifying or overcomplicating. Fahy distills the most important material from research around Marquez without forcing us to wade ...
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Manwatching3 reviews
Desmond Morris
Jonathan Cape, 1977
Excellent field guide for the human life!
+ Human behavior 101
If you want a book that answers all of the why's of human behavior, this book is it. It covers everything from dialation of the eyes to how we ward off someone in our personal space. This book is a good source for those studying human behavior, as well as those who are more interested in the ...
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Atonement762 reviews
Ian Mcewan
Anchor, 2007
Beautifully written and engrossing.
+ Atonement is a work of art!
+ Not a quick read.
+ Reconciliation...Really?
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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from CHEKHOV to MUNRO7 reviews
HarperCollins e-books, 2008
Enjoy the classics and the literary talents of the moment in this beautiful volume
+ Unique collection! (no chessiness here!)
+ 4.5 out of 5: Interesting Mix of Stories
+ My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex283 reviews
Nathaniel Philbrick
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001
Excellent and Enthralling Book from a most Perspicacious Author
+ Great white whale sinks ship . . . . who'd believe that story?
+ horrifying
+ I was cheering for the whales
+ in the heart of the sea
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Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)41 reviews
Mary Shelley
Penguin Classics, 2003
4-1/2 stars for a classic the movies messed up
+ Not what I remembered... turns out there are 2 versions
+ Frankenstein
+ Frakenstein
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Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)21 reviews
Gustave Flaubert
Penguin Classics, 2002
A Compelling, Complex, Classic
+ A book for these times
+ A classic that left me cold
+ Madame Bovary: Classic Novel of a Cinderella Dreamer whose Prince Never Arrived
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