Dog Soldiers40 reviews Robert Stone Mariner Books, 1997 A Time Capsule for the 60s in decline + Great Chase! + my favorite book by a great american author + Michael Herr meets Jim Thompson             The Mosquito Coast71 reviews Paul Theroux Mariner Books, 2006 An Important Character Study + An English Teacher's Wet Dream + Good Character Study + Dark, disturbing and utterly enthralling + The Mosquito Coast             Eclipse Fever (Nonpareil Books, No 76) (Nonpareil Books, No 76)2 reviews Walter Abish David R Godine, 1995 The Best "Latin-American" Novel in English + ALL ROADS LEAD TO MEXICO Eclipse Fever reads remarkably like a translation of a novel by Argentine Julio Cortazar or some other Latin writer. Given Abish's control of language, this cannot be an accident, especially since his previous novel "How German is It?" had the same odd effect of reading like a translation of a ...             Solo Faces: A Novel9 reviews James Salter North Point Press, 1988 Ironies of lonely heroism + Reading on the edge + A View from the Top of the World + Individual Again             A Flag for Sunrise13 reviews Robert Stone Vintage, 1992 A Third World Apocalypse... + Malcolm Lowry meets Dostoevsky + deserves to be a classic + One of the best political thrillers + Power, [evil] and self interest.             Patrimony : A True Story11 reviews Philip Roth Vintage, 1996 A must read for those who are taking care of an aging parent + Patrimony but not Matrimony! + This is a difficult book with an extraordinary writing + Touching story that will help you better understand the aging process             Time Remaining3 reviews James Mccourt Knopf, 1993 A tough and trenchant masterwork by James McCourt + Dazzling + Why is this book out of print? Time Remaining -- technically a story and a novella which cohere into a whole -- is a masterwork of the most impressive order and a classic on a number of levels. Its various strands include: half a century of haut gay sensibility, from the postwar years to the season of AIDS; the low corruption ...             Nocturnes for the King of Naples6 reviews Edmund White St. Martin's Griffin, 1988 Nocturnes for the King of Naples + A poetic novel about losing your one true love + It's Summer - Time to Read or Re-Read This Masterpiece! + A Beautiful And Haunting Novel             The Dead Father9 reviews Donald Barthelme Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004 Classic Barthelme + Funny in a funny way + funny angry profane absurd "The Dead Father" is a novel by Barthelme who is far more famous for his short stories. But fans of his short stories won't be surprised by anything in The Dead Father. All his trademarks are there: Long pages of odd dialogue, humorous lists, deadpan humor, metafiction, etc. If you are new to ...             Forty Stories (Penguin Classics)9 reviews Donald Barthelme Penguin Classics, 2005 Marvelous collection by one of America's most unique writers + son of a son of a son........ + The Perfect Motivation Donald Barthelme is one of the very few masters of the short short story. The only others that come to mind are Saki, Borges, and Franz Kakfa. Few of the stories in this collection extend past three pages. All are marked by the same virtues evident throughout the collection: surreality, ...             Speed-the-Plow5 reviews David Mamet Grove Press, 1994 The Amazing Mamet + The best of Mamet (along with Glen Garry) + Intoxicating prose, uncertain structure This is an interesting play, written in a style of short, "clipped" dialogue. It is mainly a story about the ugliness of the movie industry. Interestingly enough, Madonna played the character Karen in the broadway production. If you enjoy David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross / American Buffalo / ...             Cat's Cradle375 reviews Kurt Vonnegut Dell Publishing, 1998 Surreal yet all too close to the truth... + Great Storytelling + Still relevant to this day + WONDERFUL BOOK + The master of Cat's Cradle             Portnoy's Complaint101 reviews Philip Roth Vintage, 1994 Funny, Influential, Modern, Psychological Jewish Novel -- that's well worth your time... + Laugh-out-loud hilarious! + I thought this was a book about gangsters + Great Reflection of 1969 and Jersey Jews [52][T]             American Buffalo7 reviews David Mamet Grove Press, 1994 Not for the Weak + stark, harsh, broken American dreamers.. It's unfortunate that the first Amazon review of Mamet's brilliant work is by Mr. C.B.Liddell, a pompous, pontificating Brit who doesn't understand the play. I'm not sticking up for Mamet: his works are very hit and miss, and even the hits are an acquired taste (like Monty Python), I'm just ...             Sam Shepard : Seven Plays (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, ...11 reviews Sam Shepard Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1984 Essay, Different Ways of Life + When He Wrote plays + best of Shepard... + an incredible collage of beautiful plays + The one to start on!             And the Stars Were Shining: Poems2 reviews John Ashbery Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995 Chasing Meaning Out Of Assumed Appearances + One of the most personal poetry voices keeps showing charm. And The Stars Were Shining By John Ashbery John Ashbery's penchant for the long, discursively philosophic poem has sometimes served to distract critical attention from his mastery of intensely conceived short lyrics. We all have a favourite Ashbery flavour, and mine is the gin-fizz dynamic at ...             Sphere: The Form of a Motion1 review A. R. Ammons W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 Wow This book/poem is simply amazing and absolutely beautiful. Get it. Now.             The Witches of Eastwick24 reviews John Updike Ballantine Books, 1996 Scathing Social Satire + I loved it... but not in the way I thought + Stellar in places, but loses its initial luster partway through Likely many will be giving this book a new look now that Updike has published a sequel. Since Updike became a realist at mid-career with his Rabbit novels, not many understood this book. But it is a scathing social satire on post-Protestant America, in the vein of his earlier Couples and Month of ...             Light Years26 reviews James Salter Vintage, 1995 Beneath the shiny surface + Am I Alone? + A sumptuous feast Nothing is perfect. A marriage that seems to be unshakable may be just hiding dark cracks beneath a beautifully polished surface. That is one of the things one can learn from James Salter's classic novel "Light Years". Originally published in 1975, the book has become a fine example about family ...             Mumbo Jumbo34 reviews Ishmael Reed Scribner, 1996 an american classic way up the list + WOW + I really enjoyed this book + Remember "old school?" It's alive and well! + Jes' Wonderful