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Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich 261 reviews
William L. Shirer
Simon & Schuster, 1990
One of the most readable histories I've read
+ excellent
+ Sometimes preventive war is a good idea
+ On the Ground in Germany during the Birth of the Third Reich
+ Remains important, after 50 years
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction627 reviews
the writers of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, 2004
I couldn't stop laughing
+ Good stuff from Jon Stewart and The Daily Show!
+ Reminds me of why I used to like the Daily Show
+ You will not regret it.
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance321 reviews
Barack Obama
Crown, 2007
Obama, a remarkable generalizer
+ Get to know Obama
+ Don't "know" Barack Obama?
+ Best book ever
+ A thoughtful new president
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Fever Pitch123 reviews
Nick Hornby
Riverhead Trade, 1998
Even if You Hate the Gunners
+ Probably the best book ever about football
+ Great book for any football fan!!!
+ Insughtful: another Hornby winner!
+ Obsessive sports fans need only apply.
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library Paperbacks)161 reviews
Edmund Morris
Modern Library, 2001
Great biography of a fascinating subject
+ Teedie grows up with discipline and fire
+ The Early Years of Teddy
+ Absolutely Wonderful!!!
+ A Classic Biography and a Work of Art
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes 2 reviews
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Garden City Books, 1930
The Most Famous Detective in Fiction
+ Classic Detective Stories
These 1,122 pages contain the authorized text of every Sherlock Holmes story ever written. The copyrights to these stories expired around 1972 so any writer can appropriate the characters in new fiction. Yet no one has been able to equal, let alone surpass, A.C. Doyle in world-wide popularity. Has ...
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The Chronicles of Narnia131 reviews
C.S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes
HarperCollins, 2004
Great read
+ Great book for children and adults alike
+ Fantasy Adventure or Christian Allegory?
+ AWSOME!!
+ Awesome!!!
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Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors37 reviews
Richard Hooker
Harper Perennial, 1997
Far and Away Better than the Movie or the TV Series
+ Not Free SF Reader
+ great book made into a great movie
+ the 4077th
+ mash: a novel about three army doctors
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Ulysses (Gabler Edition) 395 reviews
James Joyce, Hans Gabler
Vintage, 1986
Ten Reasons to Re-read Ulysses
+ Amazon Recommends I: James Joyce's Ulysses
+ Mount Everest for Readers
1. When you tried it in college, it was a task, a challenge, an intellectual mountain to climb, a test of your literary mettle. Perhaps if you read it apart from any course, as I did, you felt you failed.
2. In the intervening time you've read perhaps hundreds of Modernist and post-modernist ...
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)2602 reviews
J. K. Rowling
Scholastic, 2004
Brilliant Sequel
+ The magic of Harry Potter
+ Harry Potter
+ Pesky Prisoner, Potions Professor Plus Puzzling Ploys Plague Potter
+ One of the best!
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Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley (Careless Love)87 reviews
Peter Guralnick
Little, Brown and Company, 1999
An American Tragedy
+ Magnificent
+ Exceptional
This book is a detailed account of the second half of Elvis Presley's life. Peter Guralnick has painted a vivid portrait of the man whose life should have been magnificent, but instead was so terribly sad.
After reading Guralnick's first volume (Last Train To Memphis), I ran out immediately ...
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Theodore Rex201 reviews
Edmund Morris
Random House, 2001
A Whirwind Hits the White House
+ Very worthy effort that leaves me wanting more, not less,
+ An Excellent Portrait of a Great President
+ A Window into Roosevelt's Presidency
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The Barrytown Trilogy25 reviews
Roddy Doyle
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995
Doyle: "It's not a trilogy. It's just three books."
+ A telling trilogy
+ excellent excellent excellent
+ extemely enjoyable
+ Re: The Van
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The October Country38 reviews
Ray Bradbury, Joe Mugnaini
William Morrow, 1999
read and reread
+ Still Chills After Fifty Years
+ Not Free SF Reader
+ The October Country
+ some gems with some clunkers
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Stripper Lessons8 reviews
John O'Brien
Grove Press, 1997
Searching
+ excellent read, can't put it down
+ The legions and legions of lesson lesions
+ The Life We All Live
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American Gods: A Novel702 reviews
Neil Gaiman
Harper Perennial, 2003
A deep understanding
+ Thought provoking...makes you question your beliefs
+ How Neil Gaiman Re-invents the Fantasy Novel
+ interesting and engaging, a little stretching
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Pastime21 reviews
Robert B. Parker
Putnam Adult, 1991
Vintage Vignettes on Varieties of Rain? Dining on Times Past? Casting Pearls Before Swine? Oh Yeah. Tim Taylor approved!
+ Resonant
+ Blood may be thicker, but water washes many transgressions away . . .
+ This is one of the Better Spensers
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Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill
Morrow, 2007
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Eaters of the Dead301 reviews
Michael Crichton
Avon, 2006
Great shorter read.
+ good read
+ Eaters of the dead 2
I read this directly after finishing Sphere. It's a very fun book and Crichton does a good job getting you into the culture. Good action and good character development.
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Tishomingo Blues 70 reviews
Elmore Leonard
HarperTorch, 2003
Brass-Knuckle Cool
+ a study in cool restraint
+ The Man Delivers
+ Elmore Leonard at his best
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