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The Marriage of the Sea: A Novel 9 reviews
Jane Alison
Picador, 2004
"Sea" flows
+ The UnKnowability of Place and The Human Heart
+ lovely
Jane Alison is excellent in her sophomore novel "Marriage of the Sea," a plotlessly beautiful tale of several people with lives that loosely intersect, based on love and longing. It's a beautiful, engrossing book with plenty of interesting characters and a lush prose style that is unforgettable. ...
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Lost Horizon: A Novel 98 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
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The Secret History536 reviews
Donna Tartt
Vintage, 2004
A Very Powerful Novel
+ This is a great book - a must read for the winter.
+ Well written page turner
+ The Heart of the History
+ A Modern Classical Tragedy
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The Palace of Dreams 11 reviews
Ismail Kadare
Arcade Publishing, 1998
A dangerous ghost state
+ Quiet Nightmare in the Palace of Dreams
+ A Butterfly Dreams He Is a Man
+ To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
+ .. three white foxes on the masjid's tower ...
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Random Harvest11 reviews
James Hilton
Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1998
An ending to take your breath away
+ Almost makes you want to love humankind again.
+ As good a romance mystery story as ever was!
+ Wonderful story of loss, longing and fulfillment
+ THE WONDERFUL STORY/ THE STORY OF "COMPLETION"
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Ocean Sea26 reviews
Alessandro Baricco, Alastair McEwen
Vintage, 2000
Wonderful.
+ Like a rich chocolate cake
+ Wow!
+ A Beautiful Tragedy
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Norwegian Wood166 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 2000
A haunting story
+ proof that i have a soul.
+ My First Murakami Book
+ Not just a love story
+ Good book by Murakami
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Rebecca491 reviews
Daphne Du Maurier
Harper Paperbacks, 1997
Great suspense novel
+ Last Night I Dreamt I went to Manderley again...
+ Details, details, details
+ Psychologically spooky
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The Piano Tuner: A Novel 149 reviews
Daniel Mason
Vintage, 2003
The Piano Tuner
+ A Good Read
In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives an odd telegram from the British War Offices. The telegram contains a request that he leave his wife in London to travel the jungles of Burma, where he'd find an Erard grand piano that is in need of repairing. The piano belongs to an army surgeon major by the ...
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Journey by Moonlight (Pushkin paper)13 reviews
Antal Szerb
Pushkin Paper, 2003
Intriguing, Alluring, Sexy, Dark
+ An overlooked masterpiece
+ Wholly involving
+ Justifiably Acclaimed
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Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Classics)33 reviews
Henri Alain-Fournier
Penguin Classics, 1991
The Wanderer and The Magus
+ Sometimes the things you loose are gone forever
+ Yestercentury or Yesterday?
+ French Classic- young men coming of age
+ Strange Magic
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The Woman in White (Bantam Classics)114 reviews
Wilkie Collins
Bantam Classics, 1985
Another gem from Collins
+ The Woman at White is a Victorian Novel which will keep you up in the wee hours of the morning!
+ Madness, Mystery and the First Fat Villain
+ Wonderful Read!
+ Remember When It Was Written
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The Royal Physician's Visit: A Novel22 reviews
Per Olov Enquist
Washington Square Press, 2002
SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK...
+ Dark pages of Danish history
Having read "Lost Queen" by Norah Lofts, which book was a work of historical fiction that covered much of the same story told by this author, there could not be two books more different, though both are riveting. The major difference is in the writing style. The book by Ms. Lofts is superlative ...
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The Ten Thousand Things10 reviews
Maria Dermout
NYRB Classics, 2002
Beautiful & True to the Place
+ Marvelous and Mysterious
+ "A singular, mysterious book like nothing else"
+ Finely crafted
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The City of Falling Angels211 reviews
John Berendt
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
Berendt has a talent for finding interesting people whearever he goes
+ From S. Krishna's Books
I am almost done with this book, and have not been able to put it down. Berendt has a talent for finding interesting, unique people who make up the fabric of a society. This book gives you a real view of what Venice is like behind all the tourist attraction edifices. If you are interested in ...
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All the Names56 reviews
Jose Saramago
Harvest Books, 2001
Minor problem with translation
+ Good, but I'm a bit confused.
+ kafka lite
Saragamo does not use quotation marks. In the dialogues between two persons, he indicates a switch between speakers by a comma, followed by a word that begins with a capital letter. This is a problem in English when the word is "I", because "I" is always capitalized. As a result, it is ...
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The Master and Margarita341 reviews
Mikhail Bulgakov
Vintage, 1996
A GIFT FROM THE GRAVE
+ "a liberating, exuberant social and political satire (Moscow) combined with a profound moral and political allegory (Jerusalem);
+ seductive masterpiece
+ The Devil Went Down to Moscow
+ READ THIS!
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Garden of Eden84 reviews
Ernest Hemingway
Scribner, 1995
Foolishly, I put off reading this
+ Cryptic but enthralling
+ Strange and oddly mesmerising
+ Garden of Eden
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The Shadow of the Wind512 reviews
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005
simply the best
+ Fantastic read!
+ A Must Read
+ Truly great storytelling
+ Utterly Amazing Book!
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The Historian1422 reviews
Elizabeth Kostova
Little, Brown and Company, 2005
Brilliant
+ The Historian
+ Angieville: THE HISTORIAN
+ This is how The Da Vinci Code should have been written
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