True At First Light : A Fictional Memoir63 reviews
Ernest Hemingway

Scribner, 2000

Good brothers are difficult to find

+ Hunters and nature lovers, this is for you

..but you can encounter a bad brother in any town. This is one statement in this story which is not a real memoir and not a real novel but just writings that Patrick Hemingway put together. I read it through and was sorry that Cast of Characters and Swahili Glossary were at the end of book instead ...
  
  











  



  
In Cold Blood429 reviews
Truman Capote

Modern Library, 2002

Anarachy in the heartland : an American story

+ Brutal Event in Journalistic Focus
+ The first true crime book is still the best
+ In Cold Blood in a new edition
+ A Commentary on our 21st Century Culture
  
  











  



  
The MYSTERY OF SWORDFISH REEF7 reviews
Arthur W. Upfield

Touchstone, 1998

Bony is the BEST!

+ A huge "catch" for mystery buffs -- great atmosphere!
+ Very good but not great
+ MORE LITERARY TYPE OF FICTION
  
  











  



  
Gone, But Not Forgotten65 reviews
Phillip Margolin

HarperTorch, 2005

Phillip Margolin---author

+ Gone, But Not Forgotten
+ You forget the crowd while reading

I just discovered this author a few months back. His books are interesting and fast paced. You won't be able to put his books down until the end!
  
  











  



  
Ice Station Zebra
Alistair Maclean

Fontana, 1972
  
  











  



  
The Gadfly25 reviews
E. L. Voynich

Echo Library, 2007

A Huge Sleeper!

+ A book about Love, Ideals, Passion, Determination
+ "Then am I a happy fly,
+ THE Most Moving Book I Ever Read
+ Love/Politics/Fight all that and well written!
  
  











  



  
Plum Island340 reviews
Nelson DeMille

Grand Central Publishing, 2002

Plum Is A Peach

+ Shock & Awe
+ "The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong...It has to do with cutting the right deal."
+ Another Excellent DeMille Novel
  
  











  



  
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh30 reviews
Franz Werfel

Da Capo Press, 2002

Deserves to be required reading

+ Excellent book
+ An incredibly inspiring novel, based on history
+ Stirs and pervades the human spirit with great emotion
+ Fictional-but
  
  











  



  
Murder At Smutty Nose and Other Murders1 review
Edmund Pearson

SUN DIAL PRESS, INC., 1938

The measuring stick for true crime -- but very old

This book was so compelling that women British mystery writers made written reference to it, and it's author, in a few of their cozy murders! The main story is about a double murder of two Norwegian women on a tiny New England island. A third woman was nearly also killed but, wielding an ax ...
  
  











  



  
The Slynx: A Novel8 reviews
Tatyana Tolstaya

Houghton Mifflin, 2003

Amazing

+ A rich, fantastic and mutely believable post-apocalyptic Russian world
+ The review from Publishers Weekly is misleading
+ perhaps the best of the modern Russian futuristic novels; great language
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America770 reviews
Erik Larson

Vintage, 2004

Time machine

+ Highly Rated for History Fans
+ A bit tedious at times, but worth a read - esp if you like architectural history

This book makes me wish I had a time machine to go back and see the White City in person. I work in downtown Chicago and I walk by many of the buildings described in the book every day. I find it fascinating to think of what Chicago must have been like in 1893. Of course the story of HH Holmes is ...
  
  











  



  
Mr. Moto's three aces;: A John P. Marquand omnibus1 review
John P Marquand

Little, Brown, 1938

Great period mysteries of intrigue

Mr. Moto was sort of a Japanese version of Charlie Chan, (the latter being a Chinese character). Probably the chief reason that Mr. Moto ceased to be popularly read, (while Charlie Chan went on to greater fame), was due to the Pearl Harbor Invasion! John P. Marquand's timing could not have been ...
  
  











  



  
Murder Down Under2 reviews
Arthur W. Upfield

Touchstone, 1998

The Cream of murder mysteries!

The setting is Australia, and the protagonist is half-aborigine, half-caucasian, detective wonder, Napoleon Bonepart.... Boney to his friends. Boney ALWAYS tells his superiors, in advance, that he will solve even the most difficult of crimes, and he does. The only thing is, his superiors are always ...
  
  











  



  
The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)11 reviews
Joseph Conrad

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

Bleak, Mordant, Beautifully Written, Funny...

+ A Secret Agency
+ It will not dissapoint you.
+ A Prophetic Tale
  
  











  



  
Doctor Zhivago80 reviews
Boris Pasternak

PENGUIN LONGMAN PUBL, 1999

Pasternak v. Reader, Round II

+ Doctor Zhivago, Love and the Russian Revolution
+ Love and Revolution
+ Love and Revolution
  
  











  



  
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)269 reviews
Ernest Hemingway

Scribner, 1996

The best of Hemingway

+ A Must-Read
+ Heminway is a GOD !
+ For Whom the Bell Tolls
  
  











  



  
The Robe77 reviews
Lloyd C. Douglas

Mariner Books, 1999

The Robe

+ Very enjoyable read
+ A Classic Story!
+ The best of the best!
  
  











  



  
River God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt241 reviews
Wilbur Smith

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2008

Terrific story with lots of cultural info as well

+ River God is great reading
+ Interesting
+ Enjoyable read
+ Great book
  
  











  



  
Train Man20 reviews
P. T. Deutermann

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2001

A compelling and superb contemporary thriller!

+ The Story Still Works
+ Bookcassette Adapter Needed To Play

In recent years I have become hugely disappointed in most of the mediocre scrawlings which have been recently published as novels; however, on the highest recommendation of a much-trusted literary friend, I began reading the works of P.T. Deutermann and I'm so glad that I did. I haven't ...