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The Razor's Edge 137 reviews
W. Somerset Maugham
Vintage, 2003
A Masterful Literary Creation
+ Full with the colors of the 1920's flamboyance
+ Amazon product
+ Making Our Way In the World
+ Enlightment journey very current today
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The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)478 reviews
Sylvia Plath
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000
Poetry in Prose
+ This isn't a book about depression
+ a masterpiece
The Bell Jar tells the captivating story of Esther Greenwood, a gifted young woman who has just completed her arduous internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The novel, written entirely in first person, chronicles her mental breakdown and subsequent ...
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The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism 26 reviews
Katie Roiphe
Back Bay Books, 1994
Feminism
+ A thought provoking book
I just finished rereading The Morning After. In it, Katie Roiphe makes no claim to having all the answers, but she notes (in a quietly expressed, earnest, rational and refreshingly non-shrill style) that the notion of "feminism" she developed as a young girl growing in her home had no resemblence ...
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood 179 reviews
Alexandra Fuller
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
A surprisingly great read!
+ Interesting Personal Account
+ Interesting read!
+ The Roads of Rhodesia
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Two Women: A Novel of Friendship (Ballantine Reader's Circle)5 reviews
Marianne Fredriksson
Ballantine Books, 2002
An incredible work of prose
I have read Fredriksson's other books and this one, while slender, is definitely a keeper. I really enjoyed this novel. It is about two women with secrets held deep inside them and by chance, they met at a garden center. There is Mira, a Chilean refugee from Chile who escaped to Sweden during the ...
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Of Love and Shadows26 reviews
Isabel Allende
Bantam, 1988
Not magical realism but Greek tragedy
+ A chilling tale with moral warmth
+ allende simply the best
+ the best book i've read in ages...
+ Of Love and Shadows review
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The Maltese Falcon131 reviews
Dashiell Hammett
Vintage, 1989
You'll Read It, Like It, and Ask for Another!
+ "Falcon" lays an egg...
+ Do You Really Need a Review of This Book?
+ Best Mystery Novel ever
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness142 reviews
William Styron
Vintage, 1992
Taking A Scalpel To Depression
+ Definite insight...but it is a bit dated
+ Deep Understanding
+ Journey into Depression
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Journal of a Solitude 11 reviews
May Sarton
Women's Press Ltd,The, 1998
Excellent!
+ Sarton
+ Beautiful insight...
+ Inspiring
+ Spectacular.
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human 99 reviews
Harold Bloom
Riverhead Trade, 1999
Erudite and satisfying
+ A MUST for writers
+ Inspiring .He teaches us the love of great literature
+ Ah, Professor Bloom...
+ great, but not your only book on Shakespeare
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William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)4 reviews
William Carlos Williams
Library of America, 2004
Electrifying
+ excellent purchase
+ So much depends
+ An Excellent Beginning
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The Little Friend 570 reviews
Donna Tartt
Knopf, 2002
Relive your adolescent childhood...
+ Well written but frustrating
The Little Friend is brilliant recreation of growing up in the mid to later 20th century...you feel the heat of Mississippi sidewalks and swimming holes, the cool bedrooms of your elderly aunts.
I could plop down in one of Edie's kitchen chairs and just start chatting, Ms. Tartt's ...
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Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel2476 reviews
Arthur Golden
Vintage, 1999
Awesome writing style..my absolutely favorite book
+ beautiful
+ Very Well written.
+ Artful and Captivating
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Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics)5 reviews
W. Somerset Maugham
Signet Classics, 2007
True, honest, heartfelt masterpiece
+ A masterpiece
+ An intense novel which I love and despise.
+ A timeless classic
+ Masterpiece of literature
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The Fifth Child46 reviews
Doris Lessing
Vintage, 1989
The monster within
+ Hard to Place
+ Enduring fate
+ The Fifth Child
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Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back124 reviews
Norah Vincent
Viking Adult, 2006
Very revealing and informative
+ Very thought-provoking and surprising
+ Good Experiment
+ Interesting, not profound...
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In Cold Blood421 reviews
Truman Capote
Vintage, 1994
Wow, Great Read!
+ A True-Crime Thriller
+ Capote brings the 60s alive
+ Crime, punishment, and more
+ The reputation is well-deserved...
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The Dark House: A Novel15 reviews
John Sedgwick
Harper Perennial, 2001
Romance, Family Dynamics, Mystery add up to real thrills
+ One of the best thrillers I've read in recent years
The Dark House takes you on the ride of your life. Starting out with the main character Edward Rollins, a damaged soul, riding in his car, following random people to their homes and ending with a building strength and catharsis of Rollins, this book is extremely well written. Rollins definitely has ...
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The Magus219 reviews
John Fowles
Back Bay Books, 2001
The Magus
+ Where's the rest of the story?
+ Great book that can't quite deliver what it promises
+ A young man's book
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Without a Map: A Memoir50 reviews
Meredith Hall
Beacon Press, 2008
Memoir Through Whirligig Eyes
+ Without a Map
+ without a map
+ Profound memoir
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