The New Jerusalem Bible, Reader's Edition (The Complete Text of the Ancient Canon of the Scriptures)88 reviews Doubleday, 1990 His Holy Name!! + NJB or NRSV? + New Jerusalem bible + poor package + Accurate restoration of God's name             Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America54 reviews Garry Wills Simon & Schuster, 1993 I started reading again + Must reading for everyone + Paper I did for Grad class + Profound. Insightful. Relevant. Powerful.             The Second Sex37 reviews Simone De Beauvoir Vintage, 1989 the treaty on feminism + Worth more than gold + To what extent are women responsible for being the other? + good book             Blue Spruce2 reviews David Long Scribner, 1996 Pass it to your Friends -- I did + Richly written stories with vivid characters . . . I bought "Blue Spruce" in a book sale. Never one for short stories which try to say too much in too short a passage, Long's collection is a fine balance and vastly different. Long's short stories introduce us to characters and lives in small-town America and explores the intricacies in human ...             The Long Loneliness11 reviews Dorothy Day HarperOne, 1997 A Classic Conversion Story + Living the oridinary extraordinarily: Reminiscences of a Catholic convert. + Enriching Exploration of the Discovery of Faith Catholic faith fascinates people. How did her spiritual life develop, and how did it influence the remainder of her life? Many wonderful authors, including but not limited to people such as William Miller, Robert Coles, and most recently Paul Elie, have written extensively about Dorothy Day and ...             The Bluest Eye497 reviews Toni Morrison Knopf, 1993 Powerful, masterful + A Story Everyone Needs To Read! + A Fantastical, Yet Disturbing, Read Toni Morrison is a tremendous writer who really makes me think, and this book was no exception. The details of the story are absolutely tragic- a young girl is raped by her father and bears his baby, who dies. Meanwhile, she's so full of socially-created self-hatred that she wishes for blue eyes, ...             A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories41 reviews Flannery O'Connor Harvest Books, 1977 Do Yourself a Favor and Read Flannery O'Connor + A Southern Story Classic + Explore the Dark Side in the Deep South + for the love of all that is grotesque + A perfect collection of stories...             The Complete Stories11 reviews Bernard Malamud Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998 Even better than his novels + "The Last Mohican" + Master of the Short Story + Beautiful short story anthology + A very good story writer             Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK313 reviews Gerald Posner Anchor, 1994 Thorough and well researched + For anyone more interested in truth than sensationalism... Gerald Posner's book, Case Closed is a real eye opener. If, like many people, you base all of your opinions on the JFK assasination on the Oliver Stone film, then you need to read this book. Posner's book, incredibly well researched and annotated, demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that ...             Invisible Man279 reviews Ralph Ellison Vintage, 1995 The invisibility of man + A classic.. + Completely Unique + Underappreciated work of genius             Lolita450 reviews Vladimir Nabokov Vintage, 1989 A road movie of the mind + Beautiful writing confronts crude subject matter--A masterpiece + Upends your preconceptions and prejudices + Which book did you read? + The Most Beautiful Novel Ever Written             The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America (Galaxy Books)6 reviews Lawrence Goodwyn Oxford University Press, USA, 1978 The Last Great Mass Democratic Movement + Major Work Relevant to Reuniting America Today + Populism was more then a rhetorical style.... + A Short Review of the Populist Moment + Goodwyn created one of the three classics of populism             Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)464 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett Bantam Classics, 1984 A masterpiece from cover to cover + Crime and Punishment + Crime and Punishment ~ Kindle eBook + Dostoyevski at his best unfortunately this translation did him no favors.             A Life of Jesus12 reviews Shusaku Endo Paulist Press, 1978 The man - not the God + THE MORE PERSPECTIVES WE TAKE THE MORE FULLY WE COME TO KNOW AND TO LOVE AND MORE CLOSELY TO FOLLOW OUR LORD + Jesus and His life + Jesus for the Japanese             White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction)269 reviews Don DeLillo Penguin (Non-Classics), 1986 Consumptive Consumerism + Hmmm.... + Listen to the 'White Noise' + The Meaning of Life + The Toneless Systems             A Life of Jesus12 reviews Shusaku Endo Paulist Press, 1978 The man - not the God + THE MORE PERSPECTIVES WE TAKE THE MORE FULLY WE COME TO KNOW AND TO LOVE AND MORE CLOSELY TO FOLLOW OUR LORD + Jesus and His life + Jesus for the Japanese             White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction)269 reviews Don DeLillo Penguin (Non-Classics), 1986 Consumptive Consumerism + Hmmm.... + Listen to the 'White Noise' + The Meaning of Life + The Toneless Systems             The Second Sex37 reviews Simone De Beauvoir Vintage, 1989 the treaty on feminism + Worth more than gold + To what extent are women responsible for being the other? + good book             A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories41 reviews Flannery O'Connor Harvest Books, 1977 Do Yourself a Favor and Read Flannery O'Connor + A Southern Story Classic + Explore the Dark Side in the Deep South + for the love of all that is grotesque + A perfect collection of stories...             Lolita450 reviews Vladimir Nabokov Vintage, 1989 A road movie of the mind + Beautiful writing confronts crude subject matter--A masterpiece + Upends your preconceptions and prejudices + Which book did you read? + The Most Beautiful Novel Ever Written