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Dog Eat Dog: A Novel
Edward Bunker
St. Martin's Griffin, 1997
Fantastic!
This is a gritty novel. This book is almost without parallel and unlike any other crime fiction that I have had the pleasure to read. Don't think about it, buy it and read it. This is the best author writing hard-core fiction alive. This is Chandler's protégée if you ...
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Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays
William Styron
Random House, 2008
Less Is More: Occasional Pieces by a Master
Although he wrote precious little, compared to some of his contemporaries, surely William Styron was one of the best American writers of his generation and produced fiction that will be read as long as there are any readers left. I would argue that SOPHIE'S CHOICE is ...
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This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings
William Styron
Vintage, 1993
Fascinating Literary Essays; Iffy Politics
William Styron is one of America's greatest contemporary writers. I read "The Confessions of Nat Turner" in high school and was blown away by his ability to bring history alive, to reproduce the sights, smells, sounds, the place entire. He also has that wonderful ...
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Lie Down in Darkness
William Styron
Vintage, 1992
This MASTERPIECE of writing,
made me grateful about those long, boring afternoons spent in learning English!I just read all the reviews: Some were written by real experts. But some of them depict this novel as "too long" (I WISHED IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LONGER!")"boring" (This lady is far of ...
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Sophie's Choice
William Styron
Vintage, 1992
Outstanding Piece of Literature
Sophie's Choice (Modern Library)
Outstanding piece of literature.
Somehow It makes me believe that a great portion of this accomplishment is not fiction at all, but a real life story with characters that get so much into the deepest inner self of the reader inciting ...
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
Vintage, 1992
Superb. Left me breathless
I too, am going to have to say that many recent reviewers have said what I would say if I could express myself so eloquently. This is a powerful and beautifully written book. I had heard about it and was curious, but had no idea the impact it would have on me. As a ...
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
William Styron
Vintage, 1992
Excellent compact book on symptoms of depression
I was pleasantly surprized that this small volume gave me a clear grasp of how debilitating this condition can be. I am studying Clinical Psych in grad school and this volume gets to the point of the matter quickly.
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Set This House on Fire
William Styron
Vintage, 1993
complicated but worth it
This book is long dance, tortured, and brilliant. Descriptions of Italy, specifically Sambuco, make you feel is if you are there They sweep and enfold you into Italy's "warm and fragrant being." It is a complicated tale told between two different time periods. Until ...
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The Cunning of History
Richard L. Rubenstein
Harper Perennial, 1987
Poles, Like Jews, Recognized as Victims of Genocide
In 1944, Polish Jew Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide, applying it to Jews and Poles alike. In this small but thought-provoking book, Richard L. Rubenstein approaches the German Nazi exterminationist policies in much the same vein, while stressing the role of the ...
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The Long March and In the Clap Shack (2 Books in 1)
William Styron
Vintage, 1993
Two stories of noncombat military life.
The Long March: A novella set in a Marine training area during the Korean War. An officer sets his battalion on a forced march over 36 miles to complement his swaggering self-image. Soldiers drop out by the truckload in the sweltering heat, and one is driven to ...
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Darkness Visible
William Styron
Vintage, 2001
Great book about clinical depression struggle
This is a fine book recounting one man's nightmare as he fought a very serious depression. He has a great, vivid writing style and recalls many details about how he felt at various stages of the illness. He came through it, so his story ultimately is encouraging. ...
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Last Rights: Thirteen Fatal Encounters with the State's Justice
Joseph B. Ingle
Union Square Press, 2008
Fantastic!
Rev. Joe Ingle has spent an incredible amount of time with men and women on death row. In this book he tells the stories of men and women who have been executed as well as the stories of their families. The book is gripping from the very beginning to the end. Rev. ...
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Lie Down In Darkness
WILLIAM STYRON
Bobbs-Merrill, 1951
His first book.
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A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth
William Styron
Random House, 1993
Enter the world of Styron HERE!
This book is a beautiful intermingling of past memeories and present strife. The war time world of Paul Whitehurst is made apparent; his childhood battles were fought just as passionately as any battle in WWII. Paul is a fictional character full of wit and wisdom. ...
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Dead Run: The Untold Story of Dennis Stockton and America's Only Mass escape from Death Row
Joe Jackson, William Jr Burke
Crown, 1999
My GOD!! What a MASTERPIECE!!
What I wanted to know, after reading this simple, eloquent, masterfully written prose blockbuster is WHERE DO I GO TO NOMINATE THESE GUYS FOR THE NOBEL PRIZE??? Not since I read JAWS have I been so absolutely riveted!!! And I HATE prison books. And, let me tell you, ...
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