books about: horses     books:     Horses      Out Stealing Horses: A Novel Per Petterson Graywolf Press, 2007 A beautiful work It's not everyday that I come across something as quietly profound as this slim novel--about a man in his retirement years looking back on his youth, a certain summer when he was twelve's years old. There are many things Trond tells us about: logging with his father, a ...             Blindness (Harvest Book) Jose Saramago Harvest Books, 1999 "If you can see, look. If you can look, observe." "Blindness" is my first reading of anything by Saramago. After thumbing through it in the bookstore and looking at its sheer density, seeming lack of dialog, paragraphs, and usual punctuation, I decided to leave it alone, until now. This tale of a pandemic of ...             Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 1: The Long Way Home Joss Whedon, Andy Owens Dark Horse Comics, 2007 Graphic SF Reader This is great. At least until the investigate the fate of one of Buffy's doubles issue, but Whedon totally nails this for the story arc part, and the art is pretty reasonable, too, if a little shakier on some of the minor characters like Andrew, etc. With ...             Hellboy Volume 1: Seed of Destruction (Hellboy (Graphic Novels)) Mike Mignola, John Byrne Dark Horse, 2003 fantastic I just got back into comics recently and I can't tell you how wonderful it was to get this book. As I've noted elsewhere, Mignola's plotting and art is just phenomenal. One of the reasons I love Hellboy is because I love the old Hammer horror movies from the 60s and ...             Truman David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 1993 wonderful sense of American history I have read most of McCullough's books, and so I knew that after reading this I would understand Harry S. Truman more deeply than I ever had. What I didn't know what was that I would learn so much about 20th century American history. McCullough is a great story-teller. ...             Star Wars Legacy, Vol. 3: Claws of the Dragon John Ostrander, Jan Duursema Dark Horse, 2008 A Powerful Ending to a Great Story Arc Cade Skywalker is a rebellious and emotionally broken former Jedi. Sought by the evil Sith that now rule the galaxy, scheming factions of the Empire, and his own former teachers, Cade heads to Coruscant, the stronghold of his enemies, to try and make amends for the ...             Out Stealing Horses: A Novel Per Petterson Picador, 2008 A beautiful work It's not everyday that I come across something as quietly profound as this slim novel--about a man in his retirement years looking back on his youth, a certain summer when he was twelve's years old. There are many things Trond tells us about: logging with his father, a ...             No Future For You (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 2) Brian K. Vaughan, Joss Whedon Dark Horse, 2008 buffy comics No Future For You (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 2) as a fan of the tv show, i was intregued at the prospect of a comic book of buffy and i was pleasantly surprized. well written, well drawn, intriging stories and i can almost hear their voices as i ...             All the Pretty Horses Cormac Mccarthy Vintage, 1993 Life, death, love, horses and hand rolled cigarettes I can't believe I've waited this long to get into Cormac McCarthy. We Texans have always known him to be one of the great Texas western writers, right up there with Larry McMurtry, earning a place in our hearts. But Cormac is bigger than that. Bigger than Texas, you ...             Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book (Scanimation Books) Rufus Butler Seder Workman Publishing Company, 2007 Excellent attention holder This was incredible. My son is 5 and reads much more advanced books, but loved the moving pictures in this one. It ranked right up there with magic! We had tried purchasing him a zoeatrope but it was too much work for him to deal with the slips to put in, this was ...             Hellboy Volume 8: Darkness Calls (Hellboy (Graphic Novels)) (Hellboy (Graphic Novels)) Mike Mignola, Duncan Fegredo, ... Dark Horse Comics, 2008 Good Hellboy, Kick some A This is not only a great story, but it also has amazing art. The artist who worked on this book did an amazing job that definitely impressed me. Being a fan of Mike's art work, I can sometimes me skeptical of other people that pick up the torch and illustrate his ...             The Soul of a Horse: Life Lessons from the Herd Joe Camp Harmony, 2008 In Defense of Jack Joe (and Kathleen) Camp's book is an entertaining, heart warming, and thought-provoking read. I felt like I was accompanying them on a remarkable journey of enrichment and discovery. For me there was just one omission, and it involved the "horse named Jack" mentioned ...             Dark Horse: A Political Thriller Ralph Reed Howard Books, 2008 Great Book This is a great book I recomend it highly. I love political thrillers and fiction books that run on the edge of reality. Pick it up today. You will not be disapointed. Todd             The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library) Cormac Mccarthy Everyman's Library, 1999 One of the best I love a book that takes more than a day to read. I'm still thinking about the characters months after I have read these book(s) Reading a good book twice is something I rarely do, planning a rereading of this one soon.             Hellboy Library Edition Volume 1: Seed of Destruction and Wake the Devil (Hellboy Library Editions 1) Mike Mignola, John Byrne Dark Horse, 2008 not into comics but i loved this I really enjoy the movie so i thought i'd give this a read, despite never reading a comic before in my life other than a few glances. not to offend, but really found them to be ridiculous, childish material. that was, before i read this.. THIS has opened my eyes to a ...          products you might be interested in search for books blindness, destruction, editions, political, scanimation, stealing      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: The Dangerous Book for Boys