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Guadalcanal Diary (Modern Library War)

Richard Tregaskis

Modern Library, 2000

Guadalcanal
I like the way this was written just what he experienced with no false fluff! A Great read!

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Modern Library, 2000

Hail o American sage!!!
Glory to thee o Emerson. Hail o poet philosopher! Look, look...Even CICERO bows to thee! Demosthones presents thy laurel!! Emerson know some truth, yes, yes...and wasn't I told of this fact, yes I was but I ran away until I could bear the truth no longer of ...

Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library Classics)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Modern Library, 2000

A priceless compilation for less than twenty dollars
I wrote plenty of comprehensive reviews today so I'll try my hand at shorter ones. I find it quite ironic that at the height of its blatant negativities Utilitarianism is able to deliver to us the philosophers who destroyed it for dirt cheap. In order to determine ...

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library Paperbacks)

Edmund Morris

Modern Library, 2001

A masterpiece of biography
Theodore Roosevelt is among the most fascinating individuals the United States of America has ever produced, and he has a more than worthy biographer in Edmund Morris. Though extremely wrong (over 900 pages!), Morris's book is never boring, rarely drags, and overall ...

The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series)

Jane Jacobs

Modern Library, 1993

A 'Must Have" for a student of Urban Studies
My son is a college senior who is taking a seminar class in urban studies. He was born in Manhattan so it was not a surprise that he should develop an interest in the subject. While I was purchasing another 'leisure read' to send to him, I saw this book as a ...

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Modern Library)

Cormac McCarthy

Modern Library, 2001

you try not to flinch, but you do, then you turn the page for more
Really enjoyed this one, though I have to feel a little guilty for saying so. The scenery itself is like another of the characters, and all characters are harsh, brutal, and real. The pace of the narration does not drag, and though you try not to flinch at the ...

Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics)

Wallace Earle Stegner

Modern Library, 2002

Larry and Sally and Sid and Charity: a foursome to remember
Wallace Stegner's "Crossing to Safety" is a moving, immersive novel about marriage and friendship, closely examining the rewards and challenges of each. Character isn't revealed so much by big plot moments or outside situations pushing on the characters and making ...

Three Days Before the Shooting . . . (Modern Library)

Ralph Ellison

Modern Library, 2010

Well worth reading
I'm about half way through this wonderful collection. This is a very frustrating book because you can see how close Ellson got to finishing what would have been his masterpiece. It reminds me of All the Kings Men, it's that good. It's snowing outside. No school. ...

Shadow Country (Modern Library Paperbacks)

Peter Matthiessen

Modern Library, 2008

An American Epic of a Brutal Man and Place
Shadow Country is Peter Matthiessen's reworked rendering of his earlier trilogy of historical fiction relating the life of the brutal Florida pioneer Edgar J. Watson. (This version still consists of three "books" and runs to almost 900 pages. I did not read the earlier ...

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library)

Hunter S. Thompson

Modern Library, 1999

Funny
I read Hell's Angel by Ralph "Sonny" Barger before reading this one. Mr. Barger had a very low opinion of H.S. Thompson as a person from what he observed of him from hanging out with his motorcycle chapter and what he had to say about this book was, "it was junk, there ...

Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library)

Truman Capote

Modern Library, 1994

Still Magic After All These Years
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1958) was a novella I read when it first came out, and this is my first rereading in low these many years. It has aged fairly well. The style is simple, straightforward, almost Hemingwayish. As objects of mirth, outlandish, eccentric, ...

Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats (Modern Library Classics)

John Keats

Modern Library, 2001

Excellent For College Study or Independent Reading
In his short life John Keats created some of the finest poetry in the English language. I have read his shorter poems and odes many times, not for study, but simply for enjoyment. I am not a Keats expert, but I can now easily recognize quotations from Keat's odes, ...

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Modern Library)

William Styron

Modern Library, 2007

Invaluable!
I recommend that anybody with major depression should read this. I felt such relief reading a description of exactly how I feel and knowing that I am not alone in my depression. Also invaluable for family members of depression sufferes.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Modern Library Classics)

Lewis Carroll

Modern Library, 2002

A Trip Down The Rabbit Hole All Grown Up
There is one thing that all potential customers must keep in mind when buying any Alice book: Do not purchase one that does not include the illustrations of John Tenniel! This edition includes all of them and the quality of the reproductions on the pages are ...

A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)

John Irving

Modern Library, 2002

Kindle, Please!
Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! Kindle! I have bought this book (twice) ...