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Conversations With John Gardner (Literary Conversations Series)
John Gardner
Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1990
Always Interesting to Hear the Man in His Own Words, Impromtu
Unfortunately -- and this is not a fault of the book, but merely the way conversations are -- John Gardner is "less ordered" or "organized" here than in his writings on literary criticisms, since these are, after all, interviews, transcripts. (Actually, one or two or three pieces are articles ...
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Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 1995
The 2nd best of a talented author
+ More personal than The Great Gatsby
Tender is the Night is a beautiful and sublte psychological novel of deterioration and wasted talent. It chronicles the gradual fall of Dick Diver (note the last name), the brilliant psychiatrist who wrecks himself trying to cure his insane wife, Nicole. Inevitably ever reader compares it to the ...
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Ethics for Everyone: How to Increase Your Moral Intelligence
Arthur Dobrin
Wiley, 2002
This will make you think and grow.
+ Excellent for Discussion
+ ethics 101
This book is filled with a general introduction to practical ethical questions and with real-life scenarios about which you are asked the ethical thing to do. After you have pondered each scenario, you are presented with a discussion of the issues and both the author's reactions and that of at ...
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All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
Harvest Books, 1996
The Web Of Things
+ Why did I wait?
+ A Great Book Read By A Great Voice
+ great literature, sinfully delicious
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Going the Distance: One Man's Journey to the End of His Life
George Sheehan
Villard, 1996
Going The Distance : All Sold Out
+ How to Best Live Life
+ this book will touch every runners heart
+ A fantastic look inside a man's final years.
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Pepys' Diary (Classic, HighBridge)
Samuel Pepys
Highbridge Audio, 1996
Quality
+ Better than most historical novels!
+ Great for long car rides for those who love Pepy's
+ An outstanding classic which comes to life in audio cd format
+ it's an audio confidante
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The Ginger Man
J. P. Donleavy
Grove Press, 2001
My hero
+ A manifestation of human desire in its physical state - JP Donleavy is brilliant!
+ Funny as Hell, True as Heaven
+ A Joy
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Save Me the Waltz
Zelda Fitzgerald
Signet, 1968
Astonishing
+ Save Me the Waltz- Zelda's life in her perspective
The brilliance of this mind writing at a stage of desperation is astonishing. She wrote the book in six weeks. Her husband Scott, tormented her upon finding out that she used the same material that he used in Tender is NIght. It is believed that he was furious with her and induced another ...
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The Magic City (Gregg Press Children's Literature Series)
Edith Nesbit, H. R. Millar
Gregg Press, 1981
Nesbit's best
+ Good book, but hard for young readers
+ Loved it!
+ If you love Harry Potter, try this!
+ The Book I Spent Ten Years Looking For...
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Solaris
Stanislaw Lem
Harvest Books, 2002
Exploring Solaris, from movies to book.
+ Solaris
+ A thoughtful science fiction story
+ Classic Stanislaw Lem
+ Compelling, cerebral science fiction
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John Steinbeck : Novels and Stories, 1932-1937 : The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / ...
John Steinbeck
Library of America, 1994
Some pretty amazing Steinbeck magic
+ Steinbeck = Good
+ Great book
+ Great works
+ Steinbeck's classics delivered in a wonderful manner
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The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
Vintage, 1998
Slicing into the core of mundacity
+ Classic of Southern/American literature.
+ Graceful, easy writing
The Moviegoer is a worthwhile read for anyone who questions the tediousness and resultant boredom of life. It is certainly not outdated for being published in 1960; if anything, it is more relevant today than then. Life as we know it now is even more formulaic than then. It is now even more ...
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The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy
Shelby Foote, Walker Percy, ...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1998
Like eavsedropping on a fabulous conversation
+ Essential reading for Percy or Foote fans
+ Pity poor Shelby Foote
+ interesting but unsettling
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Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
Steven Pressfield
Bantam, 1999
Captivating!
+ quequeeg
+ Gates of Fire
+ Fine historical novel
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The Civil War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vol. I)
Shelby Foote
Random House, 1958
North and South go at it.
+ Not what you think...
+ All Americans should read.....
+ Top Rate
+ One of the best books on the ACW
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