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Virgin suicides
Eugenides Jeffrey
J'ai lu, 2000
this is a true story
+ Jorie's Reads on The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
+ Time in a Bottle
this is one of the saddest and truest stories I have ever read. I am so grateful to Jeffery Eugenides for telling this story of young teenage girls who choose suicide because in the end it is the one true thing that they can actually do--the one true communication that everyone "gets." Why is it ...
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The Black Book
Orhan Pamuk
Vintage, 2006
Labyrinthian inquiry into the Turkish identity
+ Maybe I just dreamed that I read this novel....
+ Devastating poetry
+ A review by Philip Spires, author of Mission
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Under Orders
Dick Francis
Berkley, 2007
Another winner for Dick Francis
+ Dick Francis - Under Orders
+ So glad there is anther Sid book
I bought "Under Orders" 2 days ago and just finished reading it this morning. Housework and eating fell to the wayside as I entered the world of Sid Hadley, Jockey turned Private Investigator. Dick Franicis never fails to weave several plot lines together for an exciting ending. This book also ...
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
David Halberstam
Hyperion, 2007
The Coldest Winter America and the Koren War
+ Outstanding work.
I have read numerous books on the Korean War including Martin Russ's "The Last Parallel" and " Breakout:The Chosin Reservior Campaign,Korea 1950 which I found to be excellent. David Halberstam has written I think the very best book of all the books I've read on this subject. The research on the ...
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
Best Book I've Ever Listened To
+ Wonderful!!
+ Beautiful Nuggets of Wisdom
+ A great read
+ EAT PRAY LOVE
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Jane Eyre (Norton Critical Editions)
Charlotte Bronte
W. W. Norton, 2000
The only edition to buy
+ buy this edition
+ Great book..Recommend to all
+ Wonderfully written...
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To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics)
Virginia Woolf
Oxford University Press, 2007
An insightful, sensitive reading.
+ Time Passes
+ Brilliant Experimental Novel
+ To The LighthouseA beautif
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Istanbul: Memories and the City
Orhan Pamuk
Vintage, 2006
After visiting Istambul
+ Excellent introduction to Turkish history and culture
+ neo-nostalgia
+ Istanbul: Memories and the City
+ Overdoes the "woe is Istanbul" angle
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Emma (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen
Penguin Classics, 2003
Emma Woodhouse
+ Romantic Mystery
+ A Good Start To My Austen Book Craze
+ Comedy of Errors on a Georgian Stage
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Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Editions)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
W. W. Norton, 1989
the Coulson translation can't be beat
+ Dostoevsky enhanced
+ Among the best ever written
+ Less a review, more about content in this edition
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
David Halberstam
Hyperion, 2007
The Coldest Winter America and the Koren War
+ Outstanding work.
I have read numerous books on the Korean War including Martin Russ's "The Last Parallel" and " Breakout:The Chosin Reservior Campaign,Korea 1950 which I found to be excellent. David Halberstam has written I think the very best book of all the books I've read on this subject. The research on the ...
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To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics)
Virginia Woolf
Oxford University Press, 2007
An insightful, sensitive reading.
+ Time Passes
+ Brilliant Experimental Novel
+ To The LighthouseA beautif
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Under Orders
Dick Francis
Berkley, 2007
Another winner for Dick Francis
+ Dick Francis - Under Orders
+ So glad there is anther Sid book
I bought "Under Orders" 2 days ago and just finished reading it this morning. Housework and eating fell to the wayside as I entered the world of Sid Hadley, Jockey turned Private Investigator. Dick Franicis never fails to weave several plot lines together for an exciting ending. This book also ...
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Virgin suicides
Eugenides Jeffrey
J'ai lu, 2000
this is a true story
+ Jorie's Reads on The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
+ Time in a Bottle
this is one of the saddest and truest stories I have ever read. I am so grateful to Jeffery Eugenides for telling this story of young teenage girls who choose suicide because in the end it is the one true thing that they can actually do--the one true communication that everyone "gets." Why is it ...
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The Black Book
Orhan Pamuk
Vintage, 2006
Labyrinthian inquiry into the Turkish identity
+ Maybe I just dreamed that I read this novel....
+ Devastating poetry
+ A review by Philip Spires, author of Mission
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