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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
Classic, devastating
+ Kundera's Lessons in Laughter and Forgetting.
+ "They never understood each other...yet they always agreed."
+ A good introduction to Kundera's work...
+ The book of silence and remembering
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The Human Stain: A Novel
Philip Roth
Vintage, 2001
Philip Roth = Genius
+ A smart novel which will stay in your mind for days
+ Recommending Philip Roth is a little like recommending sex...
A college professor is forced to resign for alleged racism and begins an affair with an illiterate woman. In my opinion, this is very close to the perfect book. The writing is genius, and the scope of the book is enormous.
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The Age of American Unreason
Susan Jacoby
Pantheon, 2008
Folks Are Not As Smart as They Used to Be
+ Contemplating Hofstadter and Jacoby
+ Read, Analyze. Discuss.
Jacoby explains our cultural decline as thinking citizens. She is a left winger and spends a lot of time critiquing right wingers, although she criticizes the politically correct national history standards of 1994 and our unwillingness to have national teaching standards that all schools would have ...
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
Great Read!!!
+ A Long Way Gone-- Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
+ A Long Way Gone
+ A Long Way Gone
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Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years)
Taylor Branch
Simon & Schuster, 1989
Moving storytelling
+ Undiscovered Country
+ Amazingly Woven Detail
+ Indispensable
+ Excellent and Informative
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
C.G. Jung
Vintage, 1989
Intensity-his mind was flooded with profound ideas
+ One of Jung's greatest achievements
+ Reflections of Jung
+ Valuable linsight into Jung's inner life
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, ...
HarperCollins, 2007
A guide to change your eating
+ Great theme, Interesting Topics are sometimes lost in the Preaching
+ Local is better
Barbara Kingsolver uses her very readable style to encourage us all on a journey to understand the effects of the standard American diet on our own health as well as the health of the earth. This book is a fun and heart-touching read that also contains great recipes and short insightful inserts ...
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
3 cups = 5 stars
+ Recipes for Countering Extremism
+ This One a Must Read
+ Profoundly Written - An Inspired Journey and Book
+ Please read it. Based on true story but can't be further than fiction
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The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel
Scribner, 2007
FALLING DOWN THE CLIFF
+ Thoughtful eloquence
+ HEARTBREAKING AND GUT-WRENCHING -- WHAT A COMBINATION
+ Prose Poems
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The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis
Caroline Kennedy
Hyperion, 2001
A Wonderful and Inspiring Compilation of Poems
+ Loving tribute of a daughter to her mother
+ This Book Is Treasured by My Daughter
+ Classy - A Good Book to Have on Your Shelf
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The Power of One: A Novel
Bryce Courtenay
Ballantine Books, 1996
Inspiring
+ Above and Beyond
+ 200 More Pages???
+ I Usually Don't Write Reviews ...
+ A MAZE ING
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Milan Kundera
HarperCollins, 2004
great
+ I lived in this book those days
+ Mystical Love
+ great but not the best
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Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Dell, 2005
Surprised to love it
+ OUTLANDER a novel on CD by Diana Gabaldon
+ 4-1/2 stars for a novel that created its own genre
+ Outlander Book Review
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A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
Aldo Leopold
Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
Leaving a light footprint on the good earth
+ Frankly, I was disappointed
+ Classic
+ Sand County Almanac book
+ NOT Censored.
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
Clive James
W. W. Norton, 2007
An Obituary (Or Prophecy) Of Liberal Humanism
+ An Eschatological Laundry List by a Sophisticated Cosmopolitan Iconoclast
+ A Welcome Review
+ Best taken a little at a time
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