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You Shall Know Our Velocity
Dave Eggers
Vintage, 2003
Like My Mind on Paper
+ Undoubtedly compelling
+ A moving, living experience of a book
I just finished the book for the second time. It is probably not the greatest book that I have ever read, but it is definitely my favorite. And that is what matters. I could read nothing but this book, over and over, for the rest of my life. I would be completely satisfied in doing so.
Eggers ...
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The Time Machine (Signet Classics)
H.G. Wells
New American Library, 2002
Wells blends Genre's with ease
+ Excellent!!
+ Early Sci-Fi Masterpiece
+ The epic tale of all time
+ The Time Machine By H.G. Wells
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Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Scribner, 2007
This is More Than Five (5) Stars [24][26][36]
+ gone ....
+ Best American Epic Ever Written
+ Awesome
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom
Hyperion, 2003
A Fan for Life
+ beautifully written and developed
+ Loved this book--very inspirational!
+ ANOTHER GREAT ALBOM BOOK
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An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
Peter Smith Publisher, 2001
Book about ghosts from the past and catharsis
+ Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
+ "We, at least, acted on what we believed and did our utmost"
Kazuo Ishiguro is definitively one of my favorite contemporary writers and this novel is surely reminding me why? "An Artist of the Floating World" is first Ishiguro's novel that I've read which is settled in Japan and it brings such a fabulous picture of so many aspects of Japan society, ...
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Blindness (Harvest Book)
Jose Saramago
Harvest Books, 1999
an excellent choice
+ Amazing allegory that resonates
+ Blind As A Bat
well, what can I say more? I'm just a very big fan of this unique portuguese writer...
I just loved it...
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The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions)
Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead Trade, 2005
a great first novel by an incredibly talented author.
+ Excellent!!!
+ Moving and Touching!
+ Deeply moving
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Woman: An Intimate Geography
Natalie Angier
Anchor, 2000
One of my favorites!
+ fascinating!!!
+ Woman: An Amazing Book!!
+ Very informative and feminist!
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The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
H.G. Wells
New American Library/Penguin Books, 2002
Short and great!
+ Excellent book, though not Well's most exciting.
+ A rousing good story!
+ An emotionally gripping tale
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Daniel Quinn
Bantam, 1995
Ishmael: An Adventure Of The Mind And Spirit
+ This should be required reading.
+ "To the Point"
+ Great book!
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The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Kidd
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005
Amazing
+ Goes down easy, but it ain't exactly fluff
+ Bee's
this is a truly inspiring book, Kidd is an incredible author. Gives readers a view into what life was like back in the 60's for black people. Inspiring tale of self journey, and family
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All New Square Foot Gardening
Mel Bartholomew
Cool Springs Press, 2006
All New SFG
+ An Australian perspective
+ Good Information
+ My own Squarefoot of Happiness
+ Great book for the not so hot gardener
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A Map of the World (Oprah's Book Club)
Jane Hamilton
Anchor, 1999
Loved it!
+ Pleasant Lives Abruptly Changed
+ A Map of Two Hearts
+ Very engrossing
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Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
Harper Perennial, 2005
One of the best books ever written
+ everything you could wish and fear life to be
+ An illuminating book
This is my second favorite book. The imagination and narration is simply fantastic. I have never experienced imagination as beautiful as the telling of TrachimBrod. Every chapter about this city is glowing with incredible anecdotes and interesting characters. In fact, Brod is by far the best ...
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A Pale View of Hills
Kazuo Ishiguro
Vintage, 1990
It doesn't matter how old someone is, it's what they've experienced that counts
+ Change, at the Personal Level, in Post War Japan
+ Exceptional!
Under the surface of apparently harmless conversations, the author uncovers Japan's `very strict and very patriotic' old world of `discipline, loyalty, such things held Japan together once. People were bound by a sense of duty. Towards one's family, towards superiors, towards the country.'
But, ...
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