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The Abstinence Teacher
Tom Perrotta
St. Martin's Press, 2007
If you want to think...
+ A satisfying read with nice descriptions
+ Another Lesson About the Burbs
Many other reviewers have described the plot of this book better than I ever could. However, I can share with you my impressions. The "Abstinence Teacher" is a complex, nuanced book that avoids platitudes. The characters don't wear white and black hats --- everyone sports gray chapeaux. You'll ...
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Remainder
Tom Mccarthy
Vintage, 2007
Better than Most Modern Attempts
This novel played out nicely when read in an over-crowded Florida hotel during breaks from swimming with my son and getting the flu. If re-organizing reality in excruciatingly creepy detail is something you find entertaining and amusing, check it out. Perfect reality overload study in rationalized ...
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Falling Man: A Novel
Don DeLillo
Scribner, 2007
After The Planes
+ Don't know if this qualifies as a 'review'.
+ DeLillo's sad concession to a career obsession
+ A moving novel from a normally stoic writer
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Syrup
Maxx Barry
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000
Brilliant Satire on Marketing!
+ Pleasing short read
+ Essential Barry
+ Amazing
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Fight Club: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk
W. W. Norton, 2005
This book is still a beautiful and unique snowflake.
+ Better then the Movie in both Plot and Humor
+ better then the movie
+ I am Jack's smirking revenge.
+ ok
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Lamb Special Gift Ed: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Christopher Moore
William Morrow, 2007
Perfect
+ The Best Book I've Read in a LONG Time!!
+ Bloody Brillant
+ Hysterical, a must read for all recovering Catholics and Anglicans
+ ABSOTIVELY LOVED IT!!!
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Hero
Perry Moore
Hyperion Book CH, 2007
Heroic
+ BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ Good boy-meets-boy superhero love story
+ Thom Creed is...
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The Zombie Survival Guide
Max Brooks
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2004
"Exellent read"
+ I am now prepared
+ A must have to survive any future zombie apocalypse!
+ KILL!!! *zombies*
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Survivor: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor, 2000
Survivor: A Novel
+ Great
+ amazing imagination
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk *****
Survivor is the story of where it all went wrong. The point in our lives where we have all had choices to make. The choices that affect the rest of our lives. Survivor is the search for something far and something big, maybe something bigger than all of us, it ...
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What Dreams May Come
Richard Matheson
Tor Books, 2008
Excellent work!
+ Worthwhile Read
+ So... what exactly happens when you die...
+ Well-researched?
+ What Dreams May Come
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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
Per Petterson
Graywolf Press, 2007
Hauntingly simplistic yet powerfully empathetic.
+ Did the acorn fall far from the tree?
+ If your family was from Norway you must read this
+ Extraordinary!
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You Suck: A Love Story
Christopher Moore
William Morrow, 2007
Review of You Suck (the audio version)
+ Undead need a good laugh, too
I think I started this on the wrong foot... You Suck was recommended to me, but I've never read anything by Christopher Moore, so I didn't realize that this was a sequel until about halfway through. It works just fine as a stand-alone story, but I'll definitely be picking up Bloodsucking Fiends.
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The Accidental Time Machine
Joe Haldeman
Ace Hardcover, 2007
Great Time Story
+ not bad at all...
Great story and a quick read. I found myself not wanting to put it down as I was dying to see what trouble was next and how it ends. I have never read work by this author: he will certainly be added to my favorites. A must for lovers of time stories.
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I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story
Glen Duncan
Grove Press, 2003
Spectacular!
+ If you hate this book you have no soul.
+ a breathless ride
+ Bueno
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Everyman
Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin, 2006
Death Comes
+ fantastic
+ Intense emotional insights into regret and aging
Reading through many of the already posted reviews, it seems many people missed something in reading this book. It is in fact a book about living and ceasing to live. Yet there is something far deeper in these pages. The temptations of sexuality, battles of personal health and mortality, and ...
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