books by William Styron     books:       Darkness Visible1 review William Styron Vintage, 2001 Great book about clinical depression struggle This is a fine book recounting one man's nightmare as he fought a very serious depression. He has a great, vivid writing style and recalls many details about how he felt at various stages of the illness. He came through it, so his story ultimately is encouraging. Highly recommended.             Last Rights: Thirteen Fatal Encounters with the State's Justice1 review Joseph B. Ingle Union Square Press, 2008 Fantastic! Rev. Joe Ingle has spent an incredible amount of time with men and women on death row. In this book he tells the stories of men and women who have been executed as well as the stories of their families. The book is gripping from the very beginning to the end. Rev. Ingle will challenge your thinking on the death penalty, and will help you see more clearly the grace and mercy of Christ.             Dog Eat Dog: A Novel12 reviews Edward Bunker St. Martin's Griffin, 1997 Fantastic! This is a gritty novel. This book is almost without parallel and unlike any other crime fiction that I have had the pleasure to read. Don't think about it, buy it and read it. This is the best author writing hard-core fiction alive. This is Chandler's protégée if you had to name one; only he is taking the side of the criminal here. This novel is hard, its like getting into a bar fight and being ...             A Tidewater Morning6 reviews William Styron Random House Value Publishing, 1995 Enter the world of Styron HERE! This book is a beautiful intermingling of past memeories and present strife. The war time world of Paul Whitehurst is made apparent; his childhood battles were fought just as passionately as any battle in WWII. Paul is a fictional character full of wit and wisdom. He comes alive in the three separate stories of his life. Your only thought at the end of this (way to short) novel is that you ...             Sophie's Choice135 reviews William Styron Bantam, 1983 Outstanding Piece of Literature Sophie's Choice (Modern Library) Outstanding piece of literature. Somehow It makes me believe that a great portion of this accomplishment is not fiction at all, but a real life story with characters that get so much into the deepest inner self of the reader inciting him to not want to stop reading. There are three aspects of this production extraordinarily remarkable: Firstly, the use of ...             The Way of the Warrior1 review Random House Trade, 1996 Please Mr Styron Finish this book. Thank you, a fan             The Cunning of History18 reviews Richard L. Rubenstein Harper Perennial, 1987 Poles, Like Jews, Recognized as Victims of Genocide In 1944, Polish Jew Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide, applying it to Jews and Poles alike. In this small but thought-provoking book, Richard L. Rubenstein approaches the German Nazi exterminationist policies in much the same vein, while stressing the role of the modern state bureaucracy to make it possible. Probably the first step in genocide is the denial of the humanity of the ...             The Long March1 review William Styron Bantam Windstone, 1980 A classic slice of military fiction I wish it was longer. A very interesting drama, well written. Offers no false glory, nor does it pretend to loan the reader a view of ""authentic" military life.This may have been written for the reader who did serve in the military and needs a reminder of how seemingly foolish/pointless the whole military scene was at times.             Fathers and Daughters: In Their Own Words3 reviews Mariana Ruth Cook, William Styron, ... CHRONICLE BOOKS, 1994 A remarkable clarity and vision Maraiana Cook's book Fathers and Daughters is dedicated to her father who was eighty years old at the time, and was approaching the end of his life. Cook says "these pictures were made as an exploration" because she became fascinated with every father and daughter" she saw. She was "was anxious to understand their feelings for each other." The book contains 70 full-page black and white photos ...             A death in Canaan3 reviews Joan Barthel, William Styron Dutton, 1976 A Cautionary Tale On September 28, 1973, 51 year old Barbara Gibbons, the quirky and eccentric mother of 17 year old Peter Reilly, was murdered in Canaan (a.k.a. Falls Village), Connecticut. State troopers arrived on the scene and immediately seized on Peter as the suspect in the killing. What followed was a three year journey through the Connecticut judicial system finally ending in his exoneration. In between, ...             This Quiet Dust2 reviews William Styron Random House, 1982 Fascinating Literary Essays; Iffy Politics William Styron is one of America's greatest contemporary writers. I read "The Confessions of Nat Turner" in high school and was blown away by his ability to bring history alive, to reproduce the sights, smells, sounds, the place entire. He also has that wonderful rolling Southern rhetorical cadence and style of many of the writers from his region that almost certainly derives from the King ...             Lie down in darkness,: A novel (Compass books)20 reviews William Styron Viking, 1960 This MASTERPIECE of writing, made me grateful about those long, boring afternoons spent in learning English!I just read all the reviews: Some were written by real experts. But some of them depict this novel as "too long" (I WISHED IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LONGER!")"boring" (This lady is far of understanding any book: This book is a living proof of the geniality of Styron : He is capable of describing the most shining and also ...             Dead Run: The Untold Story of Dennis Stockton and America's Only Mass escape from Death Row16 reviews Joe Jackson, William Jr Burke Crown, 1999 My GOD!! What a MASTERPIECE!! What I wanted to know, after reading this simple, eloquent, masterfully written prose blockbuster is WHERE DO I GO TO NOMINATE THESE GUYS FOR THE NOBEL PRIZE??? Not since I read JAWS have I been so absolutely riveted!!! And I HATE prison books. And, let me tell you, I never would have thought that I would glean so many powerful management techniques from a book about prisons!! I have learned ...             Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays3 reviews Random House, 2008 Less Is More: Occasional Pieces by a Master Although he wrote precious little, compared to some of his contemporaries, surely William Styron was one of the best American writers of his generation and produced fiction that will be read as long as there are any readers left. I would argue that SOPHIE'S CHOICE is one of the ten best twentieth century novels by an American writer even though Shelby Foote didn't care for it. It is a treat then ...             The Confessions of Nat Turner52 reviews William Styron Vintage, 1992 I loved this book. I read this book for my book club and I thought it was beautifully written. It has stayed with me for weeks now. I love when a book does that. I'm glad I wasn't swayed by controversy. I had no problem with the fact that the author was white and using a black voice(maybe because I'm white - but I do like when an author gets the voice right and I thought Styron did that). I didn't understand the ...             The Long March and In the Clap Shack (2 Books in 1)2 reviews William Styron Vintage, 1993 Two stories of noncombat military life. The Long March: A novella set in a Marine training area during the Korean War. An officer sets his battalion on a forced march over 36 miles to complement his swaggering self-image. Soldiers drop out by the truckload in the sweltering heat, and one is driven to insubordination by his conflicting senses of self and duty. In the Clap Shack: A play in which a young Marine tested positive for ...             Set This House on Fire16 reviews William Styron Random House, 1960 complicated but worth it This book is long dance, tortured, and brilliant. Descriptions of Italy, specifically Sambuco, make you feel is if you are there They sweep and enfold you into Italy's "warm and fragrant being." It is a complicated tale told between two different time periods. Until the last pages you don't really know what happened or "who did it," or how it happens. Characterization and writing are so clear ...             Darkness Visible (Random House Large Print (Hardcover))144 reviews William Styron Random House Large Print, 1991 This book is So helpful. It's Not "the blues" - it's a living nightmare! I have bought over 30 copies of this book, as gifts to friends, colleagues, and relatives. I hope you readers see that that is the highest recommendation one can give. It explains, in a very concise manner, major depression to those who have not experienced it. And an "Amen" from individuals who have experienced it. Depression is perhaps THE under-diagnosed illness of our time (along with ...              search for books america, camelot, canaan, choice, compass, confessions, cunning, darkness, daughters, dennis, encounters, escape, essays, fathers, hardcover, havanas, history, justice, morning, personal, random, rights, sophie, stockton, thirteen, tidewater, turner, untold, visible, warrior books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen electronics: ZyXEL P330W 802.11g Wireless Router home  impressum - about us