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The Road (Oprah's Book Club) 1607 reviews
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage Books, 2007
A Road To Treasure
You know who they are. Those people that get upset when stories are told that aren't a sugar coated version of the world, stories that seem like they were written by authors who truly believe that ignoring cold, hard reality is the best medicine.
Cormac McCarthy is not one of those authors. At ...
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Bright Lights, Big City93 reviews
Jay Mcinerney
Vintage, 1984
Much before the loss of the innocence
+ Excellent Service
+ Stunning...
+ Holden Caulfield Meets the Ginger Man
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 29 reviews
Tennessee Williams
Signet, 1958
"Skipper Is Dead But I'm Alive! Maggie The Cat Is Alive!"
+ Guilt, Frustration, and Greed
+ Genius!
+ The Usual Obligatory Hysteria From Tennessee Williams!!!
+ I love this play
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Lullaby267 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor, 2002
By the balls
+ as good as fightclub
+ Unexpected dark humor... how can you resist?
This book grabbed me by the balls until I was done. I normally take a few months to get through a book, like Choke, but this was about a week. I would have only liked more main characters to die.
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New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975
William L. Van Deburg
University Of Chicago Press, 1993
The most comprehensive account available of the rise and fall of the Black Power Movement and of its dramatic transformation of both African-American and larger American culture. With a gift for storytelling and an ear for street talk, William Van Deburg chronicles a decade of deep change, from the armed struggles of the Black Panther party to the cultural nationalism of artists and writers ...
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Me Talk Pretty One Day735 reviews
David Sedaris
Back Bay Books, 2001
Do Not Read While Eating Because It's So Funny You Might Choke
+ David Sedaris does it again!
+ Not heartwarming... in a good way.
When I opened this book I had limited time so I decided to look for the shortest essay in the book so I could sneak in a quick read. I selected "Big Boy" which started on page 97 and ended before the next essay that started on page 100. By the end of the first paragraph I was already laughing and ...
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Citizen Girl 213 reviews
Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus
Washington Square Press, 2005
Fairly perceptive satire
I picked up this book with no expectations, not having read The Nanny Diaries, and not having an idea it was supposed to fit a "chick lit" category. It took me a while to get the hang of it, but the writing is good and I found myself "getting" it, and recognizing a whole lot of sad truth in it. The ...
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Robert Frost's Poems7 reviews
Robert Frost
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2002
An Approachable Robert Frost Collection
+ Great collection, and at a great price too!
+ Good
+ great
+ Excellent Introduction
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Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition)92 reviews
William S. Burroughs
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003
a different Burroughs
+ Not what you may expect
+ A Serious High.
+ Wildly Original - An Impressive First Novel
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Naked414 reviews
David Sedaris
Back Bay Books, 1998
Absolutely fantastic
+ Painful to read, mostly plotless, but entertaining
+ FRANCINE!!!
This has become a very famous book and it deserves to be. It is certainly the type that has you lending it to all your friends and telling them about which pieces are your favorites. I love reading about his family and am a big fan of sister Amy so whenever there's a mention of her I get ...
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The Mist (Previously Published as a Novella in 'Skeleton Crew')50 reviews
Stephen King
Signet, 2007
Amazing - but don't buy it.
+ Great book! Better than the movie!
+ Mistifying
+ Great Short Story
+ The Mist
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The World According to Garp291 reviews
John Irving
Ballantine Books, 1990
Like watching a fifty car pile-up.
+ Rich with complexity and reflection
+ THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
+ So well written I ignored that nothing really happens.
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The Informers 76 reviews
Bret Easton Ellis
Vintage, 1995
Outstanding, yet least read book by BEE
+ Never a dull moment...
Each chapter, or should I say story, of this book is very well written. Each character has a different voice, and all stories are interested. I have trouble trying to understand why this book is not more popular amongst readers and BEE fans alike.
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Ravenhill 4 reviews
Timothy Hillmer
University of New Mexico Press, 2007
A Great Novel for Adults and Teens - Very Powerful
+ Excellent read - highly recommended
+ Highly recommended second novel
+ Characters with depth; disturbingly real
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On the Road629 reviews
Jack Kerouac
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1976
Kerouac's Masterpiece
+ A True Classic
This is by far Kerouac's best work. It details his adventures with Neil Cassiday in way only Kerouac could. This book defines the beat movement and defines, for me at least how the world was long before I was born. Being only 20 years old I cannot imagine hitch hiking across the country, in the ...
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Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions65 reviews
Daniel Wallace
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
Joyful & Insightful
+ Excellent
+ A Novel of Understanding
+ A Book to Keep
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Amsterdam: A Novel295 reviews
Ian McEwan
Anchor, 1999
Cutting Your Nose Off to Spite your Face!
+ classic tragedy: the structure mirrors the tale
This is a little sneaker of a story. I've never read Ian McEwan's work and it took a couple of chapters to get into the rhythm of the story, but it was worth it. I had no idea what to expect when I started, but it certainly wasn't what I received! In a word, IT WAS GREAT! Read this book before ...
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Lunar Park 122 reviews
Bret Easton Ellis
Vintage, 2006
Ellis delivers again
+ Good deal!
+ Sinister
+ Angst and Despair Reign
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The Sun Also Rises478 reviews
Ernest Hemingway
Scribner, 2006
Bitter sweet
+ Interesting read
+ The Sun Does Indeed Look Bright
I'm Jake. Jacob Barnes. American journalist. Living in Paris. I send off my cables. I work hard for a couple of hours. I put the stories in big manila envelopes. And send them out. That brings in the money.
French? I speak French.
Spanish? I speak Spanish.
Don't think I've got it made. ...
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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey121 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk
Doubleday, 2007
An Amazing Book!
+ Great
+ Thanks
+ Go Chuck Go!
+ Like I told you, I didn't really meet Rant Casey until after he was dead
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