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A Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jewish in Eastern Europe 10 reviews
Jonathan Kaufman
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998
Haunting story of Judiasm under the Communists
+ Returning Home
+ Heartwarming story
+ a nice little book . . .
+ Engrossing, enlighting book
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 55 reviews
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 Galosh2 reviews
Mikhail Zoshchenko
Overlook Hardcover, 2006
The more things change.....
+ Interesting piece of history
This book of very, very short stories is delightful and does indeed bring to mind the old saying "the more things change, the more they stay the same". These stories written over eighty years ago are a window into life in the new "Soviet Union" of the 1920's and perhaps a window into life in ...
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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB 63 reviews
Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin
Basic Books, 1999
Very important book!
+ Andrew paints a vivid portrait of Soviet foreign policy
+ The Art of Deception
+ History all over again
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith728 reviews
Jon Krakauer
Pan Books, 2004
Parsing Mormon/American faith
+ Scary and enlightening
+ morbid and fascinating
+ Absolutely brutal, but very informative.
+ Saints March on in America
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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia23 reviews
Orlando Figes
Metropolitan Books, 2007
Brilliant
+ History as seen across the kitchen table
+ Superb and chilling
+ A moving and important book
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Flight: A Novel56 reviews
Sherman Alexie
Grove Press, Black Cat, 2007
Come and check out this FANTASTIC EVENT for FLIGHT
+ FLIGHT: Book Review
+ One of Alexie's Best
+ Powerful
+ I was blown away
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Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine5 reviews
Omer Bartov
Princeton University Press, 2007
A very important tribute
+ Excellent account of an inredibly sad situation
+ Interesting look at Galicia
+ Time does not heal
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International)136 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 1993
Patience is a virtue
+ another catching Murakami adventure
+ Another trip down the rabbit hole
+ A wonderful novel about the mind and the desire for immortality
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Heart of a Dog47 reviews
Mikhail Bulgakov
Grove Press, 1994
An Analysis of "Heart of a Dog"
+ Hilarious, sarcastic look at Soviet life
+ Heart of a Dog--Revolution or Evolution?
+ russian masters
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The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956107 reviews
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002
The nail in the coffin of the Soviet State
+ Encyclopedic in Scope. Please Click on Links Below to My Unabridged-Version Reviews
+ A soul-shaking earthquake of a book...
+ The single greatest literary work of the twentieth century.
+ A STYLISTIC ACHIEVEMENT ALSO
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals461 reviews
Michael Pollan
Penguin, 2007
Changed My World View
+ Eye-opener/mouth-closer
+ Enjoyed this book from cover to cover!
+ Very good book!
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The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists582 reviews
Neil Strauss
William Morrow, 2005
Entertaining and Informative
+ Man's Sex in the City
+ Entertaining... Even For A Girl
+ Entertaining
+ The Sight Is Near
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Snipers, Shills, and Sharks: eBay and Human Behavior4 reviews
Ken Steiglitz
Princeton University Press, 2007
Engaging, informative, and entertaining!
+ Good read
+ Enthralling. It gets better as it goes on.
Snipers, Shills, and Sharks is an instant classic that will appeal to anyone interested in understanding why ebay works the way it does and how it relates to a beautiful economic theory developed over the past few decades. How do English, Dutch, and Vickrey auctions work? Why do experienced ebayers ...
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The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body 17 reviews
Desmond Morris
St. Martin's Griffin, 2007
Fascinating look at the most fascinating creature
+ The Naked Woman review
+ Our Humanity
+ Insightful and 'ah ha!' provoking
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA135 reviews
Tim Weiner
Doubleday, 2007
Excellent discussion of the CIA
+ An amazing history of the CIA.
+ A Wealth of information
This is a fairly comprehensive study of the CIA and its history. The author has added very extensive endnotes. It evenly covers the sixty year history of the agency and the various manifestations. The most interesting past is the beginning sections, where the author relies on recent declassified ...
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Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz31 reviews
Jan Gross
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
Disturbing book, a noble effort which failed
+ Courage to face the truth of almost universal antisemitism
I have read "Fear" with much pain. As a Pole, each time Gross wrote about how my compatriots killed and robbed their Jewish neighbours, my heart ached. The facts presented in this book have not been unknown to historians, but they were not publicly discussed in Poland for decades. Learning the ...
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Immortality (Perennial Classics)66 reviews
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
Oh I love this book.
+ Good book
+ But is it a novel?
+ A feast of many courses
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Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend25 reviews
Bart D. Ehrman
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006
ALL ABOUT JESUS'S CLOSEST FOLLOWERS
+ PETER PAUL AND MARY
+ Peter I know, and Paul I have heard about, but who is this Mary?
+ A MUST READ FOR SEMINARY STUDENTS
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Francesco's Venice: The Dramatic History of the World's Most Beautiful City7 reviews
Francesco da Mosto
BBC Books, 2007
Fantastic read for anyone interested in Venice
+ The best introduction to the history of Venice
+ Total look at Venice
+ Oh La La To Be in Venice....
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