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Rain on the River: New and Selected Poems and Short Prose 2 reviews
Jim Dodge
Grove Press, 2002
Poetry from the heart
+ A profound poetry collection...
This is poetry that is easy to read, fun, deep, cosmic, ordinary and inspired, i.e. it's zen poetry. We're trying to connect with each other and Jim Dodge reaches my heart like no other poet i've read. It's like he dances to a wild outlaw beat, crazy tales of living the edge life but always swings ...
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July, July 47 reviews
Tim O'Brien
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003
O'Brien Never Disappoints
+ Packs a wallop
+ Great Entertaining Read
The first O'Brien novel I ever read was The Things They Carried...it was college...I was impressionable...and it slayed me. Since then, he's become one of those authors I know will not disappoint. All of O'Brien's novels tell the story of a generation emboldened by idealism and ravaged by war. ...
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Mobius Dick 6 reviews
Andrew Crumey
Picador, 2005
ingenious
+ Mirroring worlds
+ Deep
composed in a sort of narrative mobius strip this novel balances several intersecting alternative worlds in an ingenious fictional exploration of the weird implications of quantum theory. that makes it sound unreadable but it's actually lively, entertaining, and easy enough to follow. technically ...
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Grand Complication, The: A Novel 56 reviews
Allen Kurzweil
Hyperion, 2002
Make Way for the Slips of Love
+ Nice read if you want entertainment, not enlightenment.
If you love inventory, secret penmanship, erotic pop-ups, Marie Antoinette memorabilia and shrimps . . . then this is the book for you.
Alllen Kurzweil has written an intriguing page-turner of a tome. Our hero, Alexander Short, reminds me of Indiana Jones if he was the kind of guy who hunted for ...
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I'm the King of the Castle14 reviews
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1977
A chilling classic, superbly plotted
+ not quite a lost classic, rather a misplaced one worth finding again
+ Symbolism
+ Don't isolate this book
+ The Power of Darkness
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The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure6 reviews
Adam Williams
Thomas Dunne Books, 2004
The definition of sensuous
+ An adventure story with history to boot . . .
+ One of the best
+ It was a dark and stormy night . . .
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Troll: A Love Story17 reviews
Johanna Sinisalo
Grove Press, 2004
LOVED it!
+ A wildly original story!
+ The powerful influence of the troll
Don't listen to the reviewers who didn't understand this novel for everything that it is... it is sensitive and understanding toward issues that society has trouble swallowing--I won't give any away, but I can see some older readers having trouble with it.
If you're Generation X or Y, this is ...
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B.S. Johnson Omnibus
B.S. Johnson
Not Avail, 2003
This collection contains B.S. Johnson's critically acclaimed novels - "Alberto Angelo", "Trawl" and "House Mother Normal - A Geriatric Comedy".
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Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down4 reviews
Nicey & Wifey
Little, Brown Book Group, 2005
brilliant
+ Brilliant
+ After a nice sit down...
+ Perfect Read...again...and again...and again...
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The Bird Artist: A Novel40 reviews
Howard Norman
Picador, 1995
Delightful and Humorous
+ A Great Read
+ engrossing good read
+ enjoyable, fast, fairly well written
+ The Bird Artist Soars
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Franky Furbo: A novel8 reviews
William Wharton
H. Holt, 1989
Wharton's own life makes the book even more intriguing
+ One of the most entertaining Books i've yet to read!
+ An absolute must for any fan of fantasy fiction!
+ Mind Expanding Novel...
+ Make the effort to find this book...publisher reprint it!
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The Flea Palace 6 reviews
Elif Shafak
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2004
Couldn't put it down
+ deeply intelligent and amusing, highly recommandable
+ A Fascinating Book
+ Review of The Flea Palace
+ A palace of mirrors
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Tietam Brown49 reviews
Mick Foley
Vintage, 2004
loved the book.
+ Amazing story, that any professional writer would be proud of.
+ Excellent Book
+ Now this is what I'm talking about!
+ Fantastic.....
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Bambert's Book of Missing Stories1 review
Reinhardt Jung
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2004
Postmark America
Having fallen in love with grown-up but little Bambert, who sends the stories in his "Book of Wishes" out into the world tied to hot-air balloons, powered by tea lights, I wanted to let him know that all eleven, including the last story, the one that is going to write itself, have been found. Not ...
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Snow : A Novel7 reviews
Maxence Fermine
Atria, 2003
A Haiku in Itself
+ The finest book I ever read...
+ learning to watch the passing of time
+ Snow
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The Death of King Tsongor2 reviews
Laurent Gaude
Toby Press, 2003
Epic tragedy and a great fable
+ Amazing
In his youth King Tsongor inherited a small kingdom from his father. Through war and courage he built a vast empire. But now Tsongor is an old man. He is about to marry his only daughter to the prince of a neighboring land. The prince, at the head of a vast army, has arrived at the city gates ...
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"Tolkien's Gown" and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books
Rick Gekoski
Constable, 2004
Based on the popular BBC Radio 4 series Rare Books, Rare People, "Tolkien's Gown" and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books is a veritable feast of the tales behind some of the most iconic titles to have graced British publishing, and fascinating anecdotes about the authors who wrote them. It starts with the story of how Graham Green arranged a meeting in his hotel room to sell a signed ...
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Exercises in Style22 reviews
Raymond Queneau
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1981
Etudes
+ Style with style
+ Great read
+ An Invitation to Play
+ Question your fragments...
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Heloise & Abelard: A New Biography14 reviews
James Burge
HarperOne, 2004
Abelard & Heloise
+ Inspiring and fun
+ An Uncommonly Powerful Love Story
+ "The course of True Love never did run smooth"
+ Love in the Time of Ecclesiastical Change
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The Artist of the Missing: A Novel13 reviews
Paul LaFarge
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999
Don't Believe
+ a marvel and a wonder
+ A beautiful tale fabulously told
+ A beautiful tale fabulously told
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