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Knockemstiff 48 reviews
Donald Ray Pollock
Doubleday, 2008
Welcome to planet Knockemstiff!
+ America's Lumpenproletariat ...
+ knockemstiff
+ Wow
+ Stories better than the one I just read.
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Joe 1 review
Jonathan Safran Foer
Prestel Publishing, 2006
Simply breathtaking
This is a beautiful photo book in the large format it deserves to be in. The pages are superb and the text moving. I bought this as a gift and I can only imagine the look of joy on the recipient's face when I give it to them. A must have for photography lovers or admirers of Jonathon Safran Foer.
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Demons in the Spring2 reviews
Joe Meno
Akashic Books, 2008
Joe Meno is amazing
Middle class suburban magic surealism. Characters are interesting without being overdrawn. They are familiar yet none are stereotypes.
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Hairstyles of the Damned (Punk Planet Books) 41 reviews
Joe Meno
Akashic Books, 2004
An incredibly honest look at what goes on inside the head of a teenager.
+ The Unwieldy Hammer of Thor!!
+ Thick 'n Thin
+ if you ever loved. if you ever hated.
+ Highly recommend it
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel289 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 1998
Patience and Growth Yields Great Reward
+ A certain "something" that is bizarre and intriguing
+ Excellent read
+ Think for yourself
+ Chronicle of the Lost
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The Fixer: A Novel48 reviews
Bernard Malamud
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004
our modern selves
+ a surfeit of persecution
+ a painful account of injustice, anti-semitism and defiance
+ A brief and painful history of why Christians were annoyed by Jews and what they did about it
+ Hmmmm................................
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How the Hula Girl Sings5 reviews
Joe Meno
Akashic Books, 2005
POW! now that's what i call a story!
+ Lyrical, Poetic Neo-Noir
+ A great surprise!
+ You should really read this book
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running24 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Knopf, 2008
Brilliant, Beautiful
+ Murakami is a Cool Runner
+ A single review
+ Inspirational
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After Dark (Vintage International) 78 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 2008
Mesmerizing
+ Superb.
+ Intriguing, but with too many loose ends.
I think this is the most down-to-earth novel by Mr. Murakami that is published now but with a touch of his earliest novels. I admire his recent novels but I also love his previous ones. This one has that mysterious, voyeuristic, supernatural, surrealist feeling of his recent novels but somehow, the ...
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel319 reviews
Jonathan Safran Foer
Mariner Books, 2006
Incredible
+ Good book for a book club discussion
+ Beautiful
+ A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
+ Flawed but still very good.
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Murakami12 reviews
Takashi Murakami, Dick Hebdige, ...
Rizzoli, 2007
I love it!
+ A great book and a bargain too!
+ Lots of images
+ Great, Larger than Expected Book
+ Brilliant! Art for the 21st Century
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What Is the What166 reviews
Dave Eggers
McSweeney's, 2006
What was the What?
+ What is What is the What
+ Heartbreaking and uplifting
+ a must read
+ Incredibly Moving
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Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir: Stories2 reviews
Joe Meno
Triquarterly, 2005
Bluebirds Used to Croon
+ Good and Lonely
Chicago's own Joe Meno is a playwright, musician, a music journalist, the author of three novels (Tender as Hellfire, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Hairstyles of the Damned), and now, Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir, a collection of short stories that just won the Society of Midland Authors ...
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Norwegian Wood166 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 2000
A haunting story
+ proof that i have a soul.
+ My First Murakami Book
+ Not just a love story
+ Good book by Murakami
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Dance Dance Dance71 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 1995
Not Your Normal Senior Prom
+ Three cheers for the Sheep Man
+ Japan's Magic Man
+ if only we all understood japanese
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I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (P.S.)68 reviews
Josh Kilmer-purcell
Harper Perennial, 2006
Easily the Best Book I've Ever Encountered
+ What's it like being a gay Drag Queen in NYC?
+ a world that is very far from my own, but very entertaining!
+ warts and all is an understatement...
+ Wonderful writer
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Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel404 reviews
Jonathan Safran Foer
Harper Perennial, 2003
One of the best books ever written
+ everything you could wish and fear life to be
This is my second favorite book. The imagination and narration is simply fantastic. I have never experienced imagination as beautiful as the telling of TrachimBrod. Every chapter about this city is glowing with incredible anecdotes and interesting characters. In fact, Brod is by far the best ...
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Kafka on the Shore180 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Knopf, 2005
Weird is what you pay for...
+ Great fiction from a master of the surreal
+ yes to Kafka
... and weird is what you get, with Haruki Murakami. But this novel is not merely full-blown weird; it' s about the meaning of Weird, not just in the modern sense of 'bizarre' but in the root sense also. 'Weird' is an Old Norse word meaning something like "the uncanny ability to influence Fate." ...
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Vintage International)10 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 2007
good entrance to Murakami's world
+ Like Gems Wrapped in Velvet
+ Sweet Enigma
+ Introduction to Haruki Murakami
+ Airplane
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Candy Everybody Wants (P.S.)9 reviews
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Harper Perennial, 2008
Fasten your seat belt, and put phasers on STUN-ning!
+ Wonderful, witty, creative, BRILLIANT!
+ Another Great Book
Reading kind of like a VH1-style "I Love the 80's" special on steroids, "Candy Everyone Wants" is a madcap, extremely "over-the-top" story of a rather eventful year in the life of Jayson Blocher, a joyously flamboyantly gay boy from a small town in Wisconsin. A series of events lead to his leaving ...
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