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The Sun Also Rises 7 reviews
Ernest Hemingway
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954
The Count's blessing.
+ Hemingway's Sun Rises the First Time
+ The Lost Generation Also Rises
+ Great condition!
+ Very satisfied.
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The Exorcist223 reviews
William Peter Blatty
HarperTorch, 2000
One of the greatest novels I have ever read
+ A great read.
+ Best book I have ever read...
+ A classic!
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Ladder of Years: A Novel 206 reviews
Anne Tyler
Ballantine Books, 1996
Every Mother's Dirty Little Secret
+ the invisible wife
I first read Ladder of Years when I was a young mother in my thirties. I loved the book but didn't quite get it. I felt a little upset with the main character, Delia, for taking off and leaving her family while on vacation. Fast-forward 10+ years and I read the book again, (Yes, it is that good) ...
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Adrian Mole Diaries: Sec (The Adrion Mole Diaries)91 reviews
Sue Townsend
Harper Perennial, 1997
Very funny
+ one of my favorite books!
+ The Angst Continues
This is an hilarious book written as the diary of a 13 1/2 year old english schoolboy. My wife and I sometimes share a book by me reading it aloud and that was how we first read the book some thirty odd years ago. If you read the book you will undoubtably want to read the rest of the series which ...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)599 reviews
Betty Smith
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
this book is REAL
+ A Tree Grows
+ Timeless novel demonstrates how growing up shapes value system
+ Beautiful and poignant
+ Original and recent reviews of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Gone with the Wind 12 reviews
Margaret Mitchell
Pocket, 2008
Gone with the wind
+ Amazing read - one of the best I've ever read!
+ Gone with the Wind
+ Absolutely Beautiful
+ Great Story!
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The Ballad of West Tenth Street: A Novel (P.S.)4 reviews
Marjorie Kernan
Harper Perennial, 2009
Bewitched and Besotted by The Ballad of West Tenth Street
+ Spotlighting the eclectic characters of New York City's West Village
This book does what literature should do- break your heart in two and make you feel deep love for humanity. WOW- i just finished it and I cannot recommend it enough. It is absolutely delightful and quirky and sweet and honest and very, very wise. Marjorie Kernan, when does your next book come out?
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog363 reviews
Muriel Barbery
Europa Editions, 2008
One fine book
+ Brand new condition
+ The Elegance of the Novel
This was a most enjoyable read with fine language and the most interesting of characters. I believe there is a little hedgehog in all of us.
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Jane Eyre904 reviews
Charlotte Bronte
CreateSpace, 2010
Wonderful, amazing book
+ Woman of Great Importance
+ Incomparable.
+ One of my favorites
+ All Time Favorite
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library)117 reviews
Truman Capote
Modern Library, 1994
Every page, every sentence, every word: PERFECT
+ Indelible
+ Long Praise for the Little Book
+ It's snowing in Palermo
+ Meeting Capote's Golightly.
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JPod 87 reviews
Douglas Coupland
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007
Dot-Conned
Some of you may remember Tracy Kidder and his 1981 benchmark look inside the still-budding computer industry, "The Soul of a New Machine", a serious and, while not without drama and even some suspense, mostly sterile tale of the long-defunct Data General Corp and the development of it's MV/8000 ...
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Danny the Champion of the World 13 reviews
Roald Dahl
Puffin, 2007
Ethical challenges?
+ Champion
+ great book
+ Stellar storytelling from the master: a beautiful reflection on the child-parent relationship
+ One of My Favorite Books
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Miss Hargreaves: A Novel (Bloomsbury Group)3 reviews
Frank Baker
Bloomsbury USA, 2009
A Pure Delight!
+ A Delight!
+ British Whimsy
Reason for Reading: I love British literature written during the first half of the 20th century and all the books reprinted in The Bloomsbury Group sound delightful.
Summary: Norman Huntley and his friend Henry are visiting an old church and while speaking to the keeper, on a lark, they invent ...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)599 reviews
Betty Smith
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
this book is REAL
+ A Tree Grows
+ Timeless novel demonstrates how growing up shapes value system
+ Beautiful and poignant
+ Original and recent reviews of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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The Sun Also Rises7 reviews
Ernest Hemingway
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954
The Count's blessing.
+ Hemingway's Sun Rises the First Time
+ The Lost Generation Also Rises
+ Great condition!
+ Very satisfied.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library)117 reviews
Truman Capote
Modern Library, 1994
Every page, every sentence, every word: PERFECT
+ Indelible
+ Long Praise for the Little Book
+ It's snowing in Palermo
+ Meeting Capote's Golightly.
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JPod87 reviews
Douglas Coupland
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007
Dot-Conned
Some of you may remember Tracy Kidder and his 1981 benchmark look inside the still-budding computer industry, "The Soul of a New Machine", a serious and, while not without drama and even some suspense, mostly sterile tale of the long-defunct Data General Corp and the development of it's MV/8000 ...
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Jane Eyre904 reviews
Charlotte Bronte
CreateSpace, 2010
Wonderful, amazing book
+ Woman of Great Importance
+ Incomparable.
+ One of my favorites
+ All Time Favorite
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Danny the Champion of the World13 reviews
Roald Dahl
Puffin, 2007
Ethical challenges?
+ Champion
+ great book
+ Stellar storytelling from the master: a beautiful reflection on the child-parent relationship
+ One of My Favorite Books
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Gone with the Wind12 reviews
Margaret Mitchell
Pocket, 2008
Gone with the wind
+ Amazing read - one of the best I've ever read!
+ Gone with the Wind
+ Absolutely Beautiful
+ Great Story!
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