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The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.) 91 reviews
Michael Chabon
Harper Perennial, 2005
Homage to an icon
+ Great Book
+ The Grey is Afoot!
+ Small, exquisitely-crafted piece of art
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The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers (VOICES) 93 reviews
Scott Kelby
New Riders Press, 2003
Wow. Thank you, Scott Kelby!
+ Another great book.
+ Just like magic
+ Edgar of Virginia
+ The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers
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Housekeeping: A Novel 151 reviews
Marilynne Robinson
Picador, 2004
A beautiful, haunting book
+ profundity at your fingertips
+ Moving and memorable (mostly)
Marilynne Robinson's masterfully told story of an atypical "housekeeping" arrangement is strange, funny, sad, lyrical, and inspiring. It is one of the most beautiful books I have read in a long time. I found myself savoring the words, reading aloud to myself. This is a wonderful book.
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The Reivers: A Reminiscence
William Faulkner
Signet Books; New American Library [nd], 1969
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao222 reviews
Junot Díaz
Riverhead Trade, 2008
Not So Brief, But Just As Wondrous
+ One of the best bad novels or one of the worst good ones?
+ Joys, suffering, fears and passions
+ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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The Blind Owl21 reviews
Sadegh Hedayat
Grove Press, 1994
Dark and beautiful
+ Haunting and dark
+ I'm buying this book again
+ 80 Proof Bleak
+ Surreal, not so real . . .
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Independence Day123 reviews
Richard Ford
Vintage, 1996
Ford Creates a Postive Thinking Angstrom -- There is No Running Here [P '96]
+ In My Top Five
+ Something to Cheer About
In "Independence Day", Richard Ford's depiction of post-marital devolution (divorce) parallels the lack of marital (or life) bliss shown in other classics: John Updike's "rabbit run" or John O'Hara's "Appointment in Samarra."
This book's protagonist, Frank Bascombe, is not another Harry Angstrom ...
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American Pastoral221 reviews
Philip Roth
Vintage, 1998
Scrupulous Account of a Pivotal Point in America
+ Roth at his Finest
+ An Indictment of Dreams
+ Recovery impossible
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Digital Nature Photography: The Art and the Science25 reviews
John and Barbara Gerlach
Focal Press, 2007
Excellent book ... field workshop even better!
+ Digital Nature Photography Book
+ Celebrating nature through the lens of a camera
+ what a great packed with info book
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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage)287 reviews
Lawrence Wright
Vintage, 2007
This book will get under your skin
+ A plot cooked up by cavemen with computers
+ Good intro to the topic
+ An Excellent Primer on Al-Qaeda's Birth and Growth
+ The Looming Tower
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The New Yorker Book of Political Cartoons 4 reviews
Robert Mankoff
Bloomberg Press, 2000
One of the New Yorker's Best Collections of Cartoons
+ "exquisite generic commentary on the old human condition"
+ A humorous look at politics
+ You are not the first
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Our Gang10 reviews
Philip Roth
Vintage, 1998
On The Comeback Trail, Or Tricky In Hell
+ The Story of Tricky Dixon
+ The Gang's all here - and gone
+ okay
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Jesus' Son: Stories by92 reviews
Denis Johnson
Harper Perennial, 1993
Children of loneness
+ I read the first couple stories...
+ Aimless Days of the Addicted
In Denis Johnson's stunning collection of short stories "Jesus' Son", there is an image that stays with you most of the time. This is the picture of loneness and desolation. In one of the best tales, called "Emergency", the main character whose name goes by FH and a friend drive through the ...
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The Human Stain: A Novel196 reviews
Philip Roth
Vintage, 2001
Recommending Philip Roth is a little like recommending sex...
+ A smart novel which will stay in your mind for days
+ Philip Roth = Genius
...It's so obvious it hardly needs saying.
Coleman Silk is a professor ousted from his position on false charges of racism, and, at 71, carrying on a torrid and secret affair with an illiterate 34-year-old cleaning woman. But when it comes to secrets, that's the least of Silk's.
Reading Roth ...
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The Sportswriter106 reviews
Richard Ford
Vintage, 1995
sports for the mind
Last night I finished reading Richard Ford's The Sportswriter. I read it a couple years after reading Independence Day. Although I didn't love Independence Day, I was curious to get back to the main character of both books, Frank Bascombe, and see what he had done earlier in his life.
I think ...
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S.: A Novel (Penguin Modern Classics)13 reviews
John Updike
Penguin Classics, 2006
A woman of independent means
+ Updike- The Master of Ridicule
+ A NOTEWORTHY WORK - A BIT DIFFERENT
Written in the form of letters, Updike in this novel satirizes the excesses of the materialistic world while showing that a woman can overcome these excesses (that she is a part of) and make a totally different life for herself. Sarah Worth divorces her wealthy husband and joins a Hindu ashram in ...
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I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell283 reviews
Tucker Max
Citadel Press, 2006
Brings back memories.
+ This book is a GREAT read
I thought the book was well written and bought back a lot of old memories :-)
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Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music18 reviews
David Meyer
Villard, 2008
GRAM PARSONS "TWENTY THOUSAND ROADS" BOOK
+ Decent Rock n Roll Bio
+ Very Informative.
THIS IS AN EXCELLENT COMPANION TO THE DVD "GRAM PARSONS - FALLEN ANGEL".
IT IS VERY COMPREHESIVE, AND COVERS GRAM'S LIFE FROM CHILDHOOD, THROUHGOUT HIS LIFE AND CAREER. IT COVERS HIS BIRTH IN WINTERHAVEN, FLORIDA (HE WAS BORN TO A WEATHLY SOUTHERN FAMILY WHO OWNED NEARLY HALF OF THE ORANGE ...
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Our Gang10 reviews
Philip Roth
Vintage, 1998
On The Comeback Trail, Or Tricky In Hell
+ The Story of Tricky Dixon
+ The Gang's all here - and gone
+ okay
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Jesus' Son: Stories by92 reviews
Denis Johnson
Harper Perennial, 1993
Children of loneness
+ I read the first couple stories...
+ Aimless Days of the Addicted
In Denis Johnson's stunning collection of short stories "Jesus' Son", there is an image that stays with you most of the time. This is the picture of loneness and desolation. In one of the best tales, called "Emergency", the main character whose name goes by FH and a friend drive through the ...
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