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The Winter Rose
I didnt think it would be better than the tea rose but it is am eagerly awaiting The Wild rose...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
If you attend the play, be sure to sit in a seat that is a prime number....
The Bluest Eye
Painfully Poetic in its historical depiction of a young girl destroyed by America's racist underpinnings....
El viaje del elefante
Saramago has done it again. Once you start this fabulous narration it is impossible to stop. Again, as in all of his works, Saramago offers a hidden t...
The Magus
A very excellent book indeed, First editions of this book are increasingly becoming hard to find....
The Autumn of the Patriarch
One who loves Marquez, and good literature generally, will enjoy this book, too....
3 Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
I really liked the film but didnt realise there was a book as well. Will have to find a copy....
Twenty Fragments if a Ravenous Youth
Very entertaining and poignant look into the mind of a young Chinese woman trying to make her way from rural life to the big time in Beijing. Playful...
A View From The Bridge
I know, strictly speaking it's a play but I love to read it a couple of times a year. Just a simple view of working class life on the docks of NYC...
The Davinci code
A captivating reading from the beginning to the end. An attempt by group of people to conceal secrets and an attempt by certain individuals to bring...
Hannibal
Hannibal is a historical (and also biographical) novel of the great general, by the important Austrian writer Mirko Jelusich. The writer chronicles...
My published books
I have never heard of this book, When was your book published. Collector of first editions....
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
Both books embody for me the awful social constriction of Secrecy. What came across was the simplistic writing (a Gift that is not evident in all...
The Cather in the Rye
The Catcher In The Rye, This book just grabbed me when I was in Year 11 at High School till this day it is so very powerful. The writer was able t...
The Bell Jar
This is the autobiographical description of her lapse into depression. Events and the world are seen from the point of view of a young woman sufferin...
Epiphanies of Torn Galaxy
Epiphanies of a torn galaxy belong to a new genre of writing fiction called Philosophical Fiction. It's a pure work of art. There are many epiphanies...
RE: Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 100 years of solitude
I`ve read some of his latest short stories, though, and they are not so good. I think it`s difficult to keep quality if a writer turns into a book-making machine. But I can understand the temptation......
RE: Stephen Curtis: The Truth About: The Real Story About Fairy Tales
Did not know these Fairy tales were tampered with. it is indeed a sort of crime to do such a horrifying thing ,At least leave this legacy intact. in it's charming enchanting essence. thank you for this information!...
RE: Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow
Check out ARCHAIX channel on youtube... his conclusions are made historical nonfiction, ...he gets his info from very old books and ancient texts that have been very well hidden,...info from the 1800's and beyond....fascinating!...
RE: Naomi Klein: No Logo
From back cover: With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing—and the powerful potential of a growing activist...
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The New Life
Being a classic work of the famous Florentine poet, La vita nuova is one of the great innovations of the Renaissance Age, a kind of "milestone"...
Gabriel's Inferno
I'm just in the middle of it and so far so good. Brilliant writing, smoldering love story....
Aztec
brilliant, historical novel once you start you can not put it down. Best ever written and 12 years in the writing....
Dream Of The Unborn Butterfly
Dream Of The Unborn Butterfly. My life began when I surrendered my soul to nature, the way falling leaves surrender to the wind.This is when I bui...
Explosive Eighteen
Ok, to be fair this book hasn't come out yet but I know that I will like it. I love this series and this author. The series is the Stephanie Plum Seri...
The Magus
The Magus (1966) is the first novel written (but second published) by British author John Fowles. It tells the story of Nicholas Urfe, a teacher on a...
Memoir from Antproof Case
This story offers a fascinating and very sympathetic view into the mind of a somewhat neurotic narrator....
Gravity's Rainbow
Every time I read Pynchon, I am not sure what is going on, but the payoff is worth it. Sci-fi and Historical Fiction. It explores history, colonialism...
Master and Margarita
Bulgakov dared to place all the cruelty, venality and treachery of 1930s Russia under a microscope....