Review:Dumas has brought his romance,adventure and tragedy in this book. It is so great! It's a adventure complete with a murder,a spy,brave nights and a evil king. It's a great book but might be hard to understand. Read more

Review:Big surprise was revealed way too early and the rest of the novel contained the "fallout." Dumas tied up almost all of the loose ends so it ended well...I guess I was expecting it to build a bit more with the big "reveal" at the end.

Oxford World's Classics are the way to go with this series.

Still a good book and I recommend that you read it; especially if you've read all of the other previous books in this massive saga as I did :). Read more

Review:This book was a Christmas gift from my son's wish list. He was thrilled when he opened it. I was thrilled that he asked for a book. He is a fan of "The Three Musketeers" and has read it at least twice. I never knew there was a sequel. As a gift, it was a hit. Read more

Review:Although the Plague is not my favorite Camus, that honor belongs to The Stranger and The Rebel, it is nonetheless a great allegory for the grinding nature of life under occupation by a foreign dictatorial regime.
Just as Camus experienced first hand the way in which the Nazi occupation of France beat down the spirit of the French people, in The Plague he parallels that with the way in which an isidious disease can beat down the will of a city's people to live life.
Perhaps, the way in whic... Read more

Review:I don't deny that Kafka has a very out-of-the-box way of writing, but to be honest it didn't do it for me. While I wouldn't recommend it to someone looking for a light/fun read, if you're looking for something that will test your grip on reality, I'd take a gander. Definitely gets you talking. Read more

Review:I enjoyed reading The German Girl but at times found myself experiencing the emotional traumas that the characters were experiencing. Well written. I did find the pace slow but this is a positive as once again it brought me into the story so deeply that I was also experiencing being on the ship living the sad and difficult experiences that the author describe so vividly. I would definitely recommend this book. Read more

Review:One tends to think of the Dark Ages as a gloomy colourless period of restraint and oppression. Eco, however, shows that straining against the yokes of this repression is a vibrant, vivid and fantastical cast of characters. Styled as a "who-dunnit", this story is nevertheless a very realistic and accurate portrayal of 13th century Europe. (I have even seen The Name of the Rose on a recommended reading list for a university history course).

But besides been an accomplished writer, philosoph... Read more

Review:Ladinsky reinvents poems, songs, and even prose passages from twelve renowned saints, imposing modern idioms on the original material. This sounds sacrilegious, yet surprisingly it actually works. The saints' words come back to life, perhaps not always in forms the original author would recognize, but in ways that speak eloquently to today's reader. Read more

Review:Well written, amusing, interesting, observant and very true to life. I am a resident in
a retirement village and it could have been written by a resident here, as such a lot
of the characters were similar - you just have to have a sense of humour when you
live in a place like this!!!! Read more

Review:This would be my first introduction to Pablo Neruda, and I must say I'm a bit disappointed. Not that Neruda isn't a great poet, the Nobel Prize and critical acclaim prove the contrary, but perhaps the translation could use some more work.

I picked this copy up noticing the name of Robert Hass', the translator and author of the Essential Haiku, on which he did a great job. Unfortunately, Eisner is the editor of the majority of the poems. The analogy to Eisner's translation would be like wh... Read more