Review:I love this book. The recipes are great and easy (usually). I first saw it at a friend's house (a chef), and decided I had to have it. I bought the Kindle edition against my instinct, but am loving it because you can take the whole thing to the grocery store, or anywhere else easier than the whole book. I still may buy the real book too because it's so great. Read more

Review:A great story with a completely likable protagonist, who makes you laugh and makes your feel her sorrow. An excellent depiction of modern-day Paris, that has you feeling like you are there. Twist and turns of plot make this a lot of fun. Read more

Review:Camus introduces to the reader, in a rare second-person point of view, to Jean-Baptiste Clamence. Camus' novel is almost interactive, with Clamence answering the reader's questions and taking the reader's hand. At points in the novel, the reader is actually telling Clamence what to do, and he is responding back. It is slightly eerie, but ingenious. The novel, however, is about Clamence's experiences in WWII, and how he has survived to become a deranged, off-kilter person. The last chapter i... Read more

Review:Nausea is absolutely amazing. This is the book that started everything for me. Education and the pursuit of knowledge became priorities in my life after reading this book, thanks to Sartre. Existentialism may be "dead" to some people, but to the high school or early college student who is disenchanted with the world around them, this is the perfect book to get those intellectual juices flowing. The "self-learned man" who sits at the library reading in alphabetical order everything that he can in... Read more

Review:At 245 pages, the novel Submission by Nichel Houlellbecq offers acute social critique, especially of the Western world’s (Europe and the United States) liberal individualism, which offers no certainty, no family strength, no soothing traditions and rituals, and no birthrate. In contrast, Islam offers strong family values and the assurance of a vision, which affords its believers certainty. More importantly, Islam is a political movement and it wants world domination, both through polite politic ... Read more

Review:It's a decadent history, as the title suggests, that not only speaks of the decline of the family but the people who make it, from every point of view, through four generations are outlined. It was the first work of the author who just received a Nobel Prize for this work was a bestseller and has been made into a film. The most interesting part of the work would be the clear description of his characters. It is part of the culture of the twentieth century even though it is set in the nineteenth ... Read more

Review:A lot of veiled homoerotic imagery, much of which today would be considered borderline pedophilia. Bogged down by repetitive illusions to the Greek ideals of beauty. Not on narrative par with Buddenbrooks or The Magic Mountain. Best suited for those who wish to say they've read all of Thomas Mann's work. Read more

Review:A lot of veiled homoerotic imagery, much of which today would be considered borderline pedophilia. Bogged down by repetitive illusions to the Greek ideals of beauty. Not on narrative par with Buddenbrooks or The Magic Mountain. Best suited for those who wish to say they've read all of Thomas Mann's work. Read more

Review:A lot of veiled homoerotic imagery, much of which today would be considered borderline pedophilia. Bogged down by repetitive illusions to the Greek ideals of beauty. Not on narrative par with Buddenbrooks or The Magic Mountain. Best suited for those who wish to say they've read all of Thomas Mann's work. Read more

Review:The novel opens in November 1939 when Hitler, having narrowly escaped an assassination attempt after delivering a lecture at a Munich beer hall, is on a private train traveling to Berlin. Following his meeting with his war generals at the Reich Chancellery, Hitler falls onto his bed. Not having slept for two days, he is once again in a dreadful emotional state, and yet again begins to think of his deceased mother. To overcome this weakness or fear as a friend put it and on his suggestion, Hitler... Read more