Review:I was disappointed in this book. I kept reading expecting more to happen or some big twist to the mystery, but the ending just felt blah! I really like Lord John and enjoyed a few of the the other books/stories he was in, but this one just didn't really seem to have a point to it other than to introduce us to a few characters that pop up in later stories. This book would not have sold on its own merits. Read more

Review:Recently, in a review of F. Scott Fitzgerald's first published novel, "This Side of Paradise" (1920), I mentioned that I thought his contemporary, friend, expatriate and fellow writer Ernest Hemingway had definitively won the battle for "number one" writer of their generation, variously named the post -World War I, "lost", or "Jazz Age" generation. Paying due respect to the greater literary merit of Fitzgerald `s "The Great Gatsby" as, perhaps, the best of the individual novels (or short stories... Read more

Review:Virgil keeps getting better & better. Many twists & turns as many could be guilty, but the murders go on & Virgil is in the middle of everything!
No one could predict the last few chapters. John Sanford keeps producing excellent mysteries. Read more

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Review:James Joyce is truly a brilliant writer. I liked all the nine stories included in Dubliners, but enjoyed some more than others. The last story included in Dubliners: The Dead was particularly haunting and beautiful. Read more

Review:I bought this book because one parent showed me their copy and I was hooked by what I saw. I had to have my own copy. This will help the students I tutor with their struggle with the subject of World History. SUPER informative and easy to understand. Read more

Review:I have great admiration for a writer who can write a compelling novel with a confusing title and a dog as protagonist as Stein did with The Art of Racing in the Rain. It was a great read. This one, not so much. Stein is an excellent writer and there are moments when his brilliance shines through in this effort, but not many.

Fourteen-year-old “Clever Trevor” is just a little too clever to be believable. Yes, I know there are child prodigies and geniuses, but few possess the mature thinkin... Read more

Review:Tough book to grasp, short. Reading along with Leland Ryken though made it an excellent opportunity to enjoy this classic. Ryken, has since taken his online interactive "read thru the classics" into several books to help us grow up into enjoying great literature. Read more

Review:It was ok but the author (Joseph Campbell) of this book was from the 1960s and I do have the DVD by the same author on the same subject.. I enjoy reading about Myths and the possible connection with some of its concepts with our Major Religions. My curiosity is because of my lifetime Christian experiences both in our Lutheran Church and in real life. The book then begs the question "Are religions (specific ones ) and Myths more or less one and the same and does that trump peoples faith....a qu... Read more

Review:Faulkner's near perfect tragi-comedy of a poor family trying to get their dead mother's corpse to her preferred final resting place, with fire and flood intervening. Family members and friends tell their own version of the story, each in a combination of his/her own voice laced with Biblical Faulnerisms never uttered by man or beast. This is a tour de force, short enough to finish reading in a weekend, and guaranteed to stay with you for years.The Vintage edition is excellent. Read more