Review:From an adventure story this is an excellent read. However, Swift contrasts the lands that Gulliver travels to his own native England to make a political statement. I found the political dialogues to be a little bit of a turn off. I would still recommend this as long as you don't let the political stuff get in the way of your enjoyment. Read more

Review:The best piece of literature ever written so I was told by an O so educated man. I went for the audio book to help me get through it. I do appreciate the art but as many I needed a little help with the rolling on of the story. Read more

Review:Faulkner is great if somewhat challenging to read. He is a Modernist in the sense that he attempts to observe events/issues from multiple points of view and time-space. The protagonist Joe Christmas is an F1-bybrid mixed-blood fellow who is persecuted viciously by his grandfather, a pathetic, vicious racist who killed his own daughter for spawning 'the devil'. That is, Joe Christmas' father was Black and the grandfather Doc Hines allowed his daughter to die from medical neglect during the birth.... Read more

Review:Cleverly's novels deserve to be better known in America. I am very fond of this one
because Joe Sandilands is such a great character.Seances were very popular in the 1920s. Cleverly conveys wonderfully the physical attraction of Simla but also the feeling that the English people living there all have something to hide.
Cleverly conveys the effects of a train crash on those involved. Read more

Review:I've enjoyed reading all of Elizabeth Gaskell's books. She teaches some good lessons about how we should treat one another. The fact that we don't have the end of the story isn't such a bad thing. Life is kind of like that. Read more

Review:First of all, my Kindle download was for 34 books rather than 50 so they must have added some since I downloaded it. It took me over a year to read them all, but I am glad that I did. Chesterton is a great writer, and his writings included poems, plays, fiction, non-fiction, biographies, Christian apologetics, and newspaper columns. You get an excellent view of England of 100 years ago in the time that he wrote, but at the same time, many of the problems and political controversies he wrote ab... Read more

Review:Full of grammatical errors and whole paragraphs repeated, which made it annoying to read. The so-called questions for a book club look like a quiz for high-school freshmen to prove they had read the book; the questions had nothing to do with any issues worth discussing, which is what a book club is about. This summary was definitely not worth one cent. Book Sense, if you are going to publish summaries, at least use spell-check, stop padding the book out by repeating whole sections of text, and a... Read more

Review:I bought this book for an Engligh Literature class, it is very bulky, but contains so much there is no other way they could cram so much into anything any smaller! This book remains on my desk, and always will. Read more

Review:really nice pictures BUT, beware when it says 50 pages...there are really 25 with the next 25 being duplicates. Disappointed about that enough that if I had looked earlier, I would have returned this. Read more

Review:...I totally enjoyed the experience. The cover is beautiful and that's why I picked up the book in the first place. I had heard about him and the Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children, but had never sought to read them. I will now. He writes very languid, flowing verse that seem more like prose or poetry. The dialogue is exceptual and thought-provoking. I enjoyed the exchanges between the Sultan and his most "honorable advisor" (esp. how to prove there is no God) and the fable quality of the no... Read more