Review:Although there's some slow-going moments in 'Blood & Gold' (though nowhere near as bad as 'Blackwood Farm') on the whole the story works fairly well and follows an 'Alexandria Quartet' style Multiple-Persons POV to tell, retell, and newly explain a shared history and series of events that the protagonists of the story were all involved in concurrently and/or sequentially and are thus better/worse able to explain than others. Lack of resolution of long-estranged relationships is a problem in... Read more

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:Mary Karr puts her considerable experience teaching, writing, and reading memoir to good work in this compelling, readable, and idiosyncratic how-to book. I liked Lit, didn't love it, and I've had some starts and stops while reading Liar's Club -- in spots it just feels like she's trying too hard and the pace is still too slow. Yet this book glides along at a swift clip; it's a fun, often entrancing read. She's a careful, clear writer. At times I feel like she's trying too hard in this book too,... Read more

Review:These books are great for the first time you read a Shakespeare play. Having modern English and the original side by side, you understand the story, and after that, can focus on Shakespeare's ability with language. Read more

Review:This book is such a remarkable accomplishment in so many ways that I must give it the highest rating. However, I did not always find it engrossing and sometimes had to slog on. Although it is a translation, the language is still quite often beautifully wrought--particularly in descriptions of terrain and weather. The book also gave good insight into medieval Christianity as it affected ordinary lay people. It also gets into the mind of a female character of those times from childhood to old ... Read more

Review:Amazing, OBVIOUSLY. This was one of the first books that I read where I thought to myself "Not one word in that book was a mistake". A wonderful book, one of my favorites, and one I will read time & time again like it's an old friend. Read more

Review:The great brilliance and talent of Philip Roth announce themselves to the world in this first book. Much of what Roth would be later admired for is present in this work. A remarkable capacity for creating memorable characters, a tremendous liveliness and humor in language, a somewhat sarcastic view of American reality mixed up with a deeply romantic and idealistic one, fervent sexual interest. There is also in these works the kind of criticism of his home- team, the American Jewish family which ... Read more

Review:Arrived in good condition. Exactly what I needed. However, this copy is basically the script: it contains no footnotes, translations, or introductions whatsoever. If you want these additions, you will need a different version. Read more

Review:I always enjoyed Jonathan Kellerman novels, as well as any of today's great mystery novelists. Just lately though I've come to enjoy his novels much more than others were some of the other novelists seems to repeat the same thing over and over again, Kellerman's novels are always different and enjoyable. Read more

Review:The book was easy reading. The plot made you think about a time in our world that wasn't so good. This should remind us that it should never happen again. Somehow I thought it would end differently. Read more