Review:I realize the point of Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels is to make us dislike the character of Thomas Ripley. He is amoral, sociopathic, and quite possibly a psychopath. He has also never quite grown up. And I do dislike Ripley - INTENSELY.
But "The Talented Mr Ripley" deals with all its other major characters (with the exception of Dickie Greenleaf's father) in much the same way. They all appear to have a severe case of arrested development, and have never grown up emotionally an... Read more

Review:The book was okay but I didn't like the way the auther jumped around in time with the story. It was irritating. The movie is one of my very favorites. The book does include recipes at the end, so that is nice. Read more

Review:This is unabridged which I appreciate and didn't see noted before I purchased it. Whether you like classics or not, this a great tale of intrigue and adventure. I have laughed out loud a few times. A good laugh is always good for the soul. Read more

Review:This is the 2nd book in the first trilogy of the Griffin and Sabine series. Sabine is on her way to visit Griffin and in a panic, he leaves, telling her to stay in his place. Their correspondence continues, with Griffin traveling around the world, discovering more about each other through there letters. When he returns, he finds her not there and yet by her letters she was. Is she imagined or are things more complicated than they appear? The artwork continues to striking and I found myself zippi... Read more

Review:This book will make you love mythology again, or will serve as an excellent introduction for those who are unfamiliar. Visual presentation is superb, from typography to color composition. I also have one of the earlier editions that don't have the illustrations, but the simple presence of colors in this one just makes the book much easier to follow and remember certain portions. Read more

Review:This book is 19th on the Modern Library's best 100 novels of the 1900s. As a classic, much has been made of its importance as a study of racial identity in the 1930s. The narrator is a young black man. He is expelled from a southern university in the beginning of the novel when he is assigned the task of chauffeuring a visiting benefactor, a white man, to a school function. The benefactor asks to go for a drive, and the narrator gives him a tour of the rural south that is a little too scenic, on... Read more

Review:There’s something steady, steadying about the old country. Did you know that the first western experiment with sound money came when Henry I chopped off the hands of coin makers who were diluting silver with other metals while carrying out their craft (somebody tell the FED!)? Did you know that the first western ideas of property and justice were established pre-Magna Carta with the ‘reeve’ and ‘jury’ system of ancient Saxon England? Recent studies have shown that almost 50% of Britons live with... Read more

Review:I was pleasantly surprised how many times I laughed out loud during the first half of this novel! There is some fine black comedy. At first. During the second half of the novel things are not so funny, in fact quite bleak. What seemed coldly humourous in Undine Spragg at first, slowly and steadily reveals the disturbed mind of the narcissistic sociopath, a full blown clinical case. Undine is downright frightening, and makes for a chilly, yet strangely delicious read. Once again, Warton's ... Read more

Review:It's a great book! Well organized tutorials. Skills are arranged cumulatively. The basics of mark making are covered all the way to composing a full-page illustration. The designs are beautiful, on trend, and inspiring. It also seems like the content is quite balanced between providing visual appeal and thorough instruction, that is there are pretty images scattered pretty evenly among the text. Read more

Review:I have to strongly disagree with the editorial and reader reviews on this essay, even though it was a national bestseller. The book is touted as possibly the most rational description of a descent into morbid, clinical depression and suicidal despair. I didn't find it so. Styron was descriptive but rather than probing and baring the depths of his mind and emotions during his depression, I felt he only hinted at the tip of the iceberg. I didn't find any riveting, palpable tracing of his depressio... Read more