Review:I disagree. I loved Henry V! I've memorized parts of it because it's just that good. Today Shakespeare's work is almost universally considered some of the best literature written, but he really wrote to entertain and to educate. What more can you ask for? Read more

Review:This book was terrible. Washington Irving just kept ranting on about the dumbest things that had no relevance to the story whatsoever. The only good part was the climax on the last couple of pages, but other than that I hated this short story. Read more

Review:This book was terrible. Washington Irving just kept ranting on about the dumbest things that had no relevance to the story whatsoever. The only good part was the climax on the last couple of pages, but other than that I hated this short story. Read more

Review:This is a very interesting book and easy to read. It details the Lord's gracious hand of protection and provision to one family, who held to their convictions in the midst of WWII's evil and chaotic turbulence. The only warning I would give readers is to be careful not to use this book as a promotion for the Seventh Day Adventist Church or for legalistic behaviors, such as keeping the sabbath or abstaining from certain foods which you yourself have not been convicted by the Lord to do. (If yo... Read more

Review:The writing and the plot stand the test of time. There is fun in the English jargon of a past era, and a couple of politically incorrect cultural markers from a different day. The reading of the book is compelling, the action exciting. This old mystery out shines decades of political action thrillers that have come since. Read more

Review:The recording offered here by Blackstone Audiobooks is an astonishing bargain. Frederick Davidson's unabridged (13-hour 11-CD) rendition of Jackson-Knight's classic prose translation of the Aeneid is well done and at a price that beggers belief. The only reason I hesitated before giving it a well-deserved five stars is that I personally found Davidson's delivery to be rather camp to my English ear, which did mean I had to listen for a while to tune into the words. Then it was wonderful. Read more

Review:I liked this book, but it was definitely creepy!!! I found myself becoming unsettled fairly early on, and it only got worse.as the book progressed. Old-style writing, naturally, but still easy enough to get into to give you some uneasy dreams if you read it at night. Read more

Review:This is one of the most thought provoking books ever written!! It will take more than one quick read!
I am reading this book in a group setting and the conversation is amazing! For those who have lost the idea of the Holiness of God this is the book to read! Read more

Review:What is the "heart of the matter"? For me, Graham Greene ranks with Faulkner and Conrad in his unsparingly honest, yet empathetic insight into the human heart. And, not that of great men, but of ordinary people who try hard to stay right, not always succeeding, but often failing nobly. The Heart of the Matter is to me Greene's most vivid and memorable foray into this terra incognita. Scobie is noble, flawed and fully realized. The so-called "invented" world through which he walks is so richly at... Read more

Review:Graham Greene does something in The Heart of the Matter which is extremely difficult to do: he depicts the inner turmoil and emotional breakdown of a human being in a non-pretentious, non-self-conscious, completely BELIEVABLE way.

So many other allegedly great authors have tried to do the same thing, with very few successes. Most often you get turgid "prose" which reeks of pseudo-intellectual showboating, turning the character in question from a flesh-and-blood entity into a cipher, which... Read more