Review:See the three movies about Japan's most famous duelist and skip this book. This should have been three books instead of one set in type that's too damned small. If you're determined and motivated you'll learn a lot about this fascinating man than you'll find in the movies. Get a magnifying glass to read the text. Read more

Review:Shipping Was Swift & The Book itself is extremely interesting, while reading it you get a sense of ' OMG this was written over 300 years ago & Here I am reading this. Great insight By Miyamoto Musashi Very Insightful & Mind Opening. Read more

Review:In Knut Hamsun's Hunger, the narrator and protagonist roams the streets of Kristiania (Oslo) and searches for food and later lodging. A writer of questionable success, he submits his writings to a journal but rarely gets the story accepted. Without money, he often doesn't eat for days.

As we read the novel, we dwell into the mind occasionally delusion of a man trying to maintain his dignity in poverty. Though he had no food, he gives money to children and vagrants. And though he fancies a... Read more

Review:Written during the Great War, the individual and the social are both given poetic attention, deep feeling, spiritual power.. Are you a loner, with few best friends, inquiring, seeking? You found the book(s) written for you by Hesse. Read on. One of his earlier books, maybe the first major one, Demian, was for me one of Hesse's last to read, after the more famous and in chronological order, Siddhartha, Steppenwolfe, Narcissus and Goldmund, The Journey to the East and The Glass Bead Game.. Kind of... Read more

Review:What a delightful, charming story has been written by Antoine Laurain. It will long be remembered as a favorite of mine. The twist at the end has thoroughly captivated me. I can't wait to read more of Laurain's works. Read more

Review:A great story with a completely likable protagonist, who makes you laugh and makes your feel her sorrow. An excellent depiction of modern-day Paris, that has you feeling like you are there. Twist and turns of plot make this a lot of fun. Read more

Review:Camus introduces to the reader, in a rare second-person point of view, to Jean-Baptiste Clamence. Camus' novel is almost interactive, with Clamence answering the reader's questions and taking the reader's hand. At points in the novel, the reader is actually telling Clamence what to do, and he is responding back. It is slightly eerie, but ingenious. The novel, however, is about Clamence's experiences in WWII, and how he has survived to become a deranged, off-kilter person. The last chapter i... Read more

Review:I absolutely detested this novel. I hated it more with each page that I forced myself to read. I only managed about a third of the book before I opted to just quit. My decision was echoed by the other people in my book club. Each chapter was told by a different character, the first being a man who was murdered and tossed into a well. I read far enough into the novel to know that the murderer was a fellow miniaturist and that jealously was at the heart of the matter. I also know that it was... Read more

Review:Kerry Greenwood has succumbed finally to that thing which drives me nuts in an author: she writes with A Cause. She has found some success, and has used her latest book as sledgehammer to whack us upside the head for The Cause. Oh, there were bubblings of The Cause in her previous novels, which I can overlook if the stories are good, which they are, and which I did. But this last novel has left a bad taste in my mouth. It seems as though the murder mystery was secondary to The Cause, with Phryne... Read more

Review:Love these Phryne Fisher mysteries a great way of shortening the time on long drives. Kerry Greenwood must put a lot of time into research to give authentic period descriptions and Stephanie Daniel has an amazingly wide range of voices to entertain the listener as she reads. Thanks Read more