Review:This was my first reading of Dostoyevsky and having finished it, I cannot wait to read more of this brilliant author.

What I like most about this book is the shocking realism. The author hides nothing, and reveals the weaknesses of his main character shamelessly. The 'antihero' in this story is the most pathetic character I have ever encountered. I truly felt sorry for him. This story basically tells the tale of a man wholey consumed and overwhelmed by the basic decisions required in the ... Read more

Review:The rating: this book talks to my own self telling stories; it pacifies my soul and behaviors. It makes me a better person not only to others but mainly to my own self.

I am becoming a patience person and this book helped me to see that "I AM OK" which makes me very happy inside out.

I am recommending this book as well as the other books that Don Miguel Ruiz wrote. Read more

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Review:An amazing short read, but very powerful and full of insight to what is most missing in our society today. Kudos to George Saunders, I hope many people will have the opportunity to read and share their experience with this book. Read more

Review:Even swaddled in turgid academic jargon, a tedious childbirth story is still a tedious childbirth story, and a “fluidly gendered” love story is still just a bourgeois romance. Citing all the equally jargon-loving academics and writers that you know or cribbed from doesn’t make you look smarter, just more derivative. Memoir need not devolve, as this one does, into mind-numbing solipsism—coincidentally, I was reading “The Beautiful Struggle” at the same time as I read “The Argonauts,” and Nelson w... Read more

Review:Thoughtful, inspiring and filled with clarity and passion. A must read for all seekers. There are no answers but invites you to explore diverse spiritual and humanistic paths with the able guidance of Krista Tippet and her guests. Read more

Review:Really really good book.

A very interesting read that is fiction yet surrounds demons, angels and prayer. The power of prayer in life.

Demonic forces and battles with angels make up this modern novel. Read more

Review:The Second Treatise is a deep exploration of the fundamentals of governance, starting from man in a state of nature and the need to move to following rules of government. But I found it quite wordy and repetitive. Read more

Review:Thomas Sowell's "The Quest for Cosmic Justice" consists of four extensive essays. The first of these four gives its title to that of the book. The other three essays are: "The Mirage of Equality," "The Tyranny of Visions," and "The Quiet Repeal of the American Revolution." You may agree or disagree with the analyses that Sowell provides in these essays. But you will be unable to deny that Sowell provides a great deal of food for thought. These essays are Sowell at his best. They were originally ... Read more

Review:Joshua Greene has a very interesting academic background - he is both a research psychologist and a philosopher. He uses his expertise in both areas to explain why ethical issues are fundamentally impossible to resolve if we rely only on our moral intuitions.

Greene's Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them takes the fascinating ideas from Daniel Kahneman's Read more