Review:Jack Gladney is a college professor in the middle of a mid life crisis. He has no idea of who he is. He hides his emptiness behind thick, dark framed glasses, a scholarly university instructors' robe, and mastery of his academic interest of choice, "Hitler studies". He sees death everywhere he looks and attempts to thwart its inevitability in obsessive compulsive ways. He hoards old, worthless, sentimental objects. He memorizes the most minute trivial facts about Hitler. He to strives for ... Read more

Review:Lot 49 is a unique book, and one of my favorites of all time. I read it for the first time years ago in a class which had T.S.Eliot's Wasteland as central theme, and it was in this context that I came to explore its different levels of meaning. The most fascinating quality of Lot 49 comes from its weaving a highly colorful tapestry, where comical anecdote, subcultural jargon, social satire, historical revelations, and philosophical discourse on moral values are all entertwined. The result is... Read more

Review:This is one of my favorite stories by one of my favorite authors. So glad they created an audio version. Good listening for long road trips. Just a good book period, breaking down the different avenues used to destroy our souls. Read more

Review:LOVE this! I have always hated my handwriting so this is perfect for me to make my writing fancy. Just like the old letter tracing books you used when you were first learning to write except more advanced. Also has some blank practice pages in the back! Read more

Review:I'll admit this was probably my least favorite of the Murakami novels I've read, but that doesn't mean it's a bad book. Though it may not stack up favorably against the author's best efforts, "Hard-Boiled Wonderland"--like lesser works by DeLillo, for instance--still ranks above most other writers' work. Murakami's books have a certain sense of universality that isn't so much temporal as geographical. While set in Japan, they seem as though they could occur anywhere. Partly this is due to Muraka... Read more

Review:You know what, I'm not all that big on memoirs or the celebrity book of the week, but when the world seems to be a cesspool of negativity, greed and people getting laid off left and right, it is almost refreshing to read a book about a really really decent, genuine and endlessly interesting person who did things the right way.

She made a name for herself by working hard, taking chances, weathering the down times and working even harder to push herself over the hump.

Films, Broadway... Read more

Review:I wanted to like this book, but all the Elvis stuff is the same stories told by many others, very little new information here! How many times she uses the same words to describe Elvis and Bruce is insane! She uses handsome and athletic over and over. This story feels whitewashed to me. Linda comes off as perfect in every way! It does however validate my opinion of David Foster! Read more

Review:I am an author so probably somewhat more critical than the average reader. I found the subject to be interesting, but not the hilarious page turner it was purported to be. I read it in a couple of days, and found it to be a reasonable selection of first person news stories. This was not David Sedaris, or Tom Robbins by any measure. Read more

Review:But entertaining.

Jon Ronson does his best to investigate a bizarre corner of the U.S. government; the psychics of the intelligence community. To get there, he interviews veterans of the programs, and LTC (ret) Jim Channon, author of First Earth Battalion Operations Manual (which is very central to what Ronson found out and his interpretation of what he learned).

Drug experiments, meditation,... Read more

Review:A fun read but NO CONCLUSION. No explanation of how to deal or who the subjects have bounced back. I thought this would be a n interesting read about how modern communications have devastating effects on lives and how that can be worked out of but no. its just a depressing collection of inclosed case studies. Read more