Review:This is simply an astonishing piece of literature. It follows the everyday lives of a seventeen-year-old boy, called Clay, and his many acquaintances. Written from Clay's perspective, the novel is set in L.A. over the Christmas period, yet there is little celebration within the book. The novel contains many very powerful insights of the lives of older teenagers with too much money and too much time.
Behind the glitz and glamour of Hollywood producers and film stars lies a world of alcohol... Read more

Review:Listen, you aren't here because you stumbled on to a drag queen's book by the grace of Tati. You are here because 1) you think Willam owes you money or 2) you know what to expect. Prepare to read the book front to back, then top to bottom, and better yourself. To suck less. No false advertising here. You might even find aspects of your life where you didn't even know you sucked. So put your pants on, or take them off, and pay the "woman" for her services. Leave it on your coffee table, or just t... Read more

Review:Bookarrived quickly. Condition was ok. Arrived ahead of delivery date, but I have not yet had an opportunity to read it as yet. It was a good price and after reading some of Anny Tyler's other works I wanted to check this one which received some positive reviews. Read more

Review:I thoroughly enjoyed this tale of a man thrown through the grip of religion and love as he tries to 'save' the woman he recently fell in love with so they can be eternally happy in Heaven. I loved the characters, story, ironic and humorous touches, and couldn't help but feel sorrowed to see it end(yes, I wished that another tale could have been started. Very few novels have ever gotten me to want even more after it was all over, more with these characters, more of the humor and story plots t... Read more

Review:Shada fully dramatizes a story that was killed by labor difficulties during Season 17. This production makes a few minor changes to the story so that it fits comfortably with the Eighth Doctor, most notably there's a brand new prologue.

Overall, the story works quite well. In my opinion, it's a notch below City of Death and Pirate Planet (Douglas Adams' other Doctor Who stories) as the six part length adds some filler, and this feels like it could have been an episode shorter. Still, the ... Read more

Review:As Quirk Classics continues to roll out the mash-up novels (Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters;Android Karenina (Quirk Classic)), they chose to return to the scene of their greatest success in this prequel to the smash success of Pride and Prejudice and Zomb... Read more

Review:I was forced to read this for AP English, along with Dubliners. Joyce wrote this book with himself in mind - the main character's life is almost autobiographical. Therefore I don't want to insult Joyce himself, but the main character's attitudes were absolutely repulsive to me. Cynicism and outright pretentiousness can only take a man so far.

That being said, the writing is incredible, as can be expected. My issue with the book is the simply bitter aftertaste this person's attitude left i... Read more

Review:Joyce, man of Letters, fluent in Languages, Traveler in circles high and low and places near and far, Scholar of knowledge, Prophet to Mankind.

Joyce's Ulysses (is the story of a young man) whose framework is Homer's Odyssey: a tale of Modern-day Odysseus' personal existential/sexual quest overcoming his psychological internal travails (not Odysseus' external travails) affirming humanity (the fundamental family unit: the father, mother, son, and daughter). Joyce's FINNEGANS WAKE (is the s... Read more

Review:The optimistic tint that I had hoped was somehow implied by the title of this book, which would make it an exception to the McCarthy rule, was pretty much not there. Pretty much. Instead, what I found was a story centered on illiterate Hill people, brain damaged hermits, LOTS of suffering, and the centerpiece, necrophilia. Sweet.

Woven into this narrative of suffering, and it's unique variant as experienced and created by the central character, are moments of prose, shining, like the sp... Read more

Review:I don't usually leave reviews but this book made me feel like I felt when I read my first KA book, Sweet Dreams. I fell in love with KA after reading that book, and all of those feelings came back with this one. It had everything and I felt everything, the pain and the love as if I was living it. It's a must read. Read more