Review:Frighteningly prescient, "It Can't Happen Here" follows the achievements of an ignorant blowhard who relies on platitudes and charisma to win the presidency, then lets the country fester under a reign of tyrannical fascism. The press is subverted and a military dictatorship ensues.

If I were to write this novel today, nobody would blink. But the fact that Lewis wrote this in the thirties when Hitler was a known commodity but before the invasion of Poland and the subsequent holocaust (and ... Read more

Review:pictures are great, but the words.... The limited vocabulary makes it nigh unreadable. I just cant get past it, it feels like I am being talked down to. I should have investigated more before I bought it, it is not what I expected. I expected the wordy wit of XKCD and a more through examination of those rather neat informative images he sometimes makes in his webcomic. Read more

Review:I almost felt as though I was reading a rap song instead of a book. I liked the story line and the main character but I couldn't always understand what he was saying with the long run-on sentences. Also some of the points he tried to make did not communicate well to me, maybe because of the different cultural issues. Read more

Review:I bought this book because I absolutely loved "Tenth of December," Saunders' latest book of short stories. Although I know "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" appeals to many readers and got rave reviews, the stories were too "way out there" for my taste. I just didn't enjoy reading these beautifully crafted stories with their science-fiction aspect. Read more

Review:This collection of six stories was my first exposure to Saunders, and it strikes me that the format and context probably wasn't the best for enjoying his sharp writing. I believe all of these stories originally appeared in magazines, and the problem is that by reading one a day over the course of a week, the similarities in setting, tone, theme, character become glaringly obvious. This doesn't mean the writing isn't good, but the collectivization of these stories certainly robs each of its indiv... Read more

Review:What would you do if you woke up one day and realized that you’d missed out on the best things in life just because you were too scared to truly live? Good Luck With That follows Georgia and Marley as they struggle with the loss of their dear friend Emerson and what she asks of them on her death bed. They promise her they’ll fulfill her wishes, though neither is fully prepared for all that entails.

For Georgia, body image has been a central theme throughout her life, as much a part of her... Read more

Review:Many books have been written to continue the stories of the characters that Jane Austen created, including sequels, prequels, continuations, and diaries. Most of these books have been written about the most popular of her novels, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, while ignoring some of her other different, but equally well-written and beautiful novels–SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, NORTHANGER ABBEY, EMMA, MANSFIELD PARK, and PERSUASION. Now for the first time, all six of Jane Austen’s books have been re-imagined and... Read more

Review:Jazz is another great work by Toni Morrison. I can only say this because I am somewhat 'used to' reading Morrison's writing style. Not that there is a style, per se. And not that one could ever *really* get 'used to' reading Morrison. This fantastic work is like a jazz composition in and of itself: the narrator is the "band leader;" the characters (when allowed to speak for themselves or when they think on something from their past) are the individual "musicians" called on from time to time to i... Read more

Review:I thought this book was amazing. The author gives you a lot of random information during the beginning half of the novel, but once

you have reached towards the end of the book all of this information falls into place. I loved the ending. It was terrific. The last sentence of the novel even somes up the whole book, and really connects to the very beginning of the novel. I loved this book so much that if I was introduced to it out of my english class

I would still have read it. Read more

Review:In thrilling and deeply intricate Sula (Penguin $11.95) Toni Morrison divulges into the complex fabric of a black town in Ohio, "The Bottom". The main characters, Sula and Nel, seemingly merge into the same character and interestingly shared the role of narrating the story. Sula, the title character, is young African American girl in the beginning who lives in a house filled with colorful characters like her promiscuous mother Hannah, allowing her to develop the arrogance, promiscuity, and unc... Read more