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Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The First Death
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This is an extremely poor offering from the Anita Blake series both in terms of narrative and design. 'The First Death' is a prequel to Hamilton's Vampire Hunter series, finally bringing to light one of the murder cases mentioned in several of her later novels, as well as introducing us to a younger Anita and an earlier encounter with RPIT, Dolph, Sto... »
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Catch-22
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There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider... »
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Brave New World (P.S.)
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"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is pro... »
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometim... »
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A Raisin in the Sun
It is a nice book. The characters personalities made the book good. If the characters were changed the book wouldn't be as good. The story shows the life ... »
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The Sun Also Rises
For one who is living so remotely from WWI, the war that didn't end all wars, it is difficult to understand its effects on those that lived it. And, when ... »
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Siddhartha
In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like... »
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The Old Man and The Sea
Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, whic... »
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