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War and Remembrance
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Why did I give this novel 5 stars? As others have noted, there is more than a trace of soap opera in this saga. And the plot does stretch your credulity; how else to get the members of one family in all the right places during WWII at just the right time? And yet, if WOW and WAR are soap operas, they are very, very, good soap operas. In other words... »
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If You Liked School, You'll Love Work
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This is the first Irvine Welsh book I've struggled to finish. The stories are trite, the attempt at capturing American accents falls flat and overall the whole thing just seems...uninspired. ... »
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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A quick and entertaining read, Oscar Wilde's comic portrayal of 19th century upper-class intrigue is filled with witty, bantering dialogue. Two friends, Algernon and Jack, perfect the art of "Bunburying," which consists of inventing ill or troublemaking friends and relatives in order to get out of social engagements. Of course, this can only backfire a... »
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
After Tom Wolfe defined the '60s in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and the cultural U-tur... »
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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
I would suggest, dear reader, that when considering Consider the Lobster, that you consider it in the same light as David Foster Wallace's collection A Su... »
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The Piano Lesson
Part of Wilson's century long tetra-cycle about African-Americans in Pittsburgh, this play is set in 1937. The effects of slavery are still palpable withi... »
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The Winds of War
What a great way to learn about the WAR that our fathers and grandfathers fought. I learned a lot about the background and the countries and personalitie... »
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