O'Brien writes with such an immediate and personal voice--I began to feel as if his were the voice in my own head after first reading this marvelous book....Show more
O'Brien writes with such an immediate and personal voice--I began to feel as if his were the voice in my own head after first reading this marvelous book. Ostensibly a war novel, The Things They Carried grapples with so much more: the nature of art, of truth, of storytelling.
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O'Brien writes with such an immediate and personal voice--I began to feel as if his were the voice in my own head after first reading this marvelous book....Show more
O'Brien writes with such an immediate and personal voice--I began to feel as if his were the voice in my own head after first reading this marvelous book. Ostensibly a war novel, The Things They Carried grapples with so much more: the nature of art, of truth, of storytelling.
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I thoroughly enjoy the Glass family, Salinger's quirky, insular, New York intellectuals. For fans of the movies of Wes Anderson, here are the ur-Tenenbaums.
I thoroughly enjoy the Glass family, Salinger's quirky, insular, New York intellectuals. For fans of the movies of Wes Anderson, here are the ur-Tenenbaums.
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I thoroughly enjoy the Glass family, Salinger's quirky, insular, New York intellectuals. For fans of the movies of Wes Anderson, here are the ur-Tenenbaums.
I thoroughly enjoy the Glass family, Salinger's quirky, insular, New York intellectuals. For fans of the movies of Wes Anderson, here are the ur-Tenenbaums.
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I'll admit to being daunted by the size of this book for a long time, but once I started it I read it very fast. The Goldfinch is one of the most propulsi...Show more
I'll admit to being daunted by the size of this book for a long time, but once I started it I read it very fast. The Goldfinch is one of the most propulsive and compelling books I've read, and I deeply enjoyed the great Dickensian characters Tartt created here (most of all BORIS!). I was a huge fan of her first book, The Secret History, and I'm so glad that she is still writing such electrifying fiction--even if it's only one book per decade.
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I'll admit to being daunted by the size of this book for a long time, but once I started it I read it very fast. The Goldfinch is one of the most propulsi...Show more
I'll admit to being daunted by the size of this book for a long time, but once I started it I read it very fast. The Goldfinch is one of the most propulsive and compelling books I've read, and I deeply enjoyed the great Dickensian characters Tartt created here (most of all BORIS!). I was a huge fan of her first book, The Secret History, and I'm so glad that she is still writing such electrifying fiction--even if it's only one book per decade.
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Spare, poetic perfection. Housekeeping deals with loss and domesticity with haunting resonance.
Spare, poetic perfection. Housekeeping deals with loss and domesticity with haunting resonance.
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Spare, poetic perfection. Housekeeping deals with loss and domesticity with haunting resonance.
Spare, poetic perfection. Housekeeping deals with loss and domesticity with haunting resonance.
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As a teenager I enjoyed the gothic romance; as an adult I appreciate the title character's intellectual restlessness. Her struggle for self-hood feels uni...Show more
As a teenager I enjoyed the gothic romance; as an adult I appreciate the title character's intellectual restlessness. Her struggle for self-hood feels universal and untied to history, culture, or class.
Of course, history, culture, and class all factor into the novel (mostly inadvertently), and for that reason I also recommend Jean Rhys's brilliant prequel to Jane Eyre: Wide Sargasso Sea.
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As a teenager I enjoyed the gothic romance; as an adult I appreciate the title character's intellectual restlessness. Her struggle for self-hood feels uni...Show more
As a teenager I enjoyed the gothic romance; as an adult I appreciate the title character's intellectual restlessness. Her struggle for self-hood feels universal and untied to history, culture, or class.
Of course, history, culture, and class all factor into the novel (mostly inadvertently), and for that reason I also recommend Jean Rhys's brilliant prequel to Jane Eyre: Wide Sargasso Sea.
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Another eccentric family (à la J.D. Salinger's Glass family) living in genteel poverty. The book is essentially a coming of age story for the main charact...Show more
Another eccentric family (à la J.D. Salinger's Glass family) living in genteel poverty. The book is essentially a coming of age story for the main character, Cassandra, but the whole plot is so off-beat that I am continually charmed by the book. Dodie Smith is best remembered for writing The 101 Dalmations which I also recommend.
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Another eccentric family (à la J.D. Salinger's Glass family) living in genteel poverty. The book is essentially a coming of age story for the main charact...Show more
Another eccentric family (à la J.D. Salinger's Glass family) living in genteel poverty. The book is essentially a coming of age story for the main character, Cassandra, but the whole plot is so off-beat that I am continually charmed by the book. Dodie Smith is best remembered for writing The 101 Dalmations which I also recommend.
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Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy is the reason she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. The books follow the life of a girl in medieval Norway as she gets married and grows into adulthood.
Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy is the reason she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. The books follow the life of a girl in medieval Norway as she gets married and grows into adulthood.
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Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy is the reason she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. The books follow the life of a girl in medieval Norway as she gets married and grows into adulthood.
Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy is the reason she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. The books follow the life of a girl in medieval Norway as she gets married and grows into adulthood.
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Powerful, poetic, disturbing, this part-memoir/part-fictional account of a teenager's affair with a millionaire adult in Indochina is an unforgettable read.
Powerful, poetic, disturbing, this part-memoir/part-fictional account of a teenager's affair with a millionaire adult in Indochina is an unforgettable read.
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Powerful, poetic, disturbing, this part-memoir/part-fictional account of a teenager's affair with a millionaire adult in Indochina is an unforgettable read.
Powerful, poetic, disturbing, this part-memoir/part-fictional account of a teenager's affair with a millionaire adult in Indochina is an unforgettable read.
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A sprawling, open-hearted, big big novel. Full of plot, multi-generational story lines, and a unique narrative voice in our protagonist Cal. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer for fiction.
A sprawling, open-hearted, big big novel. Full of plot, multi-generational story lines, and a unique narrative voice in our protagonist Cal. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer for fiction.
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A sprawling, open-hearted, big big novel. Full of plot, multi-generational story lines, and a unique narrative voice in our protagonist Cal. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer for fiction.
A sprawling, open-hearted, big big novel. Full of plot, multi-generational story lines, and a unique narrative voice in our protagonist Cal. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer for fiction.
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For my money, the perfect Western. Great narrative voice, perfect action, and storytelling efficiency.
For my money, the perfect Western. Great narrative voice, perfect action, and storytelling efficiency.
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For my money, the perfect Western. Great narrative voice, perfect action, and storytelling efficiency.
For my money, the perfect Western. Great narrative voice, perfect action, and storytelling efficiency.
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