“Life of Pi” is the winner of a Man Booker prize for good reason. It is an exceptional book that is entertaining, spiritual and philosophical. It often takes a while before you begin enjoying a new book, but this book is the exception to the rule. You are immediately drawn into its magnificent tale.
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I had heard that Anton Chekhov was an exceptional writer. I recently ran across a reference to his short story, “The Lady with the Dog,” in another book and finally decided to give him a try. This collection of short stories is exceptional in many ways. The first thing you will notice is that the [...]

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What can be said about a book that has a passage that reads, “The best method, the cleanest, safest way to commit adultery is this: whenever possible, within reason, tell the truth”? The author goes on to further explain what she means in great detail. This book is sexy and raunchy, but not trashy. It [...]

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I have read so many of Dean Koontz’s books that I’ve had to look for some of his older works in order to keep reading material by this great author. What is extraordinary about Koontz is his ability to write about external conflicts between good and evil, and to make it interesting and inspiring. One [...]

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“Tales of Transgression” is a collection of twenty one short stories about loneliness, love, fate, and identity. All of the stories are entertaining and compelling and have distinct stylistic elements that keep you engrossed in not only the story, but also its structure. Some of my favorites were, “Ugly,” “Faithless,” and “A Manhattan Romance.”
“Ugly” is [...]

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This Pulitzer Prize winning book is the most uniquely written book that I have ever read. It combines a serious historical context, with a compelling contemporary narrative. It is the story of Oscar, A Dominican nerd who cannot find companionship, no matter how hard he tries.”The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” refers back to [...]

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Although this book was a finalist for the Penn/Faulkner award, it is a very boring book about the fictional lives of a few free spirits living on a beach in Cape Cod. It is a story of love found, and love lost. Maytree marries his sweetheart and abandons her and his son, Pete, after more [...]

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Philip Roth is one of the more interesting writers of American fiction. I have read almost all of his books and have enjoyed all of them. "Indignation" is his latest book. It is a short book about a studious 18 year old man from Newark, NJ. The story takes place in 1951 during the Korean [...]

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Kate Christensen has created a masterpiece with "The Great Man." Ironically, it is really a novel about three great women and one very flawed man. Oscar Feldman is the so called "great man" of this story. Unfortunately for Oscar, he is dead for the duration of this retelling of his life. The story centers [...]

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"Telex from Cuba" authored by Rachel Kushner is one of those books that mixes historical facts with an interesting fictional narrative–a book you simply cannot put down once you start reading it. It is a story about the employees of the United Fruit Company in Cuba and the 330,000 acres of land that it controlled [...]

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