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List Price: $19.99 Price: $8.45 You Save: $11.54 (58%) "Orange" - By Shiroe
If you like romance and feels both then this is the story for you. Naho witch is the main character is trying to save Kakeru from killing himself. In order to do that she writes herself a letter back to before he does this. Basically like a message sent backwards like the lake house or something. Anyways I read the story for this adorable character named Azusa Murasaka, she is the cutest and her reaction to things are priceless. Anyways this was a cute and touching story. A must own and a must read.(53) -
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List Price: $19.99 Price: $12.16 You Save: $7.83 (39%) "This manga is amazing, it is very emotional it has its sad ..." - By Mandy (forest grove OR.)
This manga is amazing, it is very emotional it has its sad and happy moments enthralled I finished it in a day. The book made me cry and laugh and blush. I totally recamend it(63) -
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List Price: $18.00 Price: $11.84 You Save: $6.16 (34%) "The Snow Leopard" - By Oravla Olam (tuczon, az)
Absolutely extraordinary writing. One of the most poetic and compelling descriptions of any landscape that I have read, intricately interwoven with Peter Matthiessen's introspective examination of his own deeply spiritual reflections and intimate memories: the combination is so powerful and vivid that makes the reader [it did for me] vicariously live the experience, as if he or she was a participant in the journey. I am reminded of Leibniz dictum that the purpose of enlightened human beings is to elevate things "from the Kingdom of Nature to the Kingdom of Grace"...Matthiessen has accomplished this with relentless wordsmithing, conjuring worlds that are both real and imaginary, smoothly flowing into one another--a true masterpiece.(265) -
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List Price: $17.00 Price: $9.27 You Save: $7.73 (45%) "Idiosyncratic Fun!" - By Reviewer
If you haven't read it, you might want to go ahead and get her read before reading what I am posting here.
It's a great little book. I loved the message it sent. You can still be happy, even in the midst of destruction, so long as you aren't around annoying people. Also, notice how the villagers started leaving goodies for the girls only to make themselves feel better? It was a selfish way to gain control of the situation since the girls completely and utterly ignored them with every ounce of their beings. If the townsfolk really were doing something truly for the girls, they would have just left them alone like they wanted. Still wasn't really sure why Charles called them old maids. It's not like they were that old. All and all We Have Always Lived in A Castle is written in a captivating style ... full review(449) -
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List Price: $18.00 Price: $10.94 You Save: $7.06 (39%) "Cthulu fhtagn!" - By D. B. Killings (Chicago, IL United States)
You can tell that the works of H.P. Lovecraft have entered the stuffy realm of "literature" when Penguin/Viking feels compelled to produce releases of his work under their Penguin Classics banner. The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories is the first of (so far) three volumes of Lovecraft's tales to appear under this imprint, and it serves admirably as both a good introduction for those unfamiliar with his work, or as a good assemblage for those more familiar with him and are seeking a decent, comprehensive collection with annotation.
This collection contains a mixture of tales from both his early and later periods, both long and short works, with several lesser known and harder to find stories thrown in for good measure. Most of the stories directly concerning Cthulu or its followers are here collected ("Dagon", "The Call of Cthulu", "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"), as well ... full review(112) -
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List Price: $18.00 Price: $10.93 You Save: $7.07 (39%) "Good book, but Kindle version is bad" - By J. Miles Grover (Seattle, WA USA)
This is a pretty enjoyable book. I'm a DFW fan, and this isn't my favorite of his, but it's not bad. There's a lot of funny stuff, and interesting stuff, and some pretty goofy stuff. And the ending is characteristically rather unfulfilling, but that's OK.
A word of warning, though: don't get the Kindle edition. It's riddled with errors indicative of poor OCR. There are many instances of quotation marks pointing the wrong way, random periods appearing, and missing line breaks. Nearly every occurrence of the letters "rn" together are rendered as an m. E.g. "bom-again Christians," "com" instead of "corn," and a character named Vem who is probably actually called Vern.
Somebody had a computer scan the print version and then never looked at it. It makes for pretty frustrating reading at times.
EDIT: Amazon sent me a message that they updated the Kindle version to ... full review(131) -
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List Price: $17.00 Price: $10.46 You Save: $6.54 (38%) "Class Assignment & Mother-Daughter Book Club" - By Retail Therapy (Apple Valley, CA United States)
I purchased this book to read with my daughter. It was required summer reading for her literature class but I knew we'd both enjoy it as part of our private book club too. It's so well written and contains so many teachable moments. We discussed mother-daughter dynamics, red flags in relationships, and tons more. Simply a good read. We rented the movie after completing the book to get a different perspective - that's always fun!(936) -
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List Price: $18.00 Price: $9.75 You Save: $8.25 (46%) "Not what I was expecting and far better than I anticipated" - By Digital Rights (Newtown/Fairfield CT)
Many readers know that John Steinbeck famously wrote almost all of "The Grapes of Wrath" in one draft in under a year. Perhaps as brilliant as that was it has tainted our image of his talent to assume he could produce some a masterpiece with such seeming ease. Shouldn't we instead be wondering how the same person could write repeated classics that all retain freshness and originality into the modern day. His craft is to tell stories in the simplest of language that lures us into thinking it's a simple story.
"East of Eden" is just such a trap. The story flows with such ease and fluidity that one floats through it enjoying each passage from the ever deepening plot. But as one progresses through the book I'd hope one might appreciate the same profound awakening that hit me. "He wait a minute, these are very nuanced and rich ... full review(1,519) -
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List Price: $17.00 Price: $10.36 You Save: $6.64 (39%) "Outstanding" - By Jones
Silko captures the fugue, guilt, anger, and silent hurt of PTSD better than any novelist I've yet read. Much of the writing is lyrical and the relationships herein she imagines with beautiful nuance and the histories of the central character (Tayo) reverberate again and again. There is not always clear distinction between what things Tayo is remembering, doing, or dreaming and the shifts seem so sudden that the plot sometimes seems fractured chronologically and can be difficult to follow. The poems and snippets of song included hardly make things clearer , but they serve to give additional depth to the central tale of return, recovery, and, ultimately, renewal.(281) -
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List Price: $18.00 Price: $9.99 You Save: $8.01 (45%) "Beats the published edition!" - By Patrick G. Piper (Hawthorne, FL, US)
After reading the published edition years ago, I found the scroll version MUCH better and true to Kerouac's intent compared to the edited and butchered published edition which Jack disliked. With minimal punctuation and using actual names (unlike the published edition), the scroll edition is a true "diamond in the rough" and is like reading one long paragraph that takes 12 hours to read.
A MUST for any fan of Kerouac!(1,490)
