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What do readers say about A Confederacy of Dunces?
social commentary and satire harsh rather than funny clever and witty often clever writing"When a true genius appears in the world,
You may know him by this sign, that the dunces
Are all in confederacy against him."
-Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting"... More details on A Confederacy of Dunces
A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either ...
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What do readers say about The Colour of Magic?
fast-paced and funny very, very funny light fantastical fantasy inventive and funny'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday
NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS
The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat ... More details on The Colour of Magic
FIRE ROARED through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the Wizards’ Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its o...
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What do readers say about Wilt?
british bumbling crime comedy inventive and original rude, sarcastic farces dark, rude farceHenry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And th... More details on Wilt
Whenever Henry Wilt took the dog for a walk, or, to be more accurate, when the dog took him, or, to be exact, when Mrs Wilt told them both to go and take themselves out of the house so that she could ...
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What do readers say about Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World?
stream of consciousness interesting and strange hard-boiled wonderland sections multiple threaded story lineHyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is Haruki Murakami's deep dive into the very nature of consciousness.
Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in whic... More details on Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
THE elevator continued its impossibly slow ascent. Or at least I imagined it was ascent. There was no telling for sure: it was so slow that all sense of direction simply vanished. It could have been g...
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What do readers say about By a Thread?
limited edition paperback witty and funny fun and funny read an office romanceDominic was staring at me like he couldn't decide whether to chop me into pieces or pull my hair and French kiss me.
Dominic
I got her fired. Okay, so I'd had a bad day and took it out on a bystander in a pizza shop. But there's nothing innocent ab... More details on By a Thread
A junior editor chirped in my ear about canary yellow sundresses and Cuban photoshoots while the January wind worked its icy fingers through my layers. I navigated the curb buried under foot-tall pile...
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What do readers say about One Bite With A Stranger?
interesting and fun a good book a steamy romance a teensy bitSullivan Quinn didn't travel 3,000 miles from his native Ireland and his wolf pack just to chase rabidly after the most delectable quarry he's ever seen. Quinn is in America on a mission-to warn his Other brethren of a shadowy group willing to use mu... More details on One Bite With A Stranger
Regina McNeill laughed along with the friends gathered in her apartment for their semimonthly girls' night ritual. As said ritual had already involved several bottles of truly exceptional wine, Reggie...
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What do readers say about Small Admissions?
fun and funny read private school admissions the humour, the characters, the happy ending chick litPeople's Book of the Week
"Perfect for fans of Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep."-Booklist
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For one whole year, we worried about Kate. We worried to her face and worried behind her back, credited her with being tough, while judging her for being pathetic. Some days we thought she was suicida...
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What do readers say about Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant?
less bleak book very thought provoking a quiet, slow-moving book a very dysfunctional familyA "funny, heart-hammering, wise" (The New York Times) best-selling portrait of a family that will remind you why "to read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love" (PEOPLE).
Abandoned by her wanderlusting husband, stoic Pearl raised her three child... More details on Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
While Pearl Tull was dying, a funny thought occurred to her. It twitched her lips and rustled her breath, and she felt her son lean forward from where he kept watch by her bed. “Get …” she told him. “...
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What do readers say about High Energy?
fun and funny readIn High Energy, reporter Zanita Masterson falls in love with a tough-minded scientist while on an old-fashioned date, while in Whirlwind Courtship, a consummate bachelor doubts his convictions during a mountain getaway.
Original.... More details on High Energy
“Watch it. Everyone loves my coffee. Just because you happen to prefer brew a spoon can stand up in doesn't make you a reliable critic. And we are getting off the subject— something you are remarkably...
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What do readers say about The Thin Man?
tight and loose sharp and witty language hard boiled mystery good and complexIn Dashiell Hammett's famous crime novel, we meet one of the detective-story master's most enchanting creations, Nick and Nora Charles, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly r... More details on The Thin Man
1 I was leaning against the bar in a speakeasy on Fifty-second Street, waiting for Nora to finish her Christmas shopping, when a girl got up from the table where she had been sitting with three other ...
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