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What do readers say about The Stranger?
straight forward and brusquesimplistic and barethe most extraordinary coincidenceshort and concise sentencesA visually stunning adaptation of Albert Camus' masterpiece that offers an exciting new graphic interpretation while retaining the book's unique atmosphere.
The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him ... Read more about The Stranger
The old people’s home is at Marengo, about eighty kilometers from Algiers, I’ll take the two o’clock bus and get there in the afternoon. That way I can be there for the vigil and come back tomorrow ni...
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What do readers say about The Metamorphosis?
dark little fablestraight forward metaphorisolation and societynicely condensed the toneBenedict Cumberbatch reads Franz Kafka's famous story of man-turned-insect, Metamorphosis
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After a night of troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a huge, monstrous... Read more about The Metamorphosis
WHEN GREGOR SAMSA WOKE ONE MORNING from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed right there in his bed into some sort of monstrous insect. He was lying on his back—which was hard, like a carapac...
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What do readers say about Bad Science?
abrasive and bluntentertaining and informativeinteresting and thought-provokinggenerally fairly conversationalHave you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol consumption? Or how a drug that is pulled off the market for causing heart attacks ever got ... Read more about Bad Science
This experiment involves electricity and water. In a world of hurricane hunters and volcanologists, we must accept that everyone sets their own level of risk tolerance. You might well give yourself a ...
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What do readers say about Junky?
drug addict culturecompletely emotionless textamoral, apolitical nihilismnonfiction than fictionIn his raw debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and dealing heroin and other drugs in the 1940s, turning them into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld of postwar Amer-ica. The Burroughs-like protagon... Read more about Junky
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What do readers say about Half Broke Horses?
fact based novelfirst person narrativefirst person voicecrisply and vividly writtenHalf Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.
"Those old cows knew trouble was... Read more about Half Broke Horses
WE TRAVELED THREE DAYSto reach the Casey Ranch, which Dad, with his love of phonetic spelling, insisted should officially be renamed the KC Ranch. It was in the middle of the Hondo Valley, south of th...
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What do readers say about Alive?
matter of fact styleheart breaking and upliftingheartbreaking & inspiring workgood story of survival#1 New York Times Bestseller
"No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down…. There is no way of reading Alive without a heightened sense of one's own life and its value." - New Republic
Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two ... Read more about Alive
Uruguay, one of the smallest countries on the South American continent, was founded on the eastern bank of the River Plate as a buffer state between the emerging giants of Brazil and Argentina. Geogra...
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What do readers say about The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time?
smartly writteninteresting and movingone of the best books everfunny, sad, touchingTHE BESTSELLING NOVEL
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THEN THE POLICE arrived. I like the police. They have uniforms and numbers and you know what they are meant to be doing. There was a policewoman and a policeman. The policewoman had a little hole in h...
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What do readers say about A Wild Sheep Chase?
matter of fact stylepost-modern fantasy/mystery storya wild treasure hunt/mystery/adventureweird, twisty plotQuirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best.
An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in th... Read more about A Wild Sheep Chase
The day of the funeral, I took a streetcar from Waseda. I got off near the end of the line. The map proved about as helpful as a globe would have been. I ended up buying pack after pack of cigarettes,...
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What do readers say about Claudius the God?
lovable and charmingthe person claudiushistorical fictionfirst-person narrativeRobert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emporer in spite of himself. Captures the vitality, splendor, and decadence of the Roman world at the point of its decline.... Read more about Claudius the God
Two years have gone by since I finished writing the long story of how I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, the cripple, the stammerer, the fool of the family, whom none of his ambitious and bl...
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What do readers say about The Charming Predator?
matter of fact styleher darkest timenearly predictable scriptmatter of fact wayShe fell in love with him, they married and then she found out who he was: a conman who was determined to destroy her.
The instant bestselling story of Lee Mackenzie, who was a capable and confident young woman, studying broadcast journalism and ... Read more about The Charming Predator
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