Category: Reviews
Book reviews of my favorite reads.
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Timeless Essays and Nonfiction by Great Writers
These timeless essays and nonfiction are filled with wisdom by great writers. Many of these reads are personal and go outside the writer’s genres...
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The Best Books about Venice, Italy
Venice, An Interior, by the brilliant Spanish writer Javier Marías, is a gorgeous and intimate portrait of the hidden Venice....
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Short Reviews of Brilliant Books
Short book reviews of books I have read and consider worth reading....
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
What binds Orwell and Churchill together is their dedication to getting to the truth....
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Vlad by Carlos Fuentes
Vlad may not be Fuente's greatest work. but it has the fingerprints of a master all over it....
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Walking on Ice by Werner Herzog
Herzog is a man who goes to extremes in his art and life in the best way....
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George Orwell Diaries Review
Diaries opened the door to George Orwell for me, and I'm forever grateful. ...
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt is the tale of a first century humanist is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize....
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Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
These are two intense stories that draw you into the human experience in two famous water cities....
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Valis by Philip K. Dick
Valis is fascinating and philosophical with an abundance of nuggets that make you pause and consider what has been written....
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The Complete Ripley Novels (Ripley, #1-5) by Patricia Highsmith
As far as criminal psychopath’s go, Tom Ripley is extraordinarily talented....
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So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures by Maureen Corrigan
Let me say right off that this is an amazing addition to the "Fitzgerald" and "Gatsby" canon. ...
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Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room by Geoff Dyer
Dyer claims that a work of art that changes your DNA can only be experienced at a young age....
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Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
This is his Orwell's first book, a captivating memoir where he experiences poverty and the homeless firsthand.
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Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King
Leonardo was not religious, and often detested many in the clergy; he thought they were hypocrites, but he seemed to accept the common beliefs...
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Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff
In the title we see that LeDuff suggests Detroit is a dead city. It’s not dead....
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Just Kids by Patti Smith
They saw a Bonnie and Clyde movie poster and Robert admired the tagline: “They’re young. They’re in Love. They rob banks.”...
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Boomerang: : Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
In Michael Lewis’s book Boomerang: : Travels in the New Third World he captures the global financial insanity that gripped so many countries. ...
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The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Last Tycoon is Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant unfinished novel. It would have been his greatest and most mature piece of fiction. ...
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The Last Magazine by Michael Hastings
Michael Hastings was a gifted reporter for Newsweek and Rolling Stone, before he tragically died in an automobile accident....