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Review Date: 4/21/2006
Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Finalist in almost every other prominate book award. Unusual, imaginative, bit fanciful. Story grounded in the days when comics were entertainment for nearly everyone.
Review Date: 7/16/2006
Pulitzer Prize finalist. The writing alone is a joy but if you're over 40 the story behind the story will be both familiar and condtain many surprises.
Review Date: 2/12/2006
Helpful Score: 3
Ondaatje writes of the unimagineable without preaching and with enough restraint to permit his reader to imagine what it would be like to live through such times. Wonderful.
Review Date: 7/30/2006
I am not given to being overly effusive but the writing in this book is brilliant. Presented in journal format, this tory is life itself with all its gaps, surprises and let downs bundled in everyday thought. Read it!
Review Date: 3/4/2006
Toggles between Japan in 1300s and a very changed Japan in the mid 1800s. Epic, mysterious, sexy, seizing . . . . I really liked it.
Review Date: 10/10/2006
Helpful Score: 8
Hell of a writer. Tough story. Somehow makes you understand how some people grow up just plain mean. This book deserves all the prizes and accolades the author received.
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
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Book Type: Paperback
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Review Date: 3/25/2006
Helpful Score: 3
Engrossing, tragic and ultimately uplifiting -- particularly for one who parented a child that shares much with subject John Nash. The movie does not touch the depth of his story. This is a compelling book.
Review Date: 2/4/2007
I agree with People (who chose it as their Book of the Week -- it's Delightful, quirky, the characters are unique and the unexpected plot twists pull you throuhg to the end. Whoopie Goldberg proclaimed it as her all time favorite!
Review Date: 2/4/2007
The critics raved about this one. I love Amy Ephron and I think this is one of her best.
Review Date: 3/25/2006
Helpful Score: 1
New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Booksense Top 10 Pick. I am not a "mystery fan" in the sense that genre label is usually applied but this book does not let the mystery overshadow very good writing. Premise is unusual and character development wonderful - all around compelling book.
Review Date: 9/19/2006
NYT notable book. WSJ called it "an ambitious and original novel." I agree.
Review Date: 8/12/2006
Disquieting, intelligent, imaginative tale excellently told. I will read more William Boyd.
Review Date: 2/4/2007
Helpful Score: 2
Story centers on 19th century Japan but bounces back to 13th century tales. Has the adventure chasing spirit of James Clavell without so much reliance on caucasion characters.
Review Date: 4/21/2006
Ultimate tale of CIA. Great hindsight looking back from 911 and all the failures of the intelligence community.
Review Date: 1/29/2006
How do ordinary people end up being double agents in World War II and the Cold War aftermath? And, how can the tale be crafted as an entirely unsentimental love story? Robert Wilson does a great job pulling this off with a great read.
Review Date: 8/8/2006
Set in New York in 1917, this is a sentimental tale deftly told. Detailed and elegant.
Review Date: 8/28/2006
Historical fiction with a twist. Very good storytelling.
Review Date: 7/16/2006
New York Times notable book. A 17 year old boy reaches for adulthood and separation from his mother who is having an affair and his oblivious educator-father and sister obsessed with civil war reenactments. Wonderfully written.
Review Date: 3/29/2006
1st selection of Good Morning America's book club and NYT notable book. Utterly life like character development, gracefully written, emotionally provocative. I need my sleep and ended up reading till 2 am on a Tuesday because I could not put it down.
Review Date: 9/11/2006
How does one write a tale about love, enveloping grief and a linguist trying to teach his dog to talk? Incredible and really good.
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