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Review Date: 8/7/2010
"Less a diatribe against America than a sorrowful analysis of the ofen-imperialistic actions motivated by greed, political expediency, or willful ignorance, this book chronicles missteps from the genocide of the continent's original inhabitants to the export of toxic rap. The author winds up the book with "Ten Things America Has Done Right". Interesting, but would have been improved by a good copy editing."
Review Date: 12/19/2006
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
"Fun chick-lit about a young woman who thinks she's lost everything when her snakey boyfriend hijacks her ideas and then dumps her, but finds she has a lot more going for her -- like good friends, loving family, and boobs that are just exactly the right size. (I'd have rated this one higher if either the author or her copy editor understood when to use "me" and when to use "I"....)"
Review Date: 2/16/2008
"Couldn't get through it. Kind of a New Wave, non-linear story (?) set in a dystopian 21st Century New York City, full of characters who seem to have no relationship to each other. Some nice turns of phrase, but the payoff didn't seem to be worth the effort."
Review Date: 2/24/2013
"Rather than looking at the American Constitution as a remarkable step forward in the human notion of governance, Skousen's "Principles of Freedom 101" wanders deeply into Judeo-Christian theology. Just not what I was looking for."
Review Date: 3/15/2013
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
"Crystal writes with love and his infectious humor about his parents and family, particularly about his relationship with his father, who died when Crystal was 15."
Review Date: 4/23/2013
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
"Trapped in what was supposed to be an empty mansion, a long-time burglar witnesses a shocking crime and vows to bring justice to the victim, no matter how high he has to reach to do it."
Review Date: 10/2/2009
"This odd little book raises a lot more questions than it answers, and doesn't end so much as just dribble off the playing field. The set-up -- a high school sex ed teacher who gets in trouble with the growing fundamentalist Christian population of her school district -- poses some questions but never really answers them. And the plot complication of her attraction to one of those fundamentalists -- a man who is fighting demons of his own -- never really gets its due."
Review Date: 4/30/2011
"Crusie and Mayer get it together this time, in a slow-starting story about a cranky food columnist with a penchant for bopping people with frying pans, a flamingo-studded wedding, and a psycho bitch grandmother-of-the-bride who may or may not be sitting on five million dollars in cash."
Review Date: 4/12/2013
"Compelling and fast-moving tale of the aftermath of a fictional in-flight incident that left passengers dead and injured. Crichton tackles corporate infighting and infotainment "news" for the zing and supports it with the nuts and bolts description of the internal investigation by the plane's manufacturer."
Review Date: 11/7/2009
"Michener's trademark study of a particular region doesn't work well in this ponderous study of Alaska. Only the World War II sections spark the least bit of interest."
Review Date: 10/1/2006
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
"Sandra Dallas' talent lies in finding beauty, strength, and compassion in the small, simple moments of women's lives. She has done it again in this Civil-War-era novel, once again using the theme of quilting to highlight her characters' lives. Even as Alice uses patience and skill to make otherwise useless bits and pieces of fabric into expressions of love that are both beautiful and practical, so does the story piece together bits and pieces to create a skillfully wrought portrait of the characters' lives and time."
Review Date: 11/7/2009
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
"The cover blurb says this is a novel about love that crosses over into obsession. I'll have to take their word for it, because I couldn't get through it. The Dickensian style and the incredibly unlikeable narrator made it just too dreary to be worth the effort."
Review Date: 4/30/2011
"Bragg's memoir covers much the same kind of territory Frank McCourt explored in "Angela's Ashes" -- a grim childhood marked by a drunken, often-absent father and a mother who struggled as best she could to make a life for her children, this one set in Alabama rather than Ireland. Like McCourt, Bragg writes so beautifully that the reader is able to get past the worst of the ugliness."
Review Date: 4/4/2013
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
"A worthy successor to "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" and "The Money Pit", this sweet and funny tale, subtitled "Building a Family in a Falling-Down House" outlines the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of a young family buying an outragous mansion and trying to occupy it before it falls down around their ears."
Review Date: 3/10/2013
"Couldn't get into this fantasy in which a man recently released from prison is sucked into what appears to be a battle between ancient gods and newcomers."
America's Women : Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
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Review Date: 8/23/2008
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
"Collins uses a sprightly style and exhaustive research to recount the lives of "400 years of dolls, drudges, helpmates, and heroines", focusing on women famous and obscure who helped define what it means to be a woman in America."
Review Date: 6/23/2012
"Honest and detailed memoir, tracing the life, loves, and political activism of singer Joan Baez."
Review Date: 10/19/2008
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
"When a young woman is injured in a riding accident, her husband turns to the first man she loved to bring her out of her coma, even if it means losing her forever. Good book - the author handles a theme that could have become a six-hanky Hallmark commercial and manages to make a compelling story out of it."
Review Date: 7/14/2012
"While not strictly a "prequel" to "The DaVinci Code", this thriller does introduce the main character, symbologist Robert Langdon, and sends him on a high-speed quest for secrets, symbols, and evil conspirators. Great fun."
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