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The best book on Vietnam I have read is The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Really artful take on the war from a veteran as told through short stories.

Just finished this novel today. I was frustrated throughout my reading with some of McCarthy's word choices, as it seemed he went out of his way to find words in the English language that are obscure in the extreme. I was too engrossed in the story to bother looking up each word that gave me...

Haven't read nearly enough Steinbeck (although I have a fair amount sitting on my bookshelves) but I really enjoyed Of Mice and Men and The Pearl.

Just visited my local Half Price Books for the first time. What a great store! Picked up: All the Pretty Horses; Cormac McCarthy The Crossing; Cormac McCarthy Atonement; Ian McEwan The Horse Whisperer; Nicholas Evans One Hundred Years of Solitude; Gabriel Garcia Marquez The first...

I agree completely. Ishmael doesn't cut it as literature, and Quinn's writing chops are really pretty weak, but the idea behind the story was quite interesting as ecological philosophy. This is one of the few books that I have passed on to others with the explicit instruction that after...

Hey all, Just stumbled across this forum and was delighted to find such a great resource for book reviews and discussion. As a bit of an introduction: I'm currently a medical student living in Wisconsin. I've always been an avid reader and thoroughly enjoyed taking literature courses in...

I haven't read very many of those books yet, but from those I am familiar with I think my favorite is The Great Gatsby. It's easily accessible and I think that the story's themes have held up quite well over the years. I've also read The Awakening and had a very visceral negative reaction to...

I read this book the summer before I started medical school (and the required cadaver anatomy lab) to get a feel for what awaits those who donate their bodies to medicine. I found the book extremely entertaining and was not at all surprised when the light-hearted attitude which Roach has when...