books about: autobiographical

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Autobiographical

A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film

Jean Shepherd

Broadway, 2003

Worth a Listen, and a Read!
After having been a fan for years of the movie, "A Christmas Story" I've wanted for some time to read the original stories upon which it was based. Recently, that opportunity came to pass in the form of the audio version of this book as read by Dick Cavett. It did ...

On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition

Jack Kerouac

Viking Adult, 2007

Ultimate Version of a Classic redone
Everything old is new again! I remember reading Jack Kerouac immortal novel of a road trip when I was in high school. About ten years later, I heard a Rhino record collection of Kerouac reading abridged cuts from his novel with Steve Allen (yes, author/actor/former ...

In Our Time

Ernest Hemingway

Scribner, 1996

Hemingway at his best, the understated short story
Hemingway is the master of the understated short story. He takes simple themes and without use of superlatives, makes it real. This book is a collection of short stories where most feature a man name Nick, from his time as a young boy to manhood as it closes with two ...

Big Sur

Jack Kerouac

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992

Kerouac's most honest novel.
Kerouac pulled no internal punches with this one. He's there, at his worst in many ways, but the sordid tale is beautifully told. How he makes something so depressing and painful into a work of pure beauty is almost magical. No one had ever done fiction quite like Jack ...

Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition)

William S. Burroughs

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003

a different Burroughs
Junky could be the most effective anti-drug book ever written. This is not the William S. Burroughs of The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Burroughs, William S.) and certainly not the same guy who wrote Naked Lunch: The Restored Text. This is a Burroughs who's not ...

Man in the Dark: A Novel

Paul Auster

Henry Holt and Co., 2008

The best
It trapped me from the fist line, it's amazing simply the best book I've read this year.

Desolation Angels

Jack Kerouac

Riverhead Books, 1995

Timid Before God
Jack Kerouac's 'Desolation Angels', written about a period of his life roughly 10 years before his death, acts as a nice bridge between 'On The Road' (which was awaiting publication during the course of events described in "Angels") and a subsequent publication, Big ...

Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way

Bruce Campbell

Thomas Dunne Books, 2005

great price and perfect condition
this was a gift for my boyfriend who loves Bruce Campbell and he has no complaints, I'm sure I'll be buying more from Amazon in the future.

What Is Life?: with "Mind and Matter" and "Autobiographical Sketches"

Erwin Schrodinger

Cambridge University Press, 1992

A spectacular read!!
"What Is Life" is an excellent look into the brilliant mind of one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, Erwin Schrodinger. This book suggested the existence of DNA. Tell me thats not important!! Also, "Mind and Matter" is an amazing look into human ...

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Sherman Alexie

Grove Press, 2005

That's How I Do Life Sometimes By Making The Ordinary Just Like Magic... -Sherman Alexie
Halfway through this book I emailed the friend that bought it for me to tell him how much I was loving it. I then asked him "How the hell am I supposed to review this?" His reply was to explain that "He needs a new star, a category for 'Holy Sh!t, that one hit me ...

Sunroom, The

Beverly Lewis

Bethany House, 1998

An emotional story
I found this book to take you through emotions. If you love to feel what your reading, then this is the book for you. I felt with Becky through every step. This book was so good, didn't want to put it down. Took me about a week to read the story!

The Bell Jar (Perennial Classics)

Sylvia Plath

HarperCollins, 1996

how did I miss this one??
As many other reviewers have stated, this book is filled with poetry. When I finished reading the last line, I flipped right to the first page and re-read it. I have only done that a few times in my life (most recently with "The Terror" by Dan Simmons). In High ...

Sodom and Gomorrah: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Marcel Proust

Penguin Classics, 2005

Helpful Footnotes
This new translations features 29 pages of helpful footnotes - limiting the need to constantly turn to Wikipedia for elucidation of Proust's many historical and literary references. The translation is easy to follow.

A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement (Dance to the Music of Time)

Anthony Powell

University Of Chicago Press, 1995

If You Always Wanted to Climb into a Debutante Dance
"A Dance to the Music of Time," an engrossing, highly-literate, highly comic 12-book series by British author Anthony Powell, had to have been one of the highlights of latter 20th century writing to those who appreciate a good, funny book. And it had to have been of ...

Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

Walter Benjamin

Schocken, 1986

A Portable Benjamin
There is much to love about Walter Benjamin. His is a supple, syncretic, synthetic mind, and his prose just sings-even in translation. Because Benjamin roamed about in whole territorities of thought, it's nearly impossible to draw together a representative selection ...