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The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy, 1998
The Glimmer of An Immense Sea
Reading this novel is akin to being reborn- as a snake eases out of its present coil and strips down to a more essential skin, so too will this violated madonna of lyricism attune you to the fundamentals of what it is to be human. This book strips away the veneer of ...
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Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Harcourt, 2002
A masterpiece
Wow, where did Yann Martel come from? This author has an extraordinary ability to use the English language to convey thought, emotion, and physical experiences in such a profound way. He turns words into music. The story is both gentle and shattering, both tragic and ...
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Up From Slavery : An Autobiography
Booker T. Washington
CreateSpace, 2008
The Force That Wins
Up from Slavery, autobiography by Booker T. Washington, is a true classic in African-American literature. Washington opens Chapter 1: "A Slave Among Slaves" with his vivid recollections as a Negro child growing up in the South: a slave on a plantation in Virginia, a ...
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Adventures of a Currency Trader: A Fable about Trading, Courage, and Doing the Right Thing (Wiley Trading)
Rob Booker
Wiley, 2007
Look at H4 and D1 charts ...
Over last couple of days I finished reading " Adventures Of a Currency Trader" by Rob Booker .
Very good book , interesting and insightful . The story has lot of drama and suspense and lot of lessons to learn as well .
The story is about Harry Banes , who is an ...
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The Sea (Man Booker Prize)
John Banville
Knopf, 2005
The Power and Peril of Memory
This is a very rewarding book that requires patience and close attention because of the narrative shifts in time and place.
The story revolves around middle aged Max. In the present, Max is grappling with the recent death of his wife. Clearly the pair had long ...
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The Clothes on Their Backs
Linda Grant
Virago Press (UK), 2008
Good or evil?
Just long-listed for a Booker!
This book by Orange-Prize winner Linda Grant takes on several very complex questions. I think it gets ahead of all of them while building suspense about the characters. One big question dominates: what is a good person and what is an ...
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
Christopher Booker
Continuum, 2006
A great resource to help you write a bestselling novel or highly successful movie screenplay.
I liked this book very much. It was kind of longwinded. But since it is a resource book and not a mere how-to on writing, I could overlook how long it was. The more content the better because it gave me more examples and things to think about regarding the subject ...
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Nanotechnology For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))
Richard D. Booker, Earl Boysen
For Dummies, 2005
Great things in *very* small packages...
It's *amazing* what you can find in the "For Dummies" series... :)
I've always enjoyed the Dummies series, especially when it comes to a complex subject where "I don't know what I don't know". A book that can explain the subject in simple terms gives me the mental ...
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The Gathering (Man Booker Prize)
Anne Enright
Grove Press, Black Cat, 2007
Graceful & Imaginative
I'm not surprised that this book won the Booker Prize. Enright has a superior command of the language. She creates fluid yet surprising prose, moving between real and imagined events, past and present with astounding grace and skill. This book is a surreal meditation ...
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The White Tiger: A Novel (Man Booker Prize)
Aravind Adiga
Free Press, 2008
One of the better Bookers that I've read
4.5 out of 5 stars
Hmmm, well, I happened to get this book from the library on the Saturday before the Booker Prize was announced "just in case." When The White Tiger was revealed as the winner, I was really surprised. Not only did it have the longest odds to win, ...
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Hotel Du Lac
Anita Brookner
Vintage, 1995
Flawless
Anita Brookner offers up a deft and moving work in her lyrical tale of loneliness, love, and human interaction. Edith Hope, a writer of romance novels, has been banished to an isolated hotel in Switzerland for reasons which are at first unclear. The slow unfolding of ...
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Saviors or Sellouts: The Promise and Peril of Black Conservatism, from Booker T. Washington to Condoleezza ...
Christopher Alan Bracey
Beacon Press, 2008
Leftist 4-Ever!
Although I haven't finished this book yet it has given me a whole new outlook on conservatism. Why so many black people are embracing this ideology as of late. Let's face it. Liberal politics has failed in black america! Integration is a joke. That we abandoned ...
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More Than Anything Else
Marie Bradby
Scholastic, 1995
"More Than Anything Else" - a review
Well, 53 Five Star reviews pretty much says it all.
This is a beautiful book. Not only is the artwork superb (see the cover and Amazon's "Search Inside This Book" feature) but the story is glorious. A triumph of the human spirit when everything in the immediate ...
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The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread
Richard Booker
Destiny Image Publishers, 1988
Essential for Christians and curious non-Christians!!!
If I would have read this book 10 years ago, I believe I would have been a Christian for 10 more years. Booker is a fantastic teacher, analyzing events in the Old Covenant [Testament] and how they forshadow and point to the New Covenant. This book explains the steps ...
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Miracle of the Scarlet Thread: Revealing the Power of the Blood of Jesus from Genesis to Revelation
Richard Booker
Destiny Image, 2008
Thread
Wow a great book about how the Old and the New Testaments intertwine. The scarlet thread related to the blood of Jesus. God provided a covenant for His people in the Old Testament and also in the New. Recommend to those that want a better understanding of why we ...
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