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World Literature

The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
Amazon Price: $10.31
Customer Reviews:
» First off let me tell you that I am a Christian. Second let me tell you that Richard Dawkins is wrong. If you are wondering if God exists or not then please look everywhere until you find him. There a...

» Shame. Ignorance. Sad. Total lack of intellegence. Save your money and your eternal soul. Do NOT buy.

» Richard Dawkins and his book, The God Dilution, attempts to test people's faith. I think it is impossible to analyze The Almighty One the same way you would any other scientific theory. It's like co...

» 'The God Delusion' is an interesting, sometimes fun, occasionally irritating, and mostly antagonistic writing. As a practicing biologist, I find myself reading and reviewing from within the framework...

» Richard Dawkins wrote a few very interesting books such as the Selfish Gene and Climbing Mount improbable. But he is flagrantly dishonest about his alleged atheism: in an interview to a Brazilian news...

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman
Amazon Price: $10.17
Customer Reviews:
» My sister gave me this book for Christmas, saying it was one of the best books she had read in some time. I was fascinated by her description, and started the book the next day. I finished it the ne...

» It is written well, has knowlege and insight based on true events. I highly recommend this to others.

» Gosh I was so excited to get started reading this book. It is a compelling, heartbreaking story but I found it poorly written. She seemed to be just writing about whatever she felt like. Was it ...

» I loved this book. I have always enjoyed stories about the
war and how people survived and help each other. I'm also a
big animal lover so I could understand caring deeping about
t...

» It is sad to find this story of wartime heroism in Warsaw such a failure. Ms. Ackerman, whose work rarely disappoints, has created an ungainly cross between her usual wide-ranging analysis and a form...

The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
by Cormac McCarthy
Amazon Price: $10.17
Customer Reviews:
» Not using quotation marks to denote dialog is either a literary affectation or simple laziness.

Mr. Mac should grow up and write like an adult already.

:/

» All along the book, you're waiting for something to happen. Suspens is at its climax all the time but in the end...well nothing. This couple just go from luck to luck, they should probably have played...

» A novel of loving and horrible content...just read it. I think the only other experience of similar feelings was while at Dachau. You will be bound to appreciate your children and life so much more....

» Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" is a powerful important book that leaves the reader drained emotionally. Set in a post apocalyptic future, the book makes the reader answer his or her own questions about ...

» An outstanding depiction of a frighteningly possible post-apocalyptic world. It is a very touching story of human love, the will to survive, and the struggle of goodness against human depravity. I h...

The Everything Kids' Science Experiments Book: Boil Ice, Float Water, Measure...
by Tom Robinson
Amazon Price:
Customer Reviews:
» Bought the book for my nephew. He loves it. Lots of great experiments using household items.

» I have not used them yet with my son because they are for his birthday, but I have great expectations for them.

» I am using this book as a Homeschool Science Course for my children grades 4th, 3rd, and 1st. It is an excellent book with loads of engaging activities. The activities are usually things you have lyin...

» product provided hours of fun for grandkids. especailly the list for things to make a science kit. Now we don't have to look for the things to have fun with. Good book.

» This book contains a well rounded selection of projects for kids so they can experiment with a wide range of science topics. They are all easy to complete and understand and have a good specific messa...

Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
Amazon Price: $11.20
Customer Reviews:
» Slaughterhouse five is one of those great anti-war books in the 60's that is really hard to describe, so I'll make it quick. It tells about Billy Pilgrim, who 'time travels' to many points of his life...

» An amazing story that pulls the reader through time and back again. Story fragments shuffled in time. Escaping to the future, being in the present. Then always coming back to the war. Highly recommend...

» Vonnegut has penned a celebration of the anti-hero, the story of an unwitting man who takes a winding, chronologically non-linear dash through the space/time continuum. Billy Pilgrim experiences...

» This book is about Billy, a pitiful loser who sleepwalks his way through WWII. Through weaving chronology we see the negative effects the war had on his ability to deal with reality.

From...

» Somewhere in the first chapter (or maybe the second, if you are convinced that the first chapter is a foreword), it dawns on you: this is not normal. The main character is not dynamic. There is no rea...

The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage)
by Lewis Hyde
Amazon Price: $10.17
Customer Reviews:
» I perused the book but it was bought for my son who just grduted ASU in creative writing - poetry.

My only dissapointment was emailing the author to no avail

George Sudduth

» "The grass is a uniform hieroglyphic." - W.W.

Some books will simply not go away.

I am glad this one has endured.

Through its many sub-title revisions, The Gift...

» I had quite a few problems with this book. Let me start by saying that he obviously knows how to put words together. However the first part of the book about the anthropological aspects of the gift cu...

» This book is the antidote to university education or years in the workforce. It is the same truth that broke my heart rearranged to buck it up again. Mr. Hyde, I only hope someday I can give it back a...

» This book has been published under various subtitles since it first appeared in 1983: "Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property", "How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World" and "Creativity and ...

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2009 Edition
by Kevin Zraly
Amazon Price: $16.47
Customer Reviews:
» Once you read this book you will know more about wine than most people who work in a package store.
Good starter.

» Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2009 Edition (Windows on the World Complete Wine Course) is the number one book to learn about wine. It's a complete, readable guide to wine regions, grape v...

» delighted with this book, as someone who knows nothing about wine, this gives the right level of information to get going with.

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
Amazon Price: $16.49
Customer Reviews:
» It goes on for 300 pages.Some of the oldest philosophies are HINDU/BUDDIST.He offers 8 pages of text ovet 9 pages of the book and while he may have a publishing deal/best seller[s] HE DOESNT GET THOSE...

» After reading Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion last year, I wanted to give a few other atheist manifestos a read - not really with the intent of learning anything particularly new, but just out of in...

» As an Atheist familiar also with the works of Harris and Dawkins, I found Hitchens attempt to be quite disappointing in comparison. The primary problem was not content but in his organization and del...

» I would have preferred to give a 3.5...

I don't like the title, its cumbersome and a little um, fierce. That being said, I do agree with the title, just not sure it should be the title. ...

» If it's sound ideas you're after, God is Not Great has more than can be absorbed in a single read-through.

I'm persuaded by God is Not Great that any good that religion might accomplish...

Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
Amazon Price: $10.88
Customer Reviews:
» MASH is definetly the one word to describe this book. I can't imagine that the sitcom, MASH, wasn't inspired by this book. You can even pick out certain characters although they are sometimes blended ...

» The shipping time was good, and the condition of the book was as specified by the seller.

» I gave up after about 150 pages - I wanted to keep going, I really did, and I've also grown worried that I find so many classics to be rather underwhelming; but I had to stop. I had seen the movie, an...

» When Joseph Heller's wonderfully hilarious novel "Catch-22" was published in 1961, World War II was celebrated as the "good fight." Popular memory held it as a noble stand against the Axis onslaught a...

» Even sloth and debauchery lose their power. Virtue and sanity are what's left over when you've tired of all vice.

Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Amazon Price: $11.16
Customer Reviews:
» I did not like this book. It had a few interesting elements but the concepts are a little "out there." I would not recommend this book to anyone unless they had nothing else to read. I did not even...

» This is a great book to challenge the belief that there should be no pain, aging, sickness, etc. in our life.

The government believes that by controlling everything in the environment, a...

» "Brave New World" is a novel of a particular, possible, future and has been a 'classic' since the 1940s. Today (2008), that 'future' still seems all too possible. I think it is one of the scariest b...

» Although this book was written in 1932, the concepts are as real today as anytime in the past. This is a timely classic allowing us to see a could be society but also the idiosyncrociesof todays soci...

» I was very happy with the speed of delivery and the book's quality (which was on par with what the sender had described). Keep up the good work!