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660
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date pub 1873
date pub edition Nov 01, 2006
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isbn13 9781161479010
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num pages
602
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avg rating 3.86
num ratings 22
date pub 1896
date pub edition May 23, 2010
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num pages
504
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avg rating 3.79
num ratings 42
date pub Jan 01, 1894
date pub edition May 01, 2000
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isbn13 9780375757877
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num pages
320
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avg rating 3.89
num ratings 1,072
date pub 1899
date pub edition Nov 13, 2001
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isbn13 9781590173282
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num pages
272
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avg rating 4.21
num ratings 435
date pub 1986
date pub edition Dec 01, 2009
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isbn13 9781559708531
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552
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avg rating 3.88
num ratings 526
date pub 1989
date pub edition Mar 19, 2008
Bhupinder's rating my rating review I have just begun reading Part III of Mo Yan's "Life and Death are wearing me out" (a little over one third of the book) and have mixed feelings about...more
I have just begun reading Part III of Mo Yan's "Life and Death are wearing me out" (a little over one third of the book) and have mixed feelings about it. What works for me is the narrative of post- revolutionary China, particularly about the Cultural Revolution. What also works are the different points of view, a robust sense of humour amidst a tumultus period if China's post- Revolution history and a literary flourish that make the book a page turner. What doesn't seem to be working is the quirkiness of the narrative, tangential diversions and exaggeration- much in the style of Garcia Marquez in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" which I liked the first time I read "One Hundred..." but found it irritating while reading the second time. Mo Yan's style also contrasts with another book that I happened to be reading alongside- "Everything Flows" by Vasili Grossman. The collectivization of the peasantry, among other changes in the post Revolutionary Soviet Union up to Stalin's death are very similar to those in China in the 1950s and 60s. Yet, the contrast between the two writers could not be more striking- Mo Yan is verbose and humourous while Grossman has used tight prose and is uniformly serious, digressing into long soliloquies on Lenin, Stalin and a grand sweep on Russia's thousand years of history. It was refreshing to read a simply written, straightforward novella that was no less - if not more, engaging than "Life and Death...". I finished the 200 page "Everything Flows" in a couple of weeks, much moved by its sparse but surgically precise prose. I continue to plough through "Life and Death are wearing me out", and if I am not worn out by the time it is finished, will post a longer review.(less)
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isbn13 9781852422769
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num pages
192
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avg rating 4.07
num ratings 228
date pub 1917
date pub edition Jan 15, 1993
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cover title author isbn 1559706716
isbn13 9781559706711
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num pages
216
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avg rating 3.58
num ratings 186
date pub 2001
date pub edition Jul 16, 2003
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isbn13 9780374143466
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num pages
368
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avg rating 3.59
num ratings 1,411
date pub 2010
date pub edition Jun 05, 2012
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cover title author isbn 0156001438
isbn13 9780156001434
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num pages
336
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avg rating 3.64
num ratings 208
date pub 1991
date pub edition Dec 05, 1994
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isbn13 9780292703926
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num pages
361
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avg rating 3.92
num ratings 99
date pub unknown
date pub edition Sep 01, 1986
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avg rating 1.00
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date pub Nov 1968
date pub edition Sep 26, 1996
Bhupinder's rating my rating review I hate to give a one star rating to anything by McLeod, who has made a rich and lifelong contribution to the study of Sikh religion. However, this boo...more
I hate to give a one star rating to anything by McLeod, who has made a rich and lifelong contribution to the study of Sikh religion. However, this book is disappointing, the style is archaic and overly academic to the point of being unreadable. The reason seems to be that it is practically a rehash of his PhD thesis in 1968. Much more information and analysis has been done on the subject since then, including by Mcleod himself, to make this book redundant.(less)
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isbn13 9780330487146
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num pages
336
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avg rating 3.75
num ratings 5,250
date pub 1979
date pub edition May 10, 2002
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isbn13 9780965900584
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num pages
569
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avg rating 4.10
num ratings 10,676
date pub Nov 12, 2003
date pub edition 2004
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isbn13 9780151009985
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num pages
216
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avg rating 3.76
num ratings 74,442
date pub 1925
date pub edition Oct 28, 2002
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isbn13 9780803298095
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num pages
141
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avg rating 4.23
num ratings 138
date pub 1972
date pub edition Mar 01, 2000
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isbn13 9780140039597
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num pages
137
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avg rating 4.03
num ratings 1,396
date pub 1935
date pub edition May 29, 1975
Bhupinder's rating my rating review Interesting read though not enough to keep me going through the entire book. Some of the stories are just outlandish.
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isbn13 9780811213660
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num pages
237
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avg rating 4.23
num ratings 2,323
date pub 1992
date pub edition Sep 17, 1997
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isbn13 9780802150592
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num pages
123
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avg rating 4.12
num ratings 9,157
date pub 1925
date pub edition Jan 21, 1994
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cover title author isbn 0802130305
isbn13 9780802130303
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num pages
180
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avg rating 4.49
num ratings 14,499
date pub 1944
date pub edition Feb 01, 1994
Bhupinder's rating my rating review Reading Borges is somewhat like reading blogs, the stories are short even though dense and packed. In this collection, I particularly liked The Garden...more
Reading Borges is somewhat like reading blogs, the stories are short even though dense and packed. In this collection, I particularly liked The Garden of Forking Paths. The others were re- reads and most of them are quite enjoyable. Reading Borges makes me feel that fiction is also a means of innocent pleasure, and that is what attracted me towards reading as a child. Borges made me re-live that wondrous childhood once again.(less)
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cover title author isbn 0140195815
isbn13 9780140195811
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num pages
352
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avg rating 4.57
num ratings 2,602
date pub 1999
date pub edition Aug 01, 1999
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num ratings 175
date pub Apr 1900
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cover title author isbn 9380032447
isbn13 9789380032443
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avg rating 3.74
num ratings 38
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isbn13 9781400034710
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120
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avg rating 3.92
num ratings 30,570
date pub 1981
date pub edition Oct 07, 2003
Bhupinder's rating my rating review Hair raising book that both mesmerizes and horrifies the reader. As a reader from India, I could feel that all the action could well have taken place...more
Hair raising book that both mesmerizes and horrifies the reader. As a reader from India, I could feel that all the action could well have taken place anywhere in the Indian sub- continent- where honor killing is still practiced. It is not a co- incidence that the victim, Santiago Nasar, is of Arab descent, an "outsider" in the country that his father had adopted. Marquez at his best.(less)
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isbn13 9789552402012
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num pages
48
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avg rating 3.00
num ratings 1
date pub Feb 26, 2001
date pub edition Feb 26, 2001
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isbn13 9788174951649
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254
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avg rating 0.00
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date pub Jan 28, 2004
date pub edition Jan 28, 2004
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cover title author isbn 1400096278
isbn13 9781400096275
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num pages
431
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avg rating 3.75
num ratings 29,907
date pub 2004
date pub edition Apr 10, 2007
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isbn13 9780394758282
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num pages
231
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avg rating 4.07
num ratings 38,823
date pub 1939
date pub edition Jul 12, 1988
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avg rating 3.71
num ratings 6,322
date pub Jan 01, 2008
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