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430
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num pages
327
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avg rating 3.55
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date pub Apr 30, 2013
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258
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avg rating 3.22
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date pub Jan 05, 2010
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date pub Jan 01, 2012
date pub edition May 01, 2012
Beverly's rating my rating review I'm not finishing this book. Life is too short. I found this to be totally cliched replete with the predictable social and political criticisms of Ame...more
I'm not finishing this book. Life is too short. I found this to be totally cliched replete with the predictable social and political criticisms of American culture. Plus the inner life of 19 year old protagonist Billy is unconvincing. There is also something masturbatory about the way the author keeps circling around the same themes and viewpoints. So I would say that self-indulgence is one of its faults. Oddly, this is one of the books from this year's Morning News Tournament of Books. It was chosen in a contest among 3 books about the Iraq war, the other 2 being The Yellow Birds and Fobbit. While those had their faults, they were both miles better than this.(less)
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272
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avg rating 3.85
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date pub Apr 16, 2013
date pub edition Apr 16, 2013
Beverly's rating my rating review I enjoyed reading this and almost want to rate it 4 stars, but something holds me back. Elinor Lipman skirts the edge of literary fiction, but her boo...more
I enjoyed reading this and almost want to rate it 4 stars, but something holds me back. Elinor Lipman skirts the edge of literary fiction, but her books are too facile, too poppy to make the cut. As usual, this was a heart-warming story, this time of 2 sisters who share an expensive apartment in Greenwich Village with a younger gay, male roommate. The gay roommate/best friend trope, for example, is too cliche. Some plot points were ripped from the headlines, like Bernie Madoff (by name) and a naughty fertility doctor, and seemed tired. But all in all, a good comfortable read.(less)
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date pub Sep 03, 2013
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437
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avg rating 4.30
num ratings 1,045
date pub Oct 09, 2012
date pub edition Oct 09, 2012
Beverly's rating my rating review Way better than the first book in this series. I wasn't even going to read the rest until I stumbled across the positive reviews for this second volum...more
Way better than the first book in this series. I wasn't even going to read the rest until I stumbled across the positive reviews for this second volume. Now I can't wait for the third. As I figured, this story centers on Michael, the middle child of three, whose task it is to find and keep the second of the three books of magical power. The idea is to keep the books away form the Dire Magnus, an evil (though ambiguously so) magician who wants to harness the power for his own ends. He is helped by the magician Pym, an ambiguously good character, and an adult action hero type, Gabriel. Oh, and his parents are not present, having been kept prisoners for the past ten years.(less)
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avg rating 3.61
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date pub Apr 23, 2013
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256
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date pub Apr 29, 2014
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289
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avg rating 3.91
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date pub 2004
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num pages
243
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avg rating 3.67
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date pub Feb 01, 2013
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num pages
480
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avg rating 4.08
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date pub Apr 01, 2013
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date pub Jan 01, 2013
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date pub Mar 12, 2013
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443
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date pub 2012
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256
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avg rating 3.97
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date pub 1980
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date pub Feb 19, 2013
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date pub Feb 15, 2014
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400
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avg rating 3.29
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date pub 2001
date pub edition Feb 10, 2009
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avg rating 3.50
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date pub Sep 04, 2012
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Beverly's rating my rating review Of course this aspires to be a latter day Catch22, but its humor is more heavy-handed. War is easier to take when it's treated as comedy, but lurking...more
Of course this aspires to be a latter day Catch22, but its humor is more heavy-handed. War is easier to take when it's treated as comedy, but lurking behind the main narrative about the U.S. Army and its cosseted FOB denizens are the horrible deaths of "Local Nationals" Iraqui civilians killed by mistake or as collateral damage. So the horrors of war are obliquely inserted into this novel of military manners, setting up a to subtle contrast between clownishness and tragedy. The problem is that the comedy got a little predictable and tiresome.(less)
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avg rating 3.79
num ratings 6,196
date pub Jan 01, 2012
date pub edition Sep 06, 2012
Beverly's rating my rating review This book doesn't quite hold together as a novel. It is full of poetic and philosophical observations that don't quite make sense, at least on first r...more
This book doesn't quite hold together as a novel. It is full of poetic and philosophical observations that don't quite make sense, at least on first reading. It's not completely poetry either, but this story of very young soldiers brutalized by war is closer to being an epic poem than a novel, an Iraquiad. The descriptions of war set against the human and natural background of desert life in Iraq are sometimes breathtaking. This story is haunting and left me with feelings of cold horror and fear that I won't soon forget. And that is probably how we should understand war.(less)
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