2000s decade
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- Just compiled a list of books from 2000s decade.
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6,901 leden
296 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 12
Score 7.21
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:16 PM
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- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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- bergg: The Biafran War of the late 1960s is seen through the eyes of Ugwu, a 13-year-old peasant houseboy, and the beautiful, passionate twin sisters Olanna and Kainene. This stunning piece of writing won the 2007 Orange Prize. -aggsliterature.wordpress.com
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door Aravind Adiga
9,590 leden
423 besprekingen
3.8
Algemene Rangorde 15
Score 6.43
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:19 PM
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- bergg: Aravind Adiga on The White Tiger “The White Tiger is set in one of the fastest-changing societies on Earth — modern-day India — but the story it tells is an old one: of a man’s quest to be free. One afternoon I was in the zoo in New Delhi, and saw a white tiger in its cage, and I thought, ‘A man who is prepared to do anything for his freedom — sacrifice his family, kill another man — would be as rare as that animal” -http://aggsliterature.wordpress.com
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door Margaret Atwood
16,477 leden
384 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 19
Score 6.07
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:16 PM
- 3 Members
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door Margaret Atwood
7,280 leden
362 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 67
Score 2.83
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:58 PM
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5
door Margaret Atwood
17,012 leden
536 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 20
Score 5.94
Toegevoegd 2014-01-25, 09:31 AM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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door Michael Cunningham
1,987 leden
48 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Algemene Rangorde 72
Score 2.56
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:43 PM
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- kara.shamy
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door Junot Díaz
13,083 leden
487 besprekingen
3.8
Algemene Rangorde 10
Score 7.38
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
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- bergg: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the book follows Oscar Wao, an overweight Dominican boy growing up in New Jersey. The book deals with themes of isolation and nostalgia while blending comedy and tragedy. -dailyiowan.com
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door Emma Donoghue
900 leden
46 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Algemene Rangorde 73
Score 2.38
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:53 PM
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door Barbara Ehrenreich
10,878 leden
212 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 16
Score 6.41
Toegevoegd 2014-01-26, 02:41 PM
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- bergg, cej1027, kara.shamy
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- bergg: At the suggestion of an editor, journalist Barbara Ehrenreich attempted to live for two years on the wages of the average unskilled American worker. She worked as a waitress, maid and Wal-Mart clerk, shacking up in dives and dining on fast food, in an effort to find out how America’s working poor make it. Her answer: A lot of them don’t. If her efforts to suggest remedies are often rebuffed by her own subjects, her visceral dispatches from the ragged fringe of the American dream remain indispensable. -salon.com
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door Jeffrey Eugenides
27,136 leden
631 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 11
Score 7.27
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
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- bergg: A strange gender changing, time spanning complicated novel. Past and present combine to give this novel literary force. -randomnonsenseaboutthings.blogspot.com
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door Joshua Ferris
4,525 leden
221 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Algemene Rangorde 32
Score 4.75
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:51 PM
- 2 Members
- kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
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door Ursula K. Le Guin
2,085 leden
59 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 75
Score 2.15
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:37 PM
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door Ursula K. Le Guin
2,064 leden
56 besprekingen
3.8
Algemene Rangorde 76
Score 2.11
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:23 PM
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door Joe Hill
6,765 leden
371 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 78
Score 2.07
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:51 PM
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15
door Nick Hornby
8,659 leden
191 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Algemene Rangorde 34
Score 4.34
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:44 PM
- 2 Members
- kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
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door Nick Hornby
7,705 leden
111 besprekingen
3.2
Algemene Rangorde 79
Score 2
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:30 PM
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door Nick Hornby
2,109 leden
69 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 80
Score 1.97
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:38 PM
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door Nick Hornby
609 leden
27 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 81
Score 1.94
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:55 PM
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door Nick Hornby
834 leden
32 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 82
Score 1.92
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:48 PM
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door Khaled Hosseini
52,786 leden
1,300 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 1
Score 14.31
Toegevoegd 2014-01-25, 12:08 PM
- 5 Members
- dara85, bergg, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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door Khaled Hosseini
30,296 leden
895 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Algemene Rangorde 6
Score 8.37
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:14 PM
- 4 Members
- dara85, bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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- bergg: Recounts the lives and experiences of two Afghan women Laila and Mariam starting with their separate lives as children and how they came to be best friends as two wives of a local shoe maker named Rasheed. During a time of war, poverty, gender issues, and abuse, this creatively written novel still offers a bit of hope.
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door Stieg Larsson
25,301 leden
726 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 27
Score 4.89
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:37 PM
- 3 Members
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door Stieg Larsson
43,182 leden
1,748 besprekingen
4
Algemene Rangorde 26
Score 4.93
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:32 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
24
door Stieg Larsson
30,450 leden
931 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 31
Score 4.76
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:35 PM
- 3 Members
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door Laura Lippman
1,027 leden
31 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Algemene Rangorde 83
Score 1.79
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:38 PM
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door Cormac McCarthy
34,409 leden
1,406 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 4
Score 9.14
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:04 PM
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- bergg: A father and son travel through a post-apocalyptic America, half-starved, choking on a never-ending stream of ash sifting down from the sky, and with no hope for an end to their suffering beyond dissolution and death. -A.V. Club
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door Cormac McCarthy
11,074 leden
292 besprekingen
4
Algemene Rangorde 24
Score 5.15
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:18 PM
- 3 Members
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28
door Ian McEwan
26,480 leden
627 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 8
Score 8.14
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:04 PM
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- bergg: A girl with a big imagination thinks she sees something. She is wrong, but she sticks to her guns. Lives are ruined. As an old woman, she wonders if she can repair her irreparable mistake. -pastemagazine.com
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door David Mitchell
17,675 leden
682 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 40
Score 3.67
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:09 PM
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- bergg: a six part novel, each part divided into two and connected with the next, with the first half chronological, the second half inverse chronological, so the middle of the novel is the whole sixth tale -fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com
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door Alice Munro
3,689 leden
96 besprekingen
4
Algemene Rangorde 54
Score 3.14
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:21 PM
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- bergg: Munro’s tenth short story collection is a pitch-perfect meditation on circumscribed lives and the longing for escape. -http://aggsliterature.wordpress.com
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door Barack Obama
9,500 leden
211 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 52
Score 3.16
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:21 PM
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- bergg: The book that revealed Barack Obama as not just an ambitious politician, but also as an eloquent writer and deep thinker. The fascinating story of his early life, first published in 1995, was reissued in 2004 and became a worldwide bestseller as momentum for the presidency built. -http://aggsliterature.wordpress.com
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door Barack Obama
9,363 leden
172 besprekingen
3.8
Algemene Rangorde 60
Score 2.96
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:31 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, kara.shamy
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door Joseph O'Neill
3,388 leden
155 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Algemene Rangorde 56
Score 3.05
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:31 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, kara.shamy
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- bergg: In New York City, following 9/11, Hans, a banker from the Netherlands, finds himself marooned among the occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone, untethered, and feeling lost in the country he'd come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where, thanks to a friendship with Trinidadian, Chuck Ramkissoon, Hans begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. Ramkissoon, a Gatsby-like figure - part idealist and part operator - introduces Hans to an "other" New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality. Hans is alternately seduced and instructed by Chuck's ability to a hold fast to a sense of possibility in which Hans has come to lose faith. (summary from ISBN 1602853142)
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door Louise Penny
6,689 leden
424 besprekingen
3.8
Algemene Rangorde 86
Score 1.66
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:41 PM
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35
door Francine Prose
3,699 leden
100 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 88
Score 1.65
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:46 PM
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36
door Francine Prose
524 leden
10 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Algemene Rangorde 90
Score 1.63
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:48 PM
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37
door Francine Prose
1,002 leden
31 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Algemene Rangorde 91
Score 1.62
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:25 PM
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38
door J. K. Rowling
101,313 leden
929 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Algemene Rangorde 46
Score 3.45
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:10 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
39
door J. K. Rowling
100,916 leden
860 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Algemene Rangorde 41
Score 3.6
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:09 PM
- 3 Members
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40
door J. K. Rowling
96,512 leden
1,565 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Algemene Rangorde 29
Score 4.82
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:06 PM
- 3 Members
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door J. K. Rowling
102,342 leden
881 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Algemene Rangorde 48
Score 3.32
Toegevoegd 2014-01-25, 12:15 PM
- 3 Members
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42
162 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Algemene Rangorde 62
Score 2.91
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:26 PM
- 3 Members
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43
door J. K. Rowling
107,052 leden
984 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Algemene Rangorde 61
Score 2.92
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:28 PM
- 3 Members
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44
door J. K. Rowling
110,300 leden
996 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 71
Score 2.7
Toegevoegd 2014-01-25, 09:33 AM
- 3 Members
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45
door George Saunders
2,367 leden
56 besprekingen
4
Algemene Rangorde 59
Score 2.96
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:30 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, kara.shamy
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- bergg: There are six stories in this collection. Four of them are very good, and the other two are at least good -- a success average that is highly unusual for a short-story collection. If, like your humble reviewer, you had to regularly review short-story collections, you would soon discover that they almost always suck -- tinseling suburban dullness with some distant derivative of the Joycean epiphany until you want to scream: Basta! That Saunders stories are on such a high level is close to miraculous. -The Austin Chronicle, Roger Gathman (May 19, 2000)
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door W. G. Sebald
4,122 leden
101 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 44
Score 3.54
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:06 PM
- 2 Members
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- bergg: A 21st-century book about the 20th century. The writer's fourth and final novel was told through a pastiche of memoir, invention, winding sentences, black-and-white photographs, architectural plans, and reproduced stamps. The Holocaust is the book's central trauma, but the novel anticipated fresher wounds, too. -villagevoice.com
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door Sarah Waters
5,084 leden
343 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Algemene Rangorde 39
Score 3.72
Toegevoegd 2014-11-02, 02:57 PM
- 2 Members
- kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
48
door Sarah Waters
7,823 leden
285 besprekingen
4
Algemene Rangorde 53
Score 3.14
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:17 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, kara.shamy
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- bergg: With all the elements of a penny dreadful – orphans, double-crossing, madness and pornography – this Victorian tale could have sunk to the level of picaresque pastiche, but while much ink has been spilled on Waters’s lesbian characters it is her ability to summon up the past in palpable, brooding detail that is her most striking characteristic. This is a novel that seems easy to categorise but doesn’t fit into any obvious genre. -telegraph.co.uk
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door Lawrence Wright
3,451 leden
79 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Algemene Rangorde 57
Score 3.01
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:19 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, kara.shamy
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- bergg: A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. (summary from ISBN 0713999764)
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door Michael Chabon
18,785 leden
414 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 17
Score 6.15
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
- 3 Members
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- bergg: Two nice, mid-20th-century Jewish boys go to work in the nascent comic book industry, where the dreams and nightmares of the real world manifest themselves in the extravagant guise of entertainment for children. This buoyant tragicomic adventure story remains one of the most persuasive and gorgeously written depictions (and vindications) of the way popular culture transfigures our lived experience to become the modern-day equivalent of myth and folklore. -Laura Miller, Salon.com
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door Marilynne Robinson
10,821 leden
363 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 18
Score 6.07
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:08 PM
- 3 Members
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- bergg: Following letters written by Rev. John Ames, this winner of the Pulitzer Prize centers on the memories and legacy of his life. Taking place in fictional Gilead, Iowa, Robinson explores themes of religion, family, love, and doubt. -dailyiowan.com
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door Yann Martel
43,579 leden
1,013 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 22
Score 5.77
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:07 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
53
door Peter Carey
4,235 leden
79 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 25
Score 4.99
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:11 PM
- 3 Members
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- bergg: Retelling the story of Australian folk hero Ned Kelly where he writes the story for his daughter. Although set in Australia, you could say this is one of the best Westerns in a while. -randomnonsenseaboutthings.blogspot.com
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door Ann Patchett
13,208 leden
459 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 30
Score 4.77
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:12 PM
- 3 Members
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- bergg: tells the tale of fifty-nine people that were held hostage in an unnamed country in South America. The hostages, which include international ambassadors, Japanese businessmen, an opera singer, and local government officials, had gathered together to celebrate Katsumi Hosokawa's birthday. Hosokawa was being courted by local politicians to build a plant in their country. Bel Canto isn't the usual blood-and-guts tale of a hostage situation; instead, the novel focuses on the various hostages and terrorists and the relationships that grow amongst them all. -Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, cmlibrary.org
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door Diane Setterfield
17,191 leden
910 besprekingen
4
Algemene Rangorde 33
Score 4.44
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:27 PM
- 3 Members
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- bergg: ...a rich story about secrets, ghosts, winter, books and family. The Thirteenth Tale is a book lover's book, with much of the action taking place in libraries and book stores, and the line between fact and fiction constantly blurred. It is hard to believe this is Setterfield's debut novel (released in 2006), for she makes the words come to life with such skill that some passages even gave me chills. -Erin Miller
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door Philip Roth
8,950 leden
217 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 58
Score 3
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:35 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, kara.shamy
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- bergg: A peculiar, chilling fantasy. In an alternative America, the Aryan supremacist and aviator Charles Lindbergh becomes President in 1940 and persecution of the Jews begins — as narrated by an alternative Philip Roth. -http://aggsliterature.wordpress.com
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door Alan Hollinghurst
4,585 leden
113 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Algemene Rangorde 69
Score 2.8
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:29 PM
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- bergg: A brilliantly plotted tale of an outsider who finds himself sitting at the high table of Thatcherism. His young turks have a high — and gay — old time while the twin shadows of Aids and of being found out loom over them. -http://aggsliterature.wordpress.com
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door Denis Johnson
2,409 leden
74 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Algemene Rangorde 70
Score 2.78
Toegevoegd 2014-01-25, 09:31 AM
- 2 Members
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- bergg: Just when you thought the Vietnam War and the 1960s had been thoroughly bled of all potential for artistic exploration, along comes Denis Johnson. Tree of Smoke somehow manages to crack new ground over what, in a lesser writer’s hands, would be thoroughly decimated territory. -thebrowntweedsociety.com