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.A Thousand Splendid Suns City Travel Guides > Books > Short Stories by: Khaled Hosseini May 22, 2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns is a better book than the kite runner in my opinion. The pages exude genuine feeling...it is amazing how the author captures the full sentiments of betrayal with his candid descriptions. This is the heartbreaking tale of two womem, both struggling to find their way in a world that seems bent on caging them in. Despite the odds, they manage to find their escape from hardship in their mutual friendship. Beautiful... a must read! >>See More Reviews & Details on A Thousand Splendid Suns |
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.Unaccustomed Earth City Travel Guides > Books > Short Stories by: Jhumpa Lahiri April 01, 2008 I read the first story in this collection with a lump in my throat. The way Lahiri describes her characters and their stories is so simple, yet so incredibly heart wrenching that I found myself aching along with the characters. Her writing is amazingly simple, no overwrought descriptions or tediousness, but I just found myself gliding into her characters' lives and feeling all the emotions: the loss of loved ones, sadness, isolation and hope. I think her stories are so universal that everyone can find something to relate to. Read this book--you will not be disappointed. The stories and emotions will linger long after you put it down. >>See More Reviews & Details on Unaccustomed Earth |
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.Just After Sunset: Stories City Travel Guides > Books > Short Stories by: Stephen King November 11, 2008 I read the first story in this collection with a lump in my throat. The way Lahiri describes her characters and their stories is so simple, yet so incredibly heart wrenching that I found myself aching along with the characters. Her writing is amazingly simple, no overwrought descriptions or tediousness, but I just found myself gliding into her characters' lives and feeling all the emotions: the loss of loved ones, sadness, isolation and hope. I think her stories are so universal that everyone can find something to relate to. Read this book--you will not be disappointed. The stories and emotions will linger long after you put it down. >>See More Reviews & Details on Just After Sunset: Stories |
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.Fireproof City Travel Guides > Books > Short Stories by: Eric Wilson, Alex Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick September 02, 2008 This is the best book that I have read in a very long time. I would highly recommend it. It is funny, serious and a tearful. It really makes you think. You should love God before you can love anyone else. Very inspiring. >>See More Reviews & Details on Fireproof |
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.Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (Wyoming Stories) City Travel Guides > Books > Short Stories by: Annie Proulx September 09, 2008 Annie Proulx's trilogy of Wyoming short stories "Close Range", "Bad Dirt" and now "Fine Just The Way It Is" is a magnificent testament to a landscape and its people. In the latest collection, three outstanding Proulx Wyoming 'specials' - drawing on early pioneering struggles, hardship during the Great Depression years and life in present-day Wyoming - open a window into the lives of Wyoming people, past and present. A sad story set in the 1880's, "Them Old Cowboy Songs" records the gruelling pioneering experience of young newly-weds. Annie Proulx doesn't do 'sentimental': what she does do in her distinctive unsparing prose is stark reality treatment of the West, uncompromising portraits of Wyoming folk hard-pressed to scrape to-gether a living. ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (Wyoming Stories) |
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.Cosmicomics City Travel Guides > Books > Short Stories by: Italo Calvino October 04, 1976 Ever since our ancestors started looking into the night sky, the saw patterns and connections between the stars, moons and planets, and used stories and myths to imbue those patterns with meaning and structure. With the big hindsight of the scientific worldview, all those ancient stories may seem quaint and naïve. And indeed, the advent of modern astronomy and astrophysics has greatly enriched and deepened our understanding of the Cosmos. But these wonderful new insights should not be taken in opposition to our imagination when we stare in the sky. And this is the starting point of Italo Calvino's wonderful book "Cosmicomics." It is in a sense a variation on the theme of Cosmos. Each one of the chapters in the book takes a certain scientific fact about the Cosmos, ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Cosmicomics |
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.True to the Game III City Travel Guides > Books > Short Stories by: Teri Woods July 02, 2008 After attempting to read II, aint no way in the devil's playground would I buy this book let alone read it. Gena proved she wasn't true to the game in the first couple chapters of the second one. >>See More Reviews & Details on True to the Game III |
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.The Living Dead City Travel Guides > Books > Short Stories by: Stephen King, Joe Hill, George R. R. Martin, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Laurell K. Hamilton, Joe R. Lansdale, Poppy Z. Brite, Harlan Ellison September 29, 2008 Great book, poorly made. We bought this book new and the pages have all popped out from the binding. If you're buying this for a gift I suggest looking for a hardcover. >>See More Reviews & Details on The Living Dead |
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.Brief Interviews with Hideous Men City Travel Guides > Books > Short Stories by: David Foster Wallace April 01, 2000 I am still absorbing the news that David Foster Wallace apparently took his own life this weekend. He was 46. I vividly recall my experience reading "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men," because these short short stories are both insightful and laugh out loud funny. Wallace had a keen understanding of the often reptilian and repellent motivations of human beings. He knew that for all our intelligence compared to other animals, we are maddeningly flawed. I would have loved to read his take on recent political news, such as the claim by a presidential candidate that his opponent called his running mate a pig. Wallace's insight will live on. >>See More Reviews & Details on Brief Interviews with Hideous Men |
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.Suite 606 City Travel Guides > Books > Short Stories by: J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, Mary Kay McComas November 04, 2008 I am still absorbing the news that David Foster Wallace apparently took his own life this weekend. He was 46. I vividly recall my experience reading "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men," because these short short stories are both insightful and laugh out loud funny. Wallace had a keen understanding of the often reptilian and repellent motivations of human beings. He knew that for all our intelligence compared to other animals, we are maddeningly flawed. I would have loved to read his take on recent political news, such as the claim by a presidential candidate that his opponent called his running mate a pig. Wallace's insight will live on. >>See More Reviews & Details on Suite 606 |