| 11. |  | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
from Random House Audio
Price: $19.77
Customer Review:
This is probably the best book I have read since The Devil in the White City. I couldn't put it down and it has all the elements I look for in a good book! Mikhael Bloomvist (excuse me if I misspell any names because they are all Swedish) is in a desperate spot and then asked by a wealthy elderly... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 12. |  | The Hour I First Believed: A Novel
from Harper
Price: $17.97
Customer Review:
Attention! Attention! Everybody out of the pool. Wally Lamb has jumped the shark!
And boy did he ever.
His characters encounter Columbine, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina an the regular gambit of an author who has obviously at this time run out of ideas.
And the book is long. Long and... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 13. |  | Cross Country (Alex Cross Novels)
from Little, Brown and Company
Price: $18.47
Customer Review:
If you have been waiting for a fiction writer to bring you up to speed on current events in the world today, then you might enjoy this book. If you were looking for an interesting or cohesive narrative, look elsewhere. And if you enjoy this series, beware, for the Alex Cross you know and love is... more info | 2.5 / 5.0
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| 14. |  | 2666: A Novel
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price: $18.00
Customer Review:
This work, by one of a handful of brilliant writers, spans the whole of the imagination. Clearly without equal, the late Robeto Bolano, has made concrete dreams and razor edged light seem commonplace. Pervasive, funny and savage all at the same instant | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 15. |  | Just After Sunset: Stories
from Scribner
Price: $18.48
Customer Review:
To begin with, at the risk of sounding like Annie Wilkes from "Misery", I am one of Stephen King's biggest fans and have read & own everything by him. This being said, I am extremely disappointed with his latest release, "Just After Sunset".
This mostly depressing tome of work deals with... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 16. |  | Plum Spooky (A Between-the-Numbers Novel)
from Macmillan Audio
Price: $23.07
Customer Review:
This book is funny as hell! I admit it's not quite up yo par with the usual "number" novels, but definently a trip to read.
| 3.0 / 5.0
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| 17. |  | A Thousand Splendid Suns
from Riverhead Trade
Price: $10.88
Customer Review:
This is one of my very favorite books right now. The emotions invoked are raw and rare. The story is very touching and real. The writing is splendid and paints a vivid picture. I had an Afghanistan-born gentleman, who saw me reading it, ask me if I liked it. I responded in the affirmative, and he... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 18. |  | The Private Patient
from Vintage Canada
Customer Review:
Not P. D. James at her best. The ending was predictable from early on but the story has some interesting twists that make it enjoyable. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 19. |  | World Without End
from NAL Trade
Price: $12.50
Customer Review:
I read "Pillars of the Earth" during the Summer 1991; its plot and characters bled into my life that summer. I carried them around no matter where I went. I so LOVED this novel. When "World Without End" came out, I was delighted, but decided to wait for the paperback (reading a hardbound book that... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 20. |  | Unaccustomed Earth
from Knopf
Price: $15.00
Customer Review:
My wife has read this book. She noemally does not like the short-story approach, but this one she thought was very good. We have some friends that were in the same situation and the book really tells the story of trheir problems.
| 4.5 / 5.0
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