| 1. |  | The Kite Runner
from Anchor Canada
Customer Review:
This book was so well written. Shocking, surprising, emotional to say the least, risk taking, adventure, strong, strong emotions. I read this not knowing anything about the book and could nott put this book down. Get it! Read it! You will not be dissapointed in the least. Then read his other book, A... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Black Ops
from Putnam Adult
Price: $17.79
Customer Review:
Giving hope that this one wouldn't be as boring as the previous books, I was once again bored to tears with this book. You'd think being a secret unit from different agencies and units, being led by a Delta Colonel, there'd be some tid-bit of action in this. Yet, this book falls flat....though... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
from Three Rivers Press
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
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Being an avid reader and huge post-apocalyptic zombie fan I thought I would really enjoy this book. I think this book suffers in two ways. One is that it tries to be to realistic and instead comes off sounding fake. I never felt scared or hopeless for a character and some of... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Slaughterhouse Five
from Caedmon
Price: $23.35
Customer Review:
Slaughterhouse five is one of those great anti-war books in the 60's that is really hard to describe, so I'll make it quick. It tells about Billy Pilgrim, who 'time travels' to many points of his life, including the bombing of Dresden. He also gets kidnapped by aliens and learns about their way of... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Suite Francaise (A Novel)
from Highbridge Audio
Price: $26.37
Customer Review:
A remarkable, fluid, enthralling book about WWII written by a French Jew (who ended up being shipped off and killed in a concentration camp). It was published some 50 years posthumously. She paints a detailed portrait of the villagers when the Germans invade as well as the mass exodus from Paris. It... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | The Things They Carried
from Broadway
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
Of all the books published on the Vietnam War, this is the grandaddy. O'Brien's ability to capture the mood and setting of grunts sent to fight an unjust war is amazing and heartrending. While surviving with your buddy was the most important task in 'Nam, the ways to make that happen differed... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
from Vintage
Price: $13.57
Customer Review:
I have enjoyed reading this translation. I applaud the retention of the orignal French. I do not know Russian so I cannot judge this translation by comparing it with others on the ground of fidelity to the original. As a reader, however, I think the old Maude translation is occasionally smoother and... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
from Simon & Schuster
Price: $17.82
Customer Review:
MASH is definetly the one word to describe this book. I can't imagine that the sitcom, MASH, wasn't inspired by this book. You can even pick out certain characters although they are sometimes blended together or split apart. Although, MASH would have been limited to Cinemax if it was an accurate... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | So Brave, Young, and Handsome (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)
from Gale Cengage
Price: $33.95
Customer Review:
There's so much good about this "on the road" western. I like the early 20th century time period, with a trace of the wild west still lingering. Monte Becket, the narrator, leaves his wife and son in Minnesota to travel with the wanted criminal Glendon. The reason (something missing in his life) is... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 10. | ![]() | The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II
from Ballantine Books
Price: $10.88
Customer Review:
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The Steel Wave
By Jeff Shaara
In this World War II historical novel, the second of an announced trilogy, author Shaara focuses on the role of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division training in England, night landing by parachute in Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944 and... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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