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 Armageddon in RetrospectBest Price: $12.47 "Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was... |  Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and DrinkBest Price: $17.28 In praising Secret Ingredients, I'm torn between praising the writing style or the content more... |  When You Are Engulfed in FlamesBest Price: $17.15 "David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly... |  Me Talk Pretty One DayBest Price: $2.97 Me Talk Pretty One Day is not your run-of-the-mill memoir or collection of short stories. Not... |  The Four LovesBest Price: $3.40 CS Lewis does a wonderful job defining the four Greek words for Love. I would recommend this... |
 The Butter Battle Book: (New York Times Notable Book of the Year) (Classic Seuss)Best Price: $8.41 This is what my 8 year old son got out of reading The Butter Battle Book and that you should... |  The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John AdamsBest Price: $18.42 Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall and to be able to share in the thoughts and... |  Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous IdeasBest Price: $7.90 Contains previously published interviews and essays on personalities and topics as disparate as... |  Maps and LegendsBest Price: $16.32 I know a lot of these essays from other sources and have lived with them a while. They're good... |  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics)Best Price: $8.37 I first read this book in High School. I was impressed but 8 years later re-read the book to my... |
 Stranger Than Fiction: True StoriesBest Price: $6.93 Interesting true stories told well. One story offering some insight into the man? A departure... |  Illuminations: Essays and ReflectionsBest Price: $8.42 The depth of Benjamin's pessimism has, I think, been underestimated. "The story is told... |  A Man Without a CountryBest Price: $7.00 Not denying that KV was a giant of late 20th century American letters. This is like reading an... |  The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great PlacesBest Price: $3.75 The previous two reviewers both gave this two stars only. I think the arrangement of the... |  The Portable Nietzsche (Viking Portable Library)Best Price: $10.14 First let me start by saying this is a lot easier to read than 'Beyond Good and Evil' and 'Thus... |
 In Praise of ShadowsBest Price: $5.30 In Praise of Shadows is a very readable and succinct essay regarding Japanese aesthetics and... |  The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (The Best American Series)Best Price: $4.43 This is a collection of off-beat and overlooked pieces--short stories, essays and various... |  The Best American Essays 2007 (The Best American Series)Best Price: $7.98 I don't hate to be the voice of dissent in this case. I'm not a fan of Wallace, so I suppose I... |  A Room of One's OwnBest Price: $3.00 I found it tedious to read in spite of the high literary reputation and ability of Virginia... |  Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)Best Price: $0.80 Its was a well done order i had no troblems receivin it. It came on time. |
 The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other EssaysBest Price: $6.35 Not everyone is inclined to navel lintgazing. Nor is everyone up for the level of effort... |  The Book of Other PeopleBest Price: $8.46 The premise behind this anthology is simple. A group of contemporary authors having fun, each... |  Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life by John Grogan for The Philadelphia InquirerBest Price: $2.78 The greedy, seedy editor and publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer bypassed John Gorgan and put... |  Classics for PleasureBest Price: $3.51 So infectious is Dirda's delight in the passion for living that goes into a good book that I... |  The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)Best Price: $8.99 This is a decent collection of Emerson's works, however, I was looking for something a bit... |
 The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)Best Price: $0.90 Don't expect a hardcover filled with a fancy introduction or extensive information. No! Not... |  What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious CharacterBest Price: $6.99 Not quite as funny as "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman", but just as touching. A... |  The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy LifeBest Price: $3.28 This author tries WAY TO HARD to be funny! I did not laugh out loud once. I guess I was too... |  The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series)Best Price: $11.75 book arrived in great conidtion and i deciced to keep it after i passd my english class. |  Alzheimer's from the Inside OutBest Price: $12.75 Fast service, great book from a first-person perspective, insightful and thought-provoking for... |
 Borderlands/La Frontera, Third Edition: The New MestizaBest Price: $10.50 I'm very satisfied with my order because in my opinion Borderlands/La Frontera is one of the... |  Walden With Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay on Thoreau (Everyman's Library)Best Price: $5.86 My first copy of this book was indubitably from some other publisher. So I'm not commenting on... |  Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)Best Price: $0.01 It's great to see this edition, a small, affordable and easily carried book for a day outing. ... |  Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary) (Signet Classics)Best Price: $1.73 A previous reviewer asked what Thoreau might think of how society has developed commercially... |  The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young WritersBest Price: $7.23 After finishing this book, I had mixed feelings. I liked how it helped integrate three quality... |
 The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal TradeBest Price: $4.99 This book is really eye opening to the undertaking trade. It was written with great warmth and... |  Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters (Library of America)Best Price: $17.49 Mr. Jefferson was a brilliant man. I enjoy reading his works and appreciate this opportunity to... |  The Eden Express: A Memoir of InsanityBest Price: $8.37 Though I enjoyed this book, I found it so exhausting at times trying to understand what Vonnegut... |  The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the PresentBest Price: $12.10 My favorite essay in this thick, heavy, door-stopping book is a humble writing of G.K.... |  Consider the Lobster: And Other EssaysBest Price: $8.03 I would suggest, dear reader, that when considering Consider the Lobster, that you consider it... |
 Evocative Objects: Things We Think WithBest Price: $15.56 This is a beautiful book,the essays are well written and they give the reader a good idea of the... |  Blueberries for Sal (Picture Puffins)Best Price: $2.41 sweet book for little kids. It is an excellent book to read aloud to your children and... |  Mara, Daughter of the Nile (Puffin Story Books)Best Price: $3.25 I have loved this book since i first read it so many years ago. Mara, its lead character, is a... |  What Moves at the Margin: Selected NonfictionBest Price: $19.51 What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison's writings about her work, her... |  The Last Single Woman in AmericaBest Price: $13.95 The Last Single Woman in America was a terrific read! While I am happily married, it was great... |
 The Way of Ignorance: And Other EssaysBest Price: $8.74 The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays is an anthology of writings by cultural critic Wendell... |  The Braindead MegaphoneBest Price: $7.79 Insightful and funny at the same time. No one should miss this. I hadn't read anything by... |  The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal NarrativeBest Price: $7.91 Gornick manages to analyze exactly what makes a personal essay successful without sounding... |  Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History, Updated and Expanded EditionBest Price: $23.31 Safire's collection is, without exception, the best set of speeches out there today. The only... |  Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the ArtsBest Price: $14.99 Who was the person that opened your eyes and helped you realize that there was so much more out... |
 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and ArgumentsBest Price: $7.00 David Foster Wallace is one awesomely smart guy. This is both his greatest strength and his... |  Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious CharacterBest Price: $14.71 The stories in this book gave be belly laughs, and they also made me think. |  Slouching Towards Bethlehem: EssaysBest Price: $5.99 I originally chose to read this book because it was written by Joan Didion. I found it was a... |  Ron Carlson Writes a StoryBest Price: $6.68 This little book is like a live broadcast from the writer's brain as he goes through the writing... |  We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (Everyman's Library)Best Price: $18.28 WARNING! This is an extremely biassed review! No one writes like Joan Didion. Every story,... |
 For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn RandBest Price: $3.95 As introductions go, this was fair. The book is a compilation of an essay and excerpts from... |  Mystery and Manners: Occasional ProseBest Price: $8.46 The recurrent subject in this first-rate collection of essays and occasional pieces is the... |  Theogony, Works and Days (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $4.96 This is the 4th translation of the Theogony that I've read over about 40 years of interest. I... |  Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, BelongingBest Price: $12.04 This is not a good book. No contextual background is given for Butler and Spivak's theoretical... | |
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