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 Consider the Lobster: And Other EssaysBest Price: $8.03 I don't get all the 5 star, Wallace loving reviews here. This really isn't spectacular. There... |  Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : Reflections on Sixty and BeyondBest Price: $2.88 Written when McMurtry was 62, WALTER BENJAMIN AT THE DAIRY QUEEN is probably best classified as... |  Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious CharacterBest Price: $17.90 I was introduced to "Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman" 10 years ago by a friend of... |  The Seagull Reader: Essays, Second EditionBest Price: $16.78 I'm wondering if this is essentially the same book as the prior edition or if there have been... |  Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters (Library of America)Best Price: $16.98 I will never be able to write a suitable review for this book - the scope of what lies between... |
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 Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest WritingBest Price: $12.95 If you love Mencken, trust him to select his best writing. This is the book for you. Only topics... |  Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $14.79 What's not to like about Montaigne? Everytime I pick through parts of his essays [and it does... |  The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal TradeBest Price: $4.00 This book is really eye opening to the undertaking trade. It was written with great warmth and... |  Sullivan's Island (Lowcountry Tales)Best Price: $2.39 Sullivan's Island is truly a wonderful novel that is straight from the heart about family life.... |  Wild Ducks Flying BackwardBest Price: $6.44 As a loyal Tom Robbins fan, I have read almost all of his published works. Like many of you, I... |
 Aphrodite: A Memoir of the SensesBest Price: $4.48 John Updike once said that there are three great mysteries in life: sex, art, and religion.... |  50 Essays: A Portable AnthologyBest Price: $48.98 I enjoyed the book. It was a terrific way to gain insight on the writing styles of some of... |  James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America)Best Price: $19.37 One of the greatest writers of the 1900's. Excellent physical book. Well-made and aesthetically... |  Batman Unauthorized: Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City (Smart Pop series)Best Price: $7.85 This book is very good and the authors who write the essays on Batman have some interesting... |  For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn RandBest Price: $3.34 Ayn Rand presents her philosophy as an alternative to the two philosophical cul-de-sacs, which... |
 The Star ThrowerBest Price: $4.59 I discovered this writer in college and consistently pass this book out to friends. They must... |  Only Love Can Break Your HeartBest Price: $13.45 I first came across David Samuels' work after reading his story on Britany Spears and the... |  Evocative Objects: Things We Think WithBest Price: $15.57 This is a beautiful book,the essays are well written and they give the reader a good idea of the... |  For the Time BeingBest Price: $5.99 I'm not a big reader these days. I picked this up a couple of years ago at a library sale. I had... |  Against Interpretation: And Other EssaysBest Price: $8.46 America has very few independent intellectuals, that is, intellectuals free of academic... |
 Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American LyricBest Price: $8.80 As a literary genre still fighting for a kind of ironic legitimacy, prose poetry received a Hail... |  Essays and Aphorisms (The Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.46 A. Schopenhauer and Ralph W. Emerson deserve to be read together. I remember reading these two... | |||
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