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Review Date: 9/26/2009
Essentially a tale in the rise and the demise of a hamlet in Latin America that could easily represent a multitude of such hamlets during the 1970s. These towns not only faced oppression from their own government but by US corporate business as well. The book was worth two close readings.
Review Date: 9/28/2009
Helpful Score: 1
"Big Brother," an abstract fear, became a real household presence in the United States. This is the testament to the brilliance of 1984, even in 2009.
Review Date: 9/28/2009
Helpful Score: 2
Perhaps this work of fiction may be unpalatable for some. But, I must say, it is entertaining to see how religion, like any ideology, can be an instrument of hypocrisy and manipulation.
Review Date: 9/28/2009
Helpful Score: 1
Twain uttered, "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." I would be accused of being disagreeable if I did not appreciate the wit and conscience of Twain, especially as he engages his readers in a delicate discussion of racism in the United States.
Review Date: 9/30/2009
An illegitimate son...an immigrant...and the architect of the United States' Federal Reserve. The most successful immigrant despite the myth of the American Dream.
Review Date: 12/31/2009
Helpful Score: 1
The "cowboy" has been an exoticized icon that equates masculinity with ruggedness in appearance and simplicity of lifestyle...an idyllic image.
For this Los Angeles urbanite, McCarthy successfully extinguishes this pre-determined image in a brutal tale on the hardships of being and living as a cowboy.
For this Los Angeles urbanite, McCarthy successfully extinguishes this pre-determined image in a brutal tale on the hardships of being and living as a cowboy.
Review Date: 9/29/2009
"NEWS FLASH:" Korean American female, age 30, reads "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" and now wants to be Kavalier or Clay!! Convinces Polish American female, age 52 with 3 children, to read "The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier and Clay." Now reads comic books.
Review Date: 10/4/2009
Helpful Score: 2
Popularly known for the sunny language of the Declaration of Independence, a Southern "gentleman", and a father to Sally Hemmings's children.
What is less popularly known is his inability to envision a United States of America as an industrialized and entreprising nation. A great foe to Alexander Hamilton.
Essentially, a well-educated man without the strength to act on his education when faced with questions that dealt with humanity and morality.
What is less popularly known is his inability to envision a United States of America as an industrialized and entreprising nation. A great foe to Alexander Hamilton.
Essentially, a well-educated man without the strength to act on his education when faced with questions that dealt with humanity and morality.
And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina
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Review Date: 1/2/2010
Although capital is "good" for multiple reasons, Wall Street's "greed" in offering cheap and expensive financing can do the reverse and debilitate a stagnating economy.
Which goes to prove that "Greed is good" is not always the case as proven in Argentina's economic crisis in 2001.
Which goes to prove that "Greed is good" is not always the case as proven in Argentina's economic crisis in 2001.
Review Date: 1/18/2010
The insatiable desire to kiss and touch a lover...the ache from that unfulfilled want is the centerpiece to McEwan's "Atonement."
Review Date: 2/18/2010
Helpful Score: 1
As with any "romance," love for land is fatiguing and wearisome as the intense euphoria of possibilities become diminished with the brutal realities of economic and financial constraints.
Review Date: 1/28/2010
Ignorance allows individuals to boldly, publicly, and do I dare say stupidly, claim that "grass is always greener on the other side" when women encounter misogyny intimately and structurally.
Flexner's body of work denies such frivolous nonsense.
Flexner's body of work denies such frivolous nonsense.
Review Date: 1/18/2010
Infidelity...perhaps not always a rapturous, thoughtless, and hurtful moment, but a consequence. A consequence from an imperfectly paired couple.
Review Date: 9/27/2009
"Intellectual caress" was the highlight of the book. I perhaps may not be intellectually suited for Wallace's approach to storytelling. Is there such a thing as too much creativity?
Yet, I do appreciate Wallace's use of the word "bedizen," which is a verb that means to dress or adorn gaudily.
Yet, I do appreciate Wallace's use of the word "bedizen," which is a verb that means to dress or adorn gaudily.
Review Date: 2/20/2010
Social scientists, beware! An uncomfortable and bewildering read as it reduces many of our decisions on the material details of our brains, particularly the development of our prefrontal cortex!!
Review Date: 2/7/2014
A whale of a tale!!
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