 | Antiquity: From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire by Norman F. Cantor
Buy new: $11.19 / Used from: $0.46 A decent introduction and overview of the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans
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 | Fragments (Penguin Classics) (English and Greek Edition) by Heraclitus
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $7.98 The fluidity of existence
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 | The Odes (Penguin Classics L209) by Pindar
Buy new: $12.48 / Used from: $0.95 Poems glorifying the feats of the ancient olympic games. Not a page turner.
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 | Kristallnacht by Anthony Read
Buy used from: $1.87 A great account of the "night of broken glass." A well orchestrated pogrom that introduced and open season in anti-semetic violence.
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 | Auggie Wren's Christmas Story by Paul Auster
Buy used from: $14.00 A well plotted charming tale by one of my favorite writers.
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 | The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 I was really impressed by this novel until the last fifty pages in which Roth forces an ending that really wasnt there.
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 | Checkpoint: A Novel by Nicholson Baker
Buy used from: $0.01 The lost art of the dialogue: a middle of the road liberal and a left winger discuss the political solution to our current mess.
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 | Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 by Joan Didion
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $0.05 This booklength lecture addresses the saccharine sentimentalitly that has inhibited our ability to look at 9/11 and why it happened.
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 | Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli
Buy used from: $16.34 This is one of the better first hand accounts of the Holocaust. He does not sensationalize his experience as an Elie Weisel.
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 | Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.87 This book is overrated. It fell far short of my expectations. Maybe I am too old to be introduced to Vonnegut?
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 | Memoir of the Bobotes by Joyce Cary
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $0.01 A dreadful attempt at travelogue/journalism. Cary bumbles his way into Montenegro during the First Balkan War of 1912/1913. He has no understanding of what is happening.
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 | Music of a Life: A Novel by Andrei Makine
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.99 A novel about a piano player about to make it big and ... well I wont ruin it.
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 | Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (P.S.) by Seymour M. Hersh
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.01 Amazing journalism from Hersh! The details from the Afghanistan war are surprising: initial battles and the Toral Bora fight in which our guys ran away crying.
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 | Death in Danzig by Stefan Chwin
Buy new: $30.00 / Used from: $1.33 Danzig is liberated and Chwin gives us the story of the fleeing denizens. A great Polish novelist.
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 | The Year Is '42: A Novel by Nella Bielski
Buy used from: $0.01 This novel ultimately falls flat. Intersecting destinies...etc...
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 | Whore by Nelly Arcan
Buy new: $10.26 / Used from: $1.75 An interesting novel, but fails on many levels.
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 | The Man Who Japed by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $5.94 One man glorified by irony.
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 | Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $0.85 This was a great book! I dont know why I am so surprised, I didnt think I would like Capote. He does character amazingly!
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 | Regime Change Begins at Home: Freeing America from Corporate Rule by Charles Derber
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $0.01 This book offered very little analysis. It is a little too close to the Al Franken school.
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 | The Crucible (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Miller
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $3.50 The witch hunt is on! Watch out!
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 | Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz by Olga Lengyel
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $6.45 Taken from the lovely town of Cluj, she is imprisoned in Auschwitz. Her account is gripping and upsetting. There was only one way out, the chimneys.
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 | The Prince and the Pauper (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $0.01 The slippery slope of identity... a great read!
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $3.99 I was surpirsed to like this!
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $2.33 A Dickens classic.... Later and mature, one of his best
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 | Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $7.49 Amazing black humor and dark stories from Chekhov... my favorite Russian translators
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