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  Posted: 3/14/2010 5:54:03 PM

  Amazing book, a truly horrifying look into the future for women. Are we really nothing more than walking wombs? A great read by a remarkable author. Pick it up.
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  Posted: 3/14/2010 4:54:40 PM

  The cutest and funniest of all of Jane Austen's novels. This story is centered on Catherine who is too plain and too poor (yet not poor enough) to be a heroine, but manages to be one against the odds. She is a pleasant girl who likes to read gothic novels (ala, Mrs. Radcliffe) and daydream of being in the menacing grasp of some terrible rapscallion only to be saved at the last minute. This imagination leads her to trouble when she is invited to stay at Northanger Abbey by the imposing father of the man she loves, well crushes on. Catherine's imagination creates a horrible death scene for the former woman of the house and when she confesses her suspicions to her love he is hurt by her childish insinuation that his father is the root of all evil. Banished from the house for altogether different reasons Catherine returns home brokenhearted and determined to become more mature. She reads histories, biographies and even keeps her romances but more importantly keeps her imagination in check! As usual, Mr Right returns, they reconcile, fall in love and marry and have lots of babies. The end.
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  Posted: 3/14/2010 4:44:33 PM

  The BEST version of Emma so far! This young lady is marvelous. It is obvious that she not only read the script, she probably read the book too... unlike some other emmas... paltrow! A funny little movie with that guy from Hackers as Mr. Knightly and he's pretty cute. This is a bad comment, my review will be better.
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  Posted: 3/14/2010 4:25:39 PM

  One of the finest books I have ever read and possibly the greatest commentary on American life ever written and given to Americans. The last line alone is magic: "Tomorrow we will run further, spread our arm farther and beat our boats against the current pushed back into the past." Gatsby's promise to America is that we are only crippled by our own complacency. We are stuck in a rut we dug and beautifully furnished for ourselves. If we want to move forward, which is possible, we only need to give up that which we think we need. We can march into that tomorrow, beating our boats against the current, yet NOT get pushed back into the past but break through into the future and seize the day we were promised by Thoreau!
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  Posted: 3/14/2010 4:10:22 PM

  Truly great little film! Well acted by Williams, the viewer can see that he used this role as a "jumping off point" for his role in "Good Will Hunting." Many of my students have begun watching this film, which I find adorable. What makes me happiest as an English teacher is film helps me argue that literature and the study of literature and poetry is its own reward. To live an inspired life, to understand the world around you and to communicate effectively and passionately to others is the foundation of our existence. This movie begs young people to experience more, to never be satisfied and to move forward in life.
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  Posted: 3/14/2010 4:04:16 PM

  Excellently written story which spans decades in the quest to fulfill man and god's ambitions. Rather ignored book which is too bad as this was an exciting read. Follett, famous for his thrillers, has created a epic narration following the lives of a young girl robbed of her father's land, a mason who dreams of building a cathedral that will make England kneel, a woman who stands up to man, god and church, and her son who will finish the legacy set before him. All of these characters and many more are tied together during England's bitter civil war between Steven I and Maude to put her son Henry II on the throne. An elementary level education allows the reader to make a prediction of who will win this argument! Well written, however one criticism I have is that Lehane paints his characters with a very binary brush. Bad guys are Bad, and good guys are good. While there are people who are "doing the best they can" many are motivated by nothing more than the need to be evil, which is our contemporary times could ring too true. Wonderful summer read for a senior looking to fulfill the summer reading requirement.
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  Posted: 3/14/2010 3:50:31 PM

  A captivating read! Lehane breaks away from his tradition (yet never tiring) style of "whodunnits" to deliver this fresh and interesting story of an Irish family in South Boston. The story is bracketed with the now folkloric career of Babe Ruth and his infamous departure from the Boston Red Sox. But hey, who didn't like No No Nettet?
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  Posted: 3/14/2010 12:27:05 PM

  While the accented dialect may pose a problem for some readers the difficulty tends to disappear by chapter four if you stick with it. Please stick with it. This book is Zora Neale Hurston's present to America. In it she puts all her love for her culture, all the beautiful things of her childhood and her experiences are encapsulated in this one book. Beautifully written and poetically phrased this book is a perfect "sit on the back porch in summertime" read.
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  Posted: 3/14/2010 12:18:38 PM

  Excellent book. This was the first book of Hemingway's that I read and I knew I was hooked by the end of chapter one. Jake, an expatriate travels through Paris and Spain with Cohn, a mopey emotionally clinging sycophant, Mike a drunken anti-semite, Bill, another drunk abusive and vapid writer, and Brett, the love of his life if only Jake could love. With the tension culminating at the height of the bullfighting in Pamplona Spain Jake sabotages Brett's engagement to Mike, Jake's good name with the people of Pamplona (specifically Montoya), and his own intense but denied love for Brett by setting her up with Romero, a young bullfighter. One of the most passionate and frustrating books about our need to love and destroy each other. Highly reccommended!