BOOK REVIEWS OF AUTHORS WHERE I REVIEWED MORE THAN ONE BOOK FOR ANY AUTHOR LISTED
Just click on the author's name and it will take you to those reviews.
Agnon, S.Y. | Dupuy, Alex | Milosz, Caeslaw |
Alexis, Jacques | Eco, Umberto | Montero, Mayra |
Banks, Russell | Eliot, T.S. | Moore, Brian |
Banville, John | Ferlinghetti, Lawrence | Novas, Himilce |
Barth, John | Frost, Robert | Orwell, George |
Bell, Madison Smartt | Garcia, Cristina | Phillips, Arthur |
Bernhard, Thomas | Gide, Andre | Pirenne, Henri |
Boll, Heinrich | Heaney, Seamus | Roth, Joseph |
Bontemps, Arna | Hellenga, Robert | Saramago, Jose |
Borges, Jorge Luis | Hemingway, Ernest | Sartre, Jean Paul |
Brecht, Bertolt | Hesse, Herman | Schnitzler, Arthur |
Brock, Hermann | Hughes, Langston | Shaw, G.B. |
Brooks, Geraldine | Ingham, Ana | Silone, Ignazio |
Brown, Dan | Jelinek, Elfriede | Singer, Issac Bashevis |
Camus, Albert | Kafka, Franz | Stollman, Lev |
Chekhov, Anton | Kazantzakis, Nikos | Szymborska, Wislawa |
Clewell, David | Kierkegaard, Soren | Tagore, Rabindranath |
Cliff, Michelle | Lessing, Doris | Thomas, Dylan |
Coelho, Paulo | Limon, Graciela | Tuchman, Barbara |
Danticat, Edwidge | Llosa, Mario Vargas | Uris, Leon |
Dash, J. Michael | Ludlum, Robert | Vonnegut, Kurt |
Davies, Robertson | Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | Wilson, Colin |
Diamant, Anita | Mann, Thomas | Zola, Emile |
Dos Passos, John | McEwan, Ian
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- Cliff, Michelle
ABENG
January 2012
- Cliff, Michelle. ABENG October 2003
- Dash, J. Michael. CULTURE AND CUSTOMS OF HAITI January 2002
- Sep-96 Dash, J. Michael HAITI AND THE UNITED STATES rating 7 152 pages Haiti
National stereotypes in lit. Decent with good sources
- THE CORNISH TRILOGY
- THE DEPTFORD TRILOGY
- OTHER BOOKS OF ROBERTSON DAVIES
- Jelinek, Elfriede. THE PIANO TEACHER May 2001
- Jelinek, Elfriede. WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL TIMES September 2000
- 6/5/1998 Jelinek, Elfriede WONDERFUL WONDERFUL TIMES rating 9 253 pages fiction
Vienna, 1950s, alienated teens, Camus influence. Forced ending. Powerful!
- 6/21/1998 Jelinek, Elfriede WOMEN AS LOVERS rating 4 192 pages fiction
Repetitive, bitter novel of women losing themselves in marriage. Short story material
- Montero, Mayra. THE RED OF HIS SHADOW January 2002
- 10/10/1997 Montero, Mayra IN THE PALM OF DARKNESS rating 7 183 pages Haiti
Dark, symbolic novel where disappearing frogs represent hopeless Haiti.
- Orwell, George. DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON March 2002
- 5/16/1999 Orwell, George DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON rating 7 213 pages novel
Lightly disguised autobiography. 1933 account of penniless men in depression times
- MANUAL OF PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY: A NOVEL
- THE DOUBLE
- BALTASAR AND BLIMUNDA
- THE CAVE
- BLINDNESS
- THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS CHRIST
- ALL THE NAMES
- THE HISTORY OF THE SEIGE OF LISBON
- THE STONE RAFT
- THE TALE OF THE UNKNOWN ISLAND
- DEATH WITH INTERRUPTIONS
- THE YEAR OF THE DEATH OF RICARDO REIS
- SEEING
- THE ELEPHANT'S JOURNEY
- CAIN
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
INTIMACY AND OTHER STORIES
June 2010
- 2/2/1997 Sartre, Jean-Paul NAUSEA rating 8 178 pages Existentialism
Supurb novel of the process of one man coming to experience meaninglessness
- For more information on Jean-Paul Sartre, see my special page for him at:
Bob Corbett's Sartre Page
- Uris, Leon and Jill
IRELAND: A TERRIBLE BEAUTY July 2008
- 6/20/1997 Uris, Leon
REDEMPTION rating 5 827 pages hist. fic
Follow up of Trinity, but scattery and mixed novel. Some bad writing and organization
- Vonnegut, Kurt
DEAD-EYE DICK September 2010
- 7/28/1998 Vonnegut, Kurt
PALM SUNDAY rating 5 302 pages misc
Non-fiction autobiographical rant. Some of it interesting, most less so
- Wilson, Colin. THE MIND PARASITES May 2002
- May-96 Wilson, Colin
THE GOD OF THE LABYRINTH rating 7 286 pages lit myst
Literary mystery, erotic and occult
- Zola, Emile
THERESE RAQUIN
October 2009
- 1/11/1998 Zola, Emile
BELLY OF PARIS
rating 9 498 pages fiction
Supurb food/revolution story about markets of Paris and gosip, gosip, gosip
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