Category: Book Reviews
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War and Peace Literary Analysis
The novel War and Peace, by author Leo Tolstoy, is a truly amazing book. It recounts the Napoleonic Battles and details the journeys of Prince Andrey, Pierre, Nikolay, Natasha, and many others. Tolstoy describes these battles with haunting images and fills the reader’s head with detailed pictures as
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America.
A fire started just before quitting time which burned the top three floors of the Asch Building in downtown Manhattan, where around 500+ workers, mostly women, were collecting their things to leave for the day. This fire was the cause of the largest
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Intensity: by Dean Koontz
Past midnight, Chyna Sheperd, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in Napa Valley, where her best friend’s family lives For her, instinct proves reliable tonight. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
There are many scenes which may be considered essential for the understanding of a novel, and after the reading of which we have a full view of the author’s intentions in relation to the plot. In The Picture of Dorian Gray ,the fragment which I’m
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The Circuit written by Francisco Jimenez
Francisco Jimenez shows a lot of sympathy, apathy, empathy, and advocacy in The Circuit. This makes the reader want to keep reading the story. It is easy to spot in his book. You just have to know what those terms mean. There are many times in The Circuit where these terms are not only written,…
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The Lord of The Flies
The novel, The Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding was published by Penguin Putnam Inc. in New York, New York. The copyright date is 1954. Take a group of privileged school boys from a sophisticated background and send them through a horrific ordeal.
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Forged by Fire by Shannon M. Drapper
This book was about one little kid who did not have any friends and had an abusive family. This kid lived in a family which did not treat him in a good way. He was tought not to inetupt “mom” while she
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Camus’s The Stranger Essay
In Camus’s The Stranger, Meursault, the protagonist, finds himself sentenced to death in an absurd twist of fate. For no rational reason, Meursault takes the life of an Arab, whom he does not wish to kill,
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A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens the writer of “A Christmas Carol” in my opinion has written the most beloved Christmas story of all time. The story is constructed with good well rounded characters. The story line is very
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Pride & Prejudice – book review
Love and Security Sometimes inspiration can come when you least expect it. A smile from a stranger or a song on the radio can ignite your imagination and instantly transport you to a different time and place. I recently
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White Fang – Book Review
White Fang is a Fictional story that was written by Jack London. This book is based in the late 1800’s, in the Canadian territory of Yukon, during the Klondike Gold Rush. I decided to read this book because I thought I would be something that
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Messenger by Lois Lowry
Messenger, by Lois Lowery, is about a boy named Matty and is set in futuristic times. Matty had come to Village six years ago after fleeing a life of hardship and poverty. In his old village he had a
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Book Review: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing Author(s): Al Ries & Jack Trout Publisher: HarperCollins, New York. 1993. 143 pages. Price: Rs.50. This book is dedicated to the elimination of myths and misconceptions from the marketing process. The authors dispel most of the commonly held beliefs and
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Abraham Lincoln: Public Speaker
The book I chose for my review was written by Waldo W. Braden on Abraham Lincoln’s ability as a public speaker. The popular opinion of Americans in Lincoln’s day was that he was a wonderful president, but a second-rate public speaker. In this book, the
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Night by by Elie Wiesel
When reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel, I found myself unable to put it down. The word unbelievable kept coming to mind when reading away. How a person of such young age could have that much willpower and courage is hard for me to
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All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren
Summary: All the King’s Men was written by Robert Penn Warren and published in 1946. It is about a politician named Willie Talos, who becomes the governor of a state somewhere in the South. The novel won the
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Stephen King’s “All That You Love Will Be Carried Away”
Stephen King’s “All That You Love Will Be Carried Away” is about a frozen food salesman Alfie Zimmer, who has to decide to either change his life and write a book or end his life by his own hand. He wants to
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“Tomorrow When The War Began” by John Marsden
In the tomorrow series by John Marsden, “Tomorrow when the war began,” seven friends, Ellie, Homer, Lee, Fi, Robyn, Corrie and Kelvin go through a number of devastating problems. There are friendships,
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Stephen Crane’s “The Blue Hotel”
Stephen Crane’s “The Blue Hotel” illustrates how we affect the out comes of reality by our preconceived notions of reality itself. Reality in the story was not definite, but it was in the characters minds.
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The Jungle – Analysis and Book Review
The Jungle Analysis: I feel extremely fortunate that as a whole, working families today do not experience as many tragedies as the characters in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle experienced during the beginning of the
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Foreshadowing in Moby Dick
During the “gams” between two ships in Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick, the communication- or lack thereof- between the ships often serves as foreshadowing of the Pequod’s ultimate demise.
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Death of a Salesman Review
Willy Loman’s death was caused by his inability to face reality and could have been avoided if he and his family had been honest with themselves regarding their shortcomings. Instead, they lived in a world of
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Review of “Transformation of War” by Martin Van Creveld
For around 200 years conventional armies and military professionals have been basing their doctrine of warfighting on the theories and writings of von Clausewitz in his book On War. In The Transformation of
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Esperenza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
On her parents’ vineyard in Mexico, Esperanza lives the life of a princess surrounded by the love of her family and servants. But on the eve of her thirteenth birthday, this dream is shattered when bandits kill her
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Philip Caputo, “A Rumor of War”
Philip Caputo was raised in Westchester, Illinois. He spent his fishing, hunting, and dreaming of “danger, challengers, and violence” (Caputo 5) in the Cook and DuPage County forest preserves. Tired of his dull