Before he started writing this novel, Steinbeck conceived of it as a gift for his sons. He wrote:They are little boys now and they will never know what they came from through me, unless I tell them. It is not written for them to read now but when they are grown and the pains and joys have tousled th...
I did actually quite enjoy the story, but why on earth does Dan Brown feel compelled to work every piece of research he's done into the finished novel? (and wtf is an "anticyclonic vorticity spiral"?)
A book about 1980s real estate boondoggles. It could have been interesting. It wasn't.Jane Smiley's writing is very good (she is a Pulitzer prize winner), and even though I was bored listening to this audiobook, waiting for something interesting to happen (nothing really does, until the very end, an...
I expected more out of David Horwitz book. Although, it was a good read, I wouldn't call it great. Plus, it was dry in parts.