bookshelves: published-2015, radio-4, nonfiction, winter-20152016, dec-2015-free-for-all, forest, britain-wales, wales-black-mountains, how-to, art-forms Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from December 10 to 26, 2015 BOTWhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s8716Description: In 2012, Robe...
Warren is clearly out to impress with this novel, and mostly he does so, unfortunately at the cost of that evasive final stretch of insightfulness and humanity that separates the very good from the great: the feather in the cap of any novel that aims to be especially rewarding for dealing with the v...
My husband read this years before me and thought the author, Robert Penn Warren was too descriptive. I agree that some spots were descriptive but there was beauty in the words that made the book likable. I really felt for the main character Jack Burden, especially the flashback of his first love. ...
The title is a misnomer. Not that there aren't some wonderful stories here, but they were never really chosen because they're the best American short stories of the 20th century. Rather, these are Updike's 56 picks out of the 2,000 stories originally chosen in the 84 volumes of a yearly anthology pu...
My husband read this years before me and thought the author, Robert Penn Warren was too descriptive. I agree that some spots were descriptive but there was beauty in the words that made the book likable. I really felt for the main character Jack Burden, especially the flashback of his first love. ...
I actually liked this book a lot more than I expected. The opening chapter kind of put me off, but I pushed through, and I'm glad I did. The opening is a sort of Kerouac-ish, romanticized, stream-of-consciousness-ish, description of a road trip.But once I was past that, the story really picked up. I...
An American classic, this roman a clef about the life of Louisiana governor Huey Long should be required reading for everyone interested in American history, American political life or good writing. One of my all time favorites.
Considering I read this book for an independent study and I probably wouldn't have read it otherwise says a lot about what I think about this book. It has its moments, but a lot of the time it drags with side stories upon side stories. It is slow to get into, and it stays slow throughout. I mean the...
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