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| PRINCIPAL AUTHOR |
TITLE (Linked to review) |
RATING (0-5) |
REVIEW DATE |
ONE-LINE DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffett, Jimmy | A Salty Piece of Land | 5.0 | 2/02/2013 | Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett provides another eclectic tale about how friends get you through the rough patches life throws at you — oh, and about pirates. |
| Clark, Walter Van Tilburg | The Ox-Bow Incident | 5.0 | 10/19/2012 | Walter Clark's classic western tale remains thoroughly enjoyable. |
| Clavell, James | Shōgun | 5.0 | 4/06/2011 | A crackling good tale, based on real history, of intrigue and battles in medieval Japan. |
| Dickens, Charles | Hard Times | 4.0 | 10/19/2005 | Although depressing, this is a worthwhile read of how the industrial revolution affected the English midlands. |
| Fallaci, Oriana | A Man (Un Uomo) | 5.0 | 11/04/2002 | A novel based on the life of Alexandros Panagoulis, leader of a revolt against the Greek dictator George Papadopoulos |
| Fallaci, Oriana | Letter to a Child Never Born | 5.0 | 1/27/2002 | In this short novel, Fallaci explores the dilemma of a career woman pregnant out of wedlock. |
| Lederer, William | The Ugly American | 5.0 | 2/06/2011 | Fictional in only the narrowest sense, this famous novel by Lederer & Burdick lays bare the reasons behind the failures of America's battle against communism in Southeast Asia during the twentieth century. |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird | 5.0 | 8/17/2012 | Everyone should read this classic evocation of America's mid-twentieth-century south. |
| Mykel, A. W. | The Salamandra Glass | 5.0 | 8/13/2012 | Mykel has penned a taut thriller involving sinister organizations that spawned out of World War 2. |
| Pohl, Frederik | Chernobyl | 5.0 | 4/26/2010 | Veteran science-fiction author Pohl brings the 1986 Chernobyl disaster home in this gripping dramatization. |
| Shute, Nevil | A Town Like Alice | 5.0 | 4/27/2011 | One of Shute's most engaging novels, about a plucky Englishwoman and her adventures in Malaysia during World War II as a prisoner of the Japanese — and her even more eventful life afterward. |
| Shute, Nevil | On the Beach | 4.5 | 4/17/2010 | This novel of Shute's is his most familiar, at least in America. It is well-written, but I found its tone of resignation depressing. |
| Shute, Nevil | Beyond the Black Stump | 5.0 | 1/27/2013 | Australia's outback provides the backdrop for another competent but unremarkable novel from former engineer Shute. |
| Stone, Irving | The Origin | 5.0 | 9/15/2012 | Another fine biographical novel from the pen of Irving Stone, capturing the life of Charles Darwin. |
| Watson, William H. | Made in America? | 4.0 | 3/09/2014 | Mr. Watson's first novel explores in an entertaining way the rise of China on the world's economic stage. |
| The books are rated from 0 to 5 in increments of 0.5. Colors represent the following quality ranges: | ||||
| 4.0 to 5.0 | Quality: | HIGH | (Color = Aqua) | Competent to exceptional; well worth the money |
| 2.0 to 3.5 | Quality: | FAIR | (Color = Lime) | Useful despite some flaws; may or may not be worth buying. |
| 0.5 to 1.5 | Quality: | POOR | (Color = Yellow) | Seriously flawed; read it if you wish, but don't buy it. |
| 0.0 to 0.0 | Quality: | YUCK | (Color = Fuchsia) | Avoid this book at all costs! |
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