Member Reviews
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Teri LaFlesh talks about
by PJ Campbell
Thank you thank you thank you to PJ for writing this book! I am waiting for a book of mine to be published in Spring, and I've been filled with questions like a giant balloon. But at the same time, I...
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Michael Anthony talks about
“There are plenty of books about war, usually featuring the trigger-pullers who directly engage the enemy. Mass Casualties looks at war from a different angle, that of those who try to save the...
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FOLA mordecai talks about
by Yuyi Morales
it good to oneself
and it more satisfying when one gather round the people we know
instead of neglecting them,claiming frivolous excuses
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Michael Anthony talks about
“Michael Anthony writes in the tradition of Joseph Heller and Richard Hooker, demystifying the theater of war and revealing our soldiers to be all-too-human figures -- comic and petty, but sometimes...
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Michael Anthony talks about
“If you are afraid of the TRUTH don’t read this book. SPC Michael Anthony’s personal experience of WAR has no censor. Reading his book is a journey into the battlefields of death, sex, and the loss...
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Michael Anthony talks about
“Compelling. Frank. Funny. Disturbing. Michael Anthony loses his innocence in a slow motion train wreck you can’t help but watch. Mass Casualties opens up a brand new conversation on the War in Iraq...
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Michael Anthony talks about
“Mass Casualties is a raw, vivid look at the realities behind the daily news about American soldiers overseas. Michael Anthony’s voice has the rough-edged honesty of the best reporting on combat. You...
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Michael Anthony talks about
“A scathing, satirical and often shocking trip through “the other war” in Iraq—the war within the U.S. Army, and within a soldier’s soul. Michael Anthony’s memoir is the perfect antidote for anyone...
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Mel Menzies talks about
by Mel Menzies
Skilfully handled, interlinking present tense narrative with third/past point of view – and oh boy, how it adds texture and dimension! Characterisation is strong and well balanced. I am, as you’ll...
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Ann Seymour talks about
This powerful book could be written about alcoholics, compulsive gamblers, and any number of other addicts. When you live with a compensated addict, that is, one who can function and disguise his...
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Hank Quense talks about
by Hank Quense
Tales from Gundarland is an action packed, comical roller coaster. This wonderfully developed land with its inhabitants is a refreshing get away from the world we live in. All of the multiple...
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Charles A. Ray talks about
Wonderful book! I ordered 3 copies (which arrived quickly) and will re-order for gifts. I think if our current President Bush had had YOUR grandmother, we wouldn't be in the pathetic mess we're in...
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Pat Montandon talks about
I start to read the book with the dictionary near.And...The book swallowed me absolutely,or I have swallowed the book.(It's impossible to say now!)But i really was not able to stop at least for to...
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Larry R. Smith talks about
by Amy Tan
I've been reading Amy Tan and teaching her in my college classes for about 8 years now, and she's always voted the "favorite reading" among my students who relate to her many characters and her art...
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former member talks about
Salman Rushdie's classic book, Midnight's Children, is finally going to be made into a movie.
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie's panoramic 1981 allegory of the birth of modern India, is...
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lynn liccardo talks about
This is a title that I could not resist when choosing books for the Housewarming Party prize. It is a book meant to be read many times. During the first pass, so many of these six-word memoirs will...
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Michael Anthony talks about
“Though riddled with dark, very dark, humor, Mass Casualties is “MASH” absent the light-heartedness. Michael Anthony’s account of his months as a medic in Iraq chillingly describes how the casualties...
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Frank Sanello talks about
from HubPagesA Brilliant New Look at the Private Life and Perversions of Adolf Hitlerby Christopher Antony Meade United Kingdom Hub AuthorFinally a great novel of the twenty first century and about...
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jitu rajgor talks about
Very interesting book.I read this book last week. Hosseini's writing is lucid and clear to the topic. Great work.
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Jack Varnell talks about
by Jack Varnell
By Leila A. Fortier
To read Jack Varnell is to listen to the inner rambling thoughts of contemplation of the world around you. From the making of the inanimate to the the very fiber of interpersonal...
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