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1.The White Tiger: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by: Aravind Adiga October 14, 2008
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This book was simply amazing. Adiga put together a fascinating portrait of a city, some beautiful dark comedy, but what absolutely made me unable to put down this book was the voice of the main character. This is a "told" story. In a letter to a Chinese official coming to visit Bangalore, Balram unfolds the story of his life, and it is just utterly perfect. I generally don't prefer this kind of story-telling, but Aravind Adiga did it without a single misstep, and the book reads so smoothly. This book was dark, it was funny, it addressed both great truths and small lies, and it offered the reader a peek at a different world. I can't recommend this book enough.

2.The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (Oprah Book Club #62) by: David Wroblewski September 19, 2008
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I am disappointed once again with a hyped-up book. I thought it would be a beautiful story about a mute boy and his beloved dogs, but it wasn't! The first part was all I'd hoped I'd be reading until the whole thing turned south. Instead of being a beautiful story, it rather quickly turned dark and ugly, and became a haunting tragedy. I don't like misery and disheartening sadness, and want to know ahead of time if that's what a book is. This one was represented to be something wonderful, and it was anything but that, apart from the wonderful way he gave the dogs personality. If he'd stayed with that, he would have written a spectacular novel. When people say they hated for it to end, what on earth were they enjoying? The author could have written such a marvelous story, as he started to in the ... Read More

3.A Fraction of the Whole by: Steve Toltz September 23, 2008
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This is a GREAT story. Not great as in "cool", but great as in EXCELLENT! Whilst reading, towards the end, I did think the story was "carrying on a bit" but when I had finished - the length was just perfect - PERFECT like so much of the writing, and the characters, and the story. I was trying to write a novel before reading this GREAT work of novel writing - I am delaying my writing by at least five years - I need to read a lot more novels - I know I will NEVER be able to write as well as Steve Toltz - not if I study and read other novels FOREVER. WELL DONE STEVE - a great novel and a great read - great as in EXCELLENT! THE great World novel by an AUSTRALIAN - well done indeed.

4.Sea of Poppies: A Novel by: Amitav Ghosh October 14, 2008
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From 19th Century India to the Opium Wars in China, this complexly plotted book is a fascinating historical adventure that illustrates why Ghosh is one of today's premier writers.

5.What Was Lost: A Novel by: Catherine O'Flynn June 24, 2008
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Catherine O'Flynn does such a good job of delaying important information about characters and their situation that it is almost impossible to review her fine first novel, WHAT WAS LOST, without giving something away. Let me just say that it is set near Birmingham, England, and involves two time periods, 1984 and 2003. In the first, we meet a ten-year-old girl, Kate Meaney, and her older friend Adrian. Kate leads a fantasy life as a detective, mostly observing people at the huge Green Oaks Mall. Though a college graduate, 22-year-old Adrian works behind the counter in his father's newsagent's shop; he is inspired by Kate's energy, but also seems to have a special understanding of her loneliness. The 2003 sections are set almost entirely in the Mall. The two chief characters there are Lisa, who ... Read More

6.Netherland: A Novel by: Joseph O'Neill May 20, 2008
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I couldn't even finish this book. I found it hard to stay engaged and REALLY found it hard to pretend that I even liked (or understood) the game of cricket. I am glad that this was a library book instead of a purchase.

7.The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by: Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows July 29, 2008
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a charming trip into post WWII England and the Channel Islands. Much as you would hang by your mailbox waiting for a letter from a friend, you are caught up in the correspondence mode of writing, as the story is told through letters. Similar to the BBC film Island at War, PPPie is about the German occupation of the Channel Islands. The characters are heartwarming, and memorable. I have given several books to friends who are also in reading discussion groups...which border on "ladies who read and eat". It went down like tuna noodle casserole and a cup of tea.

8.The Clothes on Their Backs by: Linda Grant 2008-01
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This novel, which made it to the Man Booker short list, is uneven and not nearly as good as other novels on the list, like Barry's "The Secret Scripture and Adiga's "The White Tiger" (which won the prize). Grant is skillful at characterization, and almost all of the characters in "The Clothes on Their Back" are interesting, particularly Sandor, the slumlord uncle who escapes the Holocaust and then communist Hungary but can't escape his own nature. But the plot that draws the disparate characters together is thin, particularly the narrator Vivian's involvement with an alienated young punk who has a room in her uncle's apartment house. The narrator keeps pointing out that the two of them are only together for the sex, as if repeatedly trying to explain why these two would spend time together at all. Some scenes seem like a ... Read More

9.The Northern Clemency by: Philip Hensher October 30, 2008
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In 1974, the Sellars brood leaves hip London for suburban ennui in Sheffield in the inappropriately named South Yorkshire as they trek to the north. The two Sellars sisters, reticent Francis and extroverted Sandra are concerned that life in the burbs will prove boring as the former loves music and the latter loves swinging London. Their neighbors, the Glover family consists of two parents and three kids. Patriarch Malcolm is outraged when he finds evidence that his wife Katherine is having an affair. As for the children, bookworm Jane conceals from everyone she is writing a novel; Daniel's brain consists of one icon sex with any carbon bearing species; and the youngest preadolescent Tim is friendlier with snakes than people. One decade later, the kids are away from home either at universities or ... Read More

10.The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by: Sebastian Barry August 01, 1999
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I was hesitant to read this book despite the recommendation of a friend and despite the accolades written here. How foolish. Reading this book was like sinking into a great mattress. I was near hypnotized by the beauty of the text which simply flowed. At times I was so overcome that I had to put the book down, the sadness of it all is wrenching. But never is the book depressing or is it hateful while describing the hate that people so easily engender. This is an extraordinary work.

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