BusyDame

• Rated 5 stars

“I loved studying The Republic, but it's hard, even to reread it, on a hammock with a pina colada... ”

BusyDame wrote this review Friday, September 28, 2007. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“This is how you get to: "I think, therefore I am." You need a God who's an evil genius trying to fool us all with mathematics, a thorough distrust in the senses, and cup of tea by the fireplace. Don't let the title scare you... this meditation does not read like a text book.”

BusyDame wrote this review Friday, September 28, 2007. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“I read this book first for a class on Russian Contemporary Lit. and I absolutely loved it... or at least I loved studying it. Years later I reread it and found it to be quite confusing. Still, I think it's a very good novel- even if it's hard to understand the metaphors and historical references without a professor guiding you through it. ”

BusyDame wrote this review Tuesday, September 25, 2007. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“Great novel. I read it in high school first, then again a couple of years ago on a trip to Vietnam. The beginning of the book is one of the best written, imo.”

BusyDame wrote this review Tuesday, September 25, 2007. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“There aren't words to describe how good this book is. It's a crime that it isn't in The Canon. ”

BusyDame wrote this review Monday, September 24, 2007. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“My Favorite Jane Austen Novel.... and the novel "Clueless" was based on. ”

BusyDame wrote this review Tuesday, September 25, 2007. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“This book was a required read in a High School English Class I had when I was 16... and NO book tortured me more in High School. The only thing I remembered about reading it was that the Joads were driving for what seemed like forever. I was traveling in the north of Chile when I saw it in an English language book exchange. My boyfriend had a similar High School experience with the book, and because on this trip we would trade novels after finishing them to conserve weight, he urged me to put it back. I honestly have no idea why I refused. Needless to say, we both reread The Grapes of Wrath and we both consider it one of the greatest novels ever written. High school English teachers need to take their heads out of their asses before they ruin this beautifully written, in dialect, dark and voyeuristic epic for everyone.”

BusyDame wrote this review Tuesday, September 25, 2007. ( reply | permalink )

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• Rated 2 stars

“Two quotes by Charlotte Bronte about Jane Austen: "Miss Austen is only shrewd and observant." "...Can there be a great artist without poetry?" Some people love an author who will describe a scene for 7 pages- I'm not one of those people.”

BusyDame wrote this review Tuesday, September 25, 2007. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“I absolutely love this novel. I had to read aloud for the first 10 pages or so, but I caught on to the dialect fairly quick. ”

BusyDame wrote this review Sunday, September 23, 2007. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 2 stars

“Why does one of the leading cryptologists for the French police have to have Langdon walk her through every code she's cracking? How is it that a French girl is so mortified by seeing her grandfather have sex that she refuses to speak to him for 15 years?... for the love of God, she's FRENCH! And, besides the previous example, is it just me, or is every European in the book a stereotype?”

BusyDame wrote this review Tuesday, September 25, 2007. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink )