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Jessica Schneider is the Austin Cultural Events Examiner for Examiner.com. She writes for The Philadelphia Inquirer and has worked as the book editor of Monsters & Critics as well as being a co-founder of www.Cosmoetica.com
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Book Review: The Financier by Theodore Dreiser
While a well-written and excellent portrayal of greed, The Financier falls just slightly short of his great earlier novel, Sister Carrie.
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Book Review: The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll
A humorous, warm tale of Irish life in the Sixties.
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Book Review: Easter Parade by Richard Yates
If you’re looking for realistic, insightful approaches into life, read Yates.
A book worth the exploration, but given such lofty reputation, it is likely to leave one disappointed, even if only slightly.
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Book Review: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Ultimately readers are given tons of facts to digest and little on character development.
Norris makes it so you can believe people like this would exist, and such is the sign of an excellent writer.
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Book Review: Fame by Mark Rowlands
A rewarding, insightful and mind you… entertaining read. From a philosopher.
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Book Review: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
A great book — fresh in both prose style and social relevance, Sister Carrie deserves your readership.
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Book Review - The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The prison industry, the history, why it was the way it was, what went on in those places.
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Book Review: Say It Like Obama by Shel Leanne
Obama has reinforced the notion that the speech, in and of itself, can be its own work of art.
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