Vintage Books

Book Review: Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks

Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks is a well-written book. I still thinks of Mr. Hanks as a comedian, I was…

12 months ago

Book Review: Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander

The Israel/Palestine conflict, of course, can fill hundreds of books, but it goes to show the gray moral ambiguity of…

2 years ago

Book Review: Perfume by Patrick Süskind

This book is brilliant, insane and twisted – a grotesque fable, sometimes funny & beautifully written. Even my daughter came…

2 years ago

Book Review: Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima

Hanio Yamada sees no future for himself, so he puts an ad in the paper offering his life for sale.…

4 years ago

Book Review: Titans of History by Simon Sebag Montefiore

A nonfiction book of extremely short biographies of those people the author deemed as changing the world they lived in.…

6 years ago

Book Review: A Passion for Leadership by Robert M. Gates

Mr. Gates talks about transforming large organizations from the inside. He has previously been Directory of the CIA, president of…

6 years ago

Book Review: Walt Disney by Neal Gabler

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination is a well-researched biography which doesn’t put Disney on a pedestal, or…

9 years ago

Book Review: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone is a glorious family / medical saga covering multiple generations and locations. Marion, the narrator, is an…

14 years ago

Book Review: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis

Mr. Ellis tries to explain what cannot be explained – the paradox which is Jefferson. The contradictions between Jefferson’s written…

14 years ago

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