Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying
 Author: James Salter Author: Mary Gaitskill Author: David Sedaris Author: Roald Dahl Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 387 EAN: 9781890447519 ISBN: 189044751X Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2009-05-19 [... more]
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AN EXTRAORDINARY GRIPPING NOVEL: I had never heard of James Salter... from the first page I knew I had made an investment of extraordinary value. Yes, it's about flying, but more than that, it's about the people in and around the airplanes. Writing about [... more]
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Last Night
Terrible.: Like a few of the other disillusioned reviewers I made the mistake of reading this turd masquerading as dark chocolate. It is true that Salter can write, that much is obvious. But after suffering through Last Night, in hope of vindicating the [... more]
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Bald Ego No. 3
Author: Amiri Baraka Author: Richard Price Author: James Salter Author: Stephen Mueller Author: Bob Holman Author: David Johansen Author: John Lurie Author: Sam Matamoros Author: James Nares Author: Iris Owens Author: Jamani Perry Author: Michelle [... more]
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Light Years
One dissenting voice: I just could not get into this book. The pace is glacially slow, and the voice painful -- there is a singsong quality that is so sappy I just couldn't read on. I seem to be in the minority here, so my suggestion to you is to read [... more]
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Solo Faces: A Novel
Ironies of lonely heroism: James Salter's novel tells the story of Rand, a solitary man in his late 20s, with a fatal attraction to mountain climbing. We meet him on a hot, hazy day doing a roofing job on a church in Los Angeles. Quiet, focused, he [... more]
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AN EXTRAORDINARY GRIPPING NOVEL: I had never heard of James Salter... from the first page I knew I had made an investment of extraordinary value. Yes, it's about flying, but more than that, it's about the people in and around the airplanes. Writing about [... more]
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The Young Lions
A true classic of men at war.: This is truly one of the great novels dealing with World War Two. Throughout, the novel switches perspectives from that of a German lieutnant to an American private. The story begins shortly before the outbreak of war, and [... more]
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The Hunters: A Novel
A gem.: This book had been sitting on my shelf a while and may have gone unread forever, but I checked the Amazon reviews and found it to have received only praise all across the board. Well, I just finished reading the book, and can now add my own [... more]
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Gods of Tin: The Flying Years
A Wonderful Collection: This was my introduction to James Salter and it was the book that made me interested in his writing. One of the wonderful aspects about Gods is not simply that it contains Salters wonderful writing, but also that the editors have [... more]
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Dusk and Other Stories
Amazon.com Review: This short-story collection won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award for James Salter, author of Solo Faces and A Sport and A Pastime. Here, Salter's themes are memory and loss, the demands of honor and the inherent betrayals of sexual [... more]
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Burning the Days: Recollection
Amazon.com Review: As more and more reminiscences spill down the literary chute, it's clear that the Age of the Memoir has not yet abated. The harvest has been a mixed one, of course. For every Frank McCourt or Mary Karr or Tobias Wolff, there seem to be [... more]
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