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Title: White Lotus by John Hersey ISBN: 1-56849-532-3 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Inc Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Read several times
Comment: I first read White Lotus when I was in high school (and that's been awhile). I have read this book three times and would read it again. It's a book I would like to pass on to my grandchildren. I enjoyed it thoroughly. (Now all I have to do is find another copy). Instead of requiring Shakespeare in school, maybe this book should be required reading. It would sure keep a teenager's interest better. I think it should be marked as a classic and be reprinted. I'll be first in line.
Rating: 5
Summary: Disturbing
Comment: This is absolutely the best fictional work about slavery and emancipation I have ever read--eat your heart out, Toni Morrison.
Although Hersey offers very little explanation about how the world got to be the way it was in the book (how would a nation ravaged by smallpox be able to successfully prosecute a war?), he spares no detail concerning how white slaves could fit into Chinese culture.
And yet, the book is not prophetic; it is simply a good read for anyone who is interested in a fresh look at an old issue.
Rating: 5
Summary: This one will make you think...
Comment: I first encountered this book in college, which is (presumably) a radical time in anyone's life. As a student of anthropology, I was being confronted with a number of issues, and this book pretty much served as the wrecking ball which finally destroyed my old opinions regarding race and gender in any given society--and thank heavens for that! This book made me laugh and cry and, most importantly, think. I know it made me a more conscious member of society, and maybe that's what the author set out to do, in addition to simply telling an incredibly gripping tale. In any case, this one is more than worth the effort it takes to track it down. In any age, this one is a classic.
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Title: Hiroshima by John Hersey ISBN: 0679721037 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Wall by John Hersey ISBN: 0394756967 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 1988 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) by Carson McCullers ISBN: 0618526412 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 21 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Angels & Demons by Dan Brown ISBN: 0671027360 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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