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Title: Checker and the Derailleurs (Contemporary American Fiction) by Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0-14-012058-0 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a second review from me.....
Comment: I just finished reading this book again, it's been a while. I forgot how good this book can make me feel. It reveals simple truths about life and human nature that should be obvious, but never are. Pain is as much a part of life as pleasure, and you must keep the two together. To quote the book, "You eat your pain. It is like cake, it is like butter. It is life as much as good times by river. You go to bed with your pain like woman. You laugh with your pain like old friend."
What other book ever taught me so much about noticing the beauty in the small, normal things; to recognize and be in awe of colors, sounds and sensations? I was hooked from the first few pages, when Shriver likens the band's music to a lava flow; a shock of recognition went through me. And what other book could so perfectly capture the necessary mixture of emotions that a group of 19 year olds feel, yet make it relate to anyone, of any age? This book makes me feel more alive every time I read it, it is my therapy. I notice that this book is out of print, it doesn't matter. SOMEONE has a copy, somewhere. FIND IT. READ IT.
Rating: 5
Summary: Completely amazing, read it NOW
Comment: I was given this book years ago, and now that I have a chance to review it, I feel I must. Wonderful story, detailed characters. I read this book at least once a month, and still can't get enough of it. I have found a new literary goddess. READ THIS BOOK!!
Rating: 5
Summary: GREATEST BOOK EVER!
Comment: Shriver's CHECKERS was the best novel I have ever read. Filled with amazing dialogue, true-to-life characters, and a realistic plot, I must say that Shriver ranks up their with the best of 'em!
Furthermore, if you do not forsake the time to DEVOUR this book, then you don't know WHAT you are missing. Do you want to live to rest of your life in REGRET for not reading such brilliant prose? NO! Shriver is second only to GOD if she is not The Divine Being already!
PS - Second to God not counting Michael Jordan and Warren Buffett, that is.
READ THIS BOOK!
Sincerely,
Tim Turner
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Title: The Bleeding Heart by Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0374114323 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Double Fault by Lionel Shriver, Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub Doubleday & Co ISBN: 0385488300 Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel by Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1582432678 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Family History by DANI SHAPIRO ISBN: 0375415475 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal: A Novel by Zoe Heller ISBN: 0805073337 Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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