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Take a walk along the Appalachian Trail with Bill Bryson for a hilarious and fascinating experience as only he can tell it! I enjoyed this book so much..you will feel as if you are taking this hike yourself! Every real moment of it! Read it!
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This book will tickle your funny bone. Sure to bring a great response as a gift, it is full of surprising factual material...You will laugh at these hilarious sexual predicaments..and feel better about yours!
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This book is wonderfully seductive. The reader is led into Victorian London, a reality vastly different from the usual historical representations. Images of the desperately poor and of the prostitutes and their clients are rendered in such clarity that one's senses are stirred powerfully. Description is so rich that the most obscure details leap from the shadows as the writer zooms in with his deft pen. One is drawn immediately into the world of Sugar and the other prostitutes as they try to escape their brutal circumstances. It is a brilliant sociological comment on the trade in flesh, thoroughly researched and unforgettable. Don't miss this book. Once you start reading, you will not put it down.
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
vailtorres, July 9, 2007
Take a walk along the Appalachian Trail with Bill Bryson for a hilarious and fascinating experience as only he can tell it! I enjoyed this book so much..you will feel as if you are taking this hike yourself! Every real moment of it! Read it!(7 of 12 readers found this comment helpful)
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson
vailtorres, December 6, 2006
This book will tickle your funny bone. Sure to bring a great response as a gift, it is full of surprising factual material...You will laugh at these hilarious sexual predicaments..and feel better about yours!(6 of 12 readers found this comment helpful)
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
vailtorres, October 6, 2006
This book is wonderfully seductive. The reader is led into Victorian London, a reality vastly different from the usual historical representations. Images of the desperately poor and of the prostitutes and their clients are rendered in such clarity that one's senses are stirred powerfully. Description is so rich that the most obscure details leap from the shadows as the writer zooms in with his deft pen. One is drawn immediately into the world of Sugar and the other prostitutes as they try to escape their brutal circumstances. It is a brilliant sociological comment on the trade in flesh, thoroughly researched and unforgettable. Don't miss this book. Once you start reading, you will not put it down.(14 of 22 readers found this comment helpful)