The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

War stories are love stories. Boys unsaved, unburied, unremembered. Violent, emotional, harrowing stories, told and retold and told again, afterwards, of boys too young, too dead, too Vietnam.

19 Years of Reviews

From the very first paragraph, when she almost breaks her tooth on something hard that her mouth found in her peanut butter cupcake, Emily is interesting. Yes, she says yes to an engagement ring. But this is not another goofy romance in which the female not only saves the universeThe Coroner by Jennifer Graeser Dornbush read by Sophie Amoss

"Karp leaned back in his chair, swivelled to face the window, chewed on a pencil. Murrow, seeing this, left quietly, closing the door behind him. He knew these were the signs that Karp was entering Karpland . . ." as are we, God bless us, until Tanenbaum decides to makeAbsolute Rage by Robert Tanenbaum::Nick Sullivan

Grace, who practices psychiatry on Manhattan Island, relays a story about one of her patients to the interviewer from Vogue: At a very early point in their relationship, before they were married, her husband told her that she had ugly feet. She accepted this, and having accepted this one instance ofYou Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz read by Christina Delaine

Charming English tale about a newly divorced English mother with ungrateful children and a lying, wretched, smarmy ex-husband. She talks to her neighbor about renting her lovely old house, and finds a job selling pretty cottages for a land developer... Sweet tale about moving on.Moving On by Anna Jacobs read by Penelope Freeman

Painfully resonant, funny, wise: legacy. Whose legacy?: the immigrant's, the jew's, the orphan's, the escape artist's. Brilliantly performed by Christopher Lane with all the accents right: Bronx, Harlem, Brooklyn, Westchester, Polish, German and of course Santa Barbaran.Moving Day by Jonathan Stone Performed (!) by Christopher Lane

What starts off as a sweetly original, Jobs-like desire-mined story about a woman's relationship with the net: before and after marriage, turns into a stupid, GOOFY-Lucy-type plot about a wife and mother who tries to hide her need to be free from her straight laced and slightly idiotic husband. TooHacker Mom by Austin Rachlis

Deliciously understated English murder mysteries against a background of Hereford cows and curmudgeonly coppers. Here's a taste: Bastard, bastard, bloody stupid game! He beat the turf with his five iron and considered dispatching it after his golf ball into the undergrowth. Then he trudged on morosely, feeling the blood pounding inJ.M. Gregson: The Inspector Lambert Series

This short sharp tale of a dominant woman D.A. who loves political office far too well adds new personae to the genealogy of Cornwell's anger. Monique Lamonte, a moneyed, manipulative, Harvardy alpha female; Winn, her cop investigator pretty boy with a tarot-reading grandmother and a taste for Hugo Boss andAt Risk by Patricia Cornwell read by Kate Reading

"Let's start the day with a reminder of our boundaries, Henry." Indeed. But some boundaries are more forgettable than others... Consider, for example, the boundaries between Scarpetta and Marino... Posted By: admin () Date: 10/21/2004 5:11 pm Trace by Patricia Cornwell read by Kate Reading

Women are divisive. Among themselves and between their generations. Go to any academic women's conference and see for yourself. Or listen to Blair Brown's crisp, young, feminine voice reading The Senator's Wife. And listen for this divisiveness. In the pasteurized neighborly conversations of Miller's two women: the 37 year oldThe Senator's Wife by Sue Miller read by Blair Brown

What starts up as an Insider's Guide to storage in L.A. develops into a diary by Holden Caulfield's bitch-sister, grown up into another alienated and out of joint L.A. wife. Judith was a thoroughly unpleasant daughter with a borderline personality disorder of a father who grew tomatoes in NebraskaTo Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal narrated by Susan Boyce

In some possible Doris Day movie about a perky blonde secretary and a rich executive bachelor there is a perpetual secretarial pool typing out Nora Roberts novels in time to Sinatra or Liszt. There is no Nora Roberts. There is a pool of Nora Roberts, a herd of Nora Roberts,The Nora Roberts Pool

Insider's guide to Heists read with wet, phlegmy voice of "Jake Weber" who may also be Robertson Dean. Read it instead. Ghostman by Roger Hobbs

Hitachi's beautifully directed High Definition video series called True Stories features a segment on "Coal's Comeback". A bunch of old em·phy·se·mic grandpas are fishing, muttering into the wind, when the voice of Bruce No of Hitachi America announces that Supercritical Technology is the new generation of Coal, the cleanSister Mine by Tawni O'Dell read by Renee Raudman

There is more than one mystery here. First, how does one make sense of the handful of quotes from Plato's Republic which are scattered about this book like annoying commercials for a new Greek candidate? Especially when there is no candidate. Plato's ideas are credited with breeding aThe Fifth Vial read by Michael Palmer read by J. Charles