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1.		Time's Eye from Del Rey Customer Review: The premise is fascinating, some of the events described are delicious, but all in all, it just doesn't have the zing I used to get from an Arthur C. Clarke novel. After awhile I found myself speeding through the pages just to get to the end. I don't think I'll read the other two books in the... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		The Feast of Love (Vintage Contemporaries) (Vintage Contemporaries) from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review: Charles Baxter's The Feast of Love is a novel that should star Kevin Spacey in its movie version (a Google search just revealed the book was made into a movie last year; Kevin Spacey wasn't in it). Or at least the subdued Bradley W. Smith, whose narrative voice is central to a multi-voiced... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot (Art of...) from Graywolf Press Price: $9.60 Customer Review: I selected this book on a recommendation from a magazine and it has become a well worn reference in my library of how-to books. I recommend reading it through fast as you can, to get a feel for the concept. Then read it again for the depth. Subtexting sounds very techincal and cold, but the concept... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction from Graywolf Press Price: $10.20 Customer Review: I got this book for the chapter on epiphanies, which I read first, and it's a crock. Baxter makes sweeping generalizations about how epiphanies in fiction are supposedly over-worked contrivances, mass-marketing, verging on crass commercialism. Conflating epiphanies with insights, he rails... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge from Pyr Price: $10.87 Customer Review: It is pretty cool to new a good old fashioned )in series terms at least, not in contest) sf anthology series. The book starts well with a good introduction by Anders as to why he wants to do it, and some of his inspirations, including a quote from Pohl. There are also a couple of poems... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		The Soul Thief (Vintage Contemporaries) from Vintage Price: $11.16 Customer Review: Nathaniel Mason, a grad student in Buffalo, NY, in the 1970s, meets two emotionally unattractive and even vaguely repulsive people at a drink and drug fueled party one night, and the main narrative springs from there. Theresa enchants him with her free spirited ways, and Jerome Coolberg fascinates... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.	[no image]	Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life from University of Michigan Press Price: $65.00 Customer Review: Serious, well-written, thoughtful and engaging. For any writer who seriously wants to pursue the craft of fiction, this is a must.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		The Light of Other Days (Nova Audio Books) from Nova Audio Books Customer Review: Another excellent sci-fi plot and premise. A total "what-if" scenario that opens your eyes and expands your mind. As a writer in this genre, I strive like Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, to reach readers on a personal level. Certainly, uncovering the truth throughout history would be a... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		First Light (Contemporary American Fiction) from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $13.50 Customer Review: I feel that the praise for this novel, particularly on this site, has been somewhat extravagant. Though it is a decent first novel, it pales in comparison to Baxter's later work, which I read before reading this. I'm a huge fan of Baxter, however, I found the book anticlimactic and consequently... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		A Relative Stranger: Stories from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $11.70 Customer Review: I think it was Raymond Carver who was touted as being one of the writers responsible for "reviving" the lost art of the short story. Carver was an astonishing writer, an author capable of throwing his two cents in but making them look like one. He joins, for my money, writers like O'Connor and Ford... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Shadow Play: A Novel from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $11.20 Customer Review: Not one of Mr. Baxter's best known books, but a big hit with our group.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Through the Safety Net: stories from Vintage Price: $11.90 Customer Review: This lyrical, intensely personal collection of short stories mines the depths of simple souls in various stages of turmoil. A couple struggling with the death of their baby, a man painting his way out of the drudgery of his misspent life and into the melancholoy colors of old age, a young man intent... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.	[no image]	Government And Politics In South Asia from Westview Press Customer Review: This is a well written book.It is both factual and concise.It would be suitable for both undergraduate and even graduate courses on South Asia as a broad based primer encompassing relevant political,economic and social facts about an increasingly important region which is host to a population... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Believers: A Novella and Stories from Vintage Books Price: $11.05 Customer Review: Charles Baxter has been called "the writer's writer", and for good reason. I think all struggling writers trying to hone their craft envy the literary songs that Baxter sings, including myself. He always has a knack for bringing to life characters that in real life I would care nothing about. This... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Kelp Forests (Monterey Bay Aquarium Natural History Series) from Monterey Bay Aquarium Press	Click here for more information


16.		A Frieze of Girls: Memoirs as Fiction (Sweetwater Fiction: Reintroductions) from University of Michigan Press/Regional Price: $13.77 Customer Review: Allan Seager is an incredibly under-rated writer. I came across one of his short stories in an issue of McSweeney's and have been trying to get my hands on as much of his stuff as I can (sometimes tough as all but this book have been out of print for quite some time). There is a tenderness and... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Ploughshares Fall 1999 : Fiction Issue from Ploughshares Books Price: $9.95	Click here for more information


18.		Best New American Voices 2001 (Best New American Voices) from Harvest Books Customer Review: I read the 2000 Best New American Voices and was a bit disappointed. A friend highly recommended the 2001 BNAV, however, and I'm so glad she did. Like the first reviewer I was also very impressed with Roompa Bhattacharyya's "Loss"... after I was finished reading the entire anthology, I found myself... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Saul and Patsy from Thorndike Press Price: $29.95 Customer Review: Hurray! Charles Baxter didn't let me down. Saul and Patsy were really back, a little older, still struggling with life. The thing I love most about Baxter's writing - no big analysis on why a character behaves as he does. He or she just is. Just like life. And no one writes truer about life than... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Glimmer Train Stories #39 from Glimmer Train Pr Inc Price: $9.95	Click here for more information

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