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1.		Tree of Smoke: A Novel from Picador Price: $10.88 Customer Review: I can't resist novels about Vietnam. And this 1997 book had absolutely rave reviews. It even won the National Book Award. Reviewers called it a masterpiece. I just HAD to read it. Now, 702 pages later, I'm sorry I did. This book was just plain awful. And the only satisfaction I got out of slogging... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Jesus' Son: Stories from Picador Price: $10.40 Customer Review: Although Denis Johnson's JESUS' SON is often compared to Charles Bukowski, I think this is profoundly unfair to Johnson; he is a far better writer. The two writers feature similar characters in their stories, but Johnson has a gift for language that has seldom been seen. His is the art of the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Angels: A Novel from Harper Perennial Price: $10.36 Customer Review: There was one thing I completely neglected to remember about Bill Houston while reading Mister Johnson's magnificent Tree of Smoke so I read it a second time and there it was again, larger than life: this same dude was already dead by the end of Johnson's first novel. I remember reading Angels years... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Fiskadoro from Harper Perennial Price: $11.05 Customer Review: What is a culture without a collective memory? When the structures of a society have collapsed what good is information or knowledge? They are useless, according to Denis Johnson's post-apocalyptic novel Fiskadoro. Like most novels set after some great, world destroying event, the characters in... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Already Dead: A California Gothic from Harper Perennial Price: $11.86 Customer Review: Denis Johnson gives us, in Already Dead, a fascinating look into the dark side of the human condition. Criminals. Land owners. Drifters. Cops. Three dogs. ... Denis Johnson attacks interesting questions with stylistic prose and subtle humor. The book is sometimes frightening. Sometimes scarey and... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New from Harper Perennial Price: $11.90 Customer Review: I love this collection so much I put one of the poems (The Flames) on my ceiling in black marker so I could read it before going to sleep.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Resuscitation of a Hanged Man from Harper Perennial Price: $11.16 Customer Review: Throughout the book I kept waiting for the book to redeem itself, and that redemption never came. It clearly was trying too hard to be "deep" and postmodern, exemplified by the introduction itself: "He came there in the off-season. So much was off. All bets were off. The last deal was off. His... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond from Harper Perennial Price: $11.86 Customer Review: Johnson is one of those authors whose novels I've picked up at bookstores and skimmed the jackets of countless times, but never reached the point of actually buying. However, this collection of eleven essays caught my attention and I figured I could dip into it for a brief taste of his writing. For... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House from Tin House Books Price: $16.95	Click here for more information


10.		The Name of the World: A Novel from Harper Perennial Price: $10.36 Customer Review: It took me months to finish this book. Not because I'd pause to ponder or want to let an emotion roll through me but because I could find nothing valuable in the book. And I looked. It follows a flat, emotionally shallow protagonist supplemented by a stereotyped, "typical male fantasy" female... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Nobody Move: A Novel from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $14.96	Click here for more information


12.		The Incognito Lounge: And Other Poems from Carnegie-Mellon University Press Price: $14.95 Customer Review: I have never honestly even tried to read a lot of poetry but I can tell you that the few poems I do like are probably as good as anything I've ever read elsewhere. Even parts of some of these can take a bite out of me. Like for instance the italicised opening section of The Confession of St.... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Tiger Patterns: A Guide to the Vietnam War's Tigerstripe Combat Fatigue Patterns and Uniforms (Schiffer Military / Aviation History) from Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Price: $52.46 Customer Review: The information in this book is edifying, but for an educated reader it can be tough going. I find it painful to read a book where the publisher has not invested the energy to make sure that apostrophes are placed correctly. The text of this book is sadly about on the level or many greengrocers'... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Darwinism Defeated? from Regent College Publishing Price: $13.57 Customer Review: I give this a five not because of the quality of the essays, but as a recommendation to read the book. Some of the essays are excellently crafted; others horribly so. But this book gives a very good overview of the quality of the arguments out there, by the proclaimed best in the respective... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		The Stars at Noon from Harper Perennial Price: $10.80 Customer Review: This is easily some of Johnson's best work. Granted, it's short, and there may not be enough space to develop such an ambitious story in such a setting, but I think he selects all the right details. One sentence is enough to bring some strange corner of a horrifyingly corrupt city into focus(...).... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Train Dreams from Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verla	Click here for more information


17.	[no image]	Tree of Smoke 1ST Edition from FARRAR STRAUS & @ GIROUX	Click here for more information


18.		Shoppers: Two Plays by Denis Johnson from Harper Perennial Price: $12.95 Customer Review: You have to hand it to the author, he's found a rich vein of critically acclaimed theater to ape in his debut as a playwright. These two plays, with shared characters between them, pluck some of the most pleasing tropes of Sam Shepherd's more cogent writing (criminal brothers, abusive mothers,... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Models of Visuospatial Cognition (Counterpoints) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $55.00	Click here for more information


20.	[no image]	THE VEIL (Knopf Poetry Series) from Knopf	Click here for more information

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