4.21 avg rating — 839,429 ratings

"This is the most amazing story, a simultaneously captivating and comprehensive examination of the human condition, and just look at how it continues to inspire in the 2nd century after it's publication."

4.24 avg rating — 335,516 ratings

"Arguably the best book by a living American writer. Not one wasted word in more than 600 pages, though that is not clear until the end."

3.94 avg rating — 2,498 ratings

"Just a moving book about forgiveness, hope, resignation, the stages of mourning, wrapped in concepts of catholicism tat transcend the Papal bureaucracy the narrator represents. A narrative exmination of the personal Christianity at the core of institutional Catholicism. Any more would say too much. Read it."

4.57 avg rating — 233,988 ratings

"I have not just read this book more han once, i've read it once out loud, and it works really well."

4.41 avg rating — 210,378 ratings

"Just a big bold adventure story layered over some genuine history. The names have been changed to protct the copyright."

4.08 avg rating — 29,045 ratings

"What kind of adventure story would a naturalist and ecologist write? This kind, unfortunately -- as the very delayed sequel "Hayduke Lives!" suggests, a whole bunch of people got the wrong idea."

3.81 avg rating — 1,295,925 ratings

"This is simply a perfect story, more truthfully a short story than a novel by convention. On my bad days I just have to tell myself (SPOILIER COMING!!!)that somedays the sharks win "

3.69 avg rating — 93,110 ratings

"A splendid tale of compounded ironies, toppedoff with final redemption."

4.09 avg rating — 3,599 ratings

"Gag me! This book is so fnny I almost doused myself in camphor! "

3.98 avg rating — 14,201 ratings

"If there's a ever been a book to help us poor white boys internalize how cultral appropriation feels to Native Americans, this could be it."

4.11 avg rating — 192 ratings

"Knowing the circumstances in which Tess Gallagher wrote these poems, mourning even as she worked to perpetuate the late Raymond Carver's (her husbands place in American literature, really doesn't add mch to the grief, catharsis, and transformation which these poems offer."

4.20 avg rating — 2,505 ratings

"Perhaps te most emotionally evocative collection of poems which is so short."

4.41 avg rating — 41,253 ratings

"This book is about as close to general realism as any book can, rises to poetics without showing it off, and really captures the local clor of growing up in Alabama in the turbulent sixties, layered with a sort of magical realism which rarely surfaces itself, yet always seems to stir the surface of the plot"

4.29 avg rating — 1,607,692 ratings

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3.79 avg rating — 377 ratings

"Not only extremely funny, but very readableout loud, and it can take just a few hours."

4.16 avg rating — 120,860 ratings

"Simply he most terrifying book I've ever read -- and it is true!"