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Our narrator's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list,...
An iconic novel of the west and an American masterpiece - a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past. Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined toa wheelchair by a crippling bone disease...
"Tom Cruise was the man in "The Last Samurai." He was so good at being a samurai! I bet he's awesome in this book too. Edit: This actually has nothing to do with Tom Cruise and that movie, although one character is fascinated by "The Seven Samurai...."
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"Charming book, but with many sections about esoteric subject matters (Inuit grammatical structure, theories of solid state transistors, etc.) that I easily and guiltlessly glossed over. The parts that I did read were evocative and well-written, th..."
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