Best American: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (Paperback)

from csweder

As I was reading the last few stories, I actually started to like them....but upon reading that a "one star" is "didn't like it" and "two stars" is "it was ok", I have no choice but to render a 1 star. This book was pathetic. The title: Best American Nonrequired Reading in 2006. If this is the B...

from csweder

As I was reading the last few stories, I actually started to like them....but upon reading that a "one star" is "didn't like it" and "two stars" is "it was ok", I have no choice but to render a 1 star. This book was pathetic. The title: Best American Nonrequired Reading in 2006. If this is the B...

from JBD1

Very much enjoyed the addition of the shorter pieces and lists as the first part of the anthology; this was pretty much the most interesting part of the book for me (if they did a whole volume just of that stuff, I'd be more than happy to read it). The 2005 Iraqi constitution (published here in f...

from ritaer

Uneven like most anthologies. Sad reminder that the US is still bogged in mistaken operations in the Middle East.

from MSarki

Four stars for the David Foster Wallace brilliance and the essay by Julia Sweeney was also the best I ever read on the topic of God, Catholicism, and Belief. Not much else worth reading for me, but those two definitely worth grabbing the book for.