The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: Library Edition

from agnesmack

This book was amazing. I'm going to have trouble with this recap because three of the books I've read this year have been books I want to force on people; shove them down their throat and make them eat the goodness! I doubt I'll get anyone I know to read this because while it's fairly long (636 p...

from HeikeM

now this is a book I won't forget for quite some time. It took a couple of weeks to read - it has 636 pages filled with a very small font size, so it needs daylight and a lot of time - but the rewards are immense. It is one of the most beautifully written books I have read - and I've read a lot. ...

from kambrogi

Although I resisted when my sister thrust this on me several years ago (something about the cover put me off), I am horrified now to think I might have missed this marvelous book. It is one of my all-time favorites, a tale of New York in its heyday just before WWII and beyond. It begins in Prague...

from zot79

I keep thinking that a five star review is supposed to be reserved for a 'perfect' book. I wanted Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Kavalier and Clay" to be such a thing. And for a while I thought it might be. Alas, there is no such thing as a perfect book. This might not be the 'Great Ame...

from heathernkemp

Rating: A+ What can you say about this book? They don't just go giving out Pulitzer Prizes to bad books. This book is superbly fantastic. I loved all the characters (some a little more than others), but all in all they were all lovely. The only drawback was that (because I loved some characters m...