Books Compared

Description: Take reviewing a step further. Pick two books and compare them. Did you love one book and hate the other? Or love both despite (or because of) their differences? How was the subject matter similar? Did the authors come to radically different conclusions about the same topic? Were the subjects different but the authors' attitudes or styles intriguingly similar?

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Created: Mar 19, 2007 by margad; Language: English

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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People / Moby Dick 5slickdpdx, Monday 3:24pmignore
Slaughterhouse Five / Ode on a Grecian Urn 19margad, Monday 3:05pmignore
How to Compare and Contrast Two Books 2John, August 27ignore
Jane Eyre/Wuthering Heights 34bubamara21, August 4ignore
Robert Bolano and Jack Kerouac 12luxvk, July 21ignore
Harry Potter/Wizard's Hall 13mjreads, July 15ignore
Villette/House of Mirth 2margad, July 8ignore
The Mysteries of Udolpho & Twilight 2margad, July 3ignore
Girl,interrupted & One flew over the cuckoos nest 6margad, July 1ignore
Blood Meridian/The Road 29berthirsch, June 18ignore
Dystopian Literature 37margad, June 18ignore
A Handful of Dust / The Cherry Orchard 2margad, June 14ignore
A Virginia Woolf Trio 24milprad, May 27ignore
The Picture of Dorian Gray / Frankenstein 6margad, March 27ignore
House of Leaves/Moby Dick 17margad, March 11ignore
Hemingway and Le Carré (it rhymes!) 2margad, January 21ignore
Thomas de Quincey and Dickens 15jwhenderson, December 2008ignore
The Middle East: Novels 24lriley, August 2008ignore
Alias Grace and the French Lieutenant's Woman 5margad, June 2008ignore
Welcome New Members 1margad, June 2008ignore
What are you reading? 8margad, June 2008ignore
"The Double/Notes from the Underground" Dostoevsky 4margad, May 2008ignore
Embers/Gilead 13margad, May 2008ignore
Dean Koonts: Early and Late Works 3margad, May 2008ignore
Old-Fashioned Biographical Novels 3margad, April 2008ignore
Dormant: Migration - Banks/Levy 4margad, April 2008ignore
Dormant: McCullough, Philbrick (...and a smattering of Larson) 9Clueless, April 2008ignore
Dormant: Austen and Dickens 3margad, March 2008ignore
Dormant: Knight (Gene Wolfe) / Sword of Truth (Terry Goodkind) 3lewispike, March 2008ignore
Dormant: Diary/Rosemary´s Baby/"The Shadow over Innsmouth" 5margad, March 2008ignore
Dormant: Doctor Zhivago and Transit of Venus 9islandgalcal, March 2008ignore
Dormant: The POW Books, "The Special Prisoner" and "Day' 4margad, March 2008ignore
Dormant: The POW books, "The Special Prisoner" and "Day' 1michaelbartley, March 2008ignore
Dormant: The PO' 1michaelbartley, March 2008ignore
Dormant: His Majesty's Dragon (Naomi Novik) / Dragon Rider Series (Anne McCaffrey) 3elbakerone, February 2008ignore
Dormant: Journal of Curious Letters/Harry Potter 27margad, February 2008ignore
Dormant: Handmaid's Tale / Swallows of Kabul 4PghDragonMan, February 2008ignore
Dormant: The Quiet American / Bright Shining Lie 4berthirsch, February 2008ignore
Dormant: Small Introduction 25margad, February 2008ignore
Dormant: Kepler/Joan of Arc 12margad, January 2008ignore
Dormant: Hunger/The Arabian Nightmare 5margad, January 2008ignore
Dormant: Orwellian vs. Kafkaesque 34margad, January 2008ignore
Dormant: On the modernistic in Argentine literature. 27margad, January 2008ignore
Dormant: Shakespeare and Dickens 8MyLoveForAugustus, December 2007ignore
Dormant: City of Saints and Madmen / Viriconium 7ragwaine, December 2007ignore
Dormant: Silence of the Lambs/Heartsick 1margad, December 2007ignore
Dormant: Night / Man's Search for Meaning 6maggie1944, December 2007ignore
Dormant: Jane Eyre/Wide Sargasso Sea 12margad, December 2007ignore
Dormant: Lullaby/My Work is Not Yet Done 8CarlosMcRey, November 2007ignore
Dormant: How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read 21margad, November 2007ignore
Dormant: [A Thousand Splendid Suns] and [Grapes of Wrath] 2margad, November 2007ignore
Dormant: Home Before Dark/Dream Catcher 2margad, November 2007ignore
Dormant: Haunted/Hyperion/City of Saints and Madmen 8margad, November 2007ignore
Dormant: Notes On Mao: Jung Chang and Jon Halliday: "Mao, the unknown story"/Phillip Short: "Mao, a life" 2margad, October 2007ignore
Dormant: Lolita/Silence of the Lambs 38margad, October 2007ignore
Dormant: The Sound of Waves / Their Eyes Were Watching God 28keigu, October 2007ignore
Dormant: Ideas 16keigu, October 2007ignore
Dormant: Crime and Punishment/Tell-Tale Heart/Picture of Dorian Gray 3margad, October 2007ignore
Dormant: The groups ranking 7margad, October 2007ignore
Dormant: Choke / Odd Thomas 2margad, October 2007ignore
Dormant: Suttree/Tortilla Flat 15rufustfirefly66, October 2007ignore
Dormant: Robber Brides & Grooms: Eudora Welty vs. Margaret Atwood 3Nickelini, October 2007ignore
Dormant: 'Flowers of Algernon' and 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime' 21kiwidoc, October 2007ignore
Dormant: The Shining/Hour of the Wolf 4margad, October 2007ignore
Dormant: The Dharma Bums/Siddhartha/Altered States/Teddy 6berthirsch, October 2007ignore
Dormant: Dickens/Pasternak 19margad, October 2007ignore
Dormant: Richard Brautigan / Theodore Roethke 9TheresaWilliams, September 2007ignore
Dormant: Hurricanes/Catcher in the Rye 5margad, August 2007ignore
Dormant: Anna Karenina / War and Peace 33margad, August 2007ignore
Dormant: Remembrance of Things Past vs. In Search of Lost Time 4jhevelin, August 2007ignore
Dormant: Dracula/The Woman in White 33margad, July 2007ignore
Dormant: The Dante Club/ The Poe Shadow 8Bookmarque, July 2007ignore
Dormant: Brave New World/ Oryx and Crake 11Bookmarque, July 2007ignore
Dormant: Harry Potter and Animorphs 2margad, July 2007ignore
Dormant: Iran 19Existanai, July 2007ignore
Dormant: HP and TP 8margad, July 2007ignore
Dormant: Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War / What's the Matter with Kansas 2margad, July 2007ignore
Dormant: Octavian Nothing / Northanger Abbey 8margad, July 2007ignore
Dormant: McEwan [Spoilers] 3kiwidoc, May 2007ignore
Dormant: World War II Novels - Pick two 26writestuff, May 2007ignore
Dormant: Austen and Bronte 6margad, April 2007ignore
Dormant: Ishiguro/Ishiguro/Ishiguro/Ishiguro 18emily_morine, April 2007ignore
Dormant: A Woman in Berlin/Gone With The Wind 27Cateline, April 2007ignore
Dormant: Novels Compared 12margad, April 2007ignore
Dormant: Farthing by Jo Walton and The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 9geneg, April 2007ignore
Dormant: David Malouf 1margad, April 2007ignore
Dormant: Russia in the Stalin years. 38kencf0618, April 2007ignore
Dormant: Nabokov/Nabokov 17almigwin, April 2007ignore
Dormant: Goethe/Nabokov 10Cateline, April 2007ignore
Dormant: [Lonesome Dove] compared to [The Stand] (Spoilers for both novels) 8margad, March 2007ignore
Dormant: MacMillan: Paris-China 3John, March 2007ignore

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