Others: Positive December 14, 2012. Sandy Hook Elementary School. We remember the numbers. We remember the names, the ages. And we remember the questions. Newtown: An American Tragedy is the definitive journalistic account -- not only of that horrific day but of the perfect storm of mental instability and obsession that preceded it and, in the aftermath of unspeakable heartbreak, the controversy that continues to play out on the national stage. Newtown breaks through a miasma of misinformation with its comprehensive and astonishing portrayal of an American tragedy.
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Q.B. Tyler
2019 · 296 pages · 10 reviews
Others: PositiveWhat do you do when the love of your life forgets? Not the good times. Not the love. Not the passion. But the pain and heartbreak and betrayal. He doesn’t remember that he broke my heart. But I do. He doesn’t remember the darkest parts of our marriage. He doesn’t remember that six months ago, I said goodbye. What do you do when the love of your life remembers your marriage but not your divorce?
David Cullen
2009 · 417 pages · 2 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveOn April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine." When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat Mafia; we think of Cassie Bernall, the girl we thought professed her faith before she was shot; and we think of the boy pulling himself out of a school window -- the whole world was watching him. Now, in a riveting piece of journalism nearly ten years in the making, comes the story none of us knew. In this revelatory book, Dave Cullen has delivered a profile of teenage killers that goes to the heart of psychopathology. He lays bare the callous brutality of mastermind Eric Harris, and the quavering, suicidal Dylan Klebold, who went to prom three days earlier and obsessed about love in his journal. The result is an astonishing account of two good students with lots of friends, who came to stockpile a basement cache of weapons, to record their raging hatred, and to manipulate every adult who got in their way. They left signs everywhere, described by Cullen with a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of police files, FBI psychologists, and the boy's tapes and diaries, he gives the first complete account of the Columbine tragedy. In the tradition of HELTER SKELTER and IN COLD BLOOD, COLUMBINE is destined to be a classic. A close-up portrait of hatred, a community rendered helpless, and the police blunders and cover-ups, it is a compelling and utterly human portrait of two killers-an unforgettable cautionary tale for our times.
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David Grossman
2017 · 201 pages · 4 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positive"A stand-up comedian recalls some of his darkest moments and traumatic memories from childhood on stage in front of a live audience"--
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Joan Didion
2011 · 188 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveIn this memoir, the author shares her observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent. It opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana's wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana's childhood, in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were missed or perhaps displaced. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept.
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Hanya Yanagihara
2008 · 736 pages · 14 reviews
Others: Mostly positiveA Little Life is a 2015 novel by American novelist Hanya Yanagihara. The novel was written over the course of eighteen months. Despite the length and difficult subject matter, it became a bestseller.
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Maynard Solomon
1977 · 400 pages · 1 review
Others: PositivePresents a comprehensive study of Beethoven, his career, and his music.
Loved itI think it's a really interesting book because it deals with things you know quite a short book in a fair amount of detail a fair amount of nuanced yeah I you know from attics I'm gonna say this but I cried in this book because parts of it are so goddamn sad
