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Susan Scharfman's Articles in Book-Reviews

  • Book Review - The Secret
    The book and video are flying off the shelves. Oprah Winfrey embraces its creator and its protagonists wax prophetic. Even Newsweek Magazine offers a fair assessment of "The Secret". That "The Secret" professes to being the law of attraction not only is not a secret, the law of attraction has been known by many names, by countless numbers for countless centuries. So why is the new and brilliantly marketed incarnation attracting so many to it today? The answer is that people are always looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow-The American Dream.
  • Book Review: Hemingway—A Life Without Consequences
    Book Review: Hemingway—A Life Without Consequences James R. Mellow ISBN 0-201-62620-9 Houghton Mifflin 1992Until I read this three-dimensional biography of the American writer who taught the modernists how to write, I thought I knew all I wanted to know about Ernest Hemingway. It's all in his literature; it's all in the press and the archives, I thought. But I did not find the man I thought I knew in this biography by James Mellow. Eureka! Biographer James Mellow is as much an artist of life history as the artists he writes about.
  • Book Reviews: Part II-To The Ends of the Earth With Paul Theroux and Peter Matthiessen
    Admittedly tired of his role as famous writer working in his home/office on the next award-winning book, Paul Theroux can't wait to get away from faxes, Internet and cell phones. He met his wife while teaching in Africa forty years ago; he has history there. What he finds on his return journey is that things change, while some things never change.
  • Book Reviews: Part I—To The Ends of the Earth With Peter Matthiessen and Paul Theroux
    Peter Matthiessen and Paul Theroux have a commonality close to my own restless heart. Moving about the earth by any means available, especially on their own two feet, they are travel writers, novelists and explorers of themselves and the world around them. Though different in age and temperament, both writers possess the necessary prerequisite for the ultimate explorer—courage. Both writers have the uncanny knack of involving the reader to the extent he or she transcends the genre. The joy lies in experiencing the journey to the fullest regardless of whether it is a novel or non-fiction. Often hard to tell the difference, I was happy to go along for the ride on both adventures. Here is the first.

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