A Dry White Season: 414 reviews Andre Brink Penguin (Non-Classics), 1984 A harrowing novel + Amazing story teller! + My own opinions as a high school reader. + to widen your scope + Gripping but dated fiction             Anna Karenina (Modern Library Classics)238 reviews Leo Tolstoy Modern Library, 2000 both timeless and of its era + Sometimes it's great to be a putz ... + I really like this book, but... + Anna's tale + Please enter a title for your review             The Brothers Karamazov106 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 Best Transaltion! + What a messed up family! + Understanding the Russian + Dostoevsky's final major work...a masterpiece + Absolutely Stunning!             Choke458 reviews Chuck Palahniuk Doubleday, 2001 joy + Wow?!?! + Not exactly what I was expecting + Starts slow; ends fast.             Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)325 reviews Charles Dickens Penguin Classics, 1998 Dourly illustrated, it accurately represents the situation in London in the mid ninteenth century + Love is...beautiful and heartbreaking. + Delightful Read "Great Expectations" is one of the few works by Charles Dickens that I had neither read nor had any contact with. Other than knowing title and author, I had no knowledge of the work before reading this book. After reading it, I can say that the effect was what one would hope the Classics ...             Lullaby: A Novel264 reviews Chuck Palahniuk Doubleday, 2002 Best book I've read to date + Unexpected dark humor... how can you resist? + A killer lullaby and a vegan road-trip This book is so relevant! I've read some of his other work, and this by and far is the best. He hits on so many things that relate to the world today. Yes, it has dark dark humor in it, but that is what really opens your eyes to the other comments in his book. The shock factor is what makes ...             Les Miserables (Modern Library)43 reviews Victor Hugo Modern Library, 1992 We should be better for reading it... + Great book! + Only One Real Problem... type set + Les Miserables + The mind of a genius, the work of a lifetime             Invisible Monsters288 reviews Chuck Palahniuk W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 GREAT + This book is ca-razy! + a slow start, followed by a headlong rush. This book stayed in my head for a long time afterward! + A Good One + Invisible Monsters             A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture (Oxford World's Classics)10 reviews Marguerite Feitlowitz Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 A thorough depiction of the atmosphere of repression + An Incredible Narrative + Comprehensive and Well Written + Painful but Great             Heart of Darkness (Everyman's Library (Cloth))380 reviews Joseph Conrad Everyman's Library, 1993 An excellent piece of epistemology! + "A snail, crawling on the edge of a razor-blade and living. That is my dream." + Ideal and Realistic + A Captivating Tale             Once upon the River Love16 reviews Andrei Makine Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999 East meets West + Thoughtful, paced, and beautiful + A Beautiful, Literary Evocation Of A Siberian Childood + Encountering sex and art in a Siberian wasteland. + A beautiful book on growing up in Siberia             The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)154 reviews Franz Kafka Bantam Classics, 1972 Man Turns Into Bug: The Perfect Interpretation of Human Nature + A personal favorite + The MEtamorphosis + Classic bit of surreallist black humor             For Whom the Bell Tolls261 reviews Ernest Hemingway Scribner, 1995 Lives Up To Its Reputation + good and bad + The Best War Novel + A classic in every meaning of the word + Deserves to Be Called a Classic             Green Hills of Africa38 reviews Ernest Hemingway Scribner, 1996 He shoots everything including the Bull Hemingway once said that a writer needs a built-in- B.S. detector. He forgot to take it along on this safari, though he is willing to stand corrected occasionally by his then- wife Pauline for errors of 'diarrhea of the mouth'. In any case the old Hem style is truly at work here, and it supplies us ...             War and Peace (Penguin Classics)286 reviews Leo Tolstoy Penguin Classics, 1982 My first thoughts after completion + Rosemary Edmonds trans. of War and Peace + An amazing novel + The Garnett and Dunnigan translations... details here + Maudes at Home with Tolstoy             War and Peace (Penguin Classics)286 reviews Leo Tolstoy Penguin Classics, 1982 My first thoughts after completion + Rosemary Edmonds trans. of War and Peace + An amazing novel + The Garnett and Dunnigan translations... details here + Maudes at Home with Tolstoy             The Brothers Karamazov106 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 Best Transaltion! + What a messed up family! + Understanding the Russian + Dostoevsky's final major work...a masterpiece + Absolutely Stunning!             Lullaby: A Novel264 reviews Chuck Palahniuk Doubleday, 2002 Best book I've read to date + Unexpected dark humor... how can you resist? + A killer lullaby and a vegan road-trip This book is so relevant! I've read some of his other work, and this by and far is the best. He hits on so many things that relate to the world today. Yes, it has dark dark humor in it, but that is what really opens your eyes to the other comments in his book. The shock factor is what makes ...             Invisible Monsters288 reviews Chuck Palahniuk W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 GREAT + This book is ca-razy! + a slow start, followed by a headlong rush. This book stayed in my head for a long time afterward! + A Good One + Invisible Monsters             Green Hills of Africa38 reviews Ernest Hemingway Scribner, 1996 He shoots everything including the Bull Hemingway once said that a writer needs a built-in- B.S. detector. He forgot to take it along on this safari, though he is willing to stand corrected occasionally by his then- wife Pauline for errors of 'diarrhea of the mouth'. In any case the old Hem style is truly at work here, and it supplies us ...