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The Joy Luck Club 438 reviews
Amy Tan
Ballantine Books, 1990
Mothers and Daughters
The Joy Luck Club / 0-8041-0630-4
The Joy Luck Club is, in my opinion, the best of Tan's works. While each of her stories deal with the generational gap between mothers and daughters (compounded with a culture gap and a language gap, as well!), and while each of her novels delve into cultural ...
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All New People12 reviews
Anne Lamott
Counterpoint, 1999
Anne Lamott is amazing!
+ All New People
+ Not Traditional Anne, but Still Good.
+ Anne, You're da bomb!!!
+ Thinly Disguised Nonfiction
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On the Road630 reviews
Jack Kerouac
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1976
Kerouac's Masterpiece
+ Passionate, Poetic, and Nihlistic
+ A True Classic
This is by far Kerouac's best work. It details his adventures with Neil Cassiday in way only Kerouac could. This book defines the beat movement and defines, for me at least how the world was long before I was born. Being only 20 years old I cannot imagine hitch hiking across the country, in the ...
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit871 reviews
Daniel Quinn
Bantam, 1995
Thank you Ishmael
+ Changed my Life
+ Fascinating Journey
+ Life Changing Novel
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The Virgin Suicides395 reviews
Jeffrey Eugenides
Grand Central Publishing, 1994
Time in a Bottle
+ i can relate to this book!
+ Jorie's Reads on The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
"... they were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived -- bound, in other words, for life."
The Virgin Suicides is not just a story of the loneliness of being female. It is also a story of the loneliness of life and understanding what it is to be female; the ...
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The Singer/The Song/The Finale (The Singer Trilogy 1-3) 19 reviews
Calvin Miller
InterVarsity Press, 1990
Awesome!
+ A stunning way to tell these stories!
+ Unique & Thoughtful
+ Better than Expected
+ The Singer Trilogy
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The Catcher in the Rye2788 reviews
J.D. Salinger
Little, Brown and Company, 1991
Rife with symbolism, foreshadowing and irony; couldn't wait to see how it ended
+ beautiful and eye opening
+ If You Really Want to Hear About It...
+ Disillusion
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Blue Sword 232 reviews
Robin McKinley
Ace, 1987
One of my favorite books
+ Top-Notch Fantasy
+ One of my Top 3 favorite books of all time
+ Good but flawed
+ One of the best in YA fantasy
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)388 reviews
Alexandre Dumas pere
Penguin Classics, 1997
Great copy of unabridged Count of Monte Cristo
+ The Count of Monte Cristo
+ It's All Good
+ Now I know why it's a classic
+ Difficult to read but well worth it.
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C. S. Lewis Signature Classics: Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, A Grief Observed, The Problem of ...20 reviews
C. S. Lewis
HarperOne, 2001
Great Box.
+ C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
+ Great way to get (almost) all of Lewis' classics
+ Classics!
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Out of the Silent Planet161 reviews
C.S. Lewis
Scribner, 1996
Clever sci-fi AND a compelling allegory!
+ Certainly worth reading, although could have been more in depth...
+ A Must Read
+ Welcome to Mars!
+ A Fine Piece of Literature
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A Prayer for Owen Meany1074 reviews
John Irving
Ballantine Books, 1990
Great book, beautiful edition!
+ my favorite book
+ The Best of Irving
+ AWESOME
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Fahrenheit 4511270 reviews
Ray Bradbury
Del Rey, 1987
Science Fiction Masked In A Glaze Of Poetic Impulse
+ A thrilling combination of 50's pulp sci-fi and reflective commentary
If ever there is a formula for the perfect novel, 451 has the ingredients. It would be one part science fiction masked in a glaze of poetic impulse, settled on a bed of classic literature soaking up the juices of vast philosophical thought. The burning of books is a horror to any who love the ...
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Life After God68 reviews
Douglas Coupland
Washington Square Press, 1995
A book that really makes you think...
+ Excellent
+ Oddly Interesting
+ Awsome
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The Sword of Shannara 544 reviews
Terry Brooks
Del Rey, 1983
Read the book
+ Not original but enjoyable nonetheless
+ It's Better!!!!
+ I'm a little bewildered
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To Kill a Mockingbird1764 reviews
Harper Lee
Grand Central Publishing, 1988
Excelent Book!
+ Race and Class in the Deep South
+ There is a reason this book will be read for centuries and centuries...
+ Tequila Mockingbird
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Siddhartha463 reviews
Hermann Hesse
Bantam Classics, 1982
Samsara is nirvana
+ Great
+ Hari Om
+ A rambling spiritual adventure...
+ A must read for any spiritual seeker
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Native Son185 reviews
Richard Wright
Perennial, 1987
Terrific
+ Invisible Shadows
+ A Predestined Path of Life
+ Wright is right
+ "Native Son": A Polemic On the Poverty of the Poor
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The Stranger530 reviews
Albert Camus
Vintage, 1989
interesting
+ Honest.
+ Shocking in its Simplicity
+ One of the best books ever written.
+ American translation brings out stylistic subtleties
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100 Selected Poems29 reviews
e. e. cummings
Grove Press, 1994
How Do You Like Your Blue Eyed Boy Now?
+ A great starting point
+ I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
+ A thorough but concise introduction to Cummings
+ One of the best
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