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Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories 10 reviews
Jim Shepard
Knopf, 2007
Reflection
+ Superbly written journey thru time and space
+ A Stunning Achievement
+ LIKE YOU'D UNDERSTAND ANYWAY
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The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.)104 reviews
Edward Abbey
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Transgressional Fiction at it's Best.
+ Evergreen of Desert Lit
+ Where the hell do all these people come from?
+ fantastic
+ A Book to be Read Again and Again
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Tender Is the Night 138 reviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 1995
The 2nd best of a talented author
+ More personal than The Great Gatsby
Tender is the Night is a beautiful and sublte psychological novel of deterioration and wasted talent. It chronicles the gradual fall of Dick Diver (note the last name), the brilliant psychiatrist who wrecks himself trying to cure his insane wife, Nicole. Inevitably ever reader compares it to the ...
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Good in Bed769 reviews
Jennifer Weiner
Washington Square Press, 2002
Amazing
+ Laugh out Loud Funny!
+ Excellent and speedy read!
It has been a long time since i've connected with a character that i have so much and yet so little in common with. This is a book i can read over and over again
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All the King's Men176 reviews
Robert Penn Warren
Harvest Books, 1996
The Web Of Things
+ Why did I wait?
+ A Great Book Read By A Great Voice
+ great literature, sinfully delicious
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The God of Small Things871 reviews
Arundhati Roy
Harper Perennial, 1998
The Glimmer of An Immense Sea
+ Star-Crossed Lovers
+ Great used book
+ Breathtaking First Novel
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The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)592 reviews
John Steinbeck
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
Get ready to relive these times soon!
+ Take in the magic of Steinbeck's writing
+ A handsome edition
+ A master storyteller
+ [Good] required reading
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The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)14 reviews
Edith Wharton
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004
Wharton's Masterpiece
+ A Classical Tale of New York Society
+ Love, Loneliness and the Strictures of Society.
+ Relates to today
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Lolita449 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov
Vintage, 1989
A road movie of the mind
+ Beautiful writing confronts crude subject matter--A masterpiece
+ Upends your preconceptions and prejudices
+ Which book did you read?
+ The Most Beautiful Novel Ever Written
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Brave New World729 reviews
Aldous Huxley
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1998
Open the book and open your eyes
+ This book is more enjoyable with some soma!
+ Frighteningly Prophetic
+ Dystopia, i long for thee
+ Good Book
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Sometimes a Great Notion119 reviews
Ken Kesey
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1977
One of the all time great books
+ "Never Give A Inch"
+ The Great American Novel Revealed
+ It never gets better.
+ Sometimes a Great Notion
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The Love of the Last Tycoon17 reviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 1995
There will never be another F. Scott Fitzgerald
+ All the Hollywood hypocrites
No other author in history has so astutely penned such profound and sublime novels with such amazing social insight as has Scottie(as his contemporaries called him) - all the while doing it with such amazing and unparalleled grace and lucidity. While The Love of the Last Tycoon may not be finished, ...
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East of Eden218 reviews
John Steinbeck
Penguin Books, 2002
East of Eden - A beautifully written classic
+ This IS the Great American Novel
+ Possibly the Best Fictional Book I've Ever Read...
+ Good job!
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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court163 reviews
Jeffrey Toobin
Doubleday, 2007
An Intimate Look Inside the Most Exclusive Enclave in America
+ Fine work but not a good read
+ Worthwhile and Important Read
+ Inside the Supreme Court
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)553 reviews
Betty Smith
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
One of the best that I have ever read
+ Kimberly B.
+ Could relate well
+ an endless classic
+ Masterpiece
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Water for Elephants: A Novel1502 reviews
Sara Gruen
Algonquin Books, 2007
wonderful and entertaining
+ Under the big top, under the bright light...
+ A SURPRISE READ
+ Gripping Story and Characters
+ great book
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A Farewell To Arms376 reviews
Ernest Hemingway
Scribner, 1995
__Underscore.
+ An interesting look into war, love, and life.
+ Classic World War I Novel
+ Profound. Sad. Moving.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream417 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Vintage, 1998
A classic
+ Great book, unfortunatell i've seen the movie
+ Great Book
+ A book about the savage journey to the heart of the American Dream!
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International)456 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage Books, 2007
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
+ Metaphorical Romp
Garcia Marquez can write. No doubt about it. The man is a marvel. I'd be puddling along, reading of Fermina Daza, and her adolescent passion (and his for her) of Florentino Ariza, or of her married life with Juvenal Urbino when I'd be swept away by a phrase or image, or the smell of bitter almonds. ...
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This Side of Paradise (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)96 reviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2007
A brilliant, serious, and triumphant first novel
+ And now, real life begins...
Fitzgerald's brilliant, serious, and triumphant first novel can be summarized as follows: Bittersweet experience transmutes Amory Blaine's youthful enthusiasm for wealth and romance and art into a mature understanding of self and of the need to serve others.
Fitzgerald is a watercolorist, not an ...
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