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The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle) 166 reviews
Susan Orlean
Ballantine Books, 2000
No Title
+ Fascinating Reading
+ The Orchid thief
+ Fishes, orchids, or anything we are intrigued by...
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The Centaur 31 reviews
John Updike
Ballantine Books, 1996
snow
+ A Mixed Bag
I smelled snow when i read this book. I mean i could smell cold, and see frost, and breath and greyness. I feel like i learned how to read all over again.
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In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library Classics) 23 reviews
Marcel Proust
Modern Library, 1998
PROUST: NEED ONE SAY MORE?
+ Philosophy as narrative
+ Perception and cognition
+ In Search of Lost Time Volume II Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library Classics)
+ beautiful
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Pale Fire 86 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov
Vintage, 1989
brilliant
+ everyman's decisions
+ Enjoyable at Multiple Levels
+ Mind bending!
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Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist32 reviews
Walter A. Kaufmann
Princeton University Press, 1975
Great for Beginners.
+ Clears misunderstandings
+ Kaufmann: Scholar, Ox, Contrarian.
+ The best overall Nietzsche primer in print.
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.14 reviews
Martin Luther King
HarperOne, 1990
"There are just laws and there are unjust laws..." *
+ Required Reading For All
+ A Legacy of Hope - Mighty and Powerful and Beautifully Crafted
+ A thorough and moving chronicle of a heroic man and Christian
+ The great American voice for Freedom "I know one day we as a people will reach the Promised Land"
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The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt23 reviews
Albert Camus
Vintage, 1992
Camus eclipses nihilism and brings news of a new age!
+ A work of genuis
+ BETTER TO DIE ON ONE'S FEET THAN TO LIVE ON ONE'S KNEES...
+ The Rebel meets every expectation set out by The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus
+ An inquiry into the ethics of rebellion
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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)90 reviews
Jean-Paul Sartre
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1969
The poetry of obsessive uselessness
+ Amazing
+ thought provoking vignettes.
+ brilliant, but you must be in the right state of mind
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Fear and Trembling/Repetition : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol. 67 reviews
Soren Kierkegaard
Princeton University Press, 1983
Theological Tour de Force
+ Yes, yes, yes (you must read this)...
+ sacrifice and loss
+ and isaac cried out, "if i have no father on earth, then you
+ Was Kierkegaard a "Knight of faith"?
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Democracy in America16 reviews
Alexis de Tocqueville
University Of Chicago Press, 2002
Great Edition of a Great Book
+ Indispensable
+ Treatise on American Democracy
+ 150 Years after It was Written ...
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The Idiot24 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vintage, 2003
is it ironic, or pragmatic?
+ Good
+ Was prince Myshkin really a positively beautiful individual?????
+ Personal Favorite Dostoevsky
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Robert Kennedy : His Life43 reviews
Evan Thomas
Simon & Schuster, 2002
a politician to be passionate about
+ Good Bobby Primer, but Nothing New
Although I was only 7 years old when he died I have talked to many people about the passion they felt for Bobby. Boy, could we use someone like that now. Although the book does not shy away from his sometime machiavellian tactics, it shows a person who was so affected by tragedy that he really ...
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Flags of Our Fathers578 reviews
James Bradley, Ron Powers
Bantam, 2006
A must read, but it's an emotional ride...........
+ the horror, the cost, the dignity
+ Excellent
+ Wonderful story of humility
+ Should be required reading for all Americans
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies1075 reviews
Jared M. Diamond
W. W. Norton & Company, 1999
A profound and lasting classic
+ History; It's What's for Dinner
+ Fascinating!
+ Great subject and treatment - shakey science
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The Wanderers19 reviews
Richard Price
Mariner Books, 1999
Gangs Back In the Day
+ An eye opening surprise
+ Another view of what was happening in the 60's
+ Like Chewing Sandpaper
+ Dark side of pre-Beatles teenage America
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test133 reviews
Tom Wolfe
Bantam, 1999
Interesting and well-written
+ Good, better if you have read "On The Road First"
+ Fascinating to contemplate
+ Mind-blowing experience
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The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays47 reviews
Albert Camus
Vintage, 1991
Definitely worth a try
+ Years ago
+ Not an easy but a worthwhile read
+ amazing
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The God Delusion1283 reviews
Richard Dawkins
Houghton Mifflin, 2006
An Atheist Handbook
+ A Waving Banner of Human Thought
+ Not for a light reading
+ Must read!
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash285 reviews
Sylvia Nasar
Touchstone, 2001
Complex Man-A Bio That Runs True
+ Reads like a novel
+ An Opinion of "A Beautiful Mind" from a fellow schizophrenic
+ A Beautiful Mind
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The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text73 reviews
Franz Kafka
Schocken, 1998
I offer the startling proposal that Franz Kafka's The Castle is
+ a dreamy, utterly inscrutable masterpiece
+ A story of human isolation, of man's quest for freedom and validation
+ hilarious, you really need to read it yourself
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