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Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics) 5 reviews Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Signet Classics, 2006
A Hard Read
+ This book is amazing, + I also found it marvelously entertaining + One of my favorite books so far
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War and Peace: Original Version 8 reviews Leo Tolstoy
Ecco, 2007
Why this version of War and Peace rocks
+ Excellent.
I have tried War and Peace several times since I was a teenager, and each time I have enjoyed it UNTIL I get to the same bit. This is the bit where Tolstoy decides it's time to give us all a little lecture (say, a mere hundred and fifty pages) on his theory of history.
I think this is in an ...
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The Idiot 24 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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Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) 173 reviews Leo Tolstoy
Penguin Classics, 2004
Indifference? NOT HERE!
+ A classic worth reading + Masterful
I haven't had/made time to read other translations of this Great work, but IMHO, Anna Karenina 'Must Be' in the top five list of all-time Greatest Romances...
(trying NOT to be selfish): Reading Anna Karenina has enriched my life; It has INCREASED my love, devotion, & respect for-to my wife, my ...
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Lolita 449 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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Demons 31 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vintage, 1995
Demons is a devil of a read on Russian angst/nihilism by the master Dostoevsky
+ Evil defined + great + Dostoyevsky's toughest nut to crack + Not for casual reading...
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Absurdistan: A Novel 106 reviews Gary Shteyngart
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
Slow start, finishes with a bang.
+ Another fascinating tale + Prophetic! + Not a book to leave around for your teenage sons to read
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The Brothers Karamazov 111 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002
Perhaps the best novel ever written in the history of mankind
+ The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky + A Literary Masterpiece + Bothers Karamazov + Dark and Beautiful
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War and Peace: Original Version 8 reviews Leo Tolstoy
Ecco, 2007
Why this version of War and Peace rocks
+ Excellent.
I have tried War and Peace several times since I was a teenager, and each time I have enjoyed it UNTIL I get to the same bit. This is the bit where Tolstoy decides it's time to give us all a little lecture (say, a mere hundred and fifty pages) on his theory of history.
I think this is in an ...
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Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) 173 reviews Leo Tolstoy
Penguin Classics, 2004
Indifference? NOT HERE!
+ A classic worth reading + Masterful
I haven't had/made time to read other translations of this Great work, but IMHO, Anna Karenina 'Must Be' in the top five list of all-time Greatest Romances...
(trying NOT to be selfish): Reading Anna Karenina has enriched my life; It has INCREASED my love, devotion, & respect for-to my wife, my ...
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Demons 31 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vintage, 1995
Demons is a devil of a read on Russian angst/nihilism by the master Dostoevsky
+ Evil defined + great + Dostoyevsky's toughest nut to crack + Not for casual reading...
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The Idiot 24 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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Absurdistan: A Novel 106 reviews Gary Shteyngart
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
Slow start, finishes with a bang.
+ Another fascinating tale + Prophetic! + Not a book to leave around for your teenage sons to read
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The Brothers Karamazov 111 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002
Perhaps the best novel ever written in the history of mankind
+ The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky + A Literary Masterpiece + Bothers Karamazov + Dark and Beautiful
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Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics) 5 reviews Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Signet Classics, 2006
A Hard Read
+ This book is amazing, + I also found it marvelously entertaining + One of my favorite books so far
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Lolita 449 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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