Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics)903 reviews
Jane Austen

Vintage, 2007

Boy oh boy was I ever wrong about Lady Jane!!!

+ Worth paying for on the Kindle
+ What a Year for the Bennets
+ as always, better than the movie
+ Pride and Prejudice
  
  











  



  
The Bell Jar486 reviews
Sylvia Plath

Faber and Faber, 2005

The most famous book you've never read

+ how did I miss this one??
+ Believe the Hype
+ "To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream."
  
  











  



  
Slaughterhouse-Five708 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut

Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999

Like Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto.

+ A highly creative and simultaneously amusing and thought-provoking novel that hammers home its themes; "A-"
+ One of the best
+ Slaughterhouse-Five
  
  











  



  
The Taming of the Shrew (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)4 reviews
William Shakespeare

Washington Square Press, 2004

Irony, brilliant irony

+ A hilarious play of the battle between the sexes.
+ A comedy of wit, But not Shakespeare's Best

This is a show piece for Shakespeare's ability to portray the human condition. It is about wanting what isn't what we think it is, not wanting what is as it seems, marrrying out of pragmatism and finding love, loving blindly and not finding love, the impact of social pressure on love, the impact ...
  
  











  



  
To Kill a Mockingbird1762 reviews
Harper Lee

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002

Excelent Book!

+ There is a reason this book will be read for centuries and centuries...
+ Tequila Mockingbird
+ Great!!Love this book
+ LOVE THIS BOOK!
  
  











  



  
The Crucible (Penguin Classics)48 reviews
Arthur Miller

Penguin Classics, 2003

The Devil is Precise

+ .
+ Courtesy of Mother Daughter Book Club.com
+ Prompt service
+ moving and thought-provoking
  
  











  



  
The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel560 reviews
Margaret Atwood

Anchor, 1998

I wasn't expecting this!!!!

+ A 21st century 1984 by George Orwell
+ Great Review

This book was written very well. I had the creeps while I was reading it. It reminded me of the movie "Children of Men" and the book "The Giver". The entire time I was reading this book, I kept thinking of a certain female vice presidential candidate. I am afraid that she would love the form of ...
  
  











  



  
Then We Came to the End: A Novel217 reviews
Joshua Ferris

Back Bay Books, 2008

I Laughed, I Cried - Three Thoughts

+ Adperson's anomie
+ Funny, fantastic, tragic book (and gorgeous dust jacket design!)
+ Funny, and a little bit of drama
+ One of the best you'll ever read!
  
  











  



  
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. ...
  
  











  



  
The Crucible (Penguin Classics)48 reviews
Arthur Miller

Penguin Classics, 2003

The Devil is Precise

+ .
+ Courtesy of Mother Daughter Book Club.com
+ Prompt service
+ moving and thought-provoking
  
  











  



  
The Bell Jar486 reviews
Sylvia Plath

Faber and Faber, 2005

The most famous book you've never read

+ how did I miss this one??
+ Believe the Hype
+ "To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream."
  
  











  



  
The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel560 reviews
Margaret Atwood

Anchor, 1998

I wasn't expecting this!!!!

+ A 21st century 1984 by George Orwell
+ Great Review

This book was written very well. I had the creeps while I was reading it. It reminded me of the movie "Children of Men" and the book "The Giver". The entire time I was reading this book, I kept thinking of a certain female vice presidential candidate. I am afraid that she would love the form of ...
  
  











  



  
Slaughterhouse-Five708 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut

Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999

Like Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto.

+ A highly creative and simultaneously amusing and thought-provoking novel that hammers home its themes; "A-"
+ One of the best
+ Slaughterhouse-Five
  
  











  



  
Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics)903 reviews
Jane Austen

Vintage, 2007

Boy oh boy was I ever wrong about Lady Jane!!!

+ Worth paying for on the Kindle
+ What a Year for the Bennets
+ as always, better than the movie
+ Pride and Prejudice
  
  











  



  
Then We Came to the End: A Novel217 reviews
Joshua Ferris

Back Bay Books, 2008

I Laughed, I Cried - Three Thoughts

+ Adperson's anomie
+ Funny, fantastic, tragic book (and gorgeous dust jacket design!)
+ Funny, and a little bit of drama
+ One of the best you'll ever read!
  
  











  



  
To Kill a Mockingbird1762 reviews
Harper Lee

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002

Excelent Book!

+ There is a reason this book will be read for centuries and centuries...
+ Tequila Mockingbird
+ Great!!Love this book
+ LOVE THIS BOOK!
  
  











  



  
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. ...
  
  











  



  
The Taming of the Shrew (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)4 reviews
William Shakespeare

Washington Square Press, 2004

Irony, brilliant irony

+ A hilarious play of the battle between the sexes.
+ A comedy of wit, But not Shakespeare's Best

This is a show piece for Shakespeare's ability to portray the human condition. It is about wanting what isn't what we think it is, not wanting what is as it seems, marrrying out of pragmatism and finding love, loving blindly and not finding love, the impact of social pressure on love, the impact ...