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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
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The Bell Jar 486 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."
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Slaughterhouse-Five 708 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
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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 ...
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To Kill a Mockingbird 1762 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!
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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
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The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel 560 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 ...
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Then We Came to the End: A Novel 217 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!
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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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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
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The Bell Jar 486 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."
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The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel 560 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 ...
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Slaughterhouse-Five 708 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
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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
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Then We Came to the End: A Novel 217 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!
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To Kill a Mockingbird 1762 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!
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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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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 ...
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