Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel399 reviews Louis De Bernieres Vintage, 1995 Captain Corelli's Mandolin...Bernieres' masterpiece + Enjoyed it, but... + Book Review of Corelli's Mandolin + A Rich Slice of Life             The Master and Margarita341 reviews Mikhail Bulgakov Vintage, 1996 A GIFT FROM THE GRAVE + "a liberating, exuberant social and political satire (Moscow) combined with a profound moral and political allegory (Jerusalem); + seductive masterpiece + The Devil Went Down to Moscow + READ THIS!             The Things They Carried705 reviews Tim O'Brien Broadway, 1998 "Some dumb thing happens a long time ago and you can't ever forget it..." + O'Brien Cuts To the Core Of Our Fragile Lives + Perfection + Great read - Not what I expected + The ThingsThey Carried             Atlas Shrugged1547 reviews Ayn Rand Plume, 1999 Written in the 50s and is coming true today. + But wasn't the real Atlas--from Greek mythology--he who held the SKY, not the Earth? + Now more than ever... + The best             Midnight's Children181 reviews Salman Rushdie Vintage, 1998 Wicked Sense of Humor + A Magic Carpet Ride of Indian History Oh, my goodness. What do I say about this? It's such a rich, excellently written story with lots of interesting action and characters. Bonus: Rushdie has a wicked wicked WICKED sense of humor. And, did I say that the writing is to die for? Envy the size of an elephant inhabited my body as I was ...             The Tin Drum90 reviews Gunter Grass Vintage, 1990 an imaginative and innovative novel + A fantastic read, but what does it all mean? + brilliant + Challenging But Worth It             The Rise of Silas Lapham (Penguin Classics)17 reviews William Dean Howells Penguin Classics, 1983 Should be called "The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham" + Good Overall Experience + One of his best + A perfectly symmetrical novel -- literally. + Mogul with a conscience             Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)326 reviews Herman Melville Penguin Classics, 2002 Classic for a reason + Very Deep + a challenge to read and understand; requires some pondering... + Get back to the Pequad please!             The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)158 reviews Franz Kafka Bantam Classics, 1972 I loved this book!!!! + The Metamorphosis + Not for the Faint of Heart + Changes             Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)32 reviews Charlotte Brontë Penguin Classics, 2006 One of the Greatest Books in all of English Literature!! + True Romance + Great book! Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books! It is not at all like other great novels -- it is great in it's own way. I was introduced to Jane Eyre by my best friend. I had read the adapted version first, and then my best friend gave me the unadapted Jane Eyre for a birthday present. The book is about ...             Cloudstreet : A Novel32 reviews Tim Winton Scribner, 2002 Amazing. + Finest kind and then some + a lyrical journey + very real + ONE NEVER TO FORGET             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!             Everything Is Illuminated404 reviews Jonathan Safran Foer Harper Perennial, 2005 One of the best books ever written + everything you could wish and fear life to be This is my second favorite book. The imagination and narration is simply fantastic. I have never experienced imagination as beautiful as the telling of TrachimBrod. Every chapter about this city is glowing with incredible anecdotes and interesting characters. In fact, Brod is by far the best ...             To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)21 reviews Harper Lee Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 Awesome + Everyone's Favorite . . . + A sublime Masterpiece of 20 th Century American Literature + In Jim Crow Times             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 Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)122 reviews Alexandre Dumas père Penguin Classics, 2003 The perfect tale of revenge & redemption + Favourite Book - ever! + Count of Monte Cristo + Very good             The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)220 reviews Salman Rushdie Picador, 2000 Heady Carpet Ride The Satanic Verses / 0-312-27082-8 Trapped for days and nights on a hijacked airplane, our heroes suddenly find themselves hurtling towards their certain doom when the hijackers finally decide to detonate the airplane mid-flight. As they plummet towards the ocean which will surely break every ...             The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics)51 reviews Laurence Sterne Penguin Classics, 2003 Postmodern before modern + I wish I'd had an Uncle Toby + Pre-modernist postmodern A line from the movie "adaptation" put it best: this was a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post to. Simply put, Laurence Sterne threw out all the literary conventions of what a novel should be and how it should be arranged, a few hundred years before more recent writers ...             The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford World's Classics)3 reviews Oscar Wilde Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 Who wants to look young forever? + The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame + "Beauty is a form of Genius." Basil, who up until now was a mediocre painter after meeting Dorian Gray a young Adonis, was inspired to create a masterpiece of which he puts himself into. Against Basil's wishes, Dorian Gray is influenced by Basil's friend Lord Henry. Dorian looks at his portrait and realizes that while the ...             Absurdistan: A Novel106 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