| |
|
The Bell Jar 486 reviews
Sylvia Plath
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
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."
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
A Moveable Feast145 reviews
Ernest Hemingway
Scribner, 1996
An Opinion Humbly Submitted
+ Hemingway at his Best
+ The Writer's Life
+ Paris of the Lost Generation!
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Adventures of Huck Finn 511 reviews
Mark Twain
Highbridge Audio, 2003
Great book! When addressing controversy think of context.
+ Finn & Sawyer Part 2
+ Exceptional edition
+ Huckleberry Finn
+ Huck Finn
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
A Man Without a Country190 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
Vonnegut Never Fails
+ As of 11/04/08, Vonnegut has a country again.
+ Compare to Kurt and Dlyan
+ Final thoughts
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
April Morning 120 reviews
Howard Fast
Bantam, 1983
A High School Junior Remembers
+ Excellent, eye-opening
+ Required Reading
+ April morning
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)14 reviews
Edith Wharton
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004
Wharton's Masterpiece
+ A Classical Tale of New York Society
+ Love, Loneliness and the Strictures of Society.
+ Relates to today
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)260 reviews
Oscar Wilde
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame
+ "Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter"-Oscar Wilde
+ Further reading
Wilde sees the world more clearly than any writer of fiction in the last century. It is for that reason that his work is so filled with countless paradoxes and contradictions that challenge the mind and titillate the senses. Wilde lived in an infinitely ironic age, when society had grown so ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition) 5 reviews
Walt Whitman
Dover Publications, 2007
What More Can Be Said?
+ He understood what we all feel about being alive.
+ A small part of 'Leaves of Grass'
+ Sigh...................
+ Loverly
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)629 reviews
Jack Kerouac
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
Kerouac's Masterpiece
+ A True Classic
This is by far Kerouac's best work. It details his adventures with Neil Cassiday in way only Kerouac could. This book defines the beat movement and defines, for me at least how the world was long before I was born. Being only 20 years old I cannot imagine hitch hiking across the country, in the ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Great Gatsby1122 reviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 1999
As American as apple pie...
+ The Summer of '22
+ The Great Gatsby
+ An intimate, touching story that deserves its praise while still being thoroughly relevant despite its age; a solid "A"
+ Gatsby Believed in the Green Light
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Absalom, Absalom!122 reviews
William Faulkner
Vintage, 1991
Absalom! Absalom!
+ William Faulkner at his best
+ Classic Faulkner
+ Difficult, dense writing style, but plot of great complexity and depth makes it wonderful & meaningful. Very highly recommended
+ Absolutely incredible!
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Little Women (Signet Classics)71 reviews
Louisa May Alcott
Signet Classics, 2004
The Sticking Together Sisters
+ I can always trust Amazon to have what I need immediately!
+ One of those obvious classics
+ Little Women
+ Frustratingly realistic.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Awakening353 reviews
Kate Chopin
Avon, 1982
How long have I been asleep?
+ A Statement on Non-Traditional Sensibilities
+ Lovely
+ not so simple, not so obvious
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)903 reviews
Jane Austen
Bantam Classics, 1983
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
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Night926 reviews
Elie Wiesel
Bantam, 1982
Elie Wiesel's Night
+ night and day
+ Great transaction!
+ The Most Gripping Story I Have Ever Read
+ What eyes could not see
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition)5 reviews
Walt Whitman
Dover Publications, 2007
What More Can Be Said?
+ He understood what we all feel about being alive.
+ A small part of 'Leaves of Grass'
+ Sigh...................
+ Loverly
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
April Morning120 reviews
Howard Fast
Bantam, 1983
A High School Junior Remembers
+ Excellent, eye-opening
+ Required Reading
+ April morning
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Absalom, Absalom!122 reviews
William Faulkner
Vintage, 1991
Absalom! Absalom!
+ William Faulkner at his best
+ Classic Faulkner
+ Difficult, dense writing style, but plot of great complexity and depth makes it wonderful & meaningful. Very highly recommended
+ Absolutely incredible!
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Great Gatsby1122 reviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 1999
As American as apple pie...
+ The Summer of '22
+ The Great Gatsby
+ An intimate, touching story that deserves its praise while still being thoroughly relevant despite its age; a solid "A"
+ Gatsby Believed in the Green Light
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)14 reviews
Edith Wharton
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004
Wharton's Masterpiece
+ A Classical Tale of New York Society
+ Love, Loneliness and the Strictures of Society.
+ Relates to today
|
|
|
|
|
|
