Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics)899 reviews
Jane Austen

Vintage, 2007

Justifiably a Classic

+ Pride & Prejudice--all time favorite book and movie
+ A Nice Novel
+ Classic
+ Awesome of course
  
  











  



  
Lolita15 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov

Random House Audio, 2005

Yes, 5 stars but I COULD NOT FINISH

+ A pleasure for the Ears
+ Deliciously Naughty
+ a total mindfu- ...mind altering.
+ absolutely amazing
  
  











  



  
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Conan Doyle

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008

Boys are mysterious creatures, with rich imaginations and inner lives at which most can only guess. Luckily, a few writers have the talent to capture their fantasies of extraordinary adventure and epic bravery. Inspired by the success of The Dangerous Book For Boys , the six titles of the Penguin Great Books For Boys collection celebrate the adventurer within every boy with tales of shipwreck, ...
  
  











  



  
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited44 reviews
Aldous Huxley

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005

Mood controlling pills and uniformity

+ Satirical Take on Utopia
+ perfect
+ Thought-provoking!
  
  











  



  
Animal Farm6 reviews
George Orwell

1st World Library - Literary Society, 2004

Required Reading

+ Good Price-Shipping Was Slow
+ Incredibly Powerful
+ Back to Basics
+ love the fact that the publisher, 1stWorld Library has made the text slightly larger
  
  











  



  
A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)619 reviews
Anthony Burgess

Penguin Classics, 2000

Fantastic, yet complicated

+ Fantastic novel
+ A Clockwork Orange
+ Good but have to work to get into
  
  











  



  
The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition57 reviews
Upton Sinclair

See Sharp Press, 2003

The reason I pay my union dues

+ Important, not-to-miss
+ Jungle
+ Timeless Classic
  
  











  



  
Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Classics)72 reviews
Joseph Conrad

Penguin Classics, 2007

a master of the English language

+ One of my favorites books
+ beware - romanticism
+ The best book on the nature of courage I've ever read
+ Moodily romantic
  
  











  



  
Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)16 reviews
William Shakespeare

Washington Square Press, 2003

Mac-Good for Mac-Shakespeare

+ Playwright vs. Poet: the Playwright wins.
+ Folger is a good series

I'll admit, it's hard for me to get into Shakespeare (so go stone me in the streets, you drama geeks). Yet, this play is a killer.....literally. I mean, they need to make this into a movie nowadays-all the battle scenes, all the drama, all the Scottish accents. This play is the epitome of ...
  
  











  



  
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)30 reviews
Dante Alighieri

NAL Trade, 2003

Three and a Half Years Later...

+ COMPLETE EDITION of the BEST RHYMING TRANSLATION!
+ Best Collection/Translation
+ Solid translation for a schizophrenic work!
+ Great read
  
  











  



  
Beowulf (Signet Classics)51 reviews
Anonymous

Signet Classics, 1999

Beowulf

+ Classic
+ Far better than the movie ....

Excellent poem. It transmits through words very pure feelings and attitudes of men and societies already forgotten.
  
  











  



  
Slaughterhouse-Five704 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut

Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999

Well-Deserving of it's "Classic" Status

+ Slaughterhouse-Five
+ So it goes.
+ a short book about slaughter
  
  











  



  
Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)121 reviews
Charles Dickens

Penguin Classics, 2002

Great

+ Must Read Victorian Novel
+ A Novel of tears as well as laughter. An enjoyable classic.
+ Expectations Greatly Exceeded
  
  











  



  
As You Like It (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)4 reviews
William Shakespeare

Washington Square Press, 2004

All the world is a romantic comedy.

+ As You Like It
+ Outstanding tale of gender issues
+ Shakespeares' best romantic comedy
  
  











  



  
As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)190 reviews
William Faulkner

Modern Library, 2000

Homegoing

+ A Grim, Morbid, and Compelling Tale
+ Now I can get them teeth...
+ As I Lay Dying
  
  











  



  
The Jungle Book1 review
Rudyard Kipling

Palazzo Editions, 2007

The Real Thing

My favorite books from childhood have always been Milne's "The World of Pooh" and Kipling's "The Jungle Book". Over the years I have purchased many copies of each as presents. Both can be difficult to find in versions unaltered from the original. I have found this to be particularly true in the ...
  
  











  



  
Henry IV, Part I (Folger Shakespeare Library)3 reviews
William Shakespeare

Washington Square Press, 2004

Shakespeare did cliff-hangers?

+ Awesome
+ Falstaff and Short Lived Political Gratitude

No one told me Shakespeare did cliff-hangers! Why do high-school teachers and undergraduate professors hide the good stuff from us and force us to read the most painful and incomprehensible stuff? Prince Henry Percy and his buddy Falstaff are hooligans getting up to the most deplorable ...
  
  











  



  
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: (Great Books edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)359 reviews
Ken Kesey

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999

One Flew East, One Flew West

+ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
+ Must Have
+ great quality!
+ McMurphy as the Metaphor for the Terrorist Suspect
  
  











  



  
The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)139 reviews
Homer

Penguin Classics, 1998

nice

+ Faithful Rendition
+ The Iliad
+ A new perspective, a classic for the general reader
  
  











  



  
A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)54 reviews
Charles Dickens

Penguin Classics, 2003

`It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'

+ Rewarding
+ A Tale for our time...if you have the patience.
+ Long. Boring.