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The Stranger 529 reviews
Albert Camus
Vintage, 1989
American translation brings out stylistic subtleties
+ interesting
+ Shocking in its Simplicity
+ One of the best books ever written.
+ Oh, the absurdity!
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The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)158 reviews
Franz Kafka
Bantam Classics, 1972
I loved this book!!!!
+ The Metamorphosis
+ Not for the Faint of Heart
+ Changes
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Invisible Monsters290 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk
W. W. Norton & Company, 1999
This book is ca-razy!
+ Great Company to purchase from
+ My Unexpected Favorite
+ GREAT
+ a slow start, followed by a headlong rush. This book stayed in my head for a long time afterward!
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Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition) 92 reviews
William S. Burroughs
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003
a different Burroughs
+ Not what you may expect
+ A Serious High.
+ Wildly Original - An Impressive First Novel
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; and, Seymour: An Introduction (Bantam) 4 reviews
J. D. Salinger
Bantam Books, 1965
Are all your stars out?
+ If you hang in there, it's worth the effort.
+ no title
In some obscure interview from the 1970s an amateur, elderly "reporter" finagled her way into a meeting with Salinger and about the only thing she got out of him other than a raised eyebrow and cold shoulder for having snaked her way into his solitude, was the following quote: "I don't care about ...
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The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)486 reviews
Sylvia Plath
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000
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 Catcher in the Rye 8 reviews
J.D. Salinger
Bantam, 1966
A timeless classic worth reading
I write this review having to look back almost 20 years when I read this book as a child. At an age when I found it difficult to engross myself in fiction (I simply did not read a lot as a child), I traversed through this book with interest.
Unless you have issues with the course language, ...
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On the Road629 reviews
Jack Kerouac
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1976
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 ...
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The Trial168 reviews
Franz Kafka
Schocken, 1995
The Fear, Despondency, and Despair of A Soul.
+ An eternal cry against oppression, and of the quiet, unseen struggle waged by ordinary people
+ Great Read
+ hauntingly prescient
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel319 reviews
Jonathan Safran Foer
Mariner Books, 2006
Incredible
+ Good book for a book club discussion
+ Beautiful
+ A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
+ Flawed but still very good.
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Nausea: The Wall and Other Stories 1 review
Jean-Paul Sartre
MJF Books, 1999
A Mesmorizing Journey...Extreme Psychological Insights
"The Wall and other short stories" is a triumph in literature. Each story explores the depths of human thought and reason through an existential point of view. Each story can be interpreted different by all readers, therefore making this a great book for discussion. "The Wall" is the first story ...
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The Sound and the Fury196 reviews
William Faulkner
Vintage, 1991
I HATED this book until I realized it was a masterpiece...
+ A Great American Classic that Deserves to Be
+ If only we all could be blessed with such failure.
+ A Difficult Classic
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Lolita449 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov
Vintage, 1989
A road movie of the mind
+ Beautiful writing confronts crude subject matter--A masterpiece
+ Upends your preconceptions and prejudices
+ Which book did you read?
+ The Most Beautiful Novel Ever Written
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text239 reviews
William S. Burroughs
Grove Press, 2004
huh?
+ Beyond Good & Evil
+ "The man is never on time."
+ Brilliant
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Invisible Monsters290 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk
W. W. Norton & Company, 1999
This book is ca-razy!
+ Great Company to purchase from
+ My Unexpected Favorite
+ GREAT
+ a slow start, followed by a headlong rush. This book stayed in my head for a long time afterward!
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The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)486 reviews
Sylvia Plath
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000
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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On the Road629 reviews
Jack Kerouac
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1976
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 ...
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The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)158 reviews
Franz Kafka
Bantam Classics, 1972
I loved this book!!!!
+ The Metamorphosis
+ Not for the Faint of Heart
+ Changes
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text239 reviews
William S. Burroughs
Grove Press, 2004
huh?
+ Beyond Good & Evil
+ "The man is never on time."
+ Brilliant
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The Sound and the Fury196 reviews
William Faulkner
Vintage, 1991
I HATED this book until I realized it was a masterpiece...
+ A Great American Classic that Deserves to Be
+ If only we all could be blessed with such failure.
+ A Difficult Classic
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