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Timequake 191 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut
Berkley Trade, 1998
Coda
+ A master's hand
+ Did I Miss Something? No, This Book is Just Awesome
+ Shaken, Not Stirred
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The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream1289 reviews
Paulo Coelho
HarperSanFrancisco, 1995
Inspiring
+ Actually life-changing
+ Overall, a good read
Anyone unsure of what they want to do after high school should read this book.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics) 146 reviews
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Bantam Classics, 1983
A towering, very important American classic
+ Skeleton in the Closet
+ My perspective on Uncle Tom's Cabin
+ Incredible Classic Still Relevant Today
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Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)464 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett
Bantam Classics, 1984
A towering work of criminal psychology
+ Good, but overrated
+ A masterpiece from cover to cover
+ Crime and Punishment
+ Crime and Punishment ~ Kindle eBook
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The Sorrows of Young Werther (Penguin Classics)65 reviews
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Penguin Classics, 1989
Masterpiece
+ Sad and anger inducing
+ Not his best ...
+ Review for Sorrows of a Young Werther
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Ignorance: A Novel37 reviews
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial, 2003
You can't go home again
+ another persons shoes
+ Nostalgia ("nostos"-return, "algos"-suffering)
+ Nostalgia
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel241 reviews
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
great
+ I lived in this book those days
+ Mystical Love
+ great but not the best
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The girls: A tetralogy of novels in two volumes
Henry de Montherlant
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968
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The Painted Bird (Kosinski, Jerzy)103 reviews
Jerzy Kosinski
Grove Press, 1995
This is no bluebird on your shoulder...
+ Couldn't finish it...
+ Spectacular...and more...
+ A Sufferor's Tale of Suffering in Fable Fashion [T]
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The House of the Spirits272 reviews
Isabel Allende
Bantam, 1986
Better than 100 Years of Solitude
+ Wonderful historical fiction
+ review of house of the spirits
+ wow
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Immortality (Perennial Classics)66 reviews
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
Oh I love this book.
+ Good book
+ But is it a novel?
+ A feast of many courses
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By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept117 reviews
Paulo Coelho
Harper Perennial, 1997
This one was an all-nighter for me.
+ Classic Coelho
+ ..sigh
+ LOVE IT!
+ Poetic, Proseic, Imaginative, Spell Binding
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer407 reviews
Patrick Suskind
Vintage, 2001
A scentillating examination of a murderer's mind!
+ Totally creepy - in a completely absorbing way . . .
+ Thank you may I have another?
Humans that are deprived of one or more of the senses naturally compensate by focusing and overdeveloping the remaining senses. Suskind brilliantly chose to deprive Grenouille of something other than senses, the ability to be recognized. I don't believe any human in history had a complete absence ...
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Cat's Cradle375 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut
Dell Publishing, 1998
Surreal yet all too close to the truth...
+ Great Storytelling
+ Still relevant to this day
+ WONDERFUL BOOK
+ The master of Cat's Cradle
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The Shadow of the Wind512 reviews
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005
simply the best
+ Fantastic read!
+ A Must Read
+ Truly great storytelling
+ Utterly Amazing Book!
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Love in the Time of Cholera456 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage, 2003
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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Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Penguin Classics)6 reviews
Heinrich Boll
Penguin Classics, 1994
Gripping panorama of German life
+ A remarkable novel that wears its age well
+ Pervasively amazing
+ The precise symbolisim of breakfast.
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Steppenwolf 2 reviews
Hermann Hesse
Penguin Books Ltd, 1999
the man who understood
+ You must face the razor to find the kingdom
There are people out there, reading this review now, who have gone thru life feeling as though no one has ever understood them. Some of those people will read this book, 'Steppenwolf', & it will hit them like a bolt(& some wont like it at all). Not only will a few of them feel as though they have ...
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Bluebeard (Delta Fiction)66 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1998
A Thrill for both my Meat and Soul!
+ The Vonnegut YOU Should Like
+ Vonnegut's Funniest
+ Bluebeard
+ A Beautiful Book
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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
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