The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition39 reviews
Ernest Hemingway

Scribner, 1998

Snappy prose!

+ Hemingway - What more needs to be said?
+ Short stories of Ernest Hemingway

It's fantastic to have all these stories in one book. "Hills Like White Elephant's" is still my favorite story, but I also enjoyed some that I had never heard of. I like the short declarative sentences; it makes for an easy read. I love that I can open it up to any story and just start reading. You ...
  
  











  



  
Esquire (1-year)28 reviews

Hearst Magazines

Esquire should be Required

+ Fantastic Magazine
+ Pleasent Surprise
+ The Best Men's Magazine Out There
  
  











  



  
Discourse On The Method Of Rightly Conducting The Reason And Seeking Truth In The Sciences
Rene Descartes

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004
  
  











  



  
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions)155 reviews
Edwin A. Abbott

Dover Publications, 1992

Thinking W A Y Outside the Box

+ Understand Multi-Dimensional Worlds
+ Exponentially entertaining!
+ The Limits of Perception
+ Beware the USE of this story
  
  











  



  
The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments (Great Books in ...10 reviews
Epicurus

Prometheus Books, 1993

The Greek Buddha

+ To Epicurus
+ The antidote to human stupidity and greed.
+ Enjoyed reading Epicurus, but the book can be improved
  
  











  



  
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.
  
  











  



  
Conversations With Kafka6 reviews
Gustav Janouch

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1971

A help to know a very shy and very great man

+ Kafka as father- figure or older- brother
+ Deep Insights in Concise Bites
+ Warm and comforting portrait of an enigmatic literary genius
  
  











  



  
Report to Greco4 reviews
Nikos Kazantzakis

Faber and Faber, 2001

Religion for modern people

+ A stunning book by a brilliant author
+ I am really disappointed!!!!
+ A book so powerful, so essential, so life-altering no wonder its out of print...
  
  











  



  
The Jules Verne Steam Balloon (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)1 review
Guy Davenport

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993

Three angels, or daimons, or maybe neutrinos

Three angels, or "daimons," or maybe neutrinos--who may also have been the Three Wise Men--"drop" into several of these stories via their steam balloon, the Jules Verne. They bring messages from the "Consiliarii," but who are they? A council of heavenly spirits? The Force? A code name for God? ...
  
  











  



  
The Simpsons - The Complete Seventh Season80 reviews
Harry Shearer, Nancy Cartwright

20th Century Fox, 2005

Another great season of the Simpsons!

+ Simpsons 7
+ Seventh Season is Great
+ The Complete Seventh Season
+ The Best Season In My Books
  
  











  



  
Cup of Gold (Penguin Modern Classics)17 reviews
John Steinbeck

Penguin Classics, 2001

Priceless Jewel

+ Not Vintage Steinbeck; Good Nonetheless

"Cup of Gold" is described as being the tale of Sir Henry Morgan with occasional references to history. Being unfamiliar with pirate folklore, I am not certain what aspects of the book are fact. I am certain that this book is divergent from Steinbeck's usual path of storytelling. This is a play ...
  
  











  



  
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition39 reviews
Ernest Hemingway

Scribner, 1998

Snappy prose!

+ Hemingway - What more needs to be said?
+ Short stories of Ernest Hemingway

It's fantastic to have all these stories in one book. "Hills Like White Elephant's" is still my favorite story, but I also enjoyed some that I had never heard of. I like the short declarative sentences; it makes for an easy read. I love that I can open it up to any story and just start reading. You ...
  
  











  



  
Report to Greco4 reviews
Nikos Kazantzakis

Faber and Faber, 2001

Religion for modern people

+ A stunning book by a brilliant author
+ I am really disappointed!!!!
+ A book so powerful, so essential, so life-altering no wonder its out of print...
  
  











  



  
The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments (Great Books in ...10 reviews
Epicurus

Prometheus Books, 1993

The Greek Buddha

+ To Epicurus
+ The antidote to human stupidity and greed.
+ Enjoyed reading Epicurus, but the book can be improved
  
  











  



  
The Jules Verne Steam Balloon (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)1 review
Guy Davenport

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993

Three angels, or daimons, or maybe neutrinos

Three angels, or "daimons," or maybe neutrinos--who may also have been the Three Wise Men--"drop" into several of these stories via their steam balloon, the Jules Verne. They bring messages from the "Consiliarii," but who are they? A council of heavenly spirits? The Force? A code name for God? ...
  
  











  



  
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.
  
  











  



  
Discourse On The Method Of Rightly Conducting The Reason And Seeking Truth In The Sciences
Rene Descartes

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004
  
  











  



  
Cup of Gold (Penguin Modern Classics)17 reviews
John Steinbeck

Penguin Classics, 2001

Priceless Jewel

+ Not Vintage Steinbeck; Good Nonetheless

"Cup of Gold" is described as being the tale of Sir Henry Morgan with occasional references to history. Being unfamiliar with pirate folklore, I am not certain what aspects of the book are fact. I am certain that this book is divergent from Steinbeck's usual path of storytelling. This is a play ...
  
  











  



  
Conversations With Kafka6 reviews
Gustav Janouch

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1971

A help to know a very shy and very great man

+ Kafka as father- figure or older- brother
+ Deep Insights in Concise Bites
+ Warm and comforting portrait of an enigmatic literary genius
  
  











  



  
Esquire (1-year)28 reviews

Hearst Magazines

Esquire should be Required

+ Fantastic Magazine
+ Pleasent Surprise
+ The Best Men's Magazine Out There