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On the Road 629 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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A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)962 reviews
John Kennedy Toole
Grove Weidenfeld, 1987
Smart, Funny, Without the Usual Conceit
+ The funniest book I've ever read
+ incredible book
+ Odd, Sad, Funny, Unique and Just Plain Great!
+ Hilarious, dark, brilliant
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The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library) 5 reviews
Albert Camus
Everyman's Library, 2004
Love, Exile, and Suffering Illuminated by Life around Death
+ Haven't even read it, but
+ Moving, Thought-Provoking, and Genius
+ Excellent
+ The Ultimate Albert Camus Anthology
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The Plague 153 reviews
Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert
Vintage, 1991
"A town thrown back upon itself"
+ Few novels are worthy of comparison
+ Find meaning in a meaningless existence
+ Tragically relevant
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Notes from Underground136 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vintage, 1994
Superb character development
+ hard read
+ Brilliant
+ Notes From Underground
+ "I AM A SICK MAN...I am a wicked man."
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As I Lay Dying191 reviews
William Faulkner
Vintage, 1991
Homegoing
+ Worth the effort!
+ A Grim, Morbid, and Compelling Tale
+ Now I can get them teeth...
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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
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Welcome to the Monkey House78 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut
The Dial Press, 1998
Perfect Timing
+ You'll never look at the game of chess the same
+ Glen Williamson performs two of these stories as a play
I purchased this book as a gift for my husband. It arrived on time, and the book was such a great read, my husband purchased another book from the same author as soon as he finished this one.
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Slaughterhouse-Five708 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut
Dell, 1991
Like Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto.
+ A highly creative and simultaneously amusing and thought-provoking novel that hammers home its themes; "A-"
+ One of the best
+ Slaughterhouse-Five
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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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The Fall92 reviews
Albert Camus
Vintage, 1991
Best Book Ever Written. Period..........
+ A literary classic where the main character is someone you identify with yet loath
+ Bleak but Beautiful
+ Book is good
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To Kill a Mockingbird1762 reviews
Harper Lee
Grand Central Publishing, 1988
Excelent Book!
+ There is a reason this book will be read for centuries and centuries...
+ Tequila Mockingbird
+ Great!!Love this book
+ LOVE THIS BOOK!
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Happy Death19 reviews
Albert Camus
Vintage, 1995
beautiful translation
+ very good
+ Purpose Imposes Meaning
+ Camus strikes again !
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Tropic of Cancer161 reviews
Henry Miller
Grove Press, 1994
Know the background before you read this classic
+ Tropic of Cancer review
+ Original For Its Time--crude and rude
+ Fountain of youth
+ Puerile, vulgar, and tawdry.
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Where the Wild Things Are365 reviews
Maurice Sendak
Harper Collins, 1988
Imaginative and Amazing Illustrations
+ Old Memories
+ The BEST
+ Forgiveness without remorse
+ Look into the mind of a child
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Brave New World729 reviews
Aldous Huxley
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1998
Open the book and open your eyes
+ This book is more enjoyable with some soma!
+ Frighteningly Prophetic
+ Dystopia, i long for thee
+ Good Book
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The Stranger529 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 Book of Laughter and Forgetting55 reviews
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
Classic, devastating
+ Kundera's Lessons in Laughter and Forgetting.
+ "They never understood each other...yet they always agreed."
+ A good introduction to Kundera's work...
+ The book of silence and remembering
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream417 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Vintage, 1998
A classic
+ Great book, unfortunatell i've seen the movie
+ Great Book
+ A book about the savage journey to the heart of the American Dream!
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)239 reviews
James Joyce
Penguin Classics, 2003
Best Kindle edition of Joyce's "Portrait"
+ challenging but worth it
+ good intro to joyce
There are many editions of James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" available, but this is easily the best Kindle edition. The text is based on Chester Anderson's 1964 text. There are also a good number of annotations by Seamus Deane--fewer than in Anderson's Viking Critical ...
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