Animal Farm and 198426 reviews
George Orwell

Harcourt, 2003

Worthy literature that transcends the genre of political fable

+ Animal Farm + 1984 = Great Edition
+ Best Orwell's edition
+ WORTH READING AGAIN - AND HAVING IN YOUR LIBRARY
+ Boy, this cover is attractive.
  
  











  



  
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text239 reviews
William S. Burroughs

Grove Press, 2004

huh?

+ Beyond Good & Evil
+ "The man is never on time."
+ Brilliant
  
  











  



  
Ulysses395 reviews
James Joyce

IndyPublish, 2002

Ten Reasons to Re-read Ulysses

+ Amazon Recommends I: James Joyce's Ulysses
+ Mount Everest for Readers

1. When you tried it in college, it was a task, a challenge, an intellectual mountain to climb, a test of your literary mettle. Perhaps if you read it apart from any course, as I did, you felt you failed. 2. In the intervening time you've read perhaps hundreds of Modernist and post-modernist ...
  
  











  



  
Infinite Jest350 reviews
David Foster Wallace

Back Bay Books, 2006

GREAT AUTHOR,GREAT BOOK

+ Infinite Jest
+ A True Classic

WHAT AN INCREDIBLE BOOK..JUST STAY WITH IT & IT TAKES ONE ON A JOYRIDE RIGHT UNTIL THE VERY LAST WRITTEN WORD.
  
  











  



  
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition)72 reviews
Douglas Adams

Gramercy, 2005

It's easy to fly, just jump at the ground and miss.

+ Great Collection!!!
+ Great Book for All Ages
+ I love it.
+ OUTSTANDING!!!!!
  
  











  



  
Slaughterhouse-Five708 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut

Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999

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
  
  











  



  
The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 153 reviews
Neil Gaiman

Vertigo, 2006

Beautiful, and A Great Price

+ more than a "comic book"
+ AMAZING
+ Creative
+ Absolute Masterpiece
  
  











  



  
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained25 reviews
John Milton

Wilder Publications, 2007

Rise and fall!

+ Brilliant literature!
+ Paradise

First off, let me say that we're not talking here about the famous Qi gong instructor named John Milton. We're talking about the famous 17th-century English poet who wrote _Paradise Lost_ and _Paradise Regained_, two of the most wonderfully overlong Christian poems in the history of Western ...
  
  











  



  
The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd Edition31 reviews
William Shakespeare

Heinle, 1996

great as a textbook, wonderful for personal use

+ Complete collection
+ The Riverside Shakespeare
+ Pleasantly Pleased
+ Great purchase!
  
  











  



  
H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)42 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft

Library of America, 2005

Glimpse of a dark figure in the night

+ Walk on The "Dark Side"
+ Your One-Stop Lovecraft
+ Lovecraft's Tales
+ Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.
  
  











  



  
Survivor: A Novel385 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk

Anchor, 2000

Survivor: A Novel

+ Great
+ amazing imagination

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk ***** Survivor is the story of where it all went wrong. The point in our lives where we have all had choices to make. The choices that affect the rest of our lives. Survivor is the search for something far and something big, maybe something bigger than all of us, it ...
  
  











  



  
Breakfast of Champions253 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut

Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999

Breakfast Of Champions

+ Vonnegut is the Best!!!
+ Love the story, but the Kindle version's editing was HORRIBLE
+ You must read this
  
  











  



  
Neuromancer452 reviews
William Gibson

Ace Hardcover, 2004

Still Good After All These Years

+ If Only Gibson Had Continued With This Story...
+ Lives up to the hype

I first read Gibson's "Neuromancer" when it first came out (about 24 years ago) and really enjoyed it. I just finished reading it again, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it's weathered the intervening decades very well. This book created a genre by envisioning a wired world when, at the ...
  
  











  



  
Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch ...19 reviews
Philip K. Dick

Library of America, 2007

A Great Introduction to the World of Philip K. Dick

+ Great Volume of Sci-Fi
+ Revernt treatment of science fiction classics
+ A "religious preoccupation"
+ Welcome to the dark, thrilling, paranoid world of PKD
  
  











  



  
Preacher Vol. 1: Gone to Texas99 reviews
Garth Ennis

Vertigo, 1996

Ennis & Dillon at their best (still!)

+ Schlock Pulp of the Highest Calibre
+ THIS COMIC WILL OFFEND
+ A graphic novel series of biblical proportions
  
  











  



  
The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated73 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov, Alfred Appel Jr.

Vintage, 1991

What is pornography?

+ Complete control of the english language
+ Duelling opinions
+ The essence of perfect writing
  
  











  



  
The Complete Stories44 reviews
Franz Kafka

Schocken, 1995

A Treasure of Madness

+ The best place to start with Kafka.
+ Excellent introduction to Kafka unique style

Kafka is still "the rage," one supposes, but it is hard to see how, now that he has become an icon. This is a fabulous collection. Updike is right that these stories are excellent. Kafka has had enormous influence on modern fiction. He may be one of a handful of highly important authors. Reading ...
  
  











  



  
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!
  
  











  



  
Watchmen610 reviews
Alan Moore

DC Comics, 1995

Not what I imagined at all.

+ A highly engrossing work of art
+ The greatest single comic mini-series in history
+ Superheroes for Adults
+ First graphic novel I've read--was NOT dissappointed!
  
  











  



  
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World135 reviews
Haruki Murakami

Vintage, 2001

Patience is a virtue

+ another catching Murakami adventure
+ Another trip down the rabbit hole
+ A wonderful novel about the mind and the desire for immortality