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Animal Farm and 1984 26 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.
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 239 reviews William S. Burroughs
Grove Press, 2004
huh?
+ Beyond Good & Evil + "The man is never on time." + Brilliant
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Ulysses 395 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 ...
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Infinite Jest 350 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.
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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!!!!!
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Slaughterhouse-Five 708 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
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The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1 53 reviews Neil Gaiman
Vertigo, 2006
Beautiful, and A Great Price
+ more than a "comic book" + AMAZING + Creative + Absolute Masterpiece
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Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained 25 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 ...
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The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd Edition 31 reviews William Shakespeare
Heinle, 1996
great as a textbook, wonderful for personal use
+ Complete collection + The Riverside Shakespeare + Pleasantly Pleased + Great purchase!
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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.
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Survivor: A Novel 385 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 ...
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Breakfast of Champions 253 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
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Neuromancer 452 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 ...
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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
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Preacher Vol. 1: Gone to Texas 99 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
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The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated 73 reviews Vladimir Nabokov, Alfred Appel Jr.
Vintage, 1991
What is pornography?
+ Complete control of the english language + Duelling opinions + The essence of perfect writing
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The Complete Stories 44 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 ...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream 417 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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Watchmen 610 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!
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Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World 135 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
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