The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)580 reviews John Steinbeck Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002 One of the Best Novels of All Time + A reunion with old friends + A moving story... + Try it again if you hated it in high school. + Audio Grapes of Wrath             The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text70 reviews Franz Kafka Schocken, 1998 Classic Account of Alienation and Absurdity + I offer the startling proposal that Franz Kafka's The Castle is + hilarious, you really need to read it yourself + A Frustrating Masterpiece             Darkness at Noon92 reviews Arthur Koestler Bantam, 1984 Psychological Examination of Stalinist show trials + Actually, Clinton makes a good Rubashov . . . + Brilliantly demonstrates the errors of communist ideology + The Mentality Described by Koestler Still Lives             1876: A Novel18 reviews Gore Vidal Vintage, 2000 Vidal's "Tale of Two Cities" + Great continuation of the series + How The GOP Stole The Election of 2000...I Mean 1876 + 1876 (by Gore Vidal)             For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)261 reviews Ernest Hemingway Scribner, 1996 Deserves to Be Called a Classic + good and bad + Lives Up To Its Reputation + The Best War Novel + A classic in every meaning of the word             The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)10 reviews Joseph Conrad Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 A Secret Agency + It will not dissapoint you. + A Prophetic Tale Conrad still suffers today from the same pigeon-hole that his writing was pounded into during his own lifetime. He is still seen as harbinger of distant seas, of the exotic, the foreign. He is best known for Heart of Darkness, a book immortalized in pop culture by Francis Ford Coppola's ...             The Dispossessed92 reviews Ursula K. Le Guin Eos, 1994 Overall, solid + Anarchy In Outerspace Overall, a good book. The book isn't action pack but it does bring up a lot of questions about morality, humanity, and the idealist vs realistic forms of government.             The Cold Six Thousand: A Novel106 reviews James Ellroy Vintage, 2002 Conspiracy and curruption Ellroy-style + If this one doesn't leave you gasping, you're dead already. + Whew! What a Ride. The Cold Six Thousand is a daringly direct take on the biggest events in America in the 1960s - the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, civil rights leader Martin Luther King and JFK's younger brother Senator Robert F Kennedy. All this set against the first few years of the US involvement ...             All the King's Men175 reviews Robert Penn Warren Harvest Books, 1996 The Web Of Things + A Great Book Read By A Great Voice + great literature, sinfully delicious + Wonderful Book!             Our Gang10 reviews Philip Roth Vintage, 1998 On The Comeback Trail, Or Tricky In Hell + The Story of Tricky Dixon + The Gang's all here - and gone + okay             The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails22 reviews Robert Musil Vintage, 1996 spectacular and profound + Empricist Musil + Expansive Literature + Europe prior to the Great War             The Autumn of the Patriarch (P.S.)38 reviews Gabriel Garcia Marquez Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 Gabo's prose masterpiece + Marquez at his best - a masterpiece + A universal masterpiece + An Epic Latin-American Poem             Animal Farm3 reviews George Orwell 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2004 Required Reading + love the fact that the publisher, 1stWorld Library has made the text slightly larger + No animal may drink alcohol "to excess" My son had to read this book for school, but discovered that he liked this assignment.             The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor Edwin O'Connor Little Brown & Co, 1956 "O'Connor's 1956 account of big-city politics, inspired by the career of longtime Boston Mayor James M. Curley, portrays its Irish-American political boss as a demagogue and a rogue who nonetheless deeply understands his constituents. The book was later made into a John Ford film staring Spencer Tracy." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.             The Prime Minister (Oxford World's Classics)6 reviews Anthony Trollope Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 Not for the uninitated + Morality + Outsiders and Insiders + The Pallisers in Power. + Another book to read and cherish             Our Gang10 reviews Philip Roth Vintage, 1998 On The Comeback Trail, Or Tricky In Hell + The Story of Tricky Dixon + The Gang's all here - and gone + okay             Darkness at Noon92 reviews Arthur Koestler Bantam, 1984 Psychological Examination of Stalinist show trials + Actually, Clinton makes a good Rubashov . . . + Brilliantly demonstrates the errors of communist ideology + The Mentality Described by Koestler Still Lives             The Autumn of the Patriarch (P.S.)38 reviews Gabriel Garcia Marquez Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 Gabo's prose masterpiece + Marquez at his best - a masterpiece + A universal masterpiece + An Epic Latin-American Poem             The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails22 reviews Robert Musil Vintage, 1996 spectacular and profound + Empricist Musil + Expansive Literature + Europe prior to the Great War             1876: A Novel18 reviews Gore Vidal Vintage, 2000 Vidal's "Tale of Two Cities" + Great continuation of the series + How The GOP Stole The Election of 2000...I Mean 1876 + 1876 (by Gore Vidal)