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Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4) 670 reviews Stephen King
Signet, 2003
I LOVE this series
+ Awesome! + This book is freakin AWESOME. + I admit... + Great book
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The Big Bow Mystery 3 reviews Israel Zangwill
Dybbuk Press, LLC, 2007
Historically significant and a great read
The fact that the mystery disappears after the second chapter in no way detracts from the joy of this book. From widowed boarding house attendants to freeloading artists to a detective that might as well be the anti-Sherlock Holmes, this is one of the funniest and meanest books to come out of the ...
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Ogre, Ogre (Xanth Novels) 31 reviews Piers Anthony
Del Rey, 1987
Amazingly "punny"
+ Enjoyable book, but not the best of the series + Oh Good, Oh Good + Ogre, Ogre + If magical creatures are your thing, then enjoy this!
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Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) 121 reviews Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics, 2002
Expectations Greatly Exceeded
+ Must Read Victorian Novel + A Novel of tears as well as laughter. An enjoyable classic. + Expect Great Things
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Guards! Guards! 76 reviews Terry Pratchett
HarperTorch, 2001
i love this book
+ On Guards + The Best of the Discworld Series! + Hilariously funny + Intro to Guards
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 237 reviews William S. Burroughs
Grove Press, 2004
fadeout
+ Beyond Good & Evil + "The man is never on time." + Brilliant
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God Laughs When You Die 4 reviews Michael Boatman
Dybbuk Press, LLC, 2007
A Wonderful Debut
+ fast, violent, and unsympathetic + Dark, Skanky, Funky Little Twisted Tales: Performance Art
Michael Boatman's debut collection is not one to miss by any means. He blends humor with horror, the strange with the unknown--and I loved it!
Reading through the pages, it just slipped right through my fingers, and before I knew it I was done with the book begging for there to be more. This is a ...
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The Children of Henry VIII 66 reviews Alison Weir
Ballantine Books, 1997
Better than I thought!
+ henry's children + Perfect and in time + She did it again
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Deathbird Stories 1 review Harlan Ellison
Blue Jay, 1983
Some of the best writing by Harlan Ellison
I suspect that most of these stories are already in The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective (Revised and Expanded) and that renders this collection obsolete. Could be why it's out of print. I had a copy and I read it so many times. Then I gave it to a friend that I never talk to anymore. Be ...
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Tropic of Cancer 158 reviews Henry Miller
Grove Press, 1994
don't go crazy
+ Fountain of youth + Puerile, vulgar, and tawdry. + A Gem.
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (An Evergreen book) 14 reviews Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain
Grove Press, 2006
Please Kill Me
+ GREAT!!! + A Must Have for Every Punk Enthusiast! + A great read with a narrow focus
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Lost Souls 227 reviews Poppy Z. Brite
Dell, 1993
Sayuri's Review
+ My favorite book + a tragic tale with a new twist on the vampire legend
I love this book. It was probably one of the best I have ever read. Brite made me sympathize with all of the characters and the story had me on edge for such a long time. I couldn't put it down! Her characters were so deep and developed that I felt as though there was no true villan to the book ...
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Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics) 1 review Emily Brontė
Signet Classics, 2004
Worthy of its place in the canon
How odd that Amazon does not consolidate the comments on the various editions of this book from different publishers.
I read this book out of a certain sense of obligation -- I'd been reading other 19th century English literature and, with some trepidation, picked up Wuthering Heights to ...
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Dark Dance 12 reviews Tanith Lee
Dell, 1992
Tanith Lee; a Literary Genius!!
+ really good creepy + I hope you dance
All I am about to say about this author and this book, is that it is well worth your time to read this tale. I feel that you will leave this book, feeling amazed and smitten by the beloved Rachella. Tanith Lee tops my list of extraordinary storytellers, she has captured the hearts of all her fans ...
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Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) 73 reviews Allen Ginsberg
City Lights Publishers, 2001
Howl, And Other Pocket Poems
+ Ginsberg the 'greatest'?.. hmmm + Seeking Jazz or S*x or Soup + Amazing + good book
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present 149 reviews Jacques Barzun
Harper Perennial, 2001
My enduring Top-2 pick for understanding the Meaning of Life book.
+ Hey Eric + One of the best books you'll read this year... + The in-depth flow of cultural evolution + This will help every student of art, music, political science,
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The Catcher in the Rye 8 reviews J.D. Salinger
Bantam, 1966
A timeless classic worth reading
I write this review having to look back almost 20 years when I read this book as a child. At an age when I found it difficult to engross myself in fiction (I simply did not read a lot as a child), I traversed through this book with interest.
Unless you have issues with the course language, ...
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The House of the Spirits 11 reviews Isabel Allende
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2005
A book you will read over and over again...
+ hip hip horray for house of the spirits + Allende's Masterpiece + se los recomiendo!!!
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A Confederacy of Dunces 959 reviews John Kennedy Toole
Louisiana State University Press, 2000
Go Ignatius, GO!
+ One of the Best Books Ever Wrtten
Most folks it seems abhor reading with a near violent, reflexive revulsion. Almost as if the mere suggestion would cause a spontaneous eruption of projectile vomiting directed forthwith at the unfortunate proposer. People just hate to read. But this is a book that could inspire a change of heart in ...
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Madame Bovary: 150th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics) 195 reviews Gustave Flaubert
Signet Classics, 2001
Humanity Captured in Prose
+ Over the years... still a great book + Interesting story!
Like so many of the classics, Madame Bovary does an incredible job of recording humanity. All of the characters are whole, full-fleshed and individual. Emma's discontent with life, her yearning for something more, has probably been experienced by all of us. Her yearning destroys her, and her ...
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