Shadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics)14 reviews Willa Cather Vintage, 1995 Fabulous Story by the Great Willa Cather + A Novel of Old Quebec + Sacramental Ordinariness + Beautiful             The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (Harvest Book, Hb 294)1 review Virginia Woolf Harvest Books, 1974 A supreme artist at work Woolf is an outstanding essayist. This work edited and put together by her husband Leonard Woolf is her last volume of essays. It contains essays on a wide variety of subjects beginning with her careful depiction of the 'Death of a Moth' and containing essays on Henry James, Madame de Sevigne, the ...             The Symposium (Penguin Classics)4 reviews Plato Penguin Classics, 2003 The Conversation + It's all in love + Ups and downs We all like to chat about romance around a dinner table but what is romance and love all about? Well, Symposium is one of the most serious discussions about this issue datable to the 5th century BCE. At that time, Greeks at dinner parties used to sprawl themselves on couches with food and wine ...             Deadeye Dick47 reviews Kurt Vonnegut Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999 Wonderful, Like Wandering Through a Junky Antique Shop + Deadeye Dick recounts a sad existence + Vonnegut - Awesome as usual + A Personal Connection + Another late-era Vonnegut gem             Troilus and Cressida (The Pelican Shakespeare)7 reviews William Shakespeare Penguin Classics, 2000 A Tragedy, and a good one + The Bard's Blackest Comedy: X-Rated, Post-Nietzschean Shakespeare + The most unsung, but perhaps the most modern, of Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida is one of Shakespear`s many romances, and, like most of his romances, is a tragedy. Since time immemorial, Shakespears` works have been used as plays, literature and (least often) just casual reading. While Troilus and Cressida is one of the less known plays, it is no less a ...             Our Gang10 reviews Philip Roth Vintage, 2001 On The Comeback Trail, Or Tricky In Hell + The Story of Tricky Dixon + The Gang's all here - and gone + okay             Heat and Other Stories (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)4 reviews Joyce Carol Oates Plume, 1992 Oates is a master of the short story! + Heat Is An Apt Title + Oates's best collection yet! + A well builder book             The Golem (Dover Mystery, Detective, & Other Fiction)11 reviews Gustav Meyrink, Hugo Steiner-Prag, ... Dover Publications, 1985 Esoterism and legend + EXPRESSIONIST MASTERPIECE + A dreamlike story of the supernatural + A very Interesting and Unique novel             I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 ...159 reviews Robert Graves Vintage, 1989 Totally awesome + If you like your history lite then I, Claudius is your book. + A special place for this book on my library shelves "I Claudius" was the first book that convinced me that history could be engrossing. Ridiculously fun to read - it delivers a thrill on a level with the first time you saw "The Mikado", heard the Saint-Saens cello concerto, Callas singing 'Casta Diva'. You get the picture. It is a stroke of ...             Supertoys Last All Summer Long: And Other Stories of Future Time16 reviews Brian W. Aldiss St. Martin's Griffin, 2001 Mythmaking? The first three stories have obvious parallels (which Aldiss apparently denied) with Pinnochio (and also the Tin Man in Wizard of Oz and Pygmalion and seal-wife and fairy-wife legends). Maybe I'm reading too much into this (making me guilty of deconstructionism) but I saw a pattern of recreation of ...             I Lost it at the Movies2 reviews Pauline Kael Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1994 Pauline Kael as a prophet of our multi-media age + For your permanent collection Pauline Kael was a prophet of the times: she knew that people would eventually be addicted to the movies. But she was perceptive enough to realize from the onset that this addiction went beyond the inescapable, because grippingly overwhelming, magic of storytelling. She understood that movies were ...             Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream416 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!             The Custom of the Country Barnes & Noble, 2000 Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist.             The Adding Machine: Selected Essays6 reviews William S. Burroughs Arcade Publishing, 1993 I disagree with the canned review I encountered. + Fantastic + Notes on All Aspects of Life + a good collection             Hocus Pocus59 reviews Kurt Vonnegut Berkley, 1991 What a Gem + Hilarious and thought-provoking + Not for people who don't like to think + A Good Read + Not for the Uninitiated Vonnegut Reader, but Great for Fans             The Names17 reviews Don DeLillo Vintage, 1989 Good primer for the later stuff + Worth Reading and Re-reading + A remarkable tour de force of neurosis personified + Genious! Great Layout, a good read for anyone.             Stories of Anton Chekhov17 reviews Anton Chekhov Bantam, 2000 perceptive and heartbreaking + The Master of the Short Story + Everyone must read these stories! + Wonderful but depressing stories + Delightful             Salambo (Penguin Classics)14 reviews Gustave Flaubert Penguin Classics, 1977 Worthy of a wider audience + A Bit of a Disappointment, Very Slow, and Sometimes a Confusing Read + Clouded, Debauched Banquet Even though I agree with the reviewers who stated that this novel is nothing like Madame Bovary, I tend to see this as a strength of a talented world writer. In this novel Carthage is in its death throes as an imperial nation---eternally at war and unable to meet the daily needs of its citizens. ...             The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)15 reviews George Eliot Penguin Classics, 2003 Eliot is superb as always! I would give this 10 stars if I could + Excellent writing and character development + "It's not right to sacrifice everything to other people's unreasonable feelings." + Lengthy, but worth it + Maggie: Whatta "Gell"             In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales (Penguin Classics)4 reviews Lord Dunsany Penguin Classics, 2004 Dunsany conjures worlds out of a hat + Absolute Wonder + just before the death of art there came a great one + A rich collection of Dunsany's tales