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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth 117 reviews
Jonathan Cape, 2004
"the first formal masterpiece of the medium"
+ A wacky yet insightfull journey
I first became aware of this book through a review in the October 17, 2005 issue of The New Yorker. The critic stated that this was "the first formal masterpiece of the medium." It was the first review of a comic that I had ever seen in that magazine.
While I'd probably say the first formal ...
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The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) 177 reviews Thomas Pynchon
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
A Beautiful Sad and Funny Book
+ Pynchon is God + cozy paperback + El martillero llama a la realidad
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Catch-22 822 reviews Joseph Heller
Simon & Schuster, 1996
Precursor of MASH and more
+ Great great book + The soldier in white; + One of, if not the, funniest book(s) ever written!
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Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) 1268 reviews William Golding
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
Do Humans Make Civilizatin, or vice versa?
+ Who needs Rowling when you've got Golding? + The Monsters of the Island . . .
What an incredible first novel, a story of civilization, how humans create it and how easily it can be destroyed. It deals with fear, and the atrocities it can make people commit. Golding wrote often about the connection between humanity and civilization. Does civilization make us human? This story ...
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Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories (Signet Classics) 6 reviews Francois Voltaire
Signet Classics, 2001
More Bang for your Buck with the Signet Classics volume
+ Great deal - Good book. + Fatema Girnary - Candide + The Best Edition of Candide + Uplifting
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House of Leaves 566 reviews Mark Z. Danielewski
Pantheon, 2000
Cronenberg For Movie
+ Terrifying, Horrifying and Tragic + amazing + Great Book
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The Basic Eight: A Novel 96 reviews Daniel Handler
Harper Perennial, 2006
Amazing!
+ A simple review + So glad I read this unique story!
I first fell in love with the Series of Unfortunate Events books... and so I decided to read this and I loved it. It is definitely not for kids, but it is written amazingly and keeps you riveted until the last page.
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The Third Policeman 77 reviews Flann O'Brien
Dalkey Archive Pr, 2002
This Way To Eternity
+ An Astounding Pancake + Modern, more adult Alice in Wonderland + Kafka meets Monty Python in this guided tour of hell.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 208 reviews Philip K. Dick
Del Rey, 1996
Hit me with a rock - this is NOT Blade Runner!
+ Competing Future Religions, Animal Life Extinction, Android Pets & More + Enjoyable if abstract vision of the future + Quality Read + good
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Brave New World (P.S.) 724 reviews Aldous Huxley
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Almost a Perfect World
+ Satire at its best + Experienceing Scifi for the nerd in you
This book was truly amazing at certain points i was so touched by what i was reading that i was forced to read out loud just to hear these words spoken, Huxley takes commend of the english langage as no other author and creates an almost perfect world if only the savages were included. If this is ...
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A Clockwork Orange (Norton Paperback Fiction) 615 reviews Anthony Burgess
W. W. Norton & Company, 1986
Even better than the movie
+ Dark but Philosophical + Great Book + A Clockwork Orange + Gruesome, and Astounding.
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Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke (Bison Frontiers of Imagination) 13 reviews Philip Jose Farmer
Bison Books, 2006
Super Reader
+ Very good...however... + The House of Tarzan + Good book... but... + Fun biography, even for casual fans of Tarzan and/or Farmer
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Catch-22 822 reviews Joseph Heller
Simon & Schuster, 1996
Precursor of MASH and more
+ Great great book + The soldier in white; + One of, if not the, funniest book(s) ever written!
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 208 reviews Philip K. Dick
Del Rey, 1996
Hit me with a rock - this is NOT Blade Runner!
+ Competing Future Religions, Animal Life Extinction, Android Pets & More + Enjoyable if abstract vision of the future + Quality Read + good
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Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories (Signet Classics) 6 reviews Francois Voltaire
Signet Classics, 2001
More Bang for your Buck with the Signet Classics volume
+ Great deal - Good book. + Fatema Girnary - Candide + The Best Edition of Candide + Uplifting
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The Third Policeman 77 reviews Flann O'Brien
Dalkey Archive Pr, 2002
This Way To Eternity
+ An Astounding Pancake + Modern, more adult Alice in Wonderland + Kafka meets Monty Python in this guided tour of hell.
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Brave New World (P.S.) 724 reviews Aldous Huxley
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Almost a Perfect World
+ Satire at its best + Experienceing Scifi for the nerd in you
This book was truly amazing at certain points i was so touched by what i was reading that i was forced to read out loud just to hear these words spoken, Huxley takes commend of the english langage as no other author and creates an almost perfect world if only the savages were included. If this is ...
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House of Leaves 566 reviews Mark Z. Danielewski
Pantheon, 2000
Cronenberg For Movie
+ Terrifying, Horrifying and Tragic + amazing + Great Book
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The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) 177 reviews Thomas Pynchon
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
A Beautiful Sad and Funny Book
+ Pynchon is God + cozy paperback + El martillero llama a la realidad
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The Basic Eight: A Novel 96 reviews Daniel Handler
Harper Perennial, 2006
Amazing!
+ A simple review + So glad I read this unique story!
I first fell in love with the Series of Unfortunate Events books... and so I decided to read this and I loved it. It is definitely not for kids, but it is written amazingly and keeps you riveted until the last page.
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