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Ender's Game 2520 reviews
Orson Scott Card
Starscape, 2002
Yay for Ender!
+ Not Your Typical Science Fiction
+ How did I overlook this series
+ My top favorite of all time!
+ Not a Sci-Fi Fan, but loved this book
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Invisible Monsters 289 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk
W. W. Norton & Company, 1999
This book is ca-razy!
+ My Unexpected Favorite
+ GREAT
+ a slow start, followed by a headlong rush. This book stayed in my head for a long time afterward!
+ A Good One
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Ulysses394 reviews
James Joyce
IndyPublish, 2002
Ten Reasons to Re-read Ulysses
+ Mount Everest for Readers
+ Great performance.
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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My Sister's Keeper: A Novel1021 reviews
Jodi Picoult
Washington Square Press, 2005
LOVED this book!!
+ My Sister's Keeper is a definite keeper!
+ Amazing
+ An amazing story
+ English II Honors book revies
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East of Eden218 reviews
John Steinbeck
Penguin Books, 2002
East of Eden - A beautifully written classic
+ This IS the Great American Novel
+ Possibly the Best Fictional Book I've Ever Read...
+ Good job!
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Survivor: A Novel385 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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Virgin suicides394 reviews
Eugenides Jeffrey
J'ai lu, 2000
this is a true story
+ Jorie's Reads on The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
+ Time in a Bottle
this is one of the saddest and truest stories I have ever read. I am so grateful to Jeffery Eugenides for telling this story of young teenage girls who choose suicide because in the end it is the one true thing that they can actually do--the one true communication that everyone "gets." Why is it ...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies1073 reviews
Jared Diamond
W. W. Norton, 2005
Fascinating!
+ Great subject and treatment - shakey science
+ Is Western Society truly superior?
+ Exactly the answers I wanted in twice the length I needed
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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey 122 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk
Doubleday, 2007
An Amazing Book!
+ Great
+ Thanks
+ Go Chuck Go!
+ Like I told you, I didn't really meet Rant Casey until after he was dead
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House Infernal10 reviews
Edward Lee
Leisure Books, 2007
lee is re-defining horror
+ Good, but different than the others
+ Infernal Lee
i love lee's work. and the whole "infernal" series is a great read. if you like horror - you'll love this. it's clive barker meets douglas coupland.
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Franny and Zooey222 reviews
J.D. Salinger
Back Bay Books, 2001
Fun Fanaticism
+ Entertaining and intelligent
It was always a little embarrassing to admit that I hadn't read Franny and Zooey. In the literary world, I guess it's kind of the equivalent of a beauty queen admitting she wears dentures. Somewhere in between that admission and the other one (that I found `Catcher in the Rye' tolerably okay but ...
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Girl, Interrupted430 reviews
Susanna Kaysen
Vintage, 1994
Chase Von, The Last Panther's Review
+ Better than film
+ Personal, but (seemingly) honest memoir
Having PTSD myself from Wars and other things, I thought this was a great movie! I didn't read the book first however and normally I do but from what I gather the movie in this instance was much better than the book...
I have read One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and in many ways this reminded ...
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Paint It Black: A Novel128 reviews
Janet Fitch
Back Bay Books, 2007
Paint It Black: A Short Review
+ Depressing... but good
+ Raw and charged with emotion
Paint It Black: A Short Review of Janet Fitch's Novel
Having read and enjoyed White Oleander by Janet Fitch I suspected that her novel, Paint It Black (Back Bay Books, Little, Brown & Company) would be a good read also. I was correct. I am reading slower than I used to. Perhaps it is the ...
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Summer Sisters1137 reviews
Judy Blume
Dell, 2006
Timeless classic
+ Excellent, but drags at the end
+ A Winner!
+ intertwined destiny
+ Great Summer Read!
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Water for Elephants: A Novel1471 reviews
Sara Gruen
Algonquin Books, 2007
I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ Too Good to be True?
+ Trying a bit too hard
+ Even if this isn't your typical read, you will enjoy.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four 67 reviews
George Orwell
Plume, 2003
So Possible it's scary
+ Still Relative Today
+ Forget WE, The Iron Heel and every other dystopian novel. Read this book!
+ Cherish your thoughts
+ This Book Deserves More Stars Than Are In The Sky
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House of Leaves576 reviews
Mark Z. Danielewski
Pantheon, 2000
Fantastic
Mesmerizing book. The style, the format, the writing, the dialogue on all levels keeps you glued to the pages. To coin a common phrase, "I couldn't put it down". Highly recommend.
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The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)588 reviews
John Steinbeck
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
A master at his craft!
+ [Good] required reading
+ Classic for Good Reason
+ The Grapes of Wrath
+ A top classic of American History...but some weaknesses
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The Bell Jar : A Novel (Perennial Classics)480 reviews
Sylvia Plath
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000
Why, oh, why was I reading Holden Caulfield when I should have been reading Esther Greenwood?
+ I was moved
One might think that a novel about a young college woman's experience with madness in the mid-20th century would come across as dated or even quaint. On the contrary, as I read I found myself nodding emphatically, and even calling up friends to tell them about passages I'd read that were ...
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Snuff 93 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk
Doubleday, 2008
"The Damaged Love the Damaged..."
An over-the-hill porn star wants to go out with a (gang) bang, so arranges for a world record effort with 600 stout and hearty fellows, brave and true. A few of this cast of hundreds are there for more than their allotted 60 seconds of, ah, contact with the legend. She has deep ulterior motives, ...
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