Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)195 reviews Gustave Flaubert Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 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 ...             On Beauty196 reviews Zadie Smith Penguin Books, 2006 Satirical and sensitive + Great writing, great characters + Excellent This is the story of two families, each family headed up by a strong-willed academic man. These two patriarchs are opposites and enemies (or rivals, if you want to be optimistic). The emotional center of the book revolves around Howard's struggling marriage to Kiki. This novel is satirical and ...             The Inner Circle42 reviews T. Coraghessan Boyle Amazon Remainders Account, 2004 Before Sex in the City there was Dr. Kinsey + a must for every body to read T. C. Boyle is an amazing writer. The Inner Circle unfolds in the world of the 40's in Indiana. We get the food, the drink, the smell, the cold muddy winters, the baby crying and of course, the sex, the endless sex between the men of the Inner Circle, Prok as they call Professor Kinsey, having ...             Caramelo (Bestseller Internacional)76 reviews Sandra Cisneros Seix Barral, 2005 Completely satisfied + The MBC Abbreviated Review + beautiful! + Life, Love, and Familia on Both Sides of the Border             Bel Canto (P.S.)579 reviews Ann Patchett Harper Perennial, 2005 Stunning and Emotional + Bel Canto + A MUST-read + Bellissimo + Makes me want to go and listen to Opera!             Everything Is Illuminated6 reviews Jonathan Safran Foer, Penguin Penguin Books Ltd, 2003 you should read this + Kooky and inventive novel of two young men's coming of age. Jonathan Safran Foer's use of the English language is beautiful. While he has a very different style of writing and it may take a little while to get into it, I don't see what there is not to like. I'm not sure which I liked better- this or his "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," but both are ...             The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics)84 reviews Victor Hugo Signet Classics, 2001 A Delightful Read + Notre Dame de Paris -- C'est perfect! + Hugo's commentary on the death penalty + A Great Book for Kids             The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: and Other Stories31 reviews Carson McCullers Mariner Books, 2005 Carson's Ballad is Beautiful + Essential Americana + sure, McCullers' concerns are weighty and everything... + A HAUNTING STORY             Beach Music286 reviews Pat Conroy Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2002 A Book To Always Remember + Beach Music + Beach Music is an ALL TIME BEST + Fun Read             The Secret History533 reviews Donna Tartt Vintage, 2004 Engrossing + Amazing Read + Good, weird, but a stretch of the imagination + A stunningly brilliant debut novel. + Remains one of my favorite books             The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated72 reviews Vladimir Nabokov, Alfred Appel Jr. Vintage, 1991 Adds a new dimension to a novel I admired already + The essence of perfect writing + Approaching Perfection; Incredible Annotations + What is pornography?             Lullaby264 reviews Chuck Palahniuk Vintage, 2003 Best book I've read to date + Unexpected dark humor... how can you resist? + A killer lullaby and a vegan road-trip This book is so relevant! I've read some of his other work, and this by and far is the best. He hits on so many things that relate to the world today. Yes, it has dark dark humor in it, but that is what really opens your eyes to the other comments in his book. The shock factor is what makes ...             Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)61 reviews E. M. Forster Dover Publications, 2002 Homecomings. + A Novel of Edwardian Society with Disaster Looming + Brilliant, epic depiction of English society before World War I Most of us connect the notion of "home" or "childhood home" with one particular place, that innocent paradise we have since had to give up and keep searching for forever after. In Ruth Wilcox's world, Howards End is that place; the countryside house where she was born, where her family often ...             The Decameron (Penguin Classics)11 reviews Giovanni Boccaccio Penguin Classics, 2003 Bawdy tales of love + A reward not for the faint of heart + A 10 days work to read + A book to dip into             The Bell Jar : A Novel (Perennial Classics)478 reviews Sylvia Plath Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000 Poetry in Prose + This isn't a book about depression + a masterpiece The Bell Jar tells the captivating story of Esther Greenwood, a gifted young woman who has just completed her arduous internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The novel, written entirely in first person, chronicles her mental breakdown and subsequent ...             The Secret History533 reviews Donna Tartt Vintage, 2004 Engrossing + Amazing Read + Good, weird, but a stretch of the imagination + A stunningly brilliant debut novel. + Remains one of my favorite books             Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)61 reviews E. M. Forster Dover Publications, 2002 Homecomings. + A Novel of Edwardian Society with Disaster Looming + Brilliant, epic depiction of English society before World War I Most of us connect the notion of "home" or "childhood home" with one particular place, that innocent paradise we have since had to give up and keep searching for forever after. In Ruth Wilcox's world, Howards End is that place; the countryside house where she was born, where her family often ...             The Inner Circle42 reviews T. Coraghessan Boyle Amazon Remainders Account, 2004 Before Sex in the City there was Dr. Kinsey + a must for every body to read T. C. Boyle is an amazing writer. The Inner Circle unfolds in the world of the 40's in Indiana. We get the food, the drink, the smell, the cold muddy winters, the baby crying and of course, the sex, the endless sex between the men of the Inner Circle, Prok as they call Professor Kinsey, having ...             Beach Music286 reviews Pat Conroy Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2002 A Book To Always Remember + Beach Music + Beach Music is an ALL TIME BEST + Fun Read             Caramelo (Bestseller Internacional)76 reviews Sandra Cisneros Seix Barral, 2005 Completely satisfied + The MBC Abbreviated Review + beautiful! + Life, Love, and Familia on Both Sides of the Border