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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Novel 726 reviews Susanna Clarke
Tor Books, 2006
Great book
+ Spreading the reach of British magic + A fun adventure.
I can't believe I bought this for a dollar! Great book, especially if you only paid a dollar. My copy is not for sale, sorry.
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Lonesome Dove 388 reviews Larry McMurtry
Pocket, 1988
Best Westerns
+ Lonesome Dove + Sweeping, masterful, and affecting + Wow! + Loved It!
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel 170 reviews David Mitchell
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004
Highly unique and worthwhile
+ A Daring and Beautiful Novel + Rare Masterpiece + Interruptions and emancipations + Reading Reincarnated
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 596 reviews Michael Chabon
Picador, 2001
The Most Super of All Powers
+ Comic history in the making + Masterful
A beautiful book about Sammy and Joe, two cousins who end up writing and drawing comic books together, the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is a staggering tale of dedication, commitment, human frailty, perseverance, loyalty, and the many faces of the most powerful of all super powers, love. ...
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The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) 8 reviews Jorge Luis Borges
Penguin Classics, 2004
Maker of Stories
+ The path you are to take is endless + Interesting collection of ideas + Borges and the 'Aleph"
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The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript 274 reviews Umberto Eco
Harvest Books, 1994
Excellent
+ murder mystery masterpiece + A Conundrum Wrapped In A Paradox!
This is a very beautiful novel, the first 50 pages are bit hard to digest as the writer delves deeply into Christian theology, but go ahead and there awaits you an incredible novel about a priest and his neophyte trying to solve a murder that takes place at a monastery in the world that is just on ...
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The New York Trilogy (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) 95 reviews Paul Auster
Penguin Classics, 2006
book
+ The Existential Dashiell Hammett + painless way into postmodernist metafiction + "The question is the story itself, and whether or not it means something is not for the story to tell."
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Watchmen 582 reviews Alan Moore
DC Comics, 1995
Watchman paperback review
+ Watchmen graphic novel + As good as storytelling gets + Great Read!!! If you've never read a graphic read this! + Costumed vigilantes make tough moral choices
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Lonesome Dove 388 reviews Larry McMurtry
Pocket, 1988
Best Westerns
+ Lonesome Dove + Sweeping, masterful, and affecting + Wow! + Loved It!
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel 170 reviews David Mitchell
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004
Highly unique and worthwhile
+ A Daring and Beautiful Novel + Rare Masterpiece + Interruptions and emancipations + Reading Reincarnated
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Watchmen 582 reviews Alan Moore
DC Comics, 1995
Watchman paperback review
+ Watchmen graphic novel + As good as storytelling gets + Great Read!!! If you've never read a graphic read this! + Costumed vigilantes make tough moral choices
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The New York Trilogy (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) 95 reviews Paul Auster
Penguin Classics, 2006
book
+ The Existential Dashiell Hammett + painless way into postmodernist metafiction + "The question is the story itself, and whether or not it means something is not for the story to tell."
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 596 reviews Michael Chabon
Picador, 2001
The Most Super of All Powers
+ Comic history in the making + Masterful
A beautiful book about Sammy and Joe, two cousins who end up writing and drawing comic books together, the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is a staggering tale of dedication, commitment, human frailty, perseverance, loyalty, and the many faces of the most powerful of all super powers, love. ...
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The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript 274 reviews Umberto Eco
Harvest Books, 1994
Excellent
+ murder mystery masterpiece + A Conundrum Wrapped In A Paradox!
This is a very beautiful novel, the first 50 pages are bit hard to digest as the writer delves deeply into Christian theology, but go ahead and there awaits you an incredible novel about a priest and his neophyte trying to solve a murder that takes place at a monastery in the world that is just on ...
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Novel 726 reviews Susanna Clarke
Tor Books, 2006
Great book
+ Spreading the reach of British magic + A fun adventure.
I can't believe I bought this for a dollar! Great book, especially if you only paid a dollar. My copy is not for sale, sorry.
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The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) 8 reviews Jorge Luis Borges
Penguin Classics, 2004
Maker of Stories
+ The path you are to take is endless + Interesting collection of ideas + Borges and the 'Aleph"
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