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Complete Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The ... 130 reviews Anne Rice
Ballantine Books, 1993
Good prices on a good set
+ Great Package + speedy delivery + perfect packaging + Beautiful Box Set but Incomplete
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Sorrow Floats 19 reviews Tim Sandlin
Riverhead Trade, 1997
Stands on its own as a great work about personal redemption
+ If you Liked Skipped Parts, you'll LOVE Sorrow Floats + Sorrow Floats is an apt title + Amazing
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The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics) 405 reviews Nathaniel Hawthorne
Penguin Classics, 2002
A wonderful piece of literature, however
+ Sin, Redemption + Hawthorne's Masterpiece + Useful for AP Lit + Timeless Classic
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Social Blunders 15 reviews Tim Sandlin
Riverhead Trade, 1997
A Perfect Ending
+ Amusing, but less fully-realized than its predecessors + Laughs, sex, misery and a hopeful ending + Slightly less wonderful than Skipped Parts and Sorrow Floats + BIZARE
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book) Teacher's Edition: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy ... 619 reviews Jon Stewart, The Writers of The Daily Show
Grand Central Publishing, 2006
I couldn't stop laughing
+ Reminds me of why I used to like the Daily Show + You will not regret it. + No Problems + Great book for a good laugh
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The Monkey Wrench Gang (P.S.) 103 reviews Edward Abbey
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Evergreen of Desert Lit
+ Where the hell do all these people come from? + fantastic + A Book to be Read Again and Again + The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
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Choke 459 reviews Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor, 2002
joy
+ For a very select audience + Funny and Disturbing + Wow?!?! + Not exactly what I was expecting
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Skipped Parts: A Novel 43 reviews Tim Sandlin
Riverhead Trade, 2000
A sweet novel about underage sex!
+ Hilarious Dark Comedy + Hilarious!!! + A Really Special Book
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Invisible Monsters 288 reviews Chuck Palahniuk
W. W. Norton & Company, 1999
GREAT
+ This book is ca-razy! + a slow start, followed by a headlong rush. This book stayed in my head for a long time afterward! + A Good One + Invisible Monsters
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Siddhartha 462 reviews Hermann Hesse
Bantam Classics, 1982
A must read for any spiritual seeker
+ A rambling spiritual adventure... + A Philisophical Classic
A journey through the life of a man with a single purpose: to find his own truth.
Knowing that the only way to discover life's greatest mysteries is to go through the heart of them alone, he finds himself living one extreme after another until he finally rests in the balance.
The ending will ...
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The Virgin Suicides 395 reviews Jeffrey Eugenides
Grand Central Publishing, 1994
Unusual narrators, exaggerated concept, and intelligent storytelling make this readable & thought-provoking. Highly recommended
+ Jorie's Reads on The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides + Time in a Bottle + this is a true story
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Night (Oprah's Book Club) 622 reviews Elie Wiesel
Hill and Wang, 2006
A new day for Night
+ Haunting and Unforgettable + I RECOMMEND IT.
I was happy to see that this book was added to Oprah's book club, this ment that millions who never knew of this book would read it or at least hear it's story. I read this in college as part of the debates on wither the US should have entered WW2 before 1941. When I was done I felt that I had been ...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics) (Puffin Modern Classics) 457 reviews Mildred D. Taylor
Puffin, 2004
My Favorite Book
+ Excellent source to learn African American history in the 1930s + Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry + Great Book + Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) 121 reviews Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics, 2002
Expectations Greatly Exceeded
+ Must Read Victorian Novel + A Novel of tears as well as laughter. An enjoyable classic. + Expect Great Things
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Still Life with Woodpecker 164 reviews Tom Robbins
Bantam, 1990
My introduction to Robbins
+ Birthday gift + Love it + Never too late to have a happy childhood
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Norwegian Wood 162 reviews Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 2000
The new Salinger without being repetitive.
+ Haruki's Best + An Experience, not an Exposition + Tragic, romantic but NOT pathetic!
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon 827 reviews Stephen King
Pocket, 2000
Page Turner!
+ A Literary Achievement
Once again Stephen King has come through for us! This book was a real page turner. It was very rich in details and suspense.
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Pornucopia 16 reviews Piers Anthony
Mundania Press LLC, 2002
AWESOME DIFFERENT FROM THE REST OF HIS BOOKS
+ An quick interesting read + Dang the re-release!
I bought this as a gift for my wife because she adores Piers Anthony. She has read every single one of his books and has all of them. This was the only one she didn't have and she bursted into tears when she opened the box. She loved it. She said it's different then most of his books but still ...
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With a Tangled Skein (Book Three of Incarnations of Immortality) 27 reviews Piers Anthony
Del Rey, 1986
Absolutely Wonderful
+ Fated to greatness [no spoilers] + Lots of fun, Packed with Twists & Turns
This was the first of the Incarnations books that I read, and fell in love with the series within the first couple of chapters. I was already a Piers Anthony fan, loving the Xanth series, but this series is much more mature and has deeper plots and characters than the light Xanth books do. You ...
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Survivor: A Novel 383 reviews Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor, 2000
amazing imagination
+ Muahahaha + Great read
over the top satire. Best I've read since Tom Robbins. It just keeps coming at you.
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