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
  
  











  



  
Sorrow Floats19 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
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
Social Blunders15 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
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
Choke459 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk

Anchor, 2002

joy

+ For a very select audience
+ Funny and Disturbing
+ Wow?!?!
+ Not exactly what I was expecting
  
  











  



  
Skipped Parts: A Novel43 reviews
Tim Sandlin

Riverhead Trade, 2000

A sweet novel about underage sex!

+ Hilarious Dark Comedy
+ Hilarious!!!
+ A Really Special Book
  
  











  



  
Invisible Monsters288 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
  
  











  



  
Siddhartha462 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 ...
  
  











  



  
The Virgin Suicides395 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
  
  











  



  
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 ...
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
Still Life with Woodpecker164 reviews
Tom Robbins

Bantam, 1990

My introduction to Robbins

+ Birthday gift
+ Love it
+ Never too late to have a happy childhood
  
  











  



  
Norwegian Wood162 reviews
Haruki Murakami

Vintage, 2000

The new Salinger without being repetitive.

+ Haruki's Best
+ An Experience, not an Exposition
+ Tragic, romantic but NOT pathetic!
  
  











  



  
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon827 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.
  
  











  



  
Pornucopia16 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 ...
  
  











  



  
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 ...
  
  











  



  
Survivor: A Novel383 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.