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The Hobbit 1623 reviews J.R.R. Tolkien
Houghton Mifflin, 2002
The Hobbit
+ Fast delivery, product as discribed + Childhood memories galore + Fantastic book and an excellent paperback edition... + I went there and back again...and back again.
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Animal Farm (Literature Made Easy Series) 1154 reviews Iona MacGregor, Tony Buzan
Barron's Educational Series, 1999
Animal Farm is instructive for our presidential election.
+ Subtle Message + Animal Farm Review + Animals Gone Wild.... + Utopian Idealism Unmaksed
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The Great Gatsby 1130 reviews F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 1999
Classic romance and tale of a man who isn't exactly what he seems
+ Beautifully written, but I still don't particularly like the story + Classic + An American Classic and Great Read
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The Catcher in the Rye 2773 reviews J.D. Salinger
Back Bay Books, 2001
Will stick with you
+ Best Banned Books Required Reading List
This is the kind of book that people of all ages remember their whole lives. It's indescribable how the story can sweep you off into Holden's life, the angst he feels, and the time in which he lived. Truly a great work that is worth reading if you have not and worth reading again if you have.
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Catch-22 828 reviews Joseph Heller
Simon & Schuster, 1996
Best Book I Ever Read
+ Most Brilliant Satire + Stubborn, heroic innocence in a mad world
Catch-22 is a jarring, thrilling, hysterical exposition of the oppression and dominance which pervades lives and lifestyles in the modern era. Full of classic dialogue, superb characters, wonderfully narrated, Catch-22 may be the best book ever written. A heartbreaking achievement of staggering ...
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Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.) 11 reviews Malcolm Lowry
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007
A work of art, a hallucinatory journey through the soul....
+ Tough Read But Worth It + A Masterpiece! + I don't know where to begin + Complicated, Good prose, With Many Meanings, and Entertaining
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The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) 11 reviews John Steinbeck
Penguin Classics, 2006
A Classic in every respect
+ Classic + The Grapes of Wrath + One of the greatest stories ever told.
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The Jungle (Enriched Classics) 9 reviews Upton Sinclair
Pocket, 2004
A beautiful literary classic
+ "The Jungle" Review: + The Jungle
Using the word "beautiful" to describe Sinclair's "The Jungle" is a bit tedious, and something of an oxymoron. I mean, let's face it: it's a down-and-dirty book, a brutally honest portrayal of Chicago's turn-of-the-century Packingtown. The novel traces Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus and his ...
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Money 63 reviews Martin Amis
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1986
Stellar comic novel
+ DIARY OF A LOUT + A savage funny monologue + Money- the new face of the British novel
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Notes from Underground; The Double (Penguin Classics) 8 reviews Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Penguin Classics, 1972
A few comments and an interesting fact
+ A look into a great mind! + Two literary gems from the pen of pyschological realism master Fyodor Dostoevsky + Existentialist Literature
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A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Penguin Books, 1994
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Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 29 reviews Charlotte Brontė
Penguin Classics, 2006
An unconventional heroine
+ One of the Greatest Books in all of English Literature!! + Great book! + It's a classic for a reason + Gothic and Brilliant
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Invisible Man 279 reviews Ralph Ellison
Vintage, 1995
Completely Unique
+ The invisibility of man + A classic.. + Underappreciated work of genius
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 359 reviews Ken Kesey
Signet, 1963
One Flew East, One Flew West
+ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest + Must Have + great quality! + McMurphy as the Metaphor for the Terrorist Suspect
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On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) 626 reviews Jack Kerouac
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
A True Classic
+ My perspective
It is absolutely amazing that any novel could be written in just three weeks, let alone this defining portrayal of the United States in the early 1950's. This is a true masterpiece.
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Heart of Darkness 13 reviews Joseph Conrad
Prestwick House Inc., 2004
No fool ever made a bargain for his soul with the devil. Inconsequential story by another Marlow (Charlie)
+ The Horror! The Over-Analyzed Horror! + Disturbing + Beautiful moments, and awful quarter-hours...
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The Left Hand Of Darkness 2 reviews Ursula L. Le Guin
Ace Books, 1977
Hot Desire on a Winter Planet
+ Science fiction worthy of some careful contemplation
This extraordinary novel details the adventures of a young man, Genly Ai, sent as an envoy to try to convince the people of Winter (Gethen) to join the great concord of peoples and planets known as the Ekumen. Genly is sent alone because that is the custom--one Envoy at a time sent into a strange ...
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The Master and Margarita (Oneworld Classics) 341 reviews Mikhail Bulgakov
Oneworld Classics, 2008
A extraordinary novel
+ The Devil Went Down to Moscow + READ THIS! + A GIFT FROM THE GRAVE
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Naked Lunch (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) 1 review William S. Burroughs
HarperPerennial, 2005
Burn Down Fear City
Actually, this wasn't my first introduction to Burroughs; that would have been "Speed" (no, not a story about a bus that couldn't go over 50 because it would explode!) - which is sadly out of print I think. I'm not sure the David Lynch film of Naked Lunch really did this book justice - make your ...
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The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics) 27 reviews Doris Lessing
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
Topic is 6 stars, writing is 4 stars [T][29]
+ A book that transcends it's own time + Great book indeed
Interestingly, most of the eye-popping concepts of Erica Jong's "Fear of Flying" (1973) seem to be touched upon by this 1962 publication.
Four notebooks are the concentration of this novel. After meeting Anna and Molly outside of the notebooks and their review of their respective children and ...
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