The Hobbit1623 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.
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
The Great Gatsby1130 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
  
  











  



  
The Catcher in the Rye2773 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.
  
  











  



  
Catch-22828 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 ...
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
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.
  
  











  



  
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 ...
  
  











  



  
Money63 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
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess

Penguin Books, 1994
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
Invisible Man279 reviews
Ralph Ellison

Vintage, 1995

Completely Unique

+ The invisibility of man
+ A classic..
+ Underappreciated work of genius
  
  











  



  
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest359 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
  
  











  



  
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.
  
  











  



  
Heart of Darkness13 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...
  
  











  



  
The Left Hand Of Darkness2 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 ...
  
  











  



  
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
  
  











  



  
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 ...
  
  











  



  
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 ...