Cancer Ward35 reviews Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991 May be the best book I've ever read + Thinking about health care + Required reading + What Russian literaute ought to be             The Woman in the Dunes55 reviews Kobo Abe Vintage, 1991 Images cascaded in my mind + The World Takes a Psychological Shape The Kobo Abe novel "Woman in the Dunes is a Japanese novel written in the 1960s and made in the same person. It traces, in a small book of less then 300 pages, the implications of being alienated and the contradictions of conformity freedom if that conformity has a purpose. Niki Junpei a teacher ...             Silence58 reviews Shusaku Endo Taplinger Publishing Company, 1980 The Honor of God + A great, but somewhat repetitive story. + quickly to my door + Awesome book             Memories of My Melancholy Whores104 reviews Gabriel Garcia Marquez Knopf, 2005 The stranger at home + A parable on sex, and love, and the bed they make to lie in. + Short and sweet... + An Outstanding Piece of Literature             Invisible Cities86 reviews Italo Calvino Harvest Books, 1978 Reads like poetry + Wonderfully Borgesian, with a regrettable dash of Gibran + Unique and thought provoking + Great texture for a paperback.             The Human Stain: A Novel195 reviews Philip Roth Vintage, 2001 Recommending Philip Roth is a little like recommending sex... + One of Roth's best... + Fantastic book beautifully writen ...It's so obvious it hardly needs saying. Coleman Silk is a professor ousted from his position on false charges of racism, and, at 71, carrying on a torrid and secret affair with an illiterate 34-year-old cleaning woman. But when it comes to secrets, that's the least of Silk's. Reading Roth ...             The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories72 reviews Leo Tolstoy Signet Classics, 2003 Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich + An Examination of a Soul. + Powerful and deep + Uncomfortably Amazed.             Silence58 reviews Shusaku Endo Taplinger Publishing Company, 1980 The Honor of God + A great, but somewhat repetitive story. + quickly to my door + Awesome book             Memories of My Melancholy Whores104 reviews Gabriel Garcia Marquez Knopf, 2005 The stranger at home + A parable on sex, and love, and the bed they make to lie in. + Short and sweet... + An Outstanding Piece of Literature             The Human Stain: A Novel195 reviews Philip Roth Vintage, 2001 Recommending Philip Roth is a little like recommending sex... + One of Roth's best... + Fantastic book beautifully writen ...It's so obvious it hardly needs saying. Coleman Silk is a professor ousted from his position on false charges of racism, and, at 71, carrying on a torrid and secret affair with an illiterate 34-year-old cleaning woman. But when it comes to secrets, that's the least of Silk's. Reading Roth ...             Invisible Cities86 reviews Italo Calvino Harvest Books, 1978 Reads like poetry + Wonderfully Borgesian, with a regrettable dash of Gibran + Unique and thought provoking + Great texture for a paperback.             The Woman in the Dunes55 reviews Kobo Abe Vintage, 1991 Images cascaded in my mind + The World Takes a Psychological Shape The Kobo Abe novel "Woman in the Dunes is a Japanese novel written in the 1960s and made in the same person. It traces, in a small book of less then 300 pages, the implications of being alienated and the contradictions of conformity freedom if that conformity has a purpose. Niki Junpei a teacher ...             The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories72 reviews Leo Tolstoy Signet Classics, 2003 Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich + An Examination of a Soul. + Powerful and deep + Uncomfortably Amazed.             Cancer Ward35 reviews Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991 May be the best book I've ever read + Thinking about health care + Required reading + What Russian literaute ought to be