The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)156 reviews Carson McCullers Mariner, 2004 A Favorite Over 45+ Years + Good I first read this book as a teenager and have read it again several times over the years. There is something so deeply revealing about the human condition in the book that it is as meaningful to me in my sixties and it was in my teens - I think that something is perhaps a window into the angst of ...             Dune (40th Anniversary Edition)1036 reviews Ace, 2005 "The Sleeper Has Awakened!" ~ Science Fiction Or Prophetic Utterance? + A SciFi Masterpiece + I do not understand why Dune is so popular. + AMAZING BOOK! + Brings Back Memories of Old Sci-Fi Days             O Pioneers! (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)92 reviews Willa Cather University of Nebraska Press, 1997 The Perfect Novel + The Frontier and the Quintessential American Experience + O Fantastic! + A Wonderful Surprise + O Willa Cather!             Darkness at Noon: A Novel18 reviews Arthur Koestler Scribner, 2006 Psychological Examination of Stalinist Show Trials + Fiction is rarely as good as reality + Novel of Ideas + "1984" in 1938 + Brilliant, insightful pessimism.             Town Like Alice, A2 reviews Nevil Shute Mandarin Paperbacks, 1990 Miniature War and Peace that Encompasses Three Continents + A love story Written in stylistically simple language and tempered with mature description of elderly perception, Nevil Shute's narrative account of a septuagenarian solicitor's (Noel Strachan) account of a young British woman's life of pain and fortune is undoubtedly worthy of the numerously donned praises. ...             My Antonia (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition) Willa Cather University of Nebraska Press, 2003 Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, My Ántonia secured Willa Cather’s place in the first rank of American writers. Cather drew deeply on her childhood days in frontier Nebraska for her fourth novel, published in 1918. Ántonia Shimerda is memorable as the warm-hearted daughter of Bohemians who must adapt to a hard life on the desolate prairie. She ...             Atlas Shrugged1546 reviews Ayn Rand Plume, 1999 Written in the 50s and is coming true today. + Now more than ever... + The best + Atlas Shrugged             J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings)1244 reviews J.R.R. Tolkien Del Rey, 2001 "The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings", book set by J.R.R. Tolkien + I love "The Hobbit" and "LOTR". + Box set (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings) + Good Book + Great books but too descriptive             The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress240 reviews Robert A. Heinlein Orb Books, 1997 Heinlein at his best. + Distilled Libertarian Goodness + The moon is a harsh mistress + perfect             Gone With the Wind657 reviews Margaret Mitchell Scribner, 1936 *romantic sigh* + Favorite Book of All Time + Timeless! + A 10-star epic novel.             Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.)11 reviews Malcolm Lowry Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007 Complicated, Good prose, With Many Meanings, and Entertaining + Tough Read But Worth It + A Masterpiece! + A work of art, a hallucinatory journey through the soul.... + I don't know where to begin             Their Eyes Were Watching God405 reviews Zora Neale Hurston Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 Southern Florida in the early 20th century and one black woman's story + Among the Most Influential African-American Novels of the 20th Century + Dreamy little novel + An Amazing Book             Lolita449 reviews Vladimir Nabokov Vintage, 1989 A road movie of the mind + Beautiful writing confronts crude subject matter--A masterpiece + Upends your preconceptions and prejudices + Which book did you read? + The Most Beautiful Novel Ever Written             Stranger in a Strange Land540 reviews Robert A. Heinlein Ace Trade, 1991 Excelent Read... + Absolutely excellent This book is absolutely amazing. Draws you in from the very first page, and after reading it, it leaves you with no questions, but a very insightful look into human nature. Once you pick it up you will find it hard to put it down to do things like sleep or go to work.             I, Claudius and Claudius the God (Penguin Modern Classics)1 review Robert Graves Penguin Books Ltd, 2001 Arguably the greatest fictional biography ever written. In I, Claudius, Robert Graves creates the first person narrative of Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, known in Roman history as Claudius, and widely regarded as an idiot. Telling the story of his family's rule from the beginning of the Christian era until his death fifty years later, Claudius ...             Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited44 reviews Aldous Huxley Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005 Mood controlling pills and uniformity + Satirical Take on Utopia + perfect + Thought-provoking!             The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)6 reviews Toni Morrison Vintage, 2007 Bluest Eye + Realsim is profanity + Mature Book for Mature People + She uses the f word? Christ on a cracker!             Slaughterhouse-Five707 reviews Kurt Vonnegut Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999 A highly creative and simultaneously amusing and thought-provoking novel that hammers home its themes; "A-" + One of the best + Slaughterhouse-Five I had extremely high expectations for 'Slaughterhouse Five' and Vonnegut expertly delivered for the most part. I loved his creativity for starters: shifting in time was pure genius; it juxtaposed events in a way that showed the significance of events (or meaninglessness, depending on the ...             Beloved87 reviews Toni Morrison Vintage, 2004 Oh My God! Are You Kidding Me? + Raw & Powerful This is a FIVE STAR book. It's fantastic... but it's beyond that. It's the greatest American novel since Huck Finn. No kidding. It's an American Classic. I can't believe there are people that would give this less than FOUR or FIVE stars. It's obvious that they didn't read or understand the book on ...             John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-1941: The Grapes of Wrath, The Harvest Gypsies, ...5 reviews John Steinbeck Library of America, 1996 Steinbeck's Art + Steinbeck is Amazing...All of it + it was great + A classic that is worth re-reading + The Grapes of Wrath