Life of Pi1841 reviews Yann Martel Harvest Books, 2003 no words can describe how good this is! + engaging, imaginative, thought-provoking it breaks down all barriers of imagination and offers a breathtaking understanding of life through a story of simple transition from innocence to maturity...something each adult reader can relate to. be prepared for the more graphic details in the second and third section of the book which are a ...             The Communist Manifesto: Complete With Seven Rarely Published Prefaces3 reviews Karl Marx Filiquarian, 2007 Never have so many extrapolated so much out of so little. + My Review + Enlightening A concept born in a simpler time used as an excuse for many things from Socialism to controlled capitalism. As with any pivotal work one should read it for his/her self. There is always the chance of misinterpretation by an individual, but if you do not read this then you are just accepting ...             The Life Before Her Eyes28 reviews Laura Kasischke Harvest Books, 2002 Amazingly Haunting + Engaging and Thought Provoking + book into movie I checked this book out at the library because when I read the inside flap it sounded like something I would enjoy. I took it home in the afternoon and had it read before bedtime. It totally blew me away. The story starts with two teenage girls, Maureen and Diana being faced with a killer at ...             We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.)202 reviews Lionel Shriver Harper Perennial, 2006 Grips you. Turns your stomach. Makes you think about what's important in life. + Disturbing, engrossing, so horrible you can't put it down + It turned out to be a great book. Whew, I haven't quite finished this book and I'm writing the review because I've been discussing it with some friends. Mostly we agree, but I strongly disagree with one usually insightful friend who maintains that the author, Shriver, hates, yes HATES her characters! This book isn't about hating ...             A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas: AND Three Guineas (Penguin Modern Classics)1 review Virginia Woolf Penguin Classics, 2000 My God What a Great book and What a Great Introduction This book contains two polemics or extended essays by Virginia Woolf plus some excellent comments in the introduction on her life and works. Woolf was a major force in the English publishing world after WWI. She wrote, she was a critic, and she published for such famous heavy-weights as Freud and ...             The Master and Margarita (Oneworld Classics)341 reviews Mikhail Bulgakov Oneworld Classics, 2008 A GIFT FROM THE GRAVE + "a liberating, exuberant social and political satire (Moscow) combined with a profound moral and political allegory (Jerusalem); + seductive masterpiece + The Devil Went Down to Moscow + READ THIS!             Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)74 reviews Allen Ginsberg City Lights Publishers, 2001 Great book, great price + Ginsberg the 'greatest'?.. hmmm + Seeking Jazz or S*x or Soup + Howl, And Other Pocket Poems + Amazing             In Cold Blood1 review Truman Capote Penguin Classics, 2000 In Cold Type... Truman Capote's 'In Cold Blood' is enjoying a resurgence of popularity thanks to the Oscar-winning film depicting the author's life and work during the writing of this phenomenal piece. At one point in the film, the character Capote makes the statement that when he thinks about how good this book ...             Heart of Darkness: With the Congo Diary (Penguin Modern Classics)4 reviews Joseph Conrad Penguin Books Ltd, 2000 Dense and difficult, ultimately rewarding. + "Mistah Kurtz--he dead." An influential work on five 20th century seminal works + Not a pretty thing, but an unforgettable sound I'm sure many readers will find this a difficult read, the prose almost as dense and impenetrable as the jungle that Marlowe travels down in order to find his truth. Still, having only read it through once, I did get enough out of it to believe that further study will reveal some profound light in ...             The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)54 reviews Dante Alighieri Everyman's Library, 1995 Excellent Translation + Superb Book!!! + Beautiful Edition + Very Nice!             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             The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers Penguin Classics, 2000 "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" was Carson McCullers' first novel, written in 1940. Set in a small town in the American South, it is the story of a group of people who have little in common except that they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, whose presence changes their lives. This powerful exploration of ...             Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Penguin Classics)5 reviews Lewis Carroll Penguin Classics, 2003 pay no attention to the fool below me + Wonderland + Delightfully silly and witty I was shocked when i saw that the Alice books got 3 stars. these are literary classics , the two most complicated "children books" with many levels of interpretation. I know people have different tastes but this deserved an overall score of at least four.             Blonde: A Novel174 reviews Joyce Carol Oates Harper Perennial, 2001 Ambivalent + Getting used to author's writing style + Potentially Oates's Best, But Too Tawdry, and Too Graphic + Tour de force             Ficciones (English Translation)70 reviews Jorge Luis Borges Grove Press, 1994 Borges is the original Neo (The Matrix) + The labyrinth that consists of a single straight line + An ingenious labyrinthine narrative.... + So much more             Pedro Paramo (COLECCION LETRAS HISPANICAS) (Letras Hispanicas/ Hispanic Writings)56 reviews Rulfo, Juan Catedra, 2006 Rulfo's Pedro Paramo + 5 for the story in the original, 3 for translating it + Confusing, yet one have to appreciate its narrative style In this 1955 Mexican novella, a young man, Juan Preciado, promises his dying mother that he will find his father, the Pedro Páramo of the title, and claim his birthright. Juan has no independent memories of his father. His mother fled her abusive and loveless marriage shortly after Juan's birth and ...             1984 (Signet Classics)1373 reviews George Orwell New American Library, 1961 A Warning, A Prediction...A Terrifying Truth + Ninteen-Eighty-Four: Still a Classic + Perfectly Horrific + Still Relevant + Timeless classic on the dangers of communism/big government             Madame Bovary (Penguin Red Classics) Gustave Flaubert Penguin Classics, 2007             Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life133 reviews Jon Lee Anderson Grove Press, 1997 MY REVOLUTIONARY BROTHA + superlative and always relevant + One of two essential biographies + Tales of Power + yes             Brighton Rock41 reviews Graham Greene Vintage Classics, 2004 An interesting mix of theology and gangster drama. + Good enough that I'll never read it again + Modern Feminity Revealed Graham Green always insisted that he was a "writer who was Catholic" rather than a "Catholic writer", which he was often pigeonholed as. Regardless, he frequently incorporated Catholic themes into his writing, all the more interesting because he was not born into the religion, and so approached it ...