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Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust 37 reviews Nathanael West
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1969
Reader beware
+ Great service + Gritty, sordid and hopeless, but still worth reading + No need to look for "deeper meanings"
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As I Lay Dying 191 reviews William Faulkner
Vintage, 1991
Homegoing
+ Worth the effort! + A Grim, Morbid, and Compelling Tale + Now I can get them teeth...
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Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) 127 reviews Leslie Marmon Silko
Penguin Books, 2006
A MASTERPIECE
+ Breath-taking + Ceremonies can heal + Surprising read + Ceremony
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The Road (Oprah's Book Club) 1607 reviews Cormac McCarthy
Vintage Books, 2007
A Road To Treasure
You know who they are. Those people that get upset when stories are told that aren't a sugar coated version of the world, stories that seem like they were written by authors who truly believe that ignoring cold, hard reality is the best medicine.
Cormac McCarthy is not one of those authors. At ...
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White Noise (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) 272 reviews Don DeLillo
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
Timeless
+ Hmmm....
There's a reference in "White Noise" to an Instamatic camera. There's a reference to station wagons. There are one or two other commercial product artifacts in "White Noise" but this is a book that could have been published today with very few edits. (And perhaps one addition--the J.A.K. Gladney ...
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Invisible Man 278 reviews Ralph Ellison
Vintage, 1995
The invisibility of man
+ A classic.. + Completely Unique + Underappreciated work of genius
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Lolita 449 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
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The Awakening 353 reviews Kate Chopin
Avon, 1982
How long have I been asleep?
+ A Statement on Non-Traditional Sensibilities + Lovely + not so simple, not so obvious
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A Handbook to Literature (Handbook to Literature) 17 reviews William Harmon, Hugh Holman
Prentice Hall, 2008
A Handbook to Literature (10th edition)
+ A fine and useful book + Indespensible + Revision of Holman's classic Handbook
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The Great Gatsby 1119 reviews F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 1999
As American as apple pie...
+ The Summer of '22 + The Great Gatsby + An intimate, touching story that deserves its praise while still being thoroughly relevant despite its age; a solid "A" + Gatsby Believed in the Green Light
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Lolita 449 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
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Invisible Man 278 reviews Ralph Ellison
Vintage, 1995
The invisibility of man
+ A classic.. + Completely Unique + Underappreciated work of genius
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Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) 127 reviews Leslie Marmon Silko
Penguin Books, 2006
A MASTERPIECE
+ Breath-taking + Ceremonies can heal + Surprising read + Ceremony
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As I Lay Dying 191 reviews William Faulkner
Vintage, 1991
Homegoing
+ Worth the effort! + A Grim, Morbid, and Compelling Tale + Now I can get them teeth...
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A Handbook to Literature (Handbook to Literature) 17 reviews William Harmon, Hugh Holman
Prentice Hall, 2008
A Handbook to Literature (10th edition)
+ A fine and useful book + Indespensible + Revision of Holman's classic Handbook
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Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust 37 reviews Nathanael West
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1969
Reader beware
+ Great service + Gritty, sordid and hopeless, but still worth reading + No need to look for "deeper meanings"
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The Road (Oprah's Book Club) 1607 reviews Cormac McCarthy
Vintage Books, 2007
A Road To Treasure
You know who they are. Those people that get upset when stories are told that aren't a sugar coated version of the world, stories that seem like they were written by authors who truly believe that ignoring cold, hard reality is the best medicine.
Cormac McCarthy is not one of those authors. At ...
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The Awakening 353 reviews Kate Chopin
Avon, 1982
How long have I been asleep?
+ A Statement on Non-Traditional Sensibilities + Lovely + not so simple, not so obvious
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The Great Gatsby 1119 reviews F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 1999
As American as apple pie...
+ The Summer of '22 + The Great Gatsby + An intimate, touching story that deserves its praise while still being thoroughly relevant despite its age; a solid "A" + Gatsby Believed in the Green Light
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White Noise (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) 272 reviews Don DeLillo
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
Timeless
+ Hmmm....
There's a reference in "White Noise" to an Instamatic camera. There's a reference to station wagons. There are one or two other commercial product artifacts in "White Noise" but this is a book that could have been published today with very few edits. (And perhaps one addition--the J.A.K. Gladney ...
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