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This is a treasure hunt wound around circle of friendship, murder, mystery, romance, power ...             Lord of the Flies1275 reviews William Golding Perigee Books, 1959 Lord of the Flies Book Review By Conlan Mueller + Lost Innocence + A brutal, horrifying masterpiece + An Old Book Revisited             The Prophet262 reviews Kahlil Gibran Alfred A. Knopf, 1923 The Best Book Ever Written? + Eight Decades Later: Still Relevant, Insightful and Eloquent + The Greatest! I keep a copy of this book nearby at all times for quick reference, my personal copy home to numerous marks and marginal notes. Every line reads as the most delicate of poetry, honed and refined to the purest and most undeniable words of truth and wisdom. This may be the height of human ...             The Brothers Karamazov111 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 Perhaps the best novel ever written in the history of mankind + The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky + A Literary Masterpiece + Bothers Karamazov + Dark and Beautiful             Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (American Empire Project)273 reviews Noam Chomsky Holt Paperbacks, 2004 A Must Read + Silenced by Seriousness + An unconventional, controversial view of U.S. foreign policy + CHOMSKY IS OUR WATCHDOG WITH ONE EYE CLOSED             Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)464 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett Bantam Classics, 1984 A towering work of criminal psychology + Good, but overrated + A masterpiece from cover to cover + Crime and Punishment + Crime and Punishment ~ Kindle eBook             The Sound and the Fury196 reviews William Faulkner Vintage, 1991 I HATED this book until I realized it was a masterpiece... + A Great American Classic that Deserves to Be + If only we all could be blessed with such failure. + A Difficult Classic             By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness (P.S.)117 reviews Paulo Coelho Harper Perennial, 2006 This one was an all-nighter for me. + Classic Coelho + ..sigh + LOVE IT! + Poetic, Proseic, Imaginative, Spell Binding             According to Ruth Jane Feaver Harvill Secker, 2007 This beautifully crafted story about a marriage break-up and its effect on four children delicately reveals how lives can overlap and impinge on one another through proximity, suggestion and resemblance — and how secrets and lies eventually surface.             The Time Traveler's Wife1675 reviews Audrey Niffenegger Harvest Books, 2004 Best Book I've read in a LONG time + Loved it! I absolutely loved this book. I abandoned all of my responsibilities for two days so that I could read The Time Traveler's wife without stopping. I have now recommended it to everyone I know. It's a little confusing in the beginning, but a good confusing, because the author makes you want to ...             Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)384 reviews Joseph Conrad Dover Publications, 1990 powerful book + humidity drips off the end of each line like a light mist in a heavy fog + An excellent piece of epistemology! + Moby Dick or The Whale ~ Kindle eBook             The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics)51 reviews Laurence Sterne Penguin Classics, 2003 Postmodern before modern + I wish I'd had an Uncle Toby + Pre-modernist postmodern A line from the movie "adaptation" put it best: this was a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post to. Simply put, Laurence Sterne threw out all the literary conventions of what a novel should be and how it should be arranged, a few hundred years before more recent writers ...             The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics)51 reviews Laurence Sterne Penguin Classics, 2003 Postmodern before modern + I wish I'd had an Uncle Toby + Pre-modernist postmodern A line from the movie "adaptation" put it best: this was a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post to. Simply put, Laurence Sterne threw out all the literary conventions of what a novel should be and how it should be arranged, a few hundred years before more recent writers ...             In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)18 reviews Marcel Proust Modern Library, 2003 The most important literary work of the 20th century + you will never view life the same again + Mimesis of Man's Minutes, Memory and More + Review Proust? You are kidding right?             Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (American Empire Project)273 reviews Noam Chomsky Holt Paperbacks, 2004 A Must Read + Silenced by Seriousness + An unconventional, controversial view of U.S. foreign policy + CHOMSKY IS OUR WATCHDOG WITH ONE EYE CLOSED             The Prophet262 reviews Kahlil Gibran Alfred A. Knopf, 1923 The Best Book Ever Written? + Eight Decades Later: Still Relevant, Insightful and Eloquent + The Greatest! I keep a copy of this book nearby at all times for quick reference, my personal copy home to numerous marks and marginal notes. Every line reads as the most delicate of poetry, honed and refined to the purest and most undeniable words of truth and wisdom. 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