Mythologies19 reviews Roland Barthes Hill and Wang, 1972 A must for old-school Marxists and modern rhetoricians + Telling the 'Truth' about Advertisements and Modern Society + Entertaining essays, dense critical theory + Myth as Ideology.             The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: And Other Tales of Terror (Penguin Classics)7 reviews Robert Louis Stevenson Penguin Classics, 2003 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Dual Nature of Man. + A Short Masterpiece + Excellent edition of a classic tale + Interesting horror/study + A Great Horror Story             Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-199617 reviews Seamus Heaney Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999 He who makes English get up and dance... + Dazzling and intense + Kind of interesting... + Seamus Heaney's Poems + !!!THRILL-SPASM!!!             In the Name of God6 reviews Paula Jolin Roaring Brook Press, 2007 Should Be Required Reading For Teens ... + Every teen ager should read + Important topics of life in the modern Middle East and Islamic fundamentalism are brought to light in a detailed narrative + A Provocative Book + Courtesy of Teens Read Too             Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife110 reviews Mary Roach W. W. Norton, 2006 Very Entertaining + Not the definitave book on the subject but the most fun. + Not as good as Stiff, but still funny I think that one of the best things you can say about a book is that it's entertaining and this one sure is. The author is very, very funny and makes learning about the various topics enjoyable. I'm going to have to get her other books as well.             Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems2 reviews Beacon Press, 2004 Waterfall of Spirit rain + Mirabai Kabir once held up a reading to 1500 of his devotees for two days, in order to wait for Mirabai to arrive. That's how important He thought She was. In Kabir's words: You have slept for millions and millions of years. Why not wake up this morning? Thanks to Jane Hirshfield and Robert Bly, for ...             The Kabir Book: Fourty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir11 reviews Beacon Press, 1993 Great book + very well worth a "listen"... + A Constant Conscious Communion and Unity of the Spirit I've known and loved this book for years. A couple of the reviewers below really rake Bobby Bly over the coals for his translation -- unfairly, I think. First, Robert confesses right up front to the fact that he's not really translating, since he doesn't read or speak Kabir's language. Instead, ...             Theogony, Works and Days (Oxford World's Classics)10 reviews Hesiod Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 Ian Myles Slater on: West's Hesiod Translation + Thoreau Is Hesiod Reincarnated + Easily read Hesiod + Very interesting + The Ancient Greek's handbook             The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated73 reviews Vladimir Nabokov, Alfred Appel Jr. Vintage, 1991 What is pornography? + Complete control of the english language + Duelling opinions + The essence of perfect writing             Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)456 reviews Gabriel Garcia Marquez Vintage, 2007 It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. + Metaphorical Romp Garcia Marquez can write. No doubt about it. The man is a marvel. I'd be puddling along, reading of Fermina Daza, and her adolescent passion (and his for her) of Florentino Ariza, or of her married life with Juvenal Urbino when I'd be swept away by a phrase or image, or the smell of bitter almonds. ...             Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)4 reviews Thomas Hardy Penguin Classics, 1998 The Best Hardy Collection + Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems + A minor disclaimer + one of the greatest poetry collections             Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali , Longman African Writers Series (Longman African Classics)7 reviews D. T. Niane Longman, 1995 Sundiata: A Story Worth Reading + Great African Oral History + From The Publishers: + Entertaining and enlighteneing history + Rare book: having found it is already a great accomplishment             Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood172 reviews Pantheon, 2003 A story without the confines of traditional boundaries + Brave New Girl + Fresh perspective People often associate comic books with childrens' fiction, as if the medium itself is inflexible. Some of us the comic lovers know that is not the case. And case in point Persepolis - where the emotions of a little girl in the politically and socially charged Iran takes us through what would have ...             Saint Joan (Penguin Classics)15 reviews George Bernard Shaw Penguin Classics, 2001 Wisdom + Shaw's Joan of Arc story knows no border on Earth + Shaw never misses a chance to make a good point. + Drama Instead of History             Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persian ...5 reviews Philip Vellacott Penguin Classics, 1961 Excellent translations of the four non-Oresteian plays. + Very Interesting + I think these are required + Old yet ageless tragedy by "the other Greek tragedian"             Collected Poems and Other Verse (Oxford World's Classics)1 review Stéphane Mallarmé Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 FINEST Mallarmé COLLECTION AVAILABLE... Till now, collections of Mallarmé's works have been difficult to obtain; moreover, the translations were dicey. Here we have an inexpensively priced fine volume which features good translations with the original French facing for quick comparison. Excellent introductory essay as well. This is ...             The Final Solution: A Story Of Detection91 reviews Michael Chabon, 2004 Homage to an icon + Great Book + The Grey is Afoot! + Small, exquisitely-crafted piece of art             Endgame and Act Without Words29 reviews Samuel Beckett Grove Press, 1994 The bleakest of them all... + It doesn't get much better than this. Totally bare in the conventional aspects of drama, Beckett's skewed humor depicts a meaningless world without hope or happiness. Taking the uncertainty of the human situation to the edge, Beckett summarized his views at his deathbed "What did you find to enjoy about life?"....."Very little." ...             Tao Te Ching (Penguin Classics)24 reviews Lao Tzu Penguin Classics, 1964 Kick the New Age right out of your DDJ... + Tao Te Ching - Peaceful Reading + ANCIENT WISDOM FOR CONTEMPORARY PEOPLE I love this translation. Not so much for the translation but for the introduction in the original edition. Lau was really the first critic of the traditional story of Laozi and the Dao De Jing to bring it to the English masses. The DDJ is a composite work, not the work of one author, as romantic ...             Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture7 reviews Claude Levi-Strauss Schocken, 1995 A very readable introduction to Claude Lévi-Strauss + anthropological dream + An introduction to anthropology and Levi-Strauss + Good Introduction to Levi-Strauss but falters at the end + Great Infro to Levi-Strauss