The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel241 reviews Milan Kundera Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999 great + I lived in this book those days + Mystical Love + great but not the best             The House on Mango Street603 reviews Sandra Cisneros Vintage, 1991 Hairs!!! Hairs chapter is my favorite.....it's short and sweet.....as a latina, i can really appreciate having immediate family so rich in differences....that is the beauty of being latino, is that we are so unique!             Meatless Days12 reviews Sara Suleri University Of Chicago Press, 1991 Complex, but very rewarding + Excellent + A truly great book + Masterful!             Tropic of Cancer160 reviews Henry Miller Grove Press, 1994 Know the background before you read this classic + Original For Its Time--crude and rude + Fountain of youth + Puerile, vulgar, and tawdry.             Tropic of Capricorn30 reviews Henry Miller Grove Press, 1994 Among Other Things + Miller's Tour De Force Out of idle curiosity and a desire to reread (third time) Miller's Tropic novels, I checked the consumer reviews of Tropic of CANCER first. I am interested in new generations discovering the stuff that I read going back to the early 60s. I found the reviews surprisingly dense, repeating the old ...             The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)499 reviews Toni Morrison Plume, 2000 A Story Everyone Needs To Read! + Excellent novel This is my first Toni Morrison novel. At times difficult, at times you have to put the text down and think about what you have just read. A beautifully written story that really hits home and really makes you think. As a white man, reading this book at this time (a time when we are close to ...             Things Fall Apart: A Novel533 reviews Chinua Achebe Anchor, 1994 What makes fiction important + Things Fall Apart + Terrific I know this is the classic debate of all time when it comes to literature: Is it about beautifully written prose (THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, incidentally, is a good example of this problem) or does it tell a compelling story? (yet the prose itself is not its strong point). It seems that many ...             All Quiet on the Western Front1 review Erich Maria Remarque Vintage, 2005 Classic The useage of rather straightforward simple, yet beautiful language makes this a classic vivid account of WW I. And in a way timeless, as the problems th eyoung soldiers face and the psychological effects of war still seem comparable today. A classroom of german boys volunteers and are send to the ...             Siddhartha1 review Hermann Hesse Norilana Books, 2007 Great Buy I'm usually concerned about purchasing items on line, especially books. I can honestly say that this experience was worth it. I would recommend this seller to anyone interested in purchasing good quality books at extremely reasonable prices. Buy with confidence, I did!             One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)252 reviews Gabriel Garcia Marquez Harper Perennial, 2004 puleeze + Read it + A profound book, and one of the best I've read It's so disappointing, not to mention depressing, to read the negative reviews of this book on line here. We are speaking of one of the dozen finest books of the twentieth century. The failure is not the book's. I encourage all of you to try again--let the book lift you.             The Shawl19 reviews Cynthia Ozick Vintage, 1990 A disturbing and moving work + A Haunting Short Novel + A Classic Short Story and Novella! + Cynthia Ozick at her most emotionally gripping!             Night (Oprah's Book Club)626 reviews Elie Wiesel Hill and Wang, 2006 Elie, a brave boy and a survivor + Human Words Cannot Convey the Story + Night, a real tragedy, from a young boy. + A Horrific Account of the Nightmare of the Holocaust + Eye opener             Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair9 reviews Elizabeth Mcneill Harper Perennial, 2005 "There is no mistaking the power this man had over me" + 9 1/2 weeks + An exquisite book + Haunting, and told me the story was real + Private glimpse             One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)52 reviews Gabriel Garcia Marquez Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 Garcia Marquez is great! + Excellent, but not typical of Marquez. + Well-written but very graphic + I saw a man with four hands on the street             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             Chocolat10 reviews Joanne Harris Black Swan, 2000 Magically Delicious! + Charming and sweet + Brimming with passion for life Years after seeing Chocolat the movie, I have finally read Chocolat the book. As usual, the book was way better than the movie. While Chocolat the movie implies that Vianne is a witch, the book makes it abundantly clear that Vianne has magical powers. She turns the small French town on its head ...             The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society258 reviews Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows The Dial Press, 2008 Ever want to start reading a book the moment you finish it? + THIS NOVEL HAS EVERYTHING + When can we go? + That Potato Book + Great book club title             In the Time of the Butterflies157 reviews Julia Alvarez Plume, 1995 Excellent + A great read + a story every American needs to know + Remarkable + "Thou art strong and great, a hero."             Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International)458 reviews Gabriel Garcia Marquez Vintage Books, 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. ...             The House of the Spirits11 reviews Isabel Allende Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2005 A book you will read over and over again... + hip hip horray for house of the spirits + Allende's Masterpiece + se los recomiendo!!!