The Hotel New Hampshire93 reviews John Irving Ballantine Books, 1995 Favorite Irving -- quite possibly favorite novel + Welcome to The Hotel New Hampshire + Sorrow Floats + An absurd look at life             How to Read and Why57 reviews Harold Bloom Scribner, 2001 Bloom: To Know How Is To Know Why + Close, but not quite right. + Literacy Guide For those who purchase Harold Bloom's HOW TO READ AND WHY, they probably expect a companion piece to HOW TO READ A BOOK by Mortimer Adler. With Adler, there is truth in advertising; his focus is indeed on the how. He emphasizes the more traditional skills of main idea, inference, conclusion, and ...             Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)10 reviews Emily Bronte W. W. Norton, 2002 "Why did you betray your heart, Cathy?" + Book Review + A classic + Beautiful gothic romance             Cat's Cradle375 reviews Kurt Vonnegut Dell Publishing, 1998 Surreal yet all too close to the truth... + Great Storytelling + Still relevant to this day + WONDERFUL BOOK + The master of Cat's Cradle             The Idiot24 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky Vintage, 2003 is it ironic, or pragmatic? + Good + Was prince Myshkin really a positively beautiful individual????? + Personal Favorite Dostoevsky             Hamlet (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)4 reviews William Shakespeare Arden, 2006 An Antti Keisala Comment: Words In Flights Of Angels + Arden Shakespeare Hamlet + This is Hamlet we're talking about I am a Bardolator and an Orthodox Shakespearean; so that you'll know where I'm coming from. I paraphrase Whitman by claiming that Hamlet contains multitudes. And of what other literary figures can we say such things and get away with it sounding normal? Perhaps God (especially the Yahweh of the ...             The Fourth Hand277 reviews John Irving Fawcett, 2003 Irving comes through + Irving for Wisconsinites + Another impressive novel by John Irving One of John Irving's best endeavors, with an un-Irving like ending. Irving's descriptions are vivid and his storytelling becomes nearly poetic in much of this prose, however - I agree with others that this is an extremely readable encounter with Irving and would be good for first time Irving ...             Anna Karenina (Modern Library Classics)238 reviews Leo Tolstoy Modern Library, 2000 both timeless and of its era + Sometimes it's great to be a putz ... + I really like this book, but... + Anna's tale + Please enter a title for your review             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             In Cold Blood429 reviews Truman Capote Vintage, 1994 Anarachy in the heartland : an American story + Brutal Event in Journalistic Focus + The first true crime book is still the best + In Cold Blood in a new edition + A Commentary on our 21st Century Culture             Jane Eyre (Norton Critical Editions)10 reviews Charlotte Bronte W. W. Norton, 2000 The only edition to buy + Great for anyone who's ever been in love... + buy this edition + Great book..Recommend to all             A Prayer for Owen Meany1074 reviews John Irving Ballantine Books, 1990 Great book, beautiful edition! + my favorite book + The Best of Irving + AWESOME             The Great Gatsby1123 reviews F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribner, 1999 As American as apple pie... + What Can I Add? + 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"             Breakfast at Tiffany's: WITH House of Flowers (Penguin Modern Classics) Truman Capote Penguin Classics, 2000 Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, and a tease. She hasn't got a past. She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone. Not to 'Rusty' Trawler, the blue-chinned, cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town. Not ...             Rough Crossing and On the Razzle: Two Plays2 reviews Tom Stoppard Faber & Faber, 1991 absolutely, totall, fantastically brilliant! (I liked it.) + chaos These two plays (in one volume) are ones that only true Stoppard devotees have read. When Stoppard's "accomplishments" are listed, they always include ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, JUMPERS, ARCADIA, and the likes. But they almost never include these two plays. Don't get me wrong, I ...             Little Women (Signet Classics)71 reviews Louisa May Alcott Signet Classics, 2004 The Sticking Together Sisters + I can always trust Amazon to have what I need immediately! + One of those obvious classics + Little Women + Frustratingly realistic.             Notes from Underground136 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky Vintage, 1994 Superb character development + hard read + Brilliant + Notes From Underground + "I AM A SICK MAN...I am a wicked man."             The Brothers Karamazov (Bantam Classics)216 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky, Konstanfin Mochulski Bantam Classics, 1984 Amazing "All religions are based upon this desire and I am a believer." He comes as close as any author to expressing truth in fiction.             Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead82 reviews Tom Stoppard Grove Press, 1994 Brilliant. + Rosencrantz & Gildenstern Are Dead + A grand aimlessness No mean to be offensive or anything, but I honestly feel that if people do not find R&G Are Dead hysterically funny and/or wonderfully ingenious, they have probably missed Stoppard's point in this play. This play was during the age known as Theatre of the Absurd, when ridiculous plots and ...             The Spiritual Life: And How to Be Attuned to It4 reviews St. Theophan the Recluse St. Xenia Skete Pr, 1996 An excellent guide for guarding the heart + Practical Spiritual Advice + Written with love + An invaluable primer for all Christians