Catch-22824 reviews Joseph Heller Simon & Schuster, 1996 Great great book + Stubborn, heroic innocence in a mad world + Fantastic, Humorous and Everlasting + Precursor of MASH and more             Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (The Art of the Novella series)19 reviews Herman Melville The Art of the Novella, 2004 I would prefer not to + A haunting short story + Square peg in a round hole + It's not the book, it's the shipping             Three Novels By Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable (An Evergreen Black Cat Book) Grove Press, Inc., New York, 1965 Translated from the French by Patrick Bowles in collaboration with the author             Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions)9 reviews John Milton W. W. Norton, 2004 an Invaluable text + Soooo good + This Specific Edition + The definitive Paradise Lost resource             Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)218 reviews John Steinbeck Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002 The Human Tide Pool + good book for everyone + Cannery Row + A "funny little book."             Steppenwolf: A Novel132 reviews Hermann Hesse Picador, 2002 The Man Who Understood + Good Morning + Hermann Hesse's Mid-Life Crisis... + Not a classic, but really has its impact + Almost perfect.             Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values528 reviews Robert M. Pirsig HarperTorch, 2006 Couldn't put it down. + About this book + A book about overcoming intellectualism and becoming whole + Blacktop Bible             The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)154 reviews Franz Kafka Bantam Classics, 1972 Man Turns Into Bug: The Perfect Interpretation of Human Nature + A personal favorite + The MEtamorphosis + Classic bit of surreallist black humor             The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel (Penguin Classics)3 reviews Don Marquis Penguin Classics, 2006 The literate cockroach + View From the Floor + Charming! Generations go by, but Don Marquis's cockroach Archy and his pal, the cat Mehitabel, who originally occupied Marquis's New York newspaper columns nearly a century ago, still have the power to move and amuse, and to speak to us about the human condition. This wonderful roach, a free verse poet's ...             Notes from Underground; The Double (Penguin Classics)8 reviews Fyodor Dostoyevsky Penguin Classics, 1972 A few comments and an interesting fact + A look into a great mind! + Two literary gems from the pen of pyschological realism master Fyodor Dostoevsky + Existentialist Literature             Grendel162 reviews John Gardner Vintage, 1989 Civilization Ruins Everything + Distrubed.... This is not the simple tale of what moves the monster to attack the mead hall. Yes, this is the classic Beowulf tale told from Grendel's perspective, but it's no easy narrative of me-against-him. There is an awful lot more going on here. Grendel is the basic human, the proto-human animal ...             Notes from Underground; The Double (Penguin Classics)8 reviews Fyodor Dostoyevsky Penguin Classics, 1972 A few comments and an interesting fact + A look into a great mind! + Two literary gems from the pen of pyschological realism master Fyodor Dostoevsky + Existentialist Literature             Steppenwolf: A Novel132 reviews Hermann Hesse Picador, 2002 The Man Who Understood + Good Morning + Hermann Hesse's Mid-Life Crisis... + Not a classic, but really has its impact + Almost perfect.             Grendel162 reviews John Gardner Vintage, 1989 Civilization Ruins Everything + Distrubed.... This is not the simple tale of what moves the monster to attack the mead hall. Yes, this is the classic Beowulf tale told from Grendel's perspective, but it's no easy narrative of me-against-him. There is an awful lot more going on here. Grendel is the basic human, the proto-human animal ...             The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)154 reviews Franz Kafka Bantam Classics, 1972 Man Turns Into Bug: The Perfect Interpretation of Human Nature + A personal favorite + The MEtamorphosis + Classic bit of surreallist black humor             Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)218 reviews John Steinbeck Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002 The Human Tide Pool + good book for everyone + Cannery Row + A "funny little book."             Catch-22824 reviews Joseph Heller Simon & Schuster, 1996 Great great book + Stubborn, heroic innocence in a mad world + Fantastic, Humorous and Everlasting + Precursor of MASH and more             The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel (Penguin Classics)3 reviews Don Marquis Penguin Classics, 2006 The literate cockroach + View From the Floor + Charming! Generations go by, but Don Marquis's cockroach Archy and his pal, the cat Mehitabel, who originally occupied Marquis's New York newspaper columns nearly a century ago, still have the power to move and amuse, and to speak to us about the human condition. This wonderful roach, a free verse poet's ...             Three Novels By Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable (An Evergreen Black Cat Book) Grove Press, Inc., New York, 1965 Translated from the French by Patrick Bowles in collaboration with the author             Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values528 reviews Robert M. Pirsig HarperTorch, 2006 Couldn't put it down. + About this book + A book about overcoming intellectualism and becoming whole + Blacktop Bible