The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)486 reviews Sylvia Plath Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000 The most famous book you've never read + how did I miss this one?? + Believe the Hype + "To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream."             East of Eden268 reviews John Steinbeck Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002 An Epic Family Classic + A book that stays with you + East Of Eden Work Of Genius + Knocked For A Loop + Very Interesting             The Sun Also Rises478 reviews Ernest Hemingway Scribner, 1995 Bitter sweet + Interesting read + The Sun Does Indeed Look Bright I'm Jake. Jacob Barnes. American journalist. Living in Paris. I send off my cables. I work hard for a couple of hours. I put the stories in big manila envelopes. And send them out. That brings in the money. French? I speak French. Spanish? I speak Spanish. Don't think I've got it made. ...             On the Road629 reviews Jack Kerouac Penguin (Non-Classics), 1976 Kerouac's Masterpiece + A True Classic This is by far Kerouac's best work. It details his adventures with Neil Cassiday in way only Kerouac could. This book defines the beat movement and defines, for me at least how the world was long before I was born. Being only 20 years old I cannot imagine hitch hiking across the country, in the ...             War and Peace (Penguin Classics)287 reviews Leo Tolstoy Penguin Classics, 1982 An amazing novel + Great Book!! + Rosemary Edmonds trans. of War and Peace Leo Tolstoy combines philosophy and history for one of the best fictional stories about a historical event that I have read. The plot is captivating from the beginning. A glimpse at the high society of Russia in the early 1800's followed by the story of the lives of the families at that ...             1984 (Signet Classics)1380 reviews George Orwell New American Library, 1961 A Warning, A Prediction...A Terrifying Truth + Ninteen-Eighty-Four: Still a Classic + Perfectly Horrific + Still Relevant + Timeless classic on the dangers of communism/big government             A Moveable Feast145 reviews Ernest Hemingway Scribner, 1996 An Opinion Humbly Submitted + Hemingway at his Best + The Writer's Life + Paris of the Lost Generation!             Garden of Eden84 reviews Ernest Hemingway Scribner, 1995 Foolishly, I put off reading this + Cryptic but enthralling + Strange and oddly mesmerising + Garden of Eden             Ash Wednesday63 reviews Ethan Hawke Vintage, 2003 Because love ain't always perfect... + First Impression of Ethan Hawke's Writing Jimmy is far from perfect, but he now knows that Christy, who he'd recently split up with, is perfect for him and that he's ready to commit to her. What he doesn't know is that Christy is carrying Jimmy's baby, and that she's not going to let him back into her life that easily. As they ...             One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)253 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.             Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine, and the International Solidarity Movement26 reviews Verso, 2004 fantastic book -- changed my view of the conflict + Another inconvenient truth... + The Truth :) + pure fact             Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)121 reviews Charles Dickens Penguin Classics, 2002 Great + Must Read Victorian Novel + A Novel of tears as well as laughter. An enjoyable classic. + Expectations Greatly Exceeded             Women in Love: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)50 reviews D. H. Lawrence, Mark Kinkead-Weekes Penguin Classics, 1995 classic study of relationships + Still shocking as a work of literature + The charming, hilarious, and throught provoking story of two sisters. D.H. Lawrence is not for the faint hearted, or anyone with a short attention span. Women in Love would perhaps be better title Women and Men in Love, as Gerald and Birkin play equally important roles as Gudren and Ursula. Those looking for mere titillation will be sorely disappointed, however, ...             The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)11 reviews Fyodor Dostoevsky Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 The most magnificent novel ever written + One of the two best translations + Hurrah for Ignat Avsey! + Emanates a magnififcent spiritual glow             Jitterbug Perfume181 reviews Tom Robbins Bantam, 1990 An amazing story that actually comes together at the end! + Life Changing + Best Book. Ever. + Huge fun. Has strong opinions on religion which I like, others may not. + wonderful             Sons and Lovers (Signet Classics)80 reviews D. H. Lawrence Signet Classics, 1985 Touched by genius... + indescribable + A remarkable examination of relationships D.H. Lawrence was a guy that came out of the womb knowing how to write. You read his prose and his innate genius quickly becomes self-evident--this is an artist for whom the creative act of literature is akin to a Mozart symphony--airtight, beautiful, logical, NATURAL. Floooooowing. Compare ...             Of Love And Other Demons (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)63 reviews Gabriel Garcia Marquez Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996 The oppression of religion + Bitter Tears + Of Love and Other Demons... + A Pleasant Read By Most Standards, but Not Quite on Par with Marquez's Other work + very well written story             Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)173 reviews Leo Tolstoy Penguin Classics, 2004 Indifference? NOT HERE! + A classic worth reading + Masterful I haven't had/made time to read other translations of this Great work, but IMHO, Anna Karenina 'Must Be' in the top five list of all-time Greatest Romances... (trying NOT to be selfish): Reading Anna Karenina has enriched my life; It has INCREASED my love, devotion, & respect for-to my wife, my ...             LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER87 reviews D.H. Lawrence Modern Library, 1983 I've read three books by Lawrence...this was the only one I liked + Love in the Void + Incandescent. Perfect. I picked up Lady Chatterley's Lover (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) from Amazon for $6.95. In the absence of an available Everyman's Cloth Edition, the B&N is likely the way to go. In terms of supplemental material it is quite comparable to this: (Lady Chatterley's ...             Out of Place: A Memoir36 reviews Edward W. Said Vintage, 2000 An amazing book + intimate and captivating + Before Orientalism . . . + A story of Palestinian displacement + Honest and insightful