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Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics) 9 reviews Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics, 2004
My favorite Dickens novel
+ A Masterful Look at the Corruptions of Wealth and Poverty - and One Shining Spirit + Love Almost Lost + a great Dickens novel but ... + I would give it six stars if I could
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Emma (Vintage Classics) 1 review Jane Austen
Vintage, 2007
I love books
I love the time period in which Jane Austin writes-these books are very good and also very captivating
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Stranger in a Strange Land 535 reviews Robert A. Heinlein
Ace Trade, 1991
A Valentine of a Novel
+ Amazing! + Loved Stranger in a Strange land + I'm not a big sci-fi fan but it was very good
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The Confidence-Man (Modern Library Classics) 13 reviews Herman Melville
Modern Library, 2003
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+ A Socratic Novel About Faith? + Melville's modernist tour of America's stream of humanity
As I read this book, I didn't catch all the subtleties of it, and could never be precisely sure whether each confidence man was evil or not- it seemed ambiguous, or at least, the author never once allows the reader to find out definitively that the 'vicitms' are being gulled. However, by the end ...
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The Invention of Morel (New York Review Books Classics) 9 reviews Adolfo Bioy Casares
NYRB Classics, 2003
A great recommendation.
+ The invention of the mind occludes the Invention of Morel + Excellent read! + Amazing Amazon information
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The Complete I Ching: The Definitive Translation by the Taoist Master Alfred Huang 29 reviews Taoist Master Alfred Huang
Inner Traditions, 2004
Provides My Primary, Fundamental Understanding Of The I Ching
+ One of the Best English-interpretation of I-Ching + Clear and comprehensive + THE COMPLETE I CHING + good purchase
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Heart of Darkness 6 reviews Joseph Conrad
Filiquarian, 2007
Literature as Philosophical Anthropology
+ One of the first glimpses into of the horrors of European Colonialism + "Mistah Kurtz--he dead." An influential work on five 20th century seminal works + A study of man
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Watership Down: A Novel 930 reviews Richard Adams
Scribner, 2005
my favorite book
+ My Favorite Book + Transcendent + My favorite + Awesome Book
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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) 51 reviews Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics, 2003
Long. Boring.
+ Dickens at his best + Great book with help of Wikipedia + Charles Dickens is a master with the written word! + It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
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Our Mutual Friend (Modern Library Classics) 50 reviews Charles Dickens
Modern Library, 2002
Down by the river, up from the river
+ A Late Masterpiece from Dickens + Great Book Club Read! + Dickens at his best
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The Third Policeman 76 reviews Flann O'Brien
Dalkey Archive Pr, 2002
This Way To Eternity
+ An Astounding Pancake + Modern, more adult Alice in Wonderland + Kafka meets Monty Python in this guided tour of hell. + Don't Read the Intro until AFTER the Novel
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Laughter in the Dark Vladimir Nabokov
Signet, 1950
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The Lord of the Flies (Penguin) 4 reviews William Golding
Penguin Audiobooks, 1999
Great book!
+ "All we have is the rules" + Harrowing idea of what could be + High School
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Bad Twin (Hyperion) 98 reviews Gary Troup
Hyperion, 2006
An Interesting Mystery Based Only on Its Own Merits
+ Bad Twin
As long as you don't go into reading BAD TWIN thinking you're going to solve the mysteries of the hit television show Lost, then you should be okay. BAD TWIN, on its own, is an intriguing mystery featuring twin brothers--one a bigwig in the family business, the other a ne're-do-well who has gone ...
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Evil Under the Sun: A Hercule Poirot Mystery 3 reviews Agatha Christie
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2006
One of Christie's Very Best
+ Murder at a seaside resort + AGATHA CHRISTIE IS THE TRUE MYSTERY WRITER.
Evil Under the Sun takes place at a secluded seaside resort in England. Arlena Stuart Marshall, is young and beautiful and one of those Agatha Christie characters who seems to inspire all she meets to wish her dead. So it is small surprise when she is killed and none other than Hercule Poirot is ...
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The Survivors of the Chancellor Jules Verne
Hard Press, 2006
Mr. Kazallon thought that booking passage on a cargo ship from Charleston to Liverpool would be a charming way to return to his English homeland. If only he knew! A crazed sea captain, a disaster in the hold, storms, oppressive heat, sharks and starvation are just some of the many travails that will beset both passengers and crew. Will any of them survive the wreck of the Chancellor?
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Remember, Be Here Now 97 reviews Ram Dass
Hanuman Foundation, 1978
TruBeLiever
+ Ram Dass is the best! + Very Pleased
Old book, classic message: if you've got one foot in the future and the other in the past, then you'll be peeing on today. Be here now! Accept the fun, be one with yourself.
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The Social Contract 26 reviews Jean-Jacques Rousseau
bnpublishing.com, 2007
Still a Timely Study on Liberty
+ Social cohesiveness
Immanuel Kant had one portrait hanging in his house in Konigsberg. The portrait was of Rousseau. What an honor, to be memorialized while alive by THE leading figure of the enlightenment!
Rousseau never coined the term 'noble savage'. This is a popular misunderstanding and outright lie. He was ...
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Carrie 399 reviews Stephen King
Doubleday, 2007
carrie review
+ Great First Novel + Suprising but good + A Foreboding of Future History: The Consequences of High School Hell + A Strange, but Excellent Story
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories (Thrift Edition) 7 reviews Ambrose Bierce
Dover Publications, 2008
A wonderful short from 1870's
+ Fascinating! Vivid Details and Surprising Story + Twilight Zone Episode
The first classical suspense, twlight zone story first written over 100 years ago. A quick page turner, excellent. The book could be found at local friends of library book sales. Be careful of buying it online. The normal sale price is $1, and online sells it for between $5 and $7.
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