The Sirens of Titan157 reviews Kurt Vonnegut The Dial Press, 1998 Thats what I call Black Comedy + Very Good Book + The Meaning of Life.... + amazing             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 ...             Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)6 reviews Yusef Komunyakaa Wesleyan, 1993 LANGUAGE LIT UP: SOUL-TO-SOUL COMMUNICATION + "Like a man drunk on the rage / Of being alive" + Highly Recommended!!! + easily teachable + One of my favorite books             Bad Cat: 244 Not-So-Pretty Kitties And Cats Gone Bad128 reviews Jim Edgar Workman Publishing Company, 2004 The Conspiracy Begins! + Very Happy! + Purrrfectly Funny + Bad Cat is Funeeee! + Hilariously Adorable!             The Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (Penguin Classics)25 reviews Friedrich Nietzsche Penguin Classics, 1990 Mental Roller Coaster + Scathing Polemic Against Religious Self-Illusionism + A good place to start + amazing...             Survivor: A Novel385 reviews Chuck Palahniuk Anchor, 2000 Survivor: A Novel + Great + amazing imagination Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk ***** Survivor is the story of where it all went wrong. The point in our lives where we have all had choices to make. The choices that affect the rest of our lives. Survivor is the search for something far and something big, maybe something bigger than all of us, it ...             Diary: A Novel195 reviews Chuck Palahniuk Anchor, 2004 Brilliant and visceral + My favorite Chuck book + Deceptively philosophical Palahniuk's brutally honest look at the suffering of his creative protagonist is haunting and grips you right away. If you've grown up in a small beach town, you understand the love-hate relationship between locals and tourists. If you're an artist, you'll understand it even more. Palahniuk uses ...             Slaughterhouse-Five708 reviews Kurt Vonnegut Dell, 1991 Like Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto. + A highly creative and simultaneously amusing and thought-provoking novel that hammers home its themes; "A-" + One of the best + Slaughterhouse-Five             Tropic of Cancer161 reviews Henry Miller Grove Press, 1994 Know the background before you read this classic + Tropic of Cancer review + Original For Its Time--crude and rude + Fountain of youth + Puerile, vulgar, and tawdry.             Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Cliffs Complete)2 reviews Lewis Carroll Cliffs Notes, 2001 Not Worth Buying I bought this book thinking that I was going to get an extensive commentary about Alice In Wonderland. This book is by no means an in-depth commentary on the piece. There are no more than ten pages of commentary in the whole book. The rest of the book is just the actual text of Alice In ...             If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!: The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients19 reviews Macmillan Audio, 1990 Excellent read, not what you'd expect. + A fine little read with a whole lot of meaning + A fine little read with a whole lot of meaning + You Are Your Own Buddha + Personal Wisdom at its best             Steppenwolf: A Novel133 reviews Hermann Hesse Picador, 2002 Good Morning + A classic philosophical novel about the meaning of self and the source of personality + Hermann Hesse's Mid-Life Crisis... + Not a classic, but really has its impact + Almost perfect.             The Crying of Lot 49181 reviews Thomas Pynchon Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999 A Good Place to Start + A good lot for "Lot" God knows Pynchon isn't for everyone. However, if you are thinking of taking on the adventure his work can be, I highly recomend starting with The Crying of Lot 49. In this novel, you are going to find all of his major themes (some being paranoia, difficult even obscure scientific references, and ...             Animal Farm: Centennial Edition1156 reviews George Orwell Plume, 2003 Animal Farm is instructive for our presidential election. + All Classic Books Are Good But Some Are More Good Than Others + Some Books are More Equal than Others + Subtle Message + Animal Farm Review             Nineteen Eighty-Four70 reviews George Orwell Plume, 2003 May be coming to pass soon + Timeless story, wonderful presentation. Doubleplusgood! + So Possible it's scary + Still Relative Today + Forget WE, The Iron Heel and every other dystopian novel. Read this book!             Fahrenheit 4511271 reviews Ray Bradbury Del Rey, 1987 A thrilling combination of 50's pulp sci-fi and reflective commentary + Fahrenheit 451: A Novel By my count, this'll be the 1,218th review for this book on amazon, so what could I possibly say that the other 1,217 haven't? But for those few who dare dig this deep to read: I loved the book. I've read numerous novels and thrillers for fun, and also dabbled in more serious, non-fiction as ...             The Book of Job13 reviews Stephen Mitchell Harper Perennial, 1992 Why? + A Must Read for... Everyone + Did Mr. Mitchell Miss the Point? (A Jewish Perspective) + It did the job + From John in Virginia             Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All104 reviews Friedrich Nietzsche Penguin (Non-Classics), 1978 An incredibly misunderstood genius!! + "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."-Nietzsche + Strenght from the ashes + brilliant and creative mind + Algora pub./T. Wayne trans. edition is best             Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future75 reviews Friedrich Nietzsche Vintage, 1989 What was on Zarathustra's mind on those mountains? + FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: "...PUTTING HIS FINGER ON BAD ARTS OF INTERPRETATION" (start here with Nietzsche) + Way Beyond Good & Evil Beyond Good and Evil clarifies much of what is left in the air in Thus Spoke Zarathustra and hinted at in the Gay Science. It helps to be familiar with TSZ, or at least the Gay Science coming into reading this text, given the subtlety of the allusions to his former writings and concepts, and the ...             The American Dream and Zoo Story14 reviews Edward Albee Plume, 1997 Mystical Animals in America + not into plays neither am i + A theatre MASTER piece + Earliest and the Best + Albee's Earliest