Portnoy's Complaint101 reviews Philip Roth Vintage, 1994 Funny, Influential, Modern, Psychological Jewish Novel -- that's well worth your time... + Laugh-out-loud hilarious! + I thought this was a book about gangsters + Great Reflection of 1969 and Jersey Jews [52][T]             The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs25 reviews Friedrich Nietzsche Vintage, 1974 THE FAVOURITE: JOY THANKS TO LUCIDITY + Heraclitus comes to the fore-- Im Fluss:Panta rei + Brilliant + RE: "God is dead" + An Under-rated piece of work?             The Emigrants40 reviews W. G. Sebald, Michael Hulse New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1997 The trail of the butterfly man: homage to Vladimir Dimitrovich + Literature like none else in desolation and despair + The Emigrants + Shadows of the past + Memorable             The Complete Stories44 reviews Franz Kafka Schocken, 1995 A Treasure of Madness + The best place to start with Kafka. + Excellent introduction to Kafka unique style Kafka is still "the rage," one supposes, but it is hard to see how, now that he has become an icon. This is a fabulous collection. Updike is right that these stories are excellent. Kafka has had enormous influence on modern fiction. He may be one of a handful of highly important authors. Reading ...             A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)239 reviews James Joyce Penguin Classics, 2003 Best Kindle edition of Joyce's "Portrait" + challenging but worth it + good intro to joyce There are many editions of James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" available, but this is easily the best Kindle edition. The text is based on Chester Anderson's 1964 text. There are also a good number of annotations by Seamus Deane--fewer than in Anderson's Viking Critical ...             Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics)197 reviews James Joyce Penguin Classics, 2000 Mean Girls Haven't read FINNEGANS WAKE in many years, probably not since grad school, but here it is again, everybody talking about it for some reason--it's resumed its place in the zeitgeist, the way Frank O'Hara's "Meditations in an Emergency," featured on the season opener of MAD MEN, is now rising up ...             In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)18 reviews Marcel Proust Modern Library, 2003 The most important literary work of the 20th century + you will never view life the same again + Mimesis of Man's Minutes, Memory and More + Review Proust? You are kidding right?             The Symposium (Penguin Classics)5 reviews Plato Penguin Classics, 2003 The Conversation + Fascinating ancient treatise on the nature of Love + It's all in love + Ups and downs             The Shock of The New: The Hundred-Year History of Modern Art Its Rise, Its Dazzling Achievement, It's Fall11 reviews Robert Hughes McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1990 The rise and fall of modernism + outside the vacuum looking inward + The story of Modern Art This is based on the script for a BBC program. To be a good TV program, it should have a clear and plain storyline which could fit into limited timetable. You can identify such a feature in the form of book, though substantially enlarged. The author did his best to make a clear impression of what ...             The Satyricon (Meridian classics)9 reviews Petronius, Seneca Plume, 1983 Scraps of naughty readers + A Burlesque Satire + The arbiter of style and a certain dork genius. + Do we really understand it?             Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)11 reviews James Joyce Penguin Classics, 2000 The Irish Sacred Text in English:SERIOUS THEMES FROM WOMB TO TOMB IN AN INCAPABLE TONGUE + Looks great on the shelf! + happy bloomsday + A must-read for challenge seekers.             The Master and Margarita (Penguin Classics)341 reviews Mikhail Bulgakov Penguin Classics, 2001 A GIFT FROM THE GRAVE + "a liberating, exuberant social and political satire (Moscow) combined with a profound moral and political allegory (Jerusalem); + seductive masterpiece + The Devil Went Down to Moscow + READ THIS!             Collected Stories Volume 1 (Everyman's Library)1 review Henry James Everyman's Library, 2000 A Great Deal, for James lovers and newbies This is a tremendous book - some of the greatest stories ever written, attractively packaged and reasonably priced. These are not really "short stories", as most of them are longer than 50 pages, and they all require careful attention, but the effort is well worth it. While some are better than ...             Vertigo23 reviews Winfried Georg Sebald, W. G. Sebald New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2001 In sleepless hours the urgent desire to belong to no nation + Sebald, the Last Great Writer of the Twentieth Century + Accessible - even though I had never heard of Sebald + A journey into memory             The Sound and the Fury196 reviews William Faulkner Vintage, 1991 I HATED this book until I realized it was a masterpiece... + A Great American Classic that Deserves to Be + If only we all could be blessed with such failure. + A Difficult Classic             To the Lighthouse168 reviews Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty (Introduction) Harvest Books, 1989 An insightful, sensitive reading. + Time Passes + Brilliant Experimental Novel + To The LighthouseA beautif             The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics)51 reviews Laurence Sterne Penguin Classics, 2003 Postmodern before modern + I wish I'd had an Uncle Toby + Pre-modernist postmodern A line from the movie "adaptation" put it best: this was a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post to. Simply put, Laurence Sterne threw out all the literary conventions of what a novel should be and how it should be arranged, a few hundred years before more recent writers ...             The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition43 reviews Ernest Hemingway Scribner, 1998 Phenomenal + A book in GREAT condition. + G + Hemingway - What more needs to be said?             Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Modern Library)310 reviews Cormac McCarthy Modern Library, 2001 Unflinching Crimson Epic of the Old West + A very good, dark read... + unbridled havoc + The best of McCarthy + Great read, not an "easy" read, but worth the effort             Borges: Collected Fictions67 reviews Jorge Luis Borges Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999 A book you and your doppelganger will both enjoy + Intelligent fiction - makes you think + The path you are to take is endless... + The Greatest Collection + Amazing deal