Beloved87 reviews Toni Morrison Vintage, 2004 Raw & Powerful + Oh My God! Are You Kidding Me? Toni's Morrison's Beloved is a hard, frustrating, and emotionally draining piece of literary art. Saying this, her prose is written like something I've never read. She throws you in the middle of the narrative and does not tell you why her characters are saying or acting like they are. It is a ...             The Wind-up Bird Chronicle289 reviews Haruki Murakami Vintage, 1997 Patience and Growth Yields Great Reward + A certain "something" that is bizarre and intriguing + Excellent read + Think for yourself + Chronicle of the Lost             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 ...             Aurelia Gerard de Nerval Green Integer, 2001             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             The Left Hand of Darkness184 reviews Ursula K. LeGuin Ace, 1987 Revisit this Sci-Fi classic if you haven't read it since college + Le Guin's Masterpiece + Can't put it down The intriguing notion that our gender dictates not only our personal life, but the society we create and our political systems was quite a radical thought for me in the 1970s when I first read this book in college. I was immersed in an on-going sexual revolution and a feminist awakening. Ursula ...             Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics)26 reviews Ovid Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 Things change... + An Account Of Life + Classic + Myths in poetry             The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition48 reviews Dante Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997 Medieval vision of the afterlife + Excellent for the Rookie + t.s. eliot loved the inferno; b.n. loves pinsky's hell + Abandon hope             The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)158 reviews Franz Kafka Bantam Classics, 1972 I loved this book!!!! + The Metamorphosis + Not for the Faint of Heart + Changes             Slaughterhouse-Five708 reviews Kurt Vonnegut Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999 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             Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics)13 reviews Robert Walser NYRB Classics, 1999 A strange wonderful book + If Beckett had the aesthetic of a child + Comical melancholy from a prose poet and wordsmith + Shy of recondite, but completely enjoyable + An Eccentric, Kafkaesque Novel Written Before Kafka             The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text73 reviews Franz Kafka Schocken, 1998 I offer the startling proposal that Franz Kafka's The Castle is + a dreamy, utterly inscrutable masterpiece + A story of human isolation, of man's quest for freedom and validation + hilarious, you really need to read it yourself             A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories6 reviews Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1998 The Sublime and The Ridiculous + A Tour of the Forces of Communism Taken to the Absurd Degree + This is officially one of my favorite short story collections ever! + Whatever that guy is on, I want some...             Winter's Tale194 reviews Mark Helprin Harvest Books, 2005 My Favorite Book! + What it feels like to be a New Yorker. + Please use your imagination + Winter Magic             The Blind Owl21 reviews Sadegh Hedayat Grove Press, 1994 Dark and beautiful + Haunting and dark + I'm buying this book again + 80 Proof Bleak + Surreal, not so real . . .             Blow-Up: And Other Stories17 reviews Julio Cortazar Pantheon, 1985 A marvelous collection of short stories -- but what makes them so is not easy to explain + Literature at the Planck Scale + An early version of La Maga + A fantastic intro to Cortazar             Winter's Tale194 reviews Mark Helprin Harvest Books, 2005 My Favorite Book! + What it feels like to be a New Yorker. + Please use your imagination + Winter Magic             The Blind Owl21 reviews Sadegh Hedayat Grove Press, 1994 Dark and beautiful + Haunting and dark + I'm buying this book again + 80 Proof Bleak + Surreal, not so real . . .             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 ...             Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics)13 reviews Robert Walser NYRB Classics, 1999 A strange wonderful book + If Beckett had the aesthetic of a child + Comical melancholy from a prose poet and wordsmith + Shy of recondite, but completely enjoyable + An Eccentric, Kafkaesque Novel Written Before Kafka