War and Peace57 reviews Leo Tolstoy Knopf, 2007 War & Peace + Greatest Novel Ever!!!!!! + At Last, An Accessible Translation + A sweeping, unforgettable epic             Nineteen Eighty-Four65 reviews George Orwell Plume, 2003 Cherish your thoughts + This Book Deserves More Stars Than Are In The Sky + my first Orwell, and I'm already hooked + Unbelieveable + A Book to Boggle the Mind             Brave New World (P.S.)725 reviews Aldous Huxley Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 Almost a Perfect World + Satire at its best This book was truly amazing at certain points i was so touched by what i was reading that i was forced to read out loud just to hear these words spoken, Huxley takes commend of the english langage as no other author and creates an almost perfect world if only the savages were included. If this is ...             Middlemarch (Signet Classics)103 reviews George Eliot Signet Classics, 2003 If you are getting married + A laugh-out-loud funny book about one serious lady! + Worth the challenge + A finely crafted character study             Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)823 reviews Joseph Heller Simon & Schuster, 1999 Great great book + Precursor of MASH and more + The soldier in white; This book is so good, my weak attempt at a review is not going to do it justice. But I'll try. I knew before I was half-way through that this is going to be a favorite and I plan to re-read it immediately. The writing is so fresh, the character studies so sharp, and the satire so relevant in ...             Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)1031 reviews Frank Herbert Ace Trade, 2005 One of my first loves! + Mesmerizing fantasy world created + The Greatest Sci-Fi Tale Ever Told + Gift             The Catcher in the Rye2756 reviews J.D. Salinger Back Bay Books, 2001 Deserves the honor of "a classic" + Seventeen I first read this novel in 6th grade. I was enthralled then, and I've read it three times since, all at different periods of my life. I still love it. Holden is a character who faces a conflict that many of us do: how do we preserve innocence and purity in a world that seems to far removed from ...             The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia (Oxford World's Classics)6 reviews Samuel Johnson Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 A Search for Happiness + A book to be read again and again + an overall great book + disheartening but excellent             Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)463 reviews Fyodor Dostoyevsky Pocket, 2004 Crime and Punishment + Crime and Punishment ~ Kindle eBook + Dostoyevski at his best unfortunately this translation did him no favors. + Crime and Punishment             Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)319 reviews Herman Melville Penguin Classics, 2002 "I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts" + Does not deserve boring rep + The Great American Novel Having reached the mid-life point, I didn't "get around to" reading MOBY-DICK until just recently. I'm certainly glad that I finally stopped putting it off. Herman Melville's work is truly one of the most amazing books I have read. As others have pointed out here, it's not always an easy read, ...             Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics)50 reviews Emily Bronte Penguin Books, 2007 This Heathcliff Is No Pussy! + A great read. + It really helps! (Like the curmudgeonly CAT in the COMIC...get it?) Great old-style classic novel. One of Henry Miller's favorites; that's what attracted me to it. I liked the style of the narrative, largely told through the reminiscences of the housekeeper Nelly. This is one dysfunctional family! Like ...             The Great Gatsby1119 reviews F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribner, 1999 Fantastic! One of my Favorite Books! + Brilliant + A Consciously Artistic Achievement + Does money matter?             On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)625 reviews Jack Kerouac Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999 The Day After Superman Died + Great book about youth I began this book with weary thoughts, suspecting some Beatles, hippie mumbo jumbo about life, love and drugs. I was right but also dead wrong. After reading it I can fully understand why this is thought of as the definitive read from the beat generation. It's basically a crazed story on life on ...             A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)616 reviews Anthony Burgess Penguin Classics, 2000 Even better than the movie + Dark but Philosophical + Great Book + A Clockwork Orange             The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition34 reviews J.R.R. Tolkien Houghton Mifflin, 2005 A perplexing and endlessly strange masterpiece + This is what all authors should strive to be + A Classic in Every Way + Excellent! Simply Perfect! + Lord of the Rings Trilogy             Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)168 reviews Leo Tolstoy Penguin Classics, 2004 Human emotions and relationships -- a literary masterpiece! + A deeply human book that repays many re-readings + An affair to remember! (...and much more) + Lengthy, but worth the long ride             The Pearl: (Centennial Edition)493 reviews John Steinbeck Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002 Relevant to Events of Our Time + Literary Classic? [3.5 stars] + great book; poorly bound + A wonderful book! (warning: spoilers!)             Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Daphne Du Maurier Doubleday, 1938             Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)19 reviews Jonathan Swift Penguin Classics, 2003 amazingly good read + a fantastic book + The Greatest Book! + NOT Bringing Home the Bacon! + Misanthropic and proud of it             Waiting For Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts1 review Samuel Beckett Grove Press, 1954 Waiting and Waiting and Waiting and ... Waiting and Waiting and Waiting and ... Review of Play: Waiting for Godot - A Tragicomedy in Two Acts Written in: 1949 Premiere in: 1953 By: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989) Originally written in French and translated to English by the author himself. This play takes place on a ...