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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 368 reviews
Ken Kesey
Signet, 1963
Chuck Palahniuk DID NOT WRITE THIS
+ Love It
+ Cuckoo... for cocoa puffs!
+ Who is the bull goose loony here?
+ One of the best books ever written
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The Hero and the Crown264 reviews
Robin McKinley
Ace, 1987
BOOK HARBINGER: Aerin is cool
+ Not as good as "The Blue Sword"
+ compelling story
+ An Enjoyable Read
+ Goode's review
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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2)381 reviews
J.R.R. Tolkien
Del Rey, 1986
The Book of Dreams
+ Great art?
+ Gotta love these Charnwood books!
+ A Bridge Between the Beginning And the End
+ If you are smart you bought all three volumes at once.
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The Enemy (Jack Reacher, No. 8) 166 reviews
Lee Child
Dell, 2005
Excallent and balanced treatment of Gays in the Military
+ Reacher's Start
+ Very Good Reacher Novel - Just Not One of the Best
+ JACK REACHER Book #8
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The Story of Scotland7 reviews
Nigel G. Tranter
Neil Wilson Publishing, 1999
A Must-Read For Scots And...
+ Sitting on Grandpa Tranter's lap
+ Interesting Read
+ A different view of Scottish History!
+ Not history, but "historical nonfiction"
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The Second Confession (The Rex Stout Library: a Nero Wolfe Mystery) 16 reviews
Rex Stout
Bantam, 1995
"I went and wasted no time."
+ Second Wolfe-Zeck Mystery
+ Good book, key 2nd part of the Zeck trilogy
+ Weak but still good
+ Wow! I didn't see this one coming
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A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)616 reviews
Rohinton Mistry
Vintage, 2001
Very difficult reading, but worth it
+ Lends Dignity
+ my fave book ever
A friend gave me this book in the middle of winter, right after I had scheduled a trip to visit India for the first time. I looked at the Amazon reviews and saw things like "most depressing book I've ever read" and decided that the middle of a bleak winter was not the right time to be reading such ...
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The Edge17 reviews
Dick Francis
Jove, 2001
A different Dick Francis scenario
+ How does he do it?
+ Great Plot, Great Mystery
This is a different Dick Francis, as the action takes place almost entirely in a train trundling around in the Canadian Rockies. The writing is perfect, as always, and the setting is comparable with Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, which I like, but The Edge is a better read. I lost ...
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Catch-22882 reviews
Joseph Heller
Simon & Schuster, 1996
As advertised. Highly recommended.
+ messy masterpiece
+ Outrageous and funny
+ My favorite novel, ever
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World100 reviews
Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger
Back Bay Books, 2000
that was then, and explains a lot about why this is now
+ Let's Go Back a Thousand Years or So
+ A fun and fast tour of mellennial England
+ How life has changed
+ Concise look into the past
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes180 reviews
Arthur Conan Doyle
Gramercy, 2002
My wife loves the book.
+ Wonderful Reading for Mystery Lovers
+ Love love love
+ Great Value
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Holes3367 reviews
Louis Sachar
Yearling, 2000
buried treasure and a sadistic female prison guard... good combo
+ Unforgetable book - good for book reports
+ I love this book
+ filled with entwined storylines, witty dialogue, intrigue, and even some near death experiences
+ Very Touching Book
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)1179 reviews
Bill Bryson
Broadway, 1999
If Laughter is the Best Medicine, than this is the cure for everything
+ Laugh out loud funny!
+ Funny?
+ I Bought Hiking Boots
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The Monkey's Raincoat114 reviews
Robert Crais
Crimeline, 1992
The Monkey's Raincoat Review
+ Enjoyed It
+ Excellento!
This is the tenth book I've read by Robert Crais but I should have read it first. I maintain that characters in novels become your friends if you read enough about the the same character. This is certainly true of Elvis Cole !
He's a character and a half and one great detective, maybe even the " ...
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The Princess Bride: S Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure727 reviews
William Goldman
Del Rey, 2000
Even better than the movie!
+ All-Time Classic
+ In Which the Fourth Wall is Demolished
This was hilarious! I've been reading a lot of screenplays lately and was curious what Goldman's novel was like compared to his movie. Although the funniest dialogue was in the movie ("'Inconcievable'- you keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means"), the novel adds its ...
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St. Peter's Fair: The Fourth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael15 reviews
Ellis Peters
Mysterious Press, 1992
Fair Dealing, Foul Deeds, and a Fearful Damsel
+ St. Peter's Fair
+ Cadfael: St. Peter's Fair
+ Not long at the Fayre
+ Brother Cadfael with a chase scene!
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The Hobbit1888 reviews
J.R.R. Tolkien
Ballantine Books, 1986
The Hobbit
+ A review by a soon-to-be 5th grade girl
+ This edition is a pleasure to read
+ "In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit"
+ Great story
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Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook29 reviews
Martin Dugard
Atria, 2001
All Cap Cook Books - This Is Perfect Start
+ Absolutely Riveting
+ Set Sail with Captain James Cook!
+ Excellent Read
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Life with Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie Compendium) 24 reviews
P. G. Wodehouse
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1983
So, so funny!
+ We think the World of Jeeves too!
+ More Jeeves and Wooster Please!
+ Great as usual for PG Wodehouse!
+ It's P.G Wodehouse
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The Eyes of the Dragon358 reviews
Stephen King
Signet, 1987
Nice change of pace for early King
+ W. Sierra (NB Michigan)
+ Unexpected
+ A successful departure from the master of horror
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