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Brave New World 727 reviews
Aldous Huxley
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Frighteningly Prophetic
+ Dystopia, i long for thee
+ Good Book
Brave New World / 0-06-092987-1
While "Brave New World" may lack the narrative punch of other dystopias such as "1984", I cannot help but feel that for sheer prophetic rightness, Huxley hits the nail on the head where others fail. Where Orwell sees an oppressive government that frightens and ...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream 417 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Vintage, 1998
A classic
+ Great book, unfortunatell i've seen the movie
+ Great Book
+ A book about the savage journey to the heart of the American Dream!
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Fahrenheit 4511267 reviews
Ray Bradbury
Del Rey, 1987
Ominous reading
+ Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
+ a very good book
+ Timely, thought-provoking, and still hopeful
+ A must experience
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)325 reviews
Herman Melville
Penguin Classics, 2002
Bloody Battle in Affghanistan! Grand contested election for the Presidency of the United States!
+ a challenge to read and understand; requires some pondering...
+ Get back to the Pequad please!
+ Hey! You Can't Be Ishmael Again! It's My Turn to Be Ishmael!
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The Rum Diary : A Novel129 reviews
Hunter S. Thompson
Simon & Schuster, 1999
Thompson Can't BE Beat!
+ GONZO
+ Great first book
+ Unexpectedly Satisfying
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Lolita450 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov
Vintage, 1989
A road movie of the mind
+ Beautiful writing confronts crude subject matter--A masterpiece
+ Upends your preconceptions and prejudices
+ Which book did you read?
+ The Most Beautiful Novel Ever Written
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-up Adaptation 54 reviews
Lewis Carroll
Little Simon, 2003
Family Treasure
+ A Wondrous Pop-Up Adventure
+ Beautiful
+ amazing
+ Excellent format for a great story to interest your kids
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The Giver3085 reviews
Lois Lowry
Laurel Leaf, 2002
A Thought-provoking, Original Story
+ Must read for all ages.
+ Good thought provoking read
+ From compassion to acumen, Lowry incorporates all there is to learn to develop maturity in this little wonder of a book.
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Everything Is Illuminated 404 reviews
Jonathan Safran Foer
Harper Perennial, 2005
One of the best books ever written
+ everything you could wish and fear life to be
+ An illuminating book
This is my second favorite book. The imagination and narration is simply fantastic. I have never experienced imagination as beautiful as the telling of TrachimBrod. Every chapter about this city is glowing with incredible anecdotes and interesting characters. In fact, Brod is by far the best ...
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Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics)499 reviews
Emily Brontė
Bantam Classics, 1983
very intense
+ Gothic romance
+ Love doesn't always make us happy.
The outdated writing style takes a little getting used to, but once you do, it's good. It's incredible to me how the author, with her unusually limited experience of the outside world, who probably never had a boyfriend or lover in her life and lived a secluded life in a remote part of Yorkshire ...
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!2190 reviews
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
Business Plus, 2000
Reality Check
+ Useful
+ Informative
+ Rich in other ways too!
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Holes3290 reviews
Louis Sachar
Yearling, 2003
Lizards, holes, onions...
+ Minus the plot rehash...
+ Holes
+ One that will want to be read more than just once
+ A true adventure story
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My Name Is Asher Lev109 reviews
Chaim Potok
Anchor, 2003
Art, sacrifice, and religion.
+ My Name is Asher Lev
+ An Artist and an Hasidic Jew
Let me start by saying Chaim Potok is my favorite author - so my review may be slightly bias....but judging the favorable reviews his books receive my opinion may be the norm. The emotions and passion conveyed in his writing is nothing short of masterful - Chaim Potok is truly an author that has ...
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A Brief History of Time352 reviews
Stephen Hawking
Bantam, 1998
Transport yourself into possibility.
+ Highly recommended to everybody interested in Astronomy and Nuclear Physics
This book absolutely recreates the wonder I felt looking at the stars as a child. Stephen Hawking has a knack like no other I have read in the science world of transporting the reader to a realm of humbling amazement and possibility. Pure genius bubbling over with dry humor that will never fail to ...
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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)54 reviews
Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics, 2003
`It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'
+ Rewarding
+ A Tale for our time...if you have the patience.
+ Long. Boring.
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Choke470 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor, 2002
Funny, strange, disturbing, good
This is the first Palahniuk book I've read, and I look forward to reading more of his books.
Based upon the description of the book, this isn't one that I'd likely pick up to read...the redemption/recovery/whatever you call it of a sex addict just didn't seem that interesting. However, ...
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Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)1032 reviews
Frank Herbert
Ace, 1990
Brings Back Memories of Old Sci-Fi Days
+ Arrakis
+ 4 1/2! All the hype had me skeptical
Having read this book nearly 20 years ago (right before I got married), I was recently thrilled to see it being reissued and propped up on a shelf at my local bookstore.
The story of a desert planet without any viable source of water that held an empire together was sheer genius, and author ...
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Animal Farm (Signet Classics)1155 reviews
George Orwell
Signet Classics, 1996
Animal Farm is instructive for our presidential election.
+ Some Books are More Equal than Others
+ Subtle Message
+ Animal Farm Review
+ Animals Gone Wild....
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A Canticle for Leibowitz232 reviews
Walter M. Miller Jr.
Eos, 2006
"Sic transit mundus"
+ Sci-fi that isn't
+ Read this book, impress your friends.
Comparing the United States to the Roman Empire seems to be a fashionable thing to do lately. And the argument is certainly not without merit. As the only superpower left its natural to make judgments based on the worlds great empires and to ask if we are making the same mistakes that caused their ...
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Treasure Island (Unabridged Classics)15 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sterling, 2004
A Treasure
+ Ultimate Action Adventure for families to read.
+ Treasure Island Book Review
+ Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum!
+ Jim Hawkins & Long John Silver. Pirates...or Patriots??? February 25, 2007
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