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Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Editions) 11 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky
W. W. Norton, 1989
the Coulson translation can't be beat
+ Dostoevsky enhanced
+ Among the best ever written
+ Less a review, more about content in this edition
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) 499 reviews
Emily Brontë
Penguin Classics, 1996
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The outdated writing style takes a little getting used to, but once you do, it's good.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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Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student10 reviews
Edward P. J. Corbett, Robert J. Connors
Oxford University Press, USA, 1998
Nice Indeed
+ Great book
+ A pedagogical tour de force
+ Great introductory text on Rhetoric
+ Classical rhetoric was spoken, never written
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Harley Hahn's Student Guide To Unix7 reviews
Harley Hahn
McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 1996
Perfect for someone who never even knew what UNIX was
+ Harley Hahn's Student Guide To Unix
+ Ideal book for getting started
+ Detailed, understandable, thorough and fun!
+ As said, a student's guide
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C Programming Language (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Software)256 reviews
Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Prentice Hall PTR, 1988
The Must-have
+ C Programming Book
+ Magic book
+ Great Book
+ The defacto book on C
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ANSI Common LISP (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence)28 reviews
Paul Graham
Prentice Hall, 1995
a very expressive language
+ The must have book for Lisp programmers
+ thought provoking
+ Pragmatic
+ When I Hack Lisp this book is with me
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Sumer and the Sumerians 5 reviews
Harriet Crawford
Cambridge University Press, 2004
Archaeology of the Sumer Delta
+ A factual description of the Sumerian civilization
+ Living in Sumer
This book deals with archaeological evidence of the Sumer region in a comprehensive and highly illustrated volume. Crawford's book has little to do with the historical view of Sumer like so many other books on the subject. However, she does not wonder far from most traditional views of the ...
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Cracking the LSAT, 2007 Edition (Graduate Test Prep) 6 reviews
Princeton Review
Princeton Review, 2006
Hands on Practical Advice
+ amazing place to start if you start early
I bought Princeton, Kaplan, and Barron's, and Princeton seems to be the best so far. Princeton gives the best detailed explainations of the logical reasoning and games. They go through each question type and analyze how to answer it. They also give you several types of games and show you how to ...
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HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition145 reviews
Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2002
I use it everyday - the older version
+ Another excellent reference...
+ Excellent reference book - highly recommend it
+ A Reference Book, not a Textbook
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Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics)325 reviews
Herman Melville
Bantam Classics, 1981
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 Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) 122 reviews
Alexandre Dumas père
Penguin Classics, 2003
The perfect tale of revenge & redemption
+ Count of Monte Cristo
+ Very good
+ Pretty much the coolest book ever
+ Wondering which version to buy?
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The American Pageant: A History of the Republic, 12th Edition74 reviews
Thomas Bailey, David Kennedy
Wadsworth Publishing, 2001
easy to read but too much useless info
I can honestly say that reading/learning this book thoroughly helped me get a 4 on the AP exam. It was easy to read too.
However, it was pretty annoying to sift through A LOT of useless information in the book. There was one chapter where they took up a fourth of a page to describe Andrew ...
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Brave New World728 reviews
Aldous Huxley
HarperPerennial, 1989
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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Hamlet (Norton Critical Editions)5 reviews
William Shakespeare
W. W. Norton, 1992
Contains Invaluable Information about Hamlet
+ Great play, amazing edition
+ !!!FLASH-FLOW!!!
+ A wonderful resource for students!
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Bleak House: An Authoritative and Annotated Text, Illustrations, a Note on the Text, Genesis and Composition, ...74 reviews
Charles Dickens, George Harry Ford, ...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1977
A Masterpiece or Simply Too Long and Wanders Too Much?
+ An ironic title, to be so lovely
+ Artfully crafted story from Dickens, but takes patience
+ The not so Bleak House
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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"
+ Supersaturated with the religion that he had stopped believing in: growing up in a colony
+ challenging but worth it
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 ...
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Things Fall Apart: A Novel533 reviews
Chinua Achebe
Anchor, 1994
What makes fiction important
+ Things Fall Apart
+ Terrific
I know this is the classic debate of all time when it comes to literature: Is it about beautifully written prose (THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, incidentally, is a good example of this problem) or does it tell a compelling story? (yet the prose itself is not its strong point).
It seems that many ...
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The Craft of Research, 2nd edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)43 reviews
Wayne C. Booth, Joseph M. Williams, ...
University Of Chicago Press, 2003
A Must Have!
+ Useful Resource for Research Papers
+ Powerful tool for novice
+ Decent book
+ Craft of Research
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As I Lay Dying190 reviews
William Faulkner
Vintage, 1991
Homegoing
+ A Grim, Morbid, and Compelling Tale
+ Now I can get them teeth...
+ As I Lay Dying
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MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Sixth Edition82 reviews
Joseph Gibaldi
Modern Language Association of America, 2003
Answers my questions
+ MLA Handbook
+ College Book
+ The Best of Class
+ MLA
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