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Pocho 7 reviews
Jose Antonio Villarreal
Anchor, 1970
Good Book
+ An Authentic Read
+ A Latino coming of age
+ An important book in the genre
+ Story full of adventures one after another.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four 1588 reviews
George Orwell
Plume, 2003
Yes, do read this 1948 book
+ Guide for Revolutionaries
+ You just have to go past the date
+ A Must Read By Far
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Brave New World (P.S.)61 reviews
Aldous Huxley
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2010
prophecies made are coming true
+ Brave New World
+ Why are there reviews of this book before 2010?
+ a well deserved obligatory read for all humanity
+ Amazing predictions
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Jane Eyre896 reviews
Charlotte Bronte
CreateSpace, 2010
I absolutely love this book!
+ Yes, I bought the book for the cover
+ One of the Greats!
+ Should Have Read It Long Ago
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Emma (Modern Library Classics) 13 reviews
Jane Austen
Modern Library, 2001
Excellent!
+ Blunders and Blindness
+ It's such a happiness when good people get together
+ Great Writing but a Bit Creepy Plotline
+ "It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage." (4 1/2 stars)
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Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics) 3 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
The Gambler is Dostoevsky's most under-rated work.
+ Great novel...but this edition from the Oxford World's Classics series is not the version I would recommend.
Dostoevsky's "The Gambler" is a profound look at gambling
as an addiction. The characterization is extremely good,
and the topic is very timely, considering the explosion in
the number of gambling establishments in the United States
in recent years. This should be on the reading list for all
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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel781 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999
Not what I expected, but that's not a bad thing
+ Slaughterhouse
+ It's a classic for a reason
+ Well if you havn't read it and are thinking about it....................
+ A classic in both thought and comedy
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Cat's Cradle: A Novel396 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut
Dell Publishing, 1998
Amazing book- just watch which edition you buy
+ good starting point
+ ice 9
Cat's Cradle is completely amazing. One of Vonnegut's best. Plenty of other reviews will tell you that, though. Just make sure you buy the right edition. As you may have noticed, there are two editions available in the Kindle store- one published by "Rosetta Books" for $7.19 (the first search ...
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Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club)
Toni Morrison (Author), 1987
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The Stranger3 reviews
Albert Camus
Hesperides Press, 2006
I love this book
+ At the margins
+ An Autistic Anti-Hero
Somehow, despite majoring in French literature and getting a Ph.D. in French history, I missed this one until I decided to read it recently. Now I'm about to have a full-fledged Camus obsession because I've never met anyone who so well captures the absurdity of existence and the powerlessness of ...
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Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)24 reviews
Joseph Conrad
W. W. Norton & Company, 2005
Heart of Truthfulness
+ A surreal narrative on the savagery of imperialism
+ excellent condition
+ Engaging and Timely
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Beloved (Everyman's Library)671 reviews
Toni Morrison
Everyman's Library, 2006
A Masterpiece incomparable to anything
+ Very Moving (4.5 Stars)
I am reading and listening to Beloved for the fourth time. Every time I read this book, I get something new out of it. There is no point into going into the plot as the plot is subservient to the magic of the words that fir together like a dizzying, beautiful, maddening, frightful and dazzling ...
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Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries)568 reviews
Sapphire
Vintage, 2009
Precious' realistic hardship built in one book!
+ Reviews by students at California State University, Northridge
+ [PRECIOUS]
+ English 098
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The God of Small Things: A Novel896 reviews
Arundhati Roy
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
A World-Lit, World-Class Winner
+ A masterpiece of literature
+ I didn't know tragedy could be this sweet.
+ Good book. Lousy Reader.
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Catch-22879 reviews
Joseph Heller
Simon & Schuster, 1996
My favorite novel, ever
+ Outrageous and funny
+ Hilarious -
Joseph Heller nails it. While at first it seems a chaotic mess of dark situational humor and commentary of the state of war, main characters (dozens!), and time-jumping, a wonderful pattern is found in it all. Read it through twice: first to find out why Orr was getting hit in the head by a ...
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The Kite Runner2731 reviews
Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead Trade, 2004
The Kite Runner
+ A great choice for any reader.
+ An Amazing Author!
+ Like a rich chocolate cake
+ like it
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1)332 reviews
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage, 1993
He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret
+ Violent, wry, beautifully wrought
+ All the Pretty Horse: A Beautiful, Tragic Book
This is a fantastic story - powerful, amusing, and moving. McCarthy has such a great way of engaging the reader by alternating between being economical with his prose during one moment, and gushing the next. This novel contains narrative so powerful and beautiful that I could scarcely believe they ...
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Favorite Jane Austen Novels: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion36 reviews
Jane Austen
CreateSpace, 2009
A must have!
+ The tales of Austen
+ Good price and the expected quality
+ Classic Jane Novels
+ Excellent price-quality ratio
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The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions)23 reviews
William Faulkner
W. W. Norton & Company, 1993
It's Your Choice!
+ Worth the hype
+ "The Sound and the Fury"
+ Form fits meaning
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Native Son1 review
HarperCollins e-books, 2009
Nothing is ever old
This book could have been written this year, the tenor is very contemporary. The themes and stereotypes are as prevelent today as they were then. The strength of the writing is timeless.The setting is gritty and real, the people are knowable. I enjoyed reading it again.
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