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Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies 438 reviews
Laura Esquivel
Anchor, 1994
YUmmy!
+ An endearing little book
+ Quirky but fun all the same
+ Mystical, Erotic, and Delicious
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)252 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Perennial, 2004
puleeze
+ Read it
+ A profound book, and one of the best I've read
It's so disappointing, not to mention depressing, to read the negative reviews of this book on line here. We are speaking of one of the dozen finest books of the twentieth century. The failure is not the book's. I encourage all of you to try again--let the book lift you.
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The House of the Spirits 11 reviews
Isabel Allende
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2005
A book you will read over and over again...
+ hip hip horray for house of the spirits
+ Allende's Masterpiece
+ se los recomiendo!!!
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The Shawl19 reviews
Cynthia Ozick
Vintage, 1990
A disturbing and moving work
+ A Haunting Short Novel
+ A Classic Short Story and Novella!
+ Cynthia Ozick at her most emotionally gripping!
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Meatless Days 12 reviews
Sara Suleri
University Of Chicago Press, 1991
Complex, but very rewarding
+ Excellent
+ A truly great book
+ Masterful!
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Chocolat10 reviews
Joanne Harris
Black Swan, 2000
Magically Delicious!
+ Charming and sweet
+ Brimming with passion for life
Years after seeing Chocolat the movie, I have finally read Chocolat the book. As usual, the book was way better than the movie. While Chocolat the movie implies that Vianne is a witch, the book makes it abundantly clear that Vianne has magical powers. She turns the small French town on its head ...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel241 reviews
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
great
+ I lived in this book those days
+ Mystical Love
+ great but not the best
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The House on Mango Street604 reviews
Sandra Cisneros
Vintage, 1991
poetry to my ears
+ gorgeous
This is a beautifully written book about a girls who lives in a house on Mango street, a house that is far blow her expectations and a neighborhood she does not want to belong to. This book reads more like a poetic form in a novel. There's a lot of wonderful details about how some people in the ...
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In the Time of the Butterflies159 reviews
Julia Alvarez
Plume, 1995
Courage versus Tyranny
+ A great read
+ a story every American needs to know
+ Excellent
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International)456 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage Books, 2007
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
+ Metaphorical Romp
Garcia Marquez can write. No doubt about it. The man is a marvel. I'd be puddling along, reading of Fermina Daza, and her adolescent passion (and his for her) of Florentino Ariza, or of her married life with Juvenal Urbino when I'd be swept away by a phrase or image, or the smell of bitter almonds. ...
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The Awakening353 reviews
Kate Chopin
CreateSpace, 2008
How long have I been asleep?
+ A Statement on Non-Traditional Sensibilities
+ Lovely
+ not so simple, not so obvious
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Their Eyes Were Watching God405 reviews
Zora Neale Hurston
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Southern Florida in the early 20th century and one black woman's story
+ Among the Most Influential African-American Novels of the 20th Century
+ Dreamy little novel
+ An Amazing Book
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Tropic of Cancer160 reviews
Henry Miller
Grove Press, 1994
Know the background before you read this classic
+ Original For Its Time--crude and rude
+ Fountain of youth
+ Puerile, vulgar, and tawdry.
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Garden Spells (Bantam Discovery)166 reviews
Sarah Addison Allen
Bantam Discovery, 2008
I think I was hit by an apple!
+ Garden Spells
+ Fun!
+ Wonderful read, but unrealistic kid!
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Siddhartha 1 review
Hermann Hesse
Norilana Books, 2007
Great Buy
I'm usually concerned about purchasing items on line, especially books. I can honestly say that this experience was worth it. I would recommend this seller to anyone interested in purchasing good quality books at extremely reasonable prices.
Buy with confidence, I did!
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)54 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Garcia Marquez is great!
+ Excellent, but not typical of Marquez.
+ Well-written but very graphic
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has written many novels over the years, but I have had the privilege to read only two. This book is written in the style of magical realism, so you have to be very open minded about the creative and surrealistic characters. It's a wonderful, classic book from a great Latin ...
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Night (Oprah's Book Club)629 reviews
Elie Wiesel
Hill and Wang, 2006
Elie, a brave boy and a survivor
+ Scary reminder of what mankind is capable of
+ heart wrenching
+ The banal becomes terrifying, the terrifying becomes everyday "normal"
+ Human Words Cannot Convey the Story
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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 Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)502 reviews
Toni Morrison
Plume, 2000
Gripping, Haunting
+ IDK
+ Excellent novel
I literally could not stop reading, once I started.
In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison tells the story of the Breedloves, a hard-luck Black family whose existence is defined by its members' conviction that they cannot be loved as they are.
Little Pecola Breedlove longs to be loved. She decides ...
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Tropic of Capricorn30 reviews
Henry Miller
Grove Press, 1994
Among Other Things
+ Miller's Tour De Force
Out of idle curiosity and a desire to reread (third time) Miller's Tropic novels, I checked the consumer reviews of Tropic of CANCER first. I am interested in new generations discovering the stuff that I read going back to the early 60s. I found the reviews surprisingly dense, repeating the old ...
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