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The Fountainhead 965 reviews
Plume, 1994
"But I don't think of you"
+ Fountainhead
+ Why Was This Book Written?
+ Fairy Tale
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Everything is Illuminated 6 reviews
Jonathan Safran Foer, Penguin
Penguin Books Ltd, 2003
you should read this
+ Kooky and inventive novel of two young men's coming of age.
Jonathan Safran Foer's use of the English language is beautiful. While he has a very different style of writing and it may take a little while to get into it, I don't see what there is not to like. I'm not sure which I liked better- this or his "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," but both are ...
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The Zoo Story and The Sandbox. 3 reviews
Edward Albee
Dramatists Play Service Inc, 1998
Review of Albee's "The Zoo Story"
+ Best of the best
+ Bravo to Edward Albee! Brilliant!
Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story" analyzes the mind of the emotionally and physically afflicted man in search of direction, if you will, or at least an apt form of comfort. It is creatively set in one scene - one simple setting that, in a way, hints at the realism of the play and how such a situation ...
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The Stranger528 reviews
Albert Camus
Vintage, 1989
American translation brings out stylistic subtleties
+ Shocking in its Simplicity
+ One of the best books ever written.
+ Oh, the absurdity!
+ Perfect
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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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Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)16 reviews
William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2003
Mac-Good for Mac-Shakespeare
+ Playwright vs. Poet: the Playwright wins.
+ Folger is a good series
I'll admit, it's hard for me to get into Shakespeare (so go stone me in the streets, you drama geeks). Yet, this play is a killer.....literally. I mean, they need to make this into a movie nowadays-all the battle scenes, all the drama, all the Scottish accents. This play is the epitome of ...
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Brave New World727 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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Heart of Darkness (Broadview Literary Texts)384 reviews
Joseph Conrad, D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke
Broadview Press, 1999
powerful book
+ humidity drips off the end of each line like a light mist in a heavy fog
+ An excellent piece of epistemology!
+ Moby Dick or The Whale ~ Kindle eBook
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Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)34 reviews
William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2003
If you want to read Shakespeare its has to be The new folger Library
+ Greatness
+ Review
If you ever thought about reading Shakespeare but was turned off or intimidated by the old english, not so with the new folger editions. Your basically reading the play on all the right sided pages , with the left pages reserved for all the definitions and explanations of the sayings and words that ...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four 68 reviews
George Orwell
Plume, 2003
Timeless story, wonderful presentation. Doubleplusgood!
+ So Possible it's scary
+ Still Relative Today
+ Forget WE, The Iron Heel and every other dystopian novel. Read this book!
+ Cherish your thoughts
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Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)24 reviews
Voltaire
Dover Publications, 1991
Best of all Worlds
+ The best of all possible worlds?? Candidly, point well made...
+ Great Read
From an optimist point of view, this book is simply in supportive of Leibniz's Best of all Possible Worlds theory. However, this book is a Voltaire's satire to Leibniz's theory. It is comical and gruesome but in the end, you learn to deal and live peacefully. You do get some interesting insight ...
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead82 reviews
Tom Stoppard
Grove Press, 1994
Brilliant.
+ Rosencrantz & Gildenstern Are Dead
+ A grand aimlessness
No mean to be offensive or anything, but I honestly feel that if people do not find R&G Are Dead hysterically funny and/or wonderfully ingenious, they have probably missed Stoppard's point in this play.
This play was during the age known as Theatre of the Absurd, when ridiculous plots and ...
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold121 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage, 2003
Creative, Brilliant Novella - Absolutely Fascinating, Even After Repeated Readings Through the Years
+ Death foretold; character revealed
+ Marquez & magic realism---start here
Chronicle of a Death Foretold was published in 1981, the year before Gabriel Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The story begins with sentence: "On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat that the bishop ...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)53 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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No Exit and Three Other Plays48 reviews
Jean-Paul Sartre
Vintage, 1989
Beautiful melancholy
+ good enough condition
+ There Is No Exit
+ "Hell is other people".......
+ Fabulous plays!
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Inferno (Modern Library Classics)106 reviews
Dante
Modern Library, 2003
A powerful translation of a masterpiece
+ Nice balance
+ One of the Best Translations
+ Mandelbaum for beauty, Hollander for notes, Esolen for arguments
+ Sets the bar high for future B&N Classics
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Oedipus Rex (Dover Thrift Editions)104 reviews
Sophocles
Dover Publications, 1991
Has lasted 1000s of years for a reason...
+ New
+ Interesting Epic
+ Reviewing Oedipus Rex
+ Oedipus Rex
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)24 reviews
Franz Kafka
Dover Publications, 1996
Kafka's Best
+ Good Deal
+ Metamorphosis and Other Stories
This is a definitive collection of the short work of Franz Kafka, encompassing all of the greatest moods of his writing. The following stories are included.
The Judgment is a tale of what is and what is not. A young man reveals, through a letter, that he's engaged. He reveals this to an ...
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)244 reviews
W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
beowulf
+ Excellent Translation
+ Beowulf Review
+ "fate hovered near, unknowable but certain" (line 2421)
+ Sweet!
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A Friend of the Earth37 reviews
T.C. Boyle
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001
For Friends of Good Writing
+ Recommended
+ Does the earth need a friend
+ Silent Spring meets The Time Machine
+ Disturbing, but sticks in your brain
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