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Shantaram 22 reviews
Scribe, 2004
A brilliant bombay book
+ Only book I know which justifies the description "rollercoaster of a novel"
+ I'm sort of stunned at the negative reviews
I came across "Shantaram" on display in Waterstones, and the only reason I bought it was because it mentioned Bombay on the back cover.
I have just finished reading it, and would recommend it thoroughly. The author is Gregory David Roberts. He was a drug addict, and a criminal who escaped from ...
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Civilization and Its Discontents34 reviews
Sigmund Freud
W. W. Norton & Company, 2005
Valuable for General Reader
+ Freud's Politics
+ thx
+ "No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such."
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Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief28 reviews
Bill Mason, Lee Gruenfeld
Villard, 2004
An inside look
It's rare to get a look inside the mind of a successful solo operator like this guy. It's well written and engaging. Maybe it's not 100% true; I wasn't there so I can't say. But it certainly has the ring of truth, and even if it's all fake it's still a fun read.
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Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics) 105 reviews
James Joyce
Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
Untitled
+ INCLUDES "The Dead"
+ Irish Stew
+ Great Vignettes Of Dublin Life and A Great way to introduce yourself to James Joyce
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The Time of Our Time (Modern Library Paperbacks)4 reviews
Norman Mailer
Modern Library, 1999
Imperfect Genius
+ writer at work
+ Wicked and Bristling with Dots:
+ Imperfect Brilliance
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The Trial40 reviews
Franz Kafka
Schocken, 1999
Was it really an unfinished business????
+ One of the most important writers of the 20th century
+ What a wonderful nightmare!
+ great thinker, creative writer
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything 796 reviews
Christopher Hitchens
Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group, 2007
God is not Great
Hitchen's book God is not Great is a thought provoking book that shows much of the violence that has been caused by people of faith. Hitchen's give historical, as well as personal examples of how religion has caused chaos, and even great ignorance around the world. personally, I am a believer in ...
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Humanity1 review
Stuart Walton
Atlantic Books, 2005
Emotionally Satisfactory
HumanityThis book deals with the human emotions and states why they were paramount to our evolvement. It dedicates a chapter to each of ten categories; fear, anger, disgust, sadness, jealousy, contempt, shame, embarrassment, surprise and happiness. It's easy reading and a great place to start if ...
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Travels in the Scriptorium: A Novel
Paul Auster
Henry Holt and Co., 2007
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A Species in Denial16 reviews
Jeremy Griffith
FHA Publishing & Communications, 2004
A Most Important Contribution to Human Understanding
+ Like a mirror
+ 'Much appreciated book, and most remarkable of discoveries'
+ Simply the Best
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Her Lover (Belle Du Seigneur) 2 reviews
Albert Cohen
Penguin, 2005
A True Classic
+ Ultimate Romance
Albert Cohen was born in 1895 on the island of Corfu which belonged to Greece at the time. His parents took him to France when he was five. He was French, not by birth but by adoption and conviction. He became a Swiss citizen, spent time in Egypt and generally speaking was one of those people that ...
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The Tin Drum90 reviews
Gunter Grass
Vintage, 1990
brilliant
+ A fantastic read, but what does it all mean?
+ an imaginative and innovative novel
+ Challenging But Worth It
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The Age of Reason: A Novel24 reviews
Jean-Paul Sartre
Vintage, 1992
Concentration only on Reason/Abstraction leads us into Anxiety
+ not sure what is meant by "age of reason"
+ One of Sartre's best
This work discerns Sartre in his element. Reason characterizes the modern age: through reason, we abstract our realities, turn away from experience and into the "cognitive", "mental" field, and consequently loose our grounding.
This novel is a phenomenological journey into the absurdities of ...
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Life: A User's Manual33 reviews
Georges Perec
David R Godine, 1978
BEST and WORST book ever read!
+ A masterpiece of structural fiction
+ Unquestionably one of the greatest novels of the 20th century
+ la vie mode d'emploi
+ Written by a rich imagination
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Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)463 reviews
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Pocket, 2004
A masterpiece from cover to cover
+ Crime and Punishment
+ Crime and Punishment ~ Kindle eBook
+ Dostoyevski at his best unfortunately this translation did him no favors.
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The Naked and the Dead (Flamingo Modern Classics)73 reviews
Norman Mailer
Flamingo, 1999
Helprin meets Hemingway, But Better [51][80]
+ War for real
+ Awesome
+ Worth every penny
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The Stranger Beside Me (Revised and Updated): 20th Anniversary179 reviews
Ann Rule
Signet, 2001
Ann Rule Is A Victim Too
+ Very gripping
+ Some comments....
+ Great, fascinating book
+ Very Creepy
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Mr. Nice: An Autobiography15 reviews
Howard Marks
Canongate Books, 2002
Amazing!
+ SECOND TIME AROUND
+ great book
+ Oxford-educated drug smuggler
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel164 reviews
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
Heartbreaking
+ Frightening Insight Into the Dark Side of Mankind
+ Welcome to Gulag
+ A Horrifying Portrayal of Soviet Communist Oppression.
+ Required reading for any study of the Soviet Union
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In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)16 reviews
Marcel Proust
Modern Library, 2003
Marcel Proust & my book "Archetypes for Writers"
+ The Brief Mystery of Time
+ Review Proust? You are kidding right?
+ The most important literary work of the 20th century
+ Moments of the radiance of the eternal caught on paper.
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