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The Plague 153 reviews
Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert
Vintage, 1991
"A town thrown back upon itself"
+ Few novels are worthy of comparison
+ Find meaning in a meaningless existence
+ Tragically relevant
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Lord of the Flies 1275 reviews
William Golding
Riverhead Trade, 1997
Lord of the Flies Book Review By Conlan Mueller
+ Lost Innocence
+ A brutal, horrifying masterpiece
+ An Old Book Revisited
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Waiting For Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts163 reviews
Samuel Beckett
Grove Press, 1954
Waiting and Waiting and Waiting and ...
+ Waiting and Waiting and Waiting and ...
Waiting and Waiting and Waiting and ...
Review of Play: Waiting for Godot - A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Written in: 1949
Premiere in: 1953
By: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)
Originally written in French and translated to English by the author himself.
This play takes place on a ...
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The Stranger (Everyman's Library (Cloth))529 reviews
Albert Camus
Everyman's Library, 1993
American translation brings out stylistic subtleties
+ interesting
+ Shocking in its Simplicity
+ One of the best books ever written.
+ Oh, the absurdity!
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Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (Bloom's Guides)705 reviews
Chelsea House Publications, 2004
"Some dumb thing happens a long time ago and you can't ever forget it..."
+ O'Brien Cuts To the Core Of Our Fragile Lives
+ Perfection
+ Great read - Not what I expected
+ The ThingsThey Carried
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The Complete Persepolis 31 reviews
Marjane Satrapi
Pantheon, 2007
A masterpiece
+ insider's look
+ Great Book
+ Persepolis
+ AMAZING, UNIQUE BOOK
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Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood 198 reviews
Koren Zailckas
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
We've all been there...I hope.
+ Love this book!
+ shockingly hit home
I definitely had my party years and some of Koren's life experiences seem to match my own. She doesn't hold back anything and her honesty about the Greek system is accurate. I feel a little less guilty now that I know someone else had the same thoughts running through their head that I did during ...
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Into the Wild1219 reviews
Jon Krakauer
Anchor, 2007
I went to the woods ..
+ Poorly Equipped Dreamer
+ Beauty, goodness and hope. . .
That the force that is nature will ultimately change those of us who are enthralled by it. Its not surprising tht the protagnist in "Into the Wild" gives up so much to live primtively in the northern climes of Alaska .. its Thoreau revisited. The author never fails to please those who understand ...
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Middlesex: A Novel854 reviews
Jeffrey Eugenides
Picador, 2002
You Are Such a Flirt
+ One of my favorites!
+ A Wonderfuf Read
+ From a pediatric Urology Nurse's view point, well done
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Vintage International) (Vintage International)156 reviews
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Vintage, 2007
A True Inspiration For Us All
+ Bauby's story will remain with you
+ Interesting book, although not what I expected
+ THE book, i read it in a coffee guzzling epiphany filled evening
+ What I learned from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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The Symposium (Penguin Classics)5 reviews
Plato
Penguin Classics, 2003
The Conversation
+ Fascinating ancient treatise on the nature of Love
+ It's all in love
+ Ups and downs
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I Know This Much Is True: A Novel (P.S.)1448 reviews
Wally Lamb
Harper Perennial, 2008
It's hard to get into..
+ Wally Lamb is simply amazing!
+ One of my favorites!!
+ Great Book
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)51 reviews
Emily Brontė, Pauline Nestor
Penguin Classics, 2002
This Heathcliff Is No Pussy!
+ Interesting Relationships
+ A great read.
(Like the curmudgeonly CAT in the COMIC...get it?)
Great old-style classic novel. One of Henry Miller's favorites; that's what attracted me to it.
I liked the style of the narrative, largely told through the reminiscences of the housekeeper Nelly. This is one dysfunctional family!
Like ...
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East of Eden218 reviews
John Steinbeck
Penguin Books, 2002
East of Eden - A beautifully written classic
+ This IS the Great American Novel
+ Possibly the Best Fictional Book I've Ever Read...
+ Good job!
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Man's Search for Meaning78 reviews
Viktor E. Frankl
Beacon Press, 2006
Astounding
+ A Classic For Your Personal Growth Library!
+ A Phenomenal Book
+ A man that has contributed greatly to my knowledge of the world.
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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics)11 reviews
Leo Tolstoy
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004
Best single volume of the short fiction
+ Simply Put: An Outstanding Collection
+ Death of Ivan Ilych is probably the best thing Tolstoy ever wrote
+ worth reading
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The Bell Jar : A Novel (Perennial Classics)486 reviews
Sylvia Plath
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000
The most famous book you've never read
+ how did I miss this one??
+ Believe the Hype
+ "To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream."
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale192 reviews
Art Spiegelman
Pantheon, 1996
Yes.
+ MAUS is no mouse
+ Graphic literature at its best
+ For any who doubt what graphic fiction can do, this is the revelation.
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Fear and Trembling30 reviews
Soren Kierkegaard
Wilder Publications, 2008
Fear and Trembling
+ I'll try to simplify, with Kierkegaard, it might be possible.
+ FAITH IS A MEME
+ Fear and Trembling
+ Provocative but flawed
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Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)1104 reviews
John Steinbeck
Penguin, 2002
One of the classics of literature
+ Capturing
+ One of the most popular books in American Literature-and for good reason!
This is the first book by Steinbeck that I ever read and like many other people, it was required reading in my language arts class. It was so moving that some of the girls in the class were crying at the end.
George and Lennie are two workers that move from job to job. George is small and ...
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