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The Delicate Prey 4 reviews
Paul Bowles
Harper Perennial, 1990
A Stunning Collection!
+ Post Colonial Blues
+ Outside Civilizations Walls
+ Strange, morbid and fascinating
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The Pillars of the Earth 1300 reviews
Ken Follett
Signet, 1990
Great choice by Oprah
+ A must read
+ Simply Brilliant
+ A page-turner about cathedral construction? YES!
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The God of Small Things 871 reviews
Arundhati Roy
Harper Perennial, 1998
The Glimmer of An Immense Sea
+ Star-Crossed Lovers
+ Great used book
+ Breathtaking First Novel
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Brideshead Revisited111 reviews
Evelyn Waugh
Back Bay Books, 1999
Passion Thwarted
+ The original version
+ Irresistable Tides of Change....
+ Brideshead Revisited
+ Breath of Fresh Air
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Five Boys: A Novel5 reviews
Mick Jackson
Harper Perennial, 2003
Quirky but endearing
+ Five Boys
+ The End of Innocence
+ Not A Novel And Not Short Stories
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Oxford World's Classics)388 reviews
Alexandre Dumas père
Oxford University Press, USA, 1998
Great copy of unabridged Count of Monte Cristo
+ The Count of Monte Cristo
+ It's All Good
+ Now I know why it's a classic
+ Difficult to read but well worth it.
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The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel84 reviews
Hermann Hesse
Picador, 2002
The best Hesse's book
+ Most important fiction of the XXth Century?
+ His best work
First time I read it when I was 15, and I thought it was one of the best books I've ever read. One has to be prepared to read this book and to be able to accept all: strange combination of math, music, language, different ideas, search for harmony. I reread this book every 2-3 years.
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His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass1079 reviews
Philip Pullman
Yearling, 2003
Brilliant!
+ Mesmerizing!
+ Great series
+ Imaginative fantasy
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The Sound and the Fury196 reviews
William Faulkner
Vintage, 1991
If only we all could be blessed with such failure.
+ A Great American Classic that Deserves to Be
+ I HATED this book until I realized it was a masterpiece...
+ A Difficult Classic
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The Known World: A Novel295 reviews
Edward P. Jones
Amistad, 2004
Gorgeous
+ Riveting! You'll never forget it.
+ Gripping
+ Difficult to read but well worth it
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Beach Music286 reviews
Pat Conroy
Bantam, 1996
Beach Music
+ beach music
+ A Book To Always Remember
+ Beach Music
+ Beach Music is an ALL TIME BEST
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Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)903 reviews
Jane Austen
Bantam Classics, 1983
Boy oh boy was I ever wrong about Lady Jane!!!
+ Worth paying for on the Kindle
+ What a Year for the Bennets
+ as always, better than the movie
+ Pride and Prejudice
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Last Days of Summer146 reviews
Steve Kluger
Harper Paperbacks, 1999
I'm heartbroken
+ Good, breezy read
+ Tossed the Bookmark
+ Great book!
+ Most Enjoyable
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Abel Sanchez and Other Short Stories8 reviews
Miguel de Unamuno
Gateway Editions, 1996
moving reflections on art and faith
+ Reflective and unsettling
+ In the land of the blind, the 1-eyed man is....compassionate
+ Christian existentialism
+ Masterpiece of Latin American Literature
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Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions)262 reviews
Ray Bradbury
Spectra, 1985
Oh, to be a 12 year old boy!
+ A classic of American literature
+ A nostalgic look at the summer of 1928
+ Summer School Book Talk
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A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)496 reviews
Ernest J. Gaines
Vintage, 1997
A Lesson Before Dying is a lesson for us all.
+ Mockingbird II
This story is set in 1940s Louisiana. A young black man is with friends who plan and execute a robbery--which goes bad quickly. The young man, Jefferson, is quickly arrested and tried for murder--even though he had no weapon and was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Enter Grant Wiggins, a young ...
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When Christ and His Saints Slept: A Novel83 reviews
Sharon Kay Penman
Ballantine Books, 1996
Stephen v. Maude
+ Simply delightful!
+ An engaging and vivid account of the struggle between King Stephen and the Empress Maude.
+ A step into English history
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The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo117 reviews
Irving Stone
NAL Trade, 2004
Feels Like Being Right There
+ A Great Classic
+ Piece of Art!
+ Not bad, but not great.
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Spring Snow43 reviews
Yukio Mishima
Vintage, 1990
the beauty and destructive power of all-consuming love
+ Romeo and Juliet, Japanese version
+ Mishima's Masterpiece: Forbidden Love and the Reincarnation of Kiyoaki Matsugae.
+ Spring Snow
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All the Names56 reviews
Jose Saramago
Harvest Books, 2001
Minor problem with translation
+ Good, but I'm a bit confused.
+ kafka lite
Saragamo does not use quotation marks. In the dialogues between two persons, he indicates a switch between speakers by a comma, followed by a word that begins with a capital letter. This is a problem in English when the word is "I", because "I" is always capitalized. As a result, it is ...
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