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Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)
Arthur Miller
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998
Rat Race Lost, State of Denial
+ Superb look at the Human Condition
+ Great Play!
+ A Modern Tragedy
+ Take a Second Look
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Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis
HarperOne, 2001
An invitation to be transformed ...
+ Recommend the writer to everyone
+ Beautiful and Mentally Satisfying
+ Wow. What a life changer
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Basic Books, 1999
Computer Science
+ An Incredible Intellectual Romp
+ Literate, Facinating, Readable
+ My favourite book - ever!
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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics)
Howard Zinn
Harper Perennial, 2003
This should be required reading in our schools
Our country will never be able to live up to the lofty ideals of our founding documents unless we come to grips with the truth of how we got where we are. This book tells the truth about how the people on top have butchered and suppressed others in order to STAY on top. The first 10 pages are ...
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Battlefield Earth
L. Ron Hubbard
Galaxy Press, 2001
Could not put it down
+ Seriously a great book, definitely a bad movie
+ Excelent Book
+ Battlefield Earth
+ A good read
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)
Listening Library, 1999
Well Written Fiction to Expose the Truth
+ Brilliantly written
+ An Amazingly Crafted Fantasy for Children and Adults Alike
Philip Pullman has done an excellent job of using a compelling and exciting story to expose the dark truth about an organization that continues murdering and torturing people to this day. Anyone who thinks the hidious actions of the Catholic Church happened only in the middle ages needs to look a ...
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Digital Fortress: A Thriller
Dan Brown
St. Martin's Griffin, 2000
Another great book by Dan Brown
+ Well-researched novel
+ Good airplane book
I'll make this review short. I loved it. Couldn't put it down. Another excellent book by Dan Brown! I liked the fast action between chapters.
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The Scarlet Letter (Bantam Classics)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bantam Classics, 1981
A wonderful piece of literature, however
+ One of the best novels ever
+ Sin, Redemption
+ Hawthorne's Masterpiece
+ Useful for AP Lit
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
Wow!
+ Funny, gross, interesting, riveting!
+ All the answers to questions you wanted to ask, but didn't want to say outloud...
+ 4.5 stars-Things to do when you're dead
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Eric Schlosser
Harper Perennial, 2002
The true world of Fast Food opens before your eyes!
+ By the Author of Outstanding You
+ highest approval
+ One Fast Food National Under God ! ?
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive ScrabblePlayers
Stefan Fatsis
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
Cool book on the scrabble sub-culture
+ A surprising read
+ Another world
A friend recommended this one to me. Not a topic that I ever even knew existed - professional scrabble! But this is a fascinating subculture populated by lovable misfits -- the introverted nebbish Joel from New York, the hip Marlon, who comes from one of the poorest black neighborhoods in America, ...
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Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem
Vintage, 2000
A gift from a friend on Court Street in Brooklyn
+ So Much Fun to Read!
+ Wonderful and original
+ The star of small time
+ Memorable, Also Wearying
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On Writing
Stephen King
Pocket, 2002
56 Commandments on Writing by Stephen King ...
+ On Writing - by Stephen King
+ Inspirational book for writers and readers alike!
+ Excellent
+ The Best
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1984 (Signet Classics)
George Orwell
New American Library, 1961
Still Relevant
+ Timeless classic on the dangers of communism/big government
+ 1984 review
+ 1984
+ The Greatest Love Story of Our Time.
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Infinite Jest: A Novel
David Foster Wallace
Back Bay Books, 1997
Great even if you don't get everything
+ One of the best...
+ why infinite?
I didn't, like one reviewer here suggested, look up every word I didn't know in the dictionary (and there were a lot. Antinomy?) I didn't even read all the footnotes, because after a while this was, even though it was a great book, one of those books where you start staring at the width of the ...
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