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Time's Arrow
Martin Amis
Harmony, 1991
A Remarkable Achievement
+ ''He is traveling towards his secret"
+ Surprising Change in Narrative Pattern
+ Directions
+ Tod is really Odilo Unverdorben
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Modern Library, 2002
Wow, Great Read!
+ A True-Crime Thriller
+ Capote brings the 60s alive
+ Crime, punishment, and more
+ The reputation is well-deserved...
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Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
William Golding
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
Children without Adults
+ Grrrr-8 Book!
+ I have the conch...let me speak!
+ Do Humans Make Civilization, or vice versa?
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Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
Harvest Books, 2007
A fascinating, deep reflection on the nature of knowledge and mystery
+ The Pendulum Keeps Swinging
+ A note
Most of the negative reviews here focus on one of two things: either 'Foucault's Pendulum is too hard!' (for which I can only recommend working your way up from simpler literary works, like 'See Jane Run', before tackling something like 'Foucault's Pendulum'), or 'all the confused nonsense about ...
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
Houghton Mifflin, 2005
Love This Book
+ I cried.
+ Buy 10 Copies
+ Great title + great cover = AMAZING book
+ LOVED this book
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Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000
Why J.M. Coetzee emigrated from South Africa
+ Challenges the reader
+ All it's cracked up to be
+ Interesting Character Drives Book
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Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre
Harvest Books, 2004
An animated novel that offers base insights to sleazy human actions.
+ Vernon Little is a teenage version of Hunter S. Thompson
+ Interesting, but not great
Vernon God Little is a dissecting and vitriolic literary overview of the modern American culture and its media obsessed thirst for celebrity, looks, and fame (both good and bad). Though, to some extent the novel is minutely inflated, DBC Pierre, the pseudonym for Peter Finlay, it does indeed touch ...
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Six Fang Marks & a Tetanus Shot
Richard de Nooy
Jacana Media, 2008
Joyce on Hemp
+ Fantastically enticing debut novel
+ A good read, crisp and twisted
Reads like a minimalist stony Joyce...this series of perspectives and media tells a story loosely in a narrative form that is highly innovative yet respectful of everyone from Dos Passos to the more experimental works of the beats.
The interaction between the settings of Holland and South ...
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Vintage, 1989
A road movie of the mind
+ Upends your preconceptions and prejudices
+ Which book did you read?
+ The Most Beautiful Novel Ever Written
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Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
William Golding
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
Children without Adults
+ Grrrr-8 Book!
+ I have the conch...let me speak!
+ Do Humans Make Civilization, or vice versa?
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Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000
Why J.M. Coetzee emigrated from South Africa
+ Challenges the reader
+ All it's cracked up to be
+ Interesting Character Drives Book
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Vintage, 1989
A road movie of the mind
+ Upends your preconceptions and prejudices
+ Which book did you read?
+ The Most Beautiful Novel Ever Written
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
Houghton Mifflin, 2005
Love This Book
+ I cried.
+ Buy 10 Copies
+ Great title + great cover = AMAZING book
+ LOVED this book
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Time's Arrow
Martin Amis
Harmony, 1991
A Remarkable Achievement
+ ''He is traveling towards his secret"
+ Surprising Change in Narrative Pattern
+ Directions
+ Tod is really Odilo Unverdorben
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Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre
Harvest Books, 2004
An animated novel that offers base insights to sleazy human actions.
+ Vernon Little is a teenage version of Hunter S. Thompson
+ Interesting, but not great
Vernon God Little is a dissecting and vitriolic literary overview of the modern American culture and its media obsessed thirst for celebrity, looks, and fame (both good and bad). Though, to some extent the novel is minutely inflated, DBC Pierre, the pseudonym for Peter Finlay, it does indeed touch ...
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