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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Jose Saramago
Mariner Books, 1994
Lacking Faith in His Own Doubt ...
+ You can't cheat a Cheater
+ Thought provoking creatively written
+ Interesting read
+ One of the greatest stories ever told...
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Vintage, 1995
A Brilliant, Dark, Complex, and Ambiguous Masterpiece
+ Extremely Powerful
+ Invisible Man
+ This book should be on Kindle
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Prestwick House Inc., 2004
Dark Masterpiece
+ Lurking Beneath the Soul's Surface
"Heart of Darkness" is Joseph Conrad's most famous and arguably best work - not only one of the greatest short works ever but simply one of the greatest period. At once vividly realistic and profoundly symbolic, it on the one hand did much to expose the Belgian Congo's atrocities and on the other ...
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All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
Mariner Books, 2002
Our universal confrontation with the impossibility of integrity.
+ TWO masterpieces!!
+ A Beautiful Book that will stay with me Forever
+ A Great American Novel
+ Metaphysical or Political?
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A House for Mr. Biswas
V.S. Naipaul
Vintage, 2001
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
+ responsive
+ A house is not a home
+ Read a dozen times over 20 years
+ Brilliant!
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Voss
Patrick White
Vintage, 1994
... but I can't really recommend it ...
+ A bit more insight
+ A little disappointed
+ Messianic failure
+ A philosophical journey into a man's meaning and doing.
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage, 1992
The Fragility of Conscience in a Psychopathic World
+ Chilling, elaborate and masterful.
+ Why is this a novel and what's the author trying to say?
+ Emptiness Redeemed by Exceptional Execution
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Sophie's Choice
William Styron
Vintage, 1992
A Modern Masterpiece
+ Shortest summary
+ A Wonderfully Ambitious and Moving Novel about Everything
+ sharp sprawling leviathan of a book
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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty (Introduction)
Mariner Books, 1989
One of these days you must go to the Lighthouse
+ Haunting
+ Illumination
+ Virginia Woolf Writes Like Magic
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Vintage, 1989
You love it while hating it. Such a work of art.
+ Peeling the Onion of Humanity
+ A must read... If at least once.
I found myself guiltily reading this book. It was given to me and it sat on my shelf for years. Then I curiously picked it up to read a few pages. . .I was hooked. The lush sensuality of the language pulled me in. I wanted to live in a world with language like this. While enjoying the author's ...
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Blindness (Harvest Book)
Jose Saramago
Harvest Books, 1999
One of the Best Books I've Ever Read
+ Engaging and harrowing
+ Convincing, kept my attention
This is powerful, shocking, disturbing, and engrossing. And clever. Don't read it if you don't like to read about violence and suffering.
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Demian (Perennial Classics)
Hermann Hesse
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
Hermann Hesse is without a doubt one of the most intriguing writers I have ever read.
+ Brand New
+ Brilliant work of eternal messages clothed in the drama of time and place
+ Excellent
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The Stranger
Albert Camus
Vintage, 1989
29-year-old Albert Camus's seminal contribution to modern literature
+ The Stranger book review by high school student
+ The Stranger
The edition of THE STRANGER I own is an old Vintage paperback, with a "V-2" Vintage designation in the lower-left corner and a $1.25 price tag in the lower-right corner. The translator is Gilbert Stuart, not Matthew Ward.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
Scribner, 1995
Great Novel Read Forty Years Apart [30][68]
+ Two Thumbs Up
+ The most epic novel of all time
+ A historical fiction masterpiece. And a look at the Individuals behind the war.
+ the best american novel about the spanish civil war
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The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage Books, 2007
stark and stunning
+ an amazing book
+ Bleak story of hope
+ In my top 5
+ Wonderful
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