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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
only one day in the gulag
+ Five Star Book of Five Star Books
+ Icy, Enduring, Classic ...
+ An important book
+ Frightening Insight Into the Dark Side of Mankind
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Humanity
Stuart Walton
Atlantic Books, 2005
Emotionally Satisfactory
HumanityThis book deals with the human emotions and states why they were paramount to our evolvement. It dedicates a chapter to each of ten categories; fear, anger, disgust, sadness, jealousy, contempt, shame, embarrassment, surprise and happiness. It's easy reading and a great place to start if ...
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Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics)
Stefan Zweig
NYRB Classics, 2005
Salvation and Curse
+ No escape from pain
+ das beste Buch auf der Welt
+ One of the best and most imprtant short stories of the WWII era
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Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
James Joyce
Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
Great Vignettes Of Dublin Life and A Great way to introduce yourself to James Joyce
+ INCLUDES "The Dead"
+ Irish Stew
Admittedly Joyce's better known works can seem quite daunting to the uninitiated but here in these short character sketches a reader can begin to understand what all fuss is about and enjoy some wonderfully written short stories in the bargain.
The stories are consistently good and from the very ...
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Her Lover (Belle Du Seigneur)
Albert Cohen
Penguin, 2005
A True Classic
+ Ultimate Romance
Albert Cohen was born in 1895 on the island of Corfu which belonged to Greece at the time. His parents took him to France when he was five. He was French, not by birth but by adoption and conviction. He became a Swiss citizen, spent time in Egypt and generally speaking was one of those people that ...
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The Tin Drum
Gunter Grass
Vintage, 1990
brilliant
+ A fantastic read, but what does it all mean?
+ an imaginative and innovative novel
+ Challenging But Worth It
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Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Pocket, 2004
A towering work of criminal psychology
+ Good, but overrated
+ A masterpiece from cover to cover
+ Crime and Punishment
+ Crime and Punishment ~ Kindle eBook
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The Stranger Beside Me (Revised and Updated): 20th Anniversary
Ann Rule
Signet, 2001
Great, fascinating book
+ Ann Rule Is A Victim Too
+ Very gripping
+ Some comments....
+ Very Creepy
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The Age of Reason: A Novel
Jean-Paul Sartre
Vintage, 1992
Concentration only on Reason/Abstraction leads us into Anxiety
+ An Uneducated Opinion
+ not sure what is meant by "age of reason"
This work discerns Sartre in his element. Reason characterizes the modern age: through reason, we abstract our realities, turn away from experience and into the "cognitive", "mental" field, and consequently loose our grounding.
This novel is a phenomenological journey into the absurdities of ...
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The Naked and the Dead (Flamingo Modern Classics)
Norman Mailer
Flamingo, 1999
Helprin meets Hemingway, But Better [51][80]
+ War for real
+ Awesome
+ Worth every penny
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens
Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group, 2007
God is not Great
Hitchen's book God is not Great is a thought provoking book that shows much of the violence that has been caused by people of faith. Hitchen's give historical, as well as personal examples of how religion has caused chaos, and even great ignorance around the world. personally, I am a believer in ...
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Travels in the Scriptorium: A Novel
Paul Auster
Henry Holt and Co., 2007
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Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Plume, 1999
Cautionary Tale and Eeriely Accurate Prognostication of Economy Collapse
+ good book
+ She (author) nailed it! Written for Today!
+ Misunderstood
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Shantaram
Scribe, 2004
A brilliant bombay book
+ Only book I know which justifies the description "rollercoaster of a novel"
+ I'm sort of stunned at the negative reviews
I came across "Shantaram" on display in Waterstones, and the only reason I bought it was because it mentioned Bombay on the back cover.
I have just finished reading it, and would recommend it thoroughly. The author is Gregory David Roberts. He was a drug addict, and a criminal who escaped from ...
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Life: A User's Manual
Georges Perec
David R Godine, 1978
BEST and WORST book ever read!
+ A masterpiece of structural fiction
+ Unquestionably one of the greatest novels of the 20th century
+ la vie mode d'emploi
+ Written by a rich imagination
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