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The Bell Jar : A Novel (Perennial Classics)
Sylvia Plath
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000
Why, oh, why was I reading Holden Caulfield when I should have been reading Esther Greenwood?
+ I was moved
One might think that a novel about a young college woman's experience with madness in the mid-20th century would come across as dated or even quaint. On the contrary, as I read I found myself nodding emphatically, and even calling up friends to tell them about passages I'd read that were ...
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The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture
Marjane Satrapi
Pantheon, 2007
A masterpiece
+ Great Book
+ Persepolis
+ AMAZING, UNIQUE BOOK
+ Amazing, couldn't put it down!!!!
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I Know This Much Is True: A Novel (P.S.)
Wally Lamb
Harper Perennial, 2008
Great Book
+ All Time Favorite
+ I miss reading this book :(
Great book, I loved it start to finish. I am a nurse and thing this book really gives a great view into psych problems for those not exposed to it, and a view of what people with different disabilities have to deal with.
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer
Anchor, 2004
A
+ Parsing Mormon/American faith
+ Saints March on in America
+ At times it needs a little more focus
+ Spot on, Krakauer.
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Riverhead Trade, 1997
A brutal, horrifying masterpiece
+ An Old Book Revisited
I had to read this book while I was in high school and thought it was just OK. I just reread it on my own and now that I'm an adult, it touched me more deeply. The bullying and cruelty these boys exhibit, the casual schadenfreude that escalates into violence, had a greater impact on me this time ...
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The Symposium (Penguin Classics)
Plato
Penguin Classics, 2003
The Conversation
+ Fascinating ancient treatise on the nature of Love
+ It's all in love
+ Ups and downs
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Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
Koren Zailckas
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
We've all been there...I hope.
+ shockingly hit home
I definitely had my party years and some of Koren's life experiences seem to match my own. She doesn't hold back anything and her honesty about the Greek system is accurate. I feel a little less guilty now that I know someone else had the same thoughts running through their head that I did during ...
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The Stranger (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Albert Camus
Everyman's Library, 1993
American translation brings out stylistic subtleties
+ One of the best books ever written.
+ Oh, the absurdity!
+ Perfect
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Beacon Press, 2006
A Phenomenal Book
+ A man that has contributed greatly to my knowledge of the world.
+ This is the one.
+ A must read classic
+ A masterpiece of great dignity
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Middlesex: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides
Picador, 2002
FANTASTIC!!
+ Must Read
After hearing the mention of this book on Oprah's show, I decided to purchase it. I'm not a big book reader, but I couldn't put it down. I took it everywhere with me for two weeks. I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end. Now, I'm trying to decide who I will pass it along too.
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Divisadero (Vintage International)
Michael Ondaatje
Vintage, 2008
Superb poetic storytelling
+ Enraptured by Ondaatje's style
+ Beautifully written, but...
This book represents some of the most sophisticated poetic storytelling around. As is often the case with Ondaatje, his images, language and development of relationships - particularly between Lucien Segura and Marie-Niege - are more interesting than the plot itself, although there is an elegant ...
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Fear and Trembling
Soren Kierkegaard
Wilder Publications, 2008
Fear and Trembling
+ I'll try to simplify, with Kierkegaard, it might be possible.
+ FAITH IS A MEME
+ Fear and Trembling
+ Provocative but flawed
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
Emily Brontė, Pauline Nestor
Penguin Classics, 2002
This Heathcliff Is No Pussy!
+ Interesting Relationships
+ A great read.
(Like the curmudgeonly CAT in the COMIC...get it?)
Great old-style classic novel. One of Henry Miller's favorites; that's what attracted me to it.
I liked the style of the narrative, largely told through the reminiscences of the housekeeper Nelly. This is one dysfunctional family!
Like ...
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman
Pantheon, 1996
Yes.
+ Graphic literature at its best
+ For any who doubt what graphic fiction can do, this is the revelation.
+ Brilliant
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The Plague
Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert
Vintage, 1991
Find meaning in a meaningless existence / Camus is one cool cat
+ Few novels are worthy of comparison
+ Tragically relevant
+ Camus ...interesting as always...
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