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Concordia Self-Study Bible: Niv
Concordia Publishing House, 1986
Concordia Self Study Bible Review
+ Concordia Self Help Study Bible
+ New Edition Coming!
+ Nice book
+ A great guide to spirtual healing!
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Gilgamesh: A New English Version
Stephen Mitchell
Free Press, 2006
epic wonder
+ Gilgamesh: A New English Version
+ Outstanding, readable and entertaining translation
+ And the Audio version is great, too.
+ Gilgamesh: A New English Translation
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Annotated Ancient Mariner: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Prometheus Books, 2003
A Beautiful Book!
+ Lift your game
+ An excellent book!
+ Exhaustive "Rime"
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Entire Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: Photographic & Annotated Edition
Edgar, Allan Poe
BottleTreeBooks LLC, 2006
entire tales and poems of edgar allen poe
+ Entire Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan
+ A few minor flaws, but overall a great collection
+ A wonderfully edited book containing the entire work of an overrated long gone author
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Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions)
W. W. Norton, 2002
Much more than an old parchment...
+ Sometimes it's good to be critical
+ Excellent edition
+ Excellent, but stay with Donaldson
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The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
Houghton Mifflin, 2004
Must read
+ Tough read but well worth it
+ Gorgeous Production!!
+ Middle Earth Bible
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Goethe's Faust
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Anchor, 1962
A very readable Faust, including the German!
+ Great Translation
+ for the devilishly obsessed perhaps
+ Goethe's Faust
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Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition
Herman Melville
Longman Publishing Group, 2007
Excellent
+ Excellent rendition
+ Ishmael, the Scientist
+ Nicely done critical edition
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The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
Herodotus
Pantheon, 2007
A fantastic work
+ It no longer all Greek to me
+ dream come true
+ The real story of The 300
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Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions -- A Reader's Edition of the Book of Concord
Concordia Publishing House, 2007
Lay People Can Learn Lutheran Theology and History!
+ What it means to be Lutheran
+ Short review
+ Great Theology Book!
+ A must read!
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The Riverside Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry Benson, ...
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986
sitting on the dock of a bay...
+ Be Prepared to Learn Middle English
+ Let this book become part of your library, and sell all your other editions of Chaucer
+ The Granddaddy of all Daddies of English Literature
+ Superb!
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The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd Edition
William Shakespeare
Heinle, 1996
great as a textbook, wonderful for personal use
+ Complete collection
+ The Riverside Shakespeare
+ Pleasantly Pleased
+ Great purchase!
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The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Free Press, 1998
Wow, amazing history!
+ Thucydides
+ Landmark Indeed
Don't let the fact this book was written over 2,000 years ago sway you from reading it! I'll admit I was hesitant about reading Thucydides because I'm not a big fan of non-fiction or a serious military history buff, and more specifically, was never that interested in ancient Greek history.
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The Annotated Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
Houghton Mifflin, 2002
One of the best books about Tolkien ever
+ Good, but I'd rather just have the story
+ Very good supplement to a landmark book.
I've read many Books about J.R.R Tolkien and his creation, as well as the entire 12 books of the History of Middle Earth. The Annotated Hobbit is the best of them all. It is sheer example of a book that tells you a lot but don't confuse you with too much data.
Every person that read the Annotated ...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition
Douglas Adams
Harmony, 2004
Douglas is Douglas...you couldn't ask for more
+ Absurd. Clever. Satirical. Quirky. And, sadly, just not as funny 17 years later.
The man was a genius along the lines of Terry Pratchett. Must be something about the water over there...
If you're a fan of Douglas, it's a must read. Period. All his stuff is a must read in my opinion...if you like humor and can handle British humour.
Great photos, write-ups, tid-bits, ...
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