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Dreamtigers (Texas Pan American Series)
Jorge Luis Borges
University of Texas Press, 1985
Genius in Fragments and Sketches
+ Borges as Borges the 'maker'
+ GREAT INTRODUCTION TO BORGES'S SHORTER WORKS
+ excellent if you're in the proper frame of mind
+ One of my favorite books of all time.
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002
Perhaps the best novel ever written in the history of mankind
+ Bothers Karamazov
+ Dark and Beautiful
+ What a messed up family!
+ Understanding the Russian
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics)
Lewis Carroll
Signet Classics, 2000
Excellent Book
+ It's Amazing
+ Great transaction
+ Two imaginative worlds
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Prometheus Bound (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Aeschylus
Oxford University Press, USA, 1990
Stunningly Modern Translation
+ A surprisingly easy to grasp translation...
+ Great read
+ a must read
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Harvest Books, 1990
Perfect in every way
+ Clarissa's Day
+ Woolf' Best
+ Better the second time around
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American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
Vintage, 1991
This Is NOT An Exit
+ Not for the queasy readers
'American Psycho' is a satire of the 1980's (among other subjects) centered around narrator Patrick Bateman who is the yuppie-to-end-all-yuppies. Though the humor is as dark as possible, it's true to Ellis and true to the story. I cannot find any failure whatsoever with this book. For readers who ...
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The Good Woman of Setzuan
Bertolt Brecht
University of Minnesota Press, 1999
Very Recommendable!
+ Good book
"The Good Woman of Sezuan" is my favourite play of Brecht's and I really recommend it to anyone who is interested in german literature and plays. It's also a good one to start if this is your first contact with Bertolt Brecht!
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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Vintage, 1990
A charming, multi-layered classic
+ Bantering and Dignity
+ A reminder of the dangers of rationalizing away one's feelings
I'd heard of the movie but only decided to read the book after reading a blurb about it in a magazine recently. The start of the book is rather slow, meaning there's not a lot of action drawing you into the story, but once you reach the middle and end of the book there is a wonderfully subtle ...
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Back Bay Books, 2001
Will stick with you
+ Best Banned Books Required Reading List
This is the kind of book that people of all ages remember their whole lives. It's indescribable how the story can sweep you off into Holden's life, the angst he feels, and the time in which he lived. Truly a great work that is worth reading if you have not and worth reading again if you have.
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The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Vintage, 1996
A extraordinary novel
+ The Devil Went Down to Moscow
+ READ THIS!
+ A GIFT FROM THE GRAVE
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The Lord of the Rings
J. R. R. Tolkien, Alan Lee
Houghton Mifflin, 1988
My review
+ the lord of the ring 3 book box set
+ A Great Edition of the Greatest Work of Fiction Ever Written
+ This edition not so bad
+ LOVELY
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Faust (Bantam Classics)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Bantam Classics, 1988
Mephistopheles, master of the one-liner
+ A classic classic
+ Great edition of a great play
+ CLASSIC
+ Either 3 or 5 stars depending on who you are
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The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
Vintage, 1993
Hauntingly Beautiful
+ Gorgeous prose weaves these lives together
+ Poetically beautiful
+ Some desert concepts related in this novel are not too far from home
+ Fragments, shards, and drifts of sand
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Rhinoceros and Other Plays
Eugene Ionesco
Grove Press, 1994
Surprisingly relevant for our times
+ Audacious Absurdity
+ A classic reconsidered
One could do worse than to commemorate the installation of George W. Bush as President-apparent of the United States by reading "The Leader," one of the short plays in this collection. (My favorite quote these days: "But -- the Leader hasn't got a head!" "What's he need a head for when he's got ...
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The Corrections: A Novel (Recent Picador Highlights)
Jonathan Franzen
Picador, 2002
Well worth the investment in time
+ Good read
Don't believe the hype about the hype. Brilliantly imagined, extremely well written, and just a pleasure to read.
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