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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Norilana Books, 2007
Great Buy
I'm usually concerned about purchasing items on line, especially books. I can honestly say that this experience was worth it. I would recommend this seller to anyone interested in purchasing good quality books at extremely reasonable prices.
Buy with confidence, I did!
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The Shawl
Cynthia Ozick
Vintage, 1990
A disturbing and moving work
+ A Haunting Short Novel
+ A Classic Short Story and Novella!
+ Cynthia Ozick at her most emotionally gripping!
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The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Vintage, 1991
poetry to my ears
+ gorgeous
This is a beautifully written book about a girls who lives in a house on Mango street, a house that is far blow her expectations and a neighborhood she does not want to belong to. This book reads more like a poetic form in a novel. There's a lot of wonderful details about how some people in the ...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Perennial, 2004
puleeze
+ Read it
+ A profound book, and one of the best I've read
It's so disappointing, not to mention depressing, to read the negative reviews of this book on line here. We are speaking of one of the dozen finest books of the twentieth century. The failure is not the book's. I encourage all of you to try again--let the book lift you.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
great
+ I lived in this book those days
+ Mystical Love
+ great but not the best
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Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair
Elizabeth Mcneill
Harper Perennial, 2005
"There is no mistaking the power this man had over me"
+ 9 1/2 weeks
+ An exquisite book
+ Haunting, and told me the story was real
+ Private glimpse
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Meatless Days
Sara Suleri
University Of Chicago Press, 1991
Complex, but very rewarding
+ Excellent
+ A truly great book
+ Masterful!
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The Awakening
Kate Chopin
CreateSpace, 2008
How long have I been asleep?
+ A Statement on Non-Traditional Sensibilities
+ Lovely
+ not so simple, not so obvious
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Southern Florida in the early 20th century and one black woman's story
+ Among the Most Influential African-American Novels of the 20th Century
+ Dreamy little novel
+ An Amazing Book
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Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
Laura Esquivel
Anchor, 1994
YUmmy!
+ An endearing little book
+ Quirky but fun all the same
+ Mystical, Erotic, and Delicious
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Night (Oprah's Book Club)
Elie Wiesel
Hill and Wang, 2006
Elie, a brave boy and a survivor
+ Scary reminder of what mankind is capable of
+ heart wrenching
+ The banal becomes terrifying, the terrifying becomes everyday "normal"
+ Human Words Cannot Convey the Story
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The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)
Toni Morrison
Plume, 2000
Gripping, Haunting
+ IDK
+ Excellent novel
I literally could not stop reading, once I started.
In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison tells the story of the Breedloves, a hard-luck Black family whose existence is defined by its members' conviction that they cannot be loved as they are.
Little Pecola Breedlove longs to be loved. She decides ...
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The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2005
A book you will read over and over again...
+ hip hip horray for house of the spirits
+ Allende's Masterpiece
+ se los recomiendo!!!
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
The Dial Press, 2008
A very good book
+ Entertaining Read
+ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
+ A Lovely Book Told Through Letters
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Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Grove Press, 1994
Know the background before you read this classic
+ Original For Its Time--crude and rude
+ Fountain of youth
+ Puerile, vulgar, and tawdry.
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