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Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
Leo Tolstoy
Penguin Classics, 2004
Indifference? NOT HERE!
+ A classic worth reading
+ Masterful
I haven't had/made time to read other translations of this Great work, but IMHO, Anna Karenina 'Must Be' in the top five list of all-time Greatest Romances...
(trying NOT to be selfish): Reading Anna Karenina has enriched my life; It has INCREASED my love, devotion, & respect for-to my wife, my ...
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The Pearl: (Centennial Edition)
John Steinbeck
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
Steinbeck Captures the Heart of an Immortal Lesson
+ Literary Classic? [3.5 stars]
This book is criminally unknown. In just under 100 pages, Steinbeck weaves the immortal truth that worldy wealth cannot guarantee happiness or joy into a classic tale of a South American native couple who discover the joys and woes of finding an incredible pearl. They first think that the pearl ...
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Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
George Orwell
Plume, 2003
Animal Farm is instructive for our presidential election.
+ Some Books are More Equal than Others
+ Subtle Message
+ Animal Farm Review
+ Animals Gone Wild....
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Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Spectra, 2004
Amazing Asimov read !!!!!!
+ Psychohistory and the statistical prediction of mob behaviour!
+ Amazing book to get hooked on Asimov!
+ Excellent
+ Science Fiction at its best
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Knopf, 2007
Essential -- a staggering achievement
+ the very best
+ Nothing more to be said
+ The drums of war, then as now, beat out the same sad tune.
+ The Tao of Love and War
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Back Bay Books, 2001
Unique and fun while letting you see character's detailed life
This book was reveals some very interesting, sometimes revolting, and in-depth character development. The book starts off explaining Holden Callufields' life and why he's in his current predicament. The rest of the book explains the next 3-4 days and what goes on between them. A whole range of ...
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A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Spectra, 2004
perfect
+ I liked it... I was bored x2... Then I liked it...
+ Well written, introspective, but a little dull at times
This book arrived well before the expected date and was a great buy. I will be buying from them again.
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Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
William Golding
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
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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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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Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
New Directions, 2007
The poetry of obsessive uselessness
+ Amazing
+ thought provoking vignettes.
+ brilliant, but you must be in the right state of mind
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Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics)
Ernest Hemingway
Scribner, 1996
The sea giveth...and the sea taketh away
+ Well, he nailed the title . . .
+ the super old man
+ Great transaction
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
Herman Melville
Penguin Classics, 2002
Classic for a reason
+ Very Deep
+ a challenge to read and understand; requires some pondering...
+ Get back to the Pequad please!
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The Chrysalids (New York Review Books Classics)
John Wyndham
NYRB Classics, 2008
>>NOTICE= This book is also published as : RE-BIRTH
+ great Book
+ Super Reader
+ scifi classic, redux
+ My 100-word book review
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The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
J.R.R. Tolkien
Houghton Mifflin, 2005
A Classic in Every Way
+ Wonderful Read
+ Convenient
+ Awesome book in a sturdy printing...
+ This is what all authors should strive to be
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Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
Frank Herbert
Ace Trade, 2005
"The Sleeper Has Awakened!" ~ Science Fiction Or Prophetic Utterance?
+ Brings Back Memories of Old Sci-Fi Days
+ Arrakis
With over 1,000 reviews posted on Amazon.com and an overall rating of -4 ½ Stars- I guess there's not a lot left to be said about the late Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi book `Dune'. It has been at least 30 years since I sat down with this book and to this day it still remains one of the most ...
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