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The Road
Knopf, 2007
Simply Put, A Masterpiece
+ The post-apocolyptic genre
+ THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
+ Good, but depressing.
+ A Morality Play
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The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage Books, 2007
Simply Put, A Masterpiece
+ The post-apocolyptic genre
+ THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
+ Good, but depressing.
+ A Morality Play
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The Sunset Limited
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage, 2006
A surprising book
+ The Sunset Limited
+ A bit of a Rorschach
+ The Sunset Limited
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Naked
David Sedaris
Back Bay Books, 1998
Absolutely fantastic
+ FRANCINE!!!
+ David Sedaris is hilarious
+ A WONDERFUL AUDIO BOOK
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Modern Library)
Cormac McCarthy
Modern Library, 2001
"Good God almighty..."
+ McCarthy at the Peak
+ literary landmark
+ Brutal but exhilarating.
+ Wow. This One Has Stuck With Me For Years
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The Orchard Keeper
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage, 1993
The Orchard Keeper reads like a Faulkner novel.
+ a great beginning
+ A Twist of Faulkner
Cormac McCarthy is best known for his later novels Blood Meridian, The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain, and No Country for Old Men. Set in a remote Tennessee community, his first novel, The Orchard Keeper (1965), first caught the attention of Albert Erskine ...
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim
David Sedaris
Little, Brown & Company, 2004
Dress Your Family in Cords or enim
+ This book is a truly enjoyable read.
+ charasmatic
This book is hysterical! Probably one of his best works if not the best.If you like Sedaris at all then you must read this (even though it's not his latest). It's even funny a second time around, the semi biographical short stories don't get dated.
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The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
Christopher Moore
William Morrow, 2005
You'll know if you'll like it by the title
+ Chris is insane, but in a good way.
+ somewhat surreal, somewhat silly, wholely enjoyable
+ more moore please
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Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)
G. W. F. Hegel
Oxford University Press, USA, 1979
Kant go all the way
+ Solid Version
+ good book good translation
+ This Book Is a Theory of Creation and Applies Plato's Negative
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What Is the What (Vintage)
Dave Eggers
Vintage, 2007
Heartbreaking and uplifting
+ a must read
+ Incredibly Moving
+ Absolutely Amazing
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Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Christopher Moore
Harper Paperbacks, 2004
Christopher Moore
+ Highly enjoyable, but not his best
+ Pure Christopher Moore!
+ Moore is always a refreshingly original read
+ This book is wicked funny!
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
LOL
+ Naked barrels engulfed in pretty denim
+ seemed somewhat different...but not worse than others.
+ Fabulous!
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
James Joyce
Penguin Classics, 2003
Best Kindle edition of Joyce's "Portrait"
+ Supersaturated with the religion that he had stopped believing in: growing up in a colony
+ challenging but worth it
There are many editions of James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" available, but this is easily the best Kindle edition. The text is based on Chester Anderson's 1964 text. There are also a good number of annotations by Seamus Deane--fewer than in Anderson's Viking Critical ...
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Holidays on Ice: Stories
David Sedaris
Little, Brown and Company, 1997
David Sedaris is brilliant. A must own!
+ Good, but not as good.
+ HOLIDAYS ON ICE:STORIES
+ Great first story
+ Love it
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Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses [Revised and Expanded Edition]
James Joyce
University of California Press, 1989
notes only!
+ Great reading, even without the source
+ Essential is the key word to all these reviews
+ The essential guide
+ Thorough, but not best for the novice reader
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