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The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Pantheon, 2007
A masterpiece
+ insider's look
+ Great Book
+ Persepolis
+ AMAZING, UNIQUE BOOK
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The Plague
Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert
Vintage, 1991
Find meaning in a meaningless existence / Camus is one cool cat
+ Few novels are worthy of comparison
+ Tragically relevant
+ Camus ...interesting as always...
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Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)
John Steinbeck
Penguin, 2002
One of the most popular books in American Literature-and for good reason!
+ The Greatest 20th Century Novella?
+ Depression-era Greek Tragedy
+ easy, short, to the point
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
Anchor, 2007
Thoroughly Human
+ Good Book
+ lonely [and unfair] search for innerself
+ Great book for adventurous souls
+ Hacia rutas salvajes
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Fear and Trembling
Soren Kierkegaard
Wilder Publications, 2008
Fear and Trembling
+ I'll try to simplify, with Kierkegaard, it might be possible.
+ FAITH IS A MEME
+ Fear and Trembling
+ Provocative but flawed
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
MTV, 1999
Freakin' Awesome
+ Thoughtful coming-of-age story
+ Pretty good.
+ Left wanting to know more...
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Divisadero (Vintage International)
Michael Ondaatje
Vintage, 2008
Superb poetic storytelling
+ Misty but elegant
+ Enraptured by Ondaatje's style
This book represents some of the most sophisticated poetic storytelling around. As is often the case with Ondaatje, his images, language and development of relationships - particularly between Lucien Segura and Marie-Niege - are more interesting than the plot itself, although there is an elegant ...
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The Anti-Christ
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wilder Publications, 2008
Who thought Nietzche wrote comedy?
+ Relevant passages before you embark:
+ An essay against the Platonism for the poor
I went into this book with no real knowledge of Nietzche's writings, and even less about how funny the topic of Christianity could be as told from the Nihilist perspective. I was chuckling more often than not while reading about the history of the Christian faith as he belittles their faith in what ...
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Vintage International) (Vintage International)
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Vintage, 2007
A True Inspiration For Us All
+ THE book, i read it in a coffee guzzling epiphany filled evening
+ What I learned from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is a truly moving and inspirational memoir by a man rendered incapable of any communication except for the blinking of his left eye and very slight head movement. Bauby had suffered from a stroke, which led to what is so aptly known as ...
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
Emily Brontė, Pauline Nestor
Penguin Classics, 2002
This Heathcliff Is No Pussy!
+ Interesting Relationships
+ A great read.
(Like the curmudgeonly CAT in the COMIC...get it?)
Great old-style classic novel. One of Henry Miller's favorites; that's what attracted me to it.
I liked the style of the narrative, largely told through the reminiscences of the housekeeper Nelly. This is one dysfunctional family!
Like ...
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I Know This Much Is True: A Novel (P.S.)
Wally Lamb
Harper Perennial, 2008
It's hard to get into..
+ Great Book
+ All Time Favorite
But it's worth it.
It took me over 2 years to read this book. I struggled with not just with the length of the book - but also with the narration. I admit I didn't admire Dominick - I even disliked his character, and couldn't even bring myself to read more than a few paragraphs at times. But ...
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Middlesex: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides
Picador, 2002
FANTASTIC!!
+ You Are Such a Flirt
+ From a pediatric Urology Nurse's view point, well done
+ Must Read
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The Stranger (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Albert Camus
Everyman's Library, 1993
American translation brings out stylistic subtleties
+ Shocking in its Simplicity
+ One of the best books ever written.
+ Oh, the absurdity!
+ Perfect
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The Bell Jar : A Novel (Perennial Classics)
Sylvia Plath
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000
"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream."
+ The Bell Jar
+ Why, oh, why was I reading Holden Caulfield when I should have been reading Esther Greenwood?
Admitting that you love this book is a bit like doing same about a train wreck, in this case the tragedy being Sylvia Plath's startling real-life spiral towards suicide. Well, then...guilty as charged. I enjoyed this book from its beginning "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they ...
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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics)
Leo Tolstoy
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004
Best single volume of the short fiction
+ Simply Put: An Outstanding Collection
+ Death of Ivan Ilych is probably the best thing Tolstoy ever wrote
+ worth reading
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