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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Prestwick House Inc., 2005
Great book! When addressing controversy think of context.
+ Finn & Sawyer Part 2
+ Exceptional edition
+ Huckleberry Finn
+ Huck Finn
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Back Bay Books, 2001
review
+ If You Really Want to Hear About It...
+ Disillusion
+ Make a little time for a classic
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The Merriam-Webster English Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster, 2004
Great little dictionary
+ Great classroom dictionary!
+ Great buy
I wanted a dictionary that would be a great size to have by my side while I read books, in case I need to look up a word. This dictionary fits the bill perfectly. About the size of a mass market paperback, this dictionary is easy to hold and look through, compared to a larger, more unwieldy ...
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Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics)
Jane Austen
Vintage, 2007
Worth paying for on the Kindle
+ Beautiful Classic
+ What a Year for the Bennets
+ as always, better than the movie
+ Pride and Prejudice
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Billy Budd and Other Tales
Herman Melville
Signet Classics, 1998
good and evil
+ Sailors' Favorite Framed, Takes Rap
+ The difference between to be right and to be moral!
Personally, I thought this was a great book. This book follows a man named Billy Budd through the end of his life spent in the English navy. Although this book had some boring parts, it was overall a great story line. I was impressed with story more than the writing, which ran a little longer than ...
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Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Signet Classics, 2006
A Hard Read
+ This book is amazing,
+ I also found it marvelously entertaining
+ One of my favorite books so far
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Random House Audio, 2005
The Best Work of American Fiction I've Ever Read.
+ ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!
+ A beautiful and moving reading by Joe Morton
+ A classic work that needs no name or adjective to describe.
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Prestwick House Inc., 2004
a literary statement on colonial engagement
+ The Horror! The Over-Analyzed Horror!
+ Disturbing
This is not an easy read. But I would read it just for the pleasure of language use. literary beauty it has. before the theoretical thinking on colonialism, turning native or fieldwork, this is a very early but sophisticated engagement in a novel form....
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The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Penguin Classics, 2002
A wonderful piece of literature, however
+ One of the best novels ever
+ Sin, Redemption
+ Hawthorne's Masterpiece
+ Useful for AP Lit
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THE COLOR PURPLE
ALICE WALKER
WOMEN'S PRESS LTD,THE, 1983
Color Purple
+ The Deepest Pain
+ surprise
I love this book and I would recommend anyone to read it and watch the movie.
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
HarperVoyager, 2004
a great book of our time
+ Timely now that we're entering into the new dark ages...
+ Written in the basement of the UCLA library
+ True Fiction
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House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
Pantheon, 2000
An engaging and clever read
+ If nothing else, provides material for good discussions
+ A strange book
I bought this book after reading the xkcd comic (http://xkcd.com/472/) and was very glad I did. I'm not going into a plot summary, if you want one you can check out wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves). Instead, I'm going to briefly discuss the style of the book and address the ...
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Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler
Bantam, 1984
Psychological Examination of Stalinist show trials
+ The Communists eat their own
+ Actually, Clinton makes a good Rubashov . . .
+ Brilliantly demonstrates the errors of communist ideology
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The Merriam-Webster English Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster, 2004
Great little dictionary
+ Great classroom dictionary!
+ Great buy
I wanted a dictionary that would be a great size to have by my side while I read books, in case I need to look up a word. This dictionary fits the bill perfectly. About the size of a mass market paperback, this dictionary is easy to hold and look through, compared to a larger, more unwieldy ...
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
HarperVoyager, 2004
a great book of our time
+ Timely now that we're entering into the new dark ages...
+ Written in the basement of the UCLA library
+ True Fiction
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