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Echoes Best Price: $4.10 I'm surprised this book doesn't have as many reviews as her other titles. It has great...	The Decameron (Signet Classics) Best Price: $3.49 This was required reading for a graduate course in medieval history. The...	The Great and Secret Show Best Price: $8.91 "The Great And Secret Show" is a novel that is at turns fascinating, horrifying, and...	The Death of the Heart Best Price: $6.48 This is not an easy read and nor did Bowen intend for it to be so. God forbid any of these...	For Bread Alone Best Price: $8.85 I liked this book. That surprised me. This speaks directly to strength in narration and...



Ship Fever Best Price: $1.99 Ship Fever is a beautiful colelction of short stories and the titular novella covering the lives...	Novels I of Samuel Beckett: Volume I of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove Centenary Editions) Best Price: $13.11 This is a great collection of Beckett's novels, including: Murphy, Watt, and Mercier and Camier....	Jane Eyre (Signet Classics) Best Price: $4.92 Featuring an Introduction by Erica Jong, this book stars one of the most unforgettable heroines...	The Running Man Best Price: $3.94 Wow, this was just a fun book to read. There isn't much depth here, which I usually look for in...	The Mezzanine Best Price: $4.97 It's really painful for me to read the fawning praise by other Amazon reviewers lionizing this...



The Mezzanine Best Price: $4.97 It's really painful for me to read the fawning praise by other Amazon reviewers lionizing this...	Nadja Best Price: $7.34 I'd like to think I'm more of a fan of surrealism than anybody else, but even Surrealism has its...	Crash: A Novel Best Price: $6.75 I was traveling to London on business. Whenever I get a chance to go abroad, I try to read...	Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame Best Price: $8.54 Bukowski was a brilliantly vulgar poet and is remembered as "The Poet Laureate of Skid...	Mother Courage and Her Children Best Price: $2.99 It is a good, good play, that is what they say. The English translation of the songs is pretty...

The Dream Songs Best Price: $10.25 The /mandatory/ companion to Berryman's /Collected Poems/, as Berryman isn't Berryman without...	The Bachman Books : Four Early Novels by Richard Bachman (Rage / The Long Walk / Roadwork / The Running Man) Best Price: $75.00 "The Long Walk" is my favorite novella in this series. Never in so few pages can any...	Exquisite Corpse Best Price: $4.94 This book is vivid and incredibly descriptive. For an author that constantly refers herself to...	The Return Journey Best Price: $7.50 After reading this book, I will be honest and say that Maeve needs to stick with her novels, not...	The Memory of Old Jack Best Price: $3.87 This fine work was my introduction to Wendell Berry. I found it a moving experience to read it....

The Bones of Fred McFee Best Price: $2.00 As a teacher of pre-k to 1st grade this book is a MUST have for every classroom, and will be...	The Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Forest (First Time Books(R)) Best Price: $1.00 This was another excellent book by the Berenstains. My 4 year old grandson really loves it the...	Exquisite Corpse Best Price: $4.94 This book is vivid and incredibly descriptive. For an author that constantly refers herself to...	Play the Piano Best Price: $7.99 I'm going to make this quick. If you like Bukowski, you'd love it. If you've never heard of...	Mother Courage and Her Children Best Price: $2.99 It is a good, good play, that is what they say. The English translation of the songs is pretty...

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Perennial Classics) Best Price: $7.47 I have read many biographies and autobiographies of influential and powerful women in history...	Spider's House: A Novel Best Price: $8.56 An easy to read fictional account of Moroccos attempt to free itself from French rule. Paul...	Cloudsplitter: A Novel Best Price: $3.92 I had high hopes for this book, but I was quickly disappointed. Reading it is something like...	Maeve Binchy: Three Complete Books: The Lilac Bus; Firefly Summer; Silver Wedding Best Price: $4.47 I purchased this book for my wife as a Christmas Gift. She is a person that loves Maeve Binchy...	The Book of Evidence Best Price: $7.10 I read this as a book group selection. It provided many psychological and social subjects to...

Rule of the Bone: A Novel Best Price: $5.49 Russell Banks, I have concluded, is our greatest American writer still working today. His...	The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) Best Price: $14.75 A verifiable monster of a book, The Second Sex is an extraordinarily important work in the...	The Bachman Books : Four Early Novels by Richard Bachman (Rage / The Long Walk / Roadwork / The Running Man) Best Price: $65.00 "The Long Walk" is my favorite novella in this series. Never in so few pages can any...	The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: Volume III of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove Centenary Editions) Best Price: $11.48 This is a great collection of Beckett's novels, including: Murphy, Watt, and Mercier and Camier....	Forty Stories (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.63 While very challenging and insightful, I found many of the stories to be superficially...

The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 Best Price: $14.97 For a guy who's published as many books of poetry as Bukowski has, a large book of selected...	The Bostonians (Modern Library Classics) Best Price: $5.00 In this outing, as with other of Henry James's novels, the reader will continually be bowled...	The Damnation Game Best Price: $4.01 Very Creative story. Be warned, it is written in British. So if you have a good vocabulary,...	Circle of Friends Best Price: $6.21 this book was just what i ordered, however the packaging (which is REALLY important for all the...	Thinner (Signet) Best Price: $3.95 I thought this was a well written book overall. It gets wordy at times through the book but not...

Brazzaville Beach Best Price: $5.06 Engrossing story, likable heroin, written by a man in the viewpoint of a woman! setting on a...	The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes Best Price: $5.97 "The Golden Mean" is the best of the three books, in my humble opinion. The ending is...	Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $3.79 This edition is just the last aesthetic overhauling of Oxford World's Classics ones with just...	The Reconciliation (Imajica, Book 2) Best Price: $3.95 I love Clive Barker's work. But I feel Decieved because I have read this book before, when it...	The Most Beautiful Woman in Town Best Price: $7.99 Wow...one can only state this simple exclamation upon putting down this paperback edition of a...

Pulp Best Price: $8.08 "Pulp" finds tough-guy scribe Charles Bukowski at his most sensitive, though not...	The Dark Descent Best Price: $7.67 Comprehensive collection of horror stories. Lots of familiar authors here, perhaps some writers...	The Atrocity Exhibition (Flamingo Modern Classics) Best Price: $8.93 There was a lot of experimentation in speculative fiction back in the late 60s and early 70s,...	The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems Best Price: $7.30 For me this is one of the best books of prose or poetry I have read. I ear marked several. This...	The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $2.92 How explain literary genius? How pinpoint the DNA which made three Yorkshire girls living in a...

The Dark Descent Best Price: $7.67 Comprehensive collection of horror stories. Lots of familiar authors here, perhaps some writers...	The Atrocity Exhibition (Flamingo Modern Classics) Best Price: $8.93 There was a lot of experimentation in speculative fiction back in the late 60s and early 70s,...	A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) Best Price: $11.19 Precursor to Brideshead Revisited. Lacks the spiritual depth of Brideshead, but is a wickedly...	The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems Best Price: $7.30 For me this is one of the best books of prose or poetry I have read. I ear marked several. This...	The Way of All Flesh (Giant Thrifts) Best Price: $2.32 Book is what my husband wanted. He read it when he was a young man. Just a review.

Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War (rack) (Abarat) Best Price: $4.16 On the one hand, I would have given Barker's 'Days of Magic, Nights of War' the 4 and 1/2 or...	James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories: Go Tell It on a Mountain / Giovanni's Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man (Library of America) Best Price: $19.90 The Library of America is engaged in publishing definitive texts of the best-known writing in...	The House in Paris Best Price: $7.55 This is a charming saga of young Henrietta, 11, on her trip through Paris, changing trains and...

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