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Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) Best Price: $8.18 This is a great book to read! Very interesting and intense. Great reading material. | One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) Best Price: $8.40 For those of you who have read Marquez before this book will not dissapoint you, in fact I think... | Grendel Best Price: $6.40 I'm disturbed by the amount of people bashing _Grendel_. It's simply an amazing novel. Perhaps... | The Prophet Best Price: $6.75 A very profound, deeply insightful and moving experience! One of my two favorite books of all... | Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) Best Price: $7.75 This novel both condemned and redeemed itself in the main characters, namely Florentino Ariza... |
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold Best Price: $6.05 Can the tale of murder and cowardice and fatal pride be enjoyable? No. Can it be telling,... | Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse Best Price: $10.21 3.5 stars rounded up to 4.
My biggest problem with this collection is that many of the... | The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.95 Like Mr. Attenborough, Graham Green has roamed the world. His interests were not primarily... | The Graveyard Book Best Price: $12.23 Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a... | Ellen Foster Best Price: $1.91 Ellen Foster is a slim volume, Gibbon's first novel. It's told from the searingly honest... |
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Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel Best Price: $1.95 What I enjoyed most about this novel was Mr. Guterson's facility with descriptive language. I... | Pattern Recognition Best Price: $3.95 In the midst of other deadlines, I read this book in a little over 24 hours. Gibson shows such... | The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 2 Best Price: $57.35 The book is over sized with with a removable box dust cover. The binding is gorgeous and... | The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists Best Price: $8.49 This is my favorite comic book story. I was already a Gaiman fan, having read "Good... | Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) Best Price: $2.62 Don't get me wrong. I attended 3 readings by Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky at Harvard... |
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City of Night (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 2) Best Price: $3.38 Really loved the premise for this trilogy. Book one (Prodigal) is definitely a five star, and... | The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Best Price: $7.50 I had never read the book but reading it I remembered seeing the movie. The book is riviting,... | The Living Dead Best Price: $10.85 "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth!" From White Zombie... | The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You Best Price: $10.30 A messed up girl named Barbie has created a dream world with some serious problems. After... | El amor en los tiempos del c?lera (Oprah #59) Best Price: $7.90 Gracia's voice transports you to the specific moment you are reading about. Love this book. |
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Golding's the Lord of the Flies (Cliffs Notes) Best Price: $2.26 Lord of the flies is a tough read due to the content. The symbolism is even tougher. The Cliff... | Neuromancer Best Price: $13.89 I think I am a pretty intelligent and well read guy. I am a fan of a variety of different types... | I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) Best Price: $5.00 If you like your history lite then I, Claudius is your book. Written as an autobiography of the... | The Miracle Worker Best Price: $2.09 This was a favorite of mine as a small girl... came the day after Christmas, but was ordered... | Dead Souls: A Novel Best Price: $8.81 Older Russian literature, for the most part, has an odd way of alienating modern readers, likely... |
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The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers Best Price: $7.28 John Gardner let's you know in his preface that he is writing this book for the serious writer... | North and South (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $8.76 After having seen the BBC's version of North & South, I couldn't wait to read the book. I... | A Virtuous Woman (Oprah's Book Club) Best Price: $0.62 The writing in this book is so good that I've read it twice. (Something I NEVER do. Nev. Er.) A... | Collected Stories Best Price: $6.97 Gabo is something else. He is, to put it simply, an astounding writer, with a verve of language... | Cronica de una muerte anunciada Best Price: $6.00 este libro es perfecto para esta temporada de verano, para estar relajado y sumamente... |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) Best Price: $3.47 After 4 years, 2 readings, a wasted week of my life, and feeling like a moron who sees glass... | Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Signet Classics) Best Price: $4.07 Book was shipped quickly and was in excellent condition. Exactly as it was promoted to be. | Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition) Best Price: $13.43 Well, most people in America have already read "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding,... | Old Filth Best Price: $8.48 I totally agree with all the superlatives heaped on this wonderful book. Usually I don't take... | The Eagle and the Raven Best Price: $11.59 The front and back covers of this book are very misleading- it implies that the book is all... |
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American Gods Best Price: $2.73 This book/author is amazing!! He weaves an intricate, spooky, thought provoking page-turner... | Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Anchor Books) Best Price: $6.47 It took me years to get around to reading this, but, "better late than never." For... | Memoria de mis putas tristes Best Price: $6.05 Es un libro lleno del estilo personal de Gabriel Garcia Marquez. El libro encomia el amor y su... | The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Best Price: $7.75 Be prepared for a completely different story. Oh, the same elements are there: the setting is... | Memories of My Melancholy Whores Best Price: $5.00 The protagonist of this book mentions a Latin quote: "No old man forgets where he has... |
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Lord of the Flies (Casebook) (Casebook Edition Text Notes and Criticism) Best Price: $8.42 Well, most people in America have already read "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding,... | Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.91 This is the fifth Graham Greene novel I've read, and the first with an even moderately happy... | Count Zero Best Price: $7.20 First 25%, get your bearings on the story threads. A lot going on here- people, places, virtual... | The Overcoat and Other Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.79 I had heard that I should read Gogol from a friend, but this friend has a Master's in English... | July's People Best Price: $2.93 In July's People Nadine Gordimer presents a scenario laden with fears. Written in 1981, the book... |
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Cranford (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.95 Elizabeth Gaskell's 1853 novel "Cranford" is a subtle and often sly portrait of life... | Mona Lisa Overdrive Best Price: $3.35 This is one of Gibson's most complete novels. Almost seamless from start to finish it flows i a... | North and South (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $11.25 Beware, this book has a lot of 19th century northern English dialect. It's just delightful to... | Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina Best Price: $6.48 I was very excited to pick up the conclusion of the story of Claudius told so brilliantly in the... | Domestic Affairs Best Price: $8.75 Revenge is suppose to be sweet, right? "Domestic Affairs" is the story of two... |
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Poetry Speaks to Children (Book & CD) (Read & Hear) Best Price: $11.00 I am an amateur poet and love poetry so I'm a natural audience for this book and companion disc.... | Neverwhere Best Price: $2.47 The short of it: creative but,
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2. characters are cardboard cut-outs... | Faust (Bantam Classics) Best Price: $2.57 This is truely a classic and brings into focus the fickleness of the human nature. The language... | Spook Country Best Price: $6.85 First off, let me say I'm a huge Gibson fan. I've worn through a couple of copies of the books... | Mary Barton (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.60 This book shows the opposite side of life of Gaskell's final novel, Wives and Daughters. Where... |