4.47 avg rating — 11,387,258 ratings

"Became entranced with this book. Made me want to read the rest. "

4.02 avg rating — 4,536,410 ratings

"Orwell's experience in the 30's and 40's with the left gave us this insightful parable. We are lucky to have it."

4.32 avg rating — 4,780 ratings

"My introduction to Tolkien. I am grateful to have read it."

4.32 avg rating — 845,924 ratings

"Read it with my son. Over and over. It never loses its charm"

3.97 avg rating — 2,828,148 ratings

"We burn our books metaphorically now. This was the prophecy of what could come next."

4.54 avg rating — 729,847 ratings

"Exuberant and glorious literary universe. "

4.62 avg rating — 4,102,173 ratings

"Completion of the story and it still satifies."

4.45 avg rating — 317,635 ratings

"The Pentateuch, the History, the Wisdom Literature and the Gospels. It is an ongoing feast for mind and spirit."

4.16 avg rating — 171,560 ratings

"Dystopia with ignoramuses seduced by the senses. Sound familiar?"

4.03 avg rating — 1,048,706 ratings

"Shakespeare at his most eloquent."

4.13 avg rating — 1,871,834 ratings

"Aesthetic wonderment."

4.58 avg rating — 4,828,229 ratings

"Loved Lupin. The man with a painful secret."

4.57 avg rating — 4,184,165 ratings

"Voldemort returns and this is the hinge of the series. Marvelous!"

3.83 avg rating — 1,189,892 ratings

"Sing to me of the man, Muse! The man of twists and turns! Begin where you will. Odysseus suffers, eats, drinks, talks himself into and out of trouble and has sex on the way back home. The scene between him and Penelope, when they recognize each other again is heartrenderingly beautiful."

4.58 avg rating — 3,649,884 ratings

"Harry gains strength and loses mentors. Wow!"

4.26 avg rating — 1,062,094 ratings

"Read it with my son. Loved it every time. "

3.99 avg rating — 885,767 ratings

"Loved the anarchic humor and the stream of consciousness."

4.03 avg rating — 992,721 ratings

"Hated it. Loved it. Nuff said."

4.09 avg rating — 937,074 ratings

"Still reading it again."

4.10 avg rating — 1,480,937 ratings

"So it goes. Billy Pilgrim came unstuck in time. Read it over and over again."

4.10 avg rating — 929,652 ratings

"Anna, Vronsky, Karenin. Guess they just couldn't all just get along"

4.41 avg rating — 3,142,905 ratings

"Reintroduces us to Tolkien's Middle Earth and the struggle to come! Add this to the total, bring the trial on!"

3.81 avg rating — 1,309,419 ratings

"Simply told with plain speech. The facts, ma'am, just the facts."

4.08 avg rating — 874,924 ratings

"Love Hesse. One more "canary in the mineshaft of the 20th century."

3.89 avg rating — 1,018,419 ratings

"The chickens come home to roost and Burnham Wood starts to move, even though not populated with Ents."

4.32 avg rating — 1,021,251 ratings

"Ripping Yarn. Glad I read it."

3.90 avg rating — 1,420,011 ratings

"Als Gregor Samsa aus unruhigen Traeumen erwachte..Absolutely exquisite surreality."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 768,452 ratings

"I like the mixture of Russian and English and the cold eye cast on ultraviolence."

3.91 avg rating — 1,880,787 ratings

"The Modern Prometheus speaks to us today in an era where we go where no man has gone before. (but should we?)"

3.57 avg rating — 615,047 ratings

"If his chest were a cannon, he'd have shot his heart upon it. If it's good enough for Captain Picard, it's good enough for me."

4.39 avg rating — 385,217 ratings

"The best exposition of one tortured by the thirst to believe. Amazing!"

4.19 avg rating — 244,629 ratings

"I love Poe's pretentious wording and europeanisms."

4.02 avg rating — 1,473,045 ratings

"Scarier than the movies."

4.44 avg rating — 27,356 ratings

"Foundation of the Nation. The founders were human."

3.93 avg rating — 508,580 ratings

"Rage, Goddess. Sing the rage of Peleus's son Achilles! Murderous, doomed! The blood-chilling horror, Helen. So the Trojans buried Hector, breaker of horses. Bravo, Homer!"

4.43 avg rating — 4,481,249 ratings

"Delightful introduction to the Harry Potterverse."

4.03 avg rating — 396,714 ratings

"Whimsy, humor and, of course the vorpal blade went snicker-snack!"

4.04 avg rating — 551,696 ratings

"Aesthetic murder, which prepared us for Hannibal Lecter and Dexter."

4.58 avg rating — 1,038,135 ratings

"Conclusion of the epic without compare."

3.53 avg rating — 237,721 ratings

"Bathroom humor before flush toilets and commentary about human foibles,regardless of the era."

4.09 avg rating — 172,034 ratings

"I liked the fact that Dante used Publius Vergilius Maro as his guide from Hell through Purgatory and then went to Beatrice as his guide to heaven."

4.10 avg rating — 346,437 ratings

"Great adventure. Fell in love with it my freshman year in college."

4.02 avg rating — 649,168 ratings

"Bram Stoker meets Oscar Wilde."

4.13 avg rating — 212,776 ratings

"Arthurian Legend as seen from the side of the women in Arthur's life. About time for a change in perspective!"

4.50 avg rating — 1,122,075 ratings

"Loved Rohan and its horse-masters. Need to explore it again"

3.92 avg rating — 326,497 ratings

"Heinlein retells the Passion of the Christ, but has him come from Mars. I was entirely taken with the story, but when I first read it,I did not get the connection with the older messianic figure."

4.11 avg rating — 542,759 ratings

"Well translated and I couldn't put it down."

4.62 avg rating — 144,033 ratings

"Loved the series."

4.28 avg rating — 419,100 ratings

"No wonder Bulgakov's wife published it in 1966."

4.11 avg rating — 116,543 ratings

"Whitman gives me a headache, but still I come back to him."

4.30 avg rating — 215,820 ratings

4.27 avg rating — 520,305 ratings

"Loved the demon's names."

3.94 avg rating — 569,814 ratings

"Why can't empires learn from this guy? Maybe we have. Ask Petraeus."

3.83 avg rating — 663,970 ratings

"Parable for the life of the drug addict."

3.84 avg rating — 382,505 ratings

"This is how the world is run. Get used to it."

3.89 avg rating — 564,409 ratings

"H.G.Wells' fable about world history. Read it and weep."

4.52 avg rating — 27,145 ratings

"Great job, Mr.Madison! Don't think of it as Holy Writ, though."

4.11 avg rating — 238,617 ratings

"Is the universe as pointless as Garp would suppose. You make up your own mind."

4.65 avg rating — 123,560 ratings

"Still funny, after all these years."

3.97 avg rating — 225,657 ratings

"Ideal societies which never came to pass and myths which may or may not excite today's reader. But isn't all philosophy just a footnote to Plato?"

4.15 avg rating — 436,459 ratings

"Read and Re-read. "

4.29 avg rating — 182,111 ratings

"I was going to re-read it but decided to do by not doing."

3.78 avg rating — 245,237 ratings

"Had a motorcycle and loved it then. Not so sure now."

3.83 avg rating — 85,906 ratings

"I am always floored by the density of material in Faust. No matter how much I learn, Goethe is always looking back at me with a raised eyebrow and an ironic smile, saying: "Been there, done that,son.""

4.38 avg rating — 338,018 ratings

"Fun read."

3.89 avg rating — 153,610 ratings

"Great stories, Ray."

3.98 avg rating — 124,950 ratings

"My first knowledge of what it is like to be on the wrong side of a tyranny. Amazing!"

4.58 avg rating — 239,211 ratings

"Larry made it real for me. Gus, Woodrow, Blue Duck and everyone els. Loved it."

4.08 avg rating — 97,272 ratings

"Insight into the Chasidim"

3.50 avg rating — 345,994 ratings

"A piece of poetry based on alliteration!"

4.07 avg rating — 83,712 ratings

"The best meditation on the great leveler, War and its aftermath."

4.31 avg rating — 3,428,786 ratings

"Lighthearted take on the revivified Greek Myths, told in an adolescent voice."

4.06 avg rating — 377,895 ratings

"Vintage Hunter S. Thompson."

3.75 avg rating — 118,822 ratings

"Oldest meditation on mortality and it still hits the mark."

3.85 avg rating — 91,709 ratings

"Story told with humor and intelligence."

4.33 avg rating — 91,793 ratings

"Marvelous exploration of the characters and events of the 3 day slaughter in Gettysburg."

3.87 avg rating — 125,374 ratings

"Fell for the story when I was a kid. Great!"

4.40 avg rating — 158,713 ratings

"My first exposure to cosmology and the many disciplines which connect to it. "

4.07 avg rating — 117,681 ratings

"I am still re-reading it. It is always smiling, but it is a sad smile."

3.87 avg rating — 143,211 ratings

"This is a marvelous piece of Augustan propaganda, designed to justify proscriptions, war and the man. It does so in an aesthetically pleasing manner."

4.26 avg rating — 53,722 ratings

"This text and Campbell's other books gave me a personal revelation about myth. Very helpful."

4.07 avg rating — 176,003 ratings

"Nietzsche suffered, as one of my professors put it from the 20th century, even though he died in 1900. It comes through here, loud and clear.
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