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signalnine rated Dune Messiah: 2 stars
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (Chronicles of Dune, #2)
signalnine rated Eyeless in Gaza: 5 stars
signalnine rated Survivor: 5 stars
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in …
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Virago Modern Classics) by Willa Cather
In 1851 French Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are dispatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. …
signalnine rated No Exit and Three Other Plays: 4 stars
signalnine rated George Orwell's 1984: 4 stars
George Orwell's 1984 by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist …
signalnine rated The Idiot: 5 stars
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ; post-reform Russian: Идиот, tr. Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. …
signalnine rated Crime and punishment: 5 stars
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and punishment (1989, Norton)
Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
From [wikipedia][1]:
Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступлéние и наказáние, tr. Prestupleniye i nakazaniye; IPA: [prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲə ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲə]) is a …
signalnine rated Lord of the Flies: 4 stars
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding. The plot concerns a …
signalnine rated Breakfast of Champions: 4 stars
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that …
signalnine rated Le Ton Beau de Marot: 5 stars
signalnine rated Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: 5 stars
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas …
signalnine rated Brave New World: 5 stars
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good …