| 1. |  | The Reader
from Pantheon
Customer Review:
When young Michael Berg meets Hanna, she is more than twice his age, but in spite of this they soon become involved in what many would call an inappropriate love affair. Their's is an unusual relationship, with Berg reading to Hanna each day before making love. While Hanna is clearly keeping... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | All Quiet on the Western Front
from Little, Brown and Company
Price: $18.24
Customer Review:
I read this in hight school, and yes it was an assignment,(fortunately my literature always made us think about the books we read instead of gripe about them in ignorance) but I loved it. Basically, it pulls no punches, sugarcoats nothing. The author is telling it like he knows it from being there -... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Siddhartha (Shambhala Classics)
from Shambhala
Price: $9.56
Customer Review:
It took few hours to finish the novel. As someone has said in the review, an audio version would be better i think. Overall, the writing is clear. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Customer Review:
This book was recommended reading by my 12th grade Humanities teacher, who asked the entire class to read it the summer before school started. I duly purchased it, but couldn't get past the long section on Plato, and put it aside for possible future reading. I picked it up again about two years... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Letters to a Young Poet
from Vintage
Price: $9.95
Customer Review:
There are works that surface time and time again in cultural circles, in film, literature, music, etc. One of these is Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. The young poet, Franz Xaver Kappus, is unremarkable in this set of letters as we never see the poems he sent to Rilke, nor do we see... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Levin's Mill
from W.W. Norton
Customer Review:
A Child's Christmas In Wales CD: And Five Poems
Hurrah! Now I won't have to wait for the radio to play Dylan Thomas reading his wonderful Child's Christmas every Christmas. Truly a beautiful recording of the other poems as well. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 7. | ![]() | Nausea (New Classics Series Number 35)
from New Directions
Customer Review:
I read this book last 20 years ago during my lunch hours in a busy Greek cafe in downtown LA, and the experience of finding complete solitude in that environment was so extraordinary, and therefore, has never been forgotten. I am glad that I re-read this gem 20 years later in a completely different... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | The Neverending Story
from Doubleday Books
Customer Review:
The Never Ending Story by Michael Ende is a terrific fantsy book. I enjoyed it very much. My only complaint is that it seems to drag on for far too long. This made the story confusing becuase I had seen the films and had not anticipated the way the story continued past the original film's ending.... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
from Vintage
Price: $11.16
Customer Review:
I loved the movie and decided that I wanted to try out the book. When my reading group selected this one, I was excited to open it up. Suffice to say, I was satisfied with the book. The main character, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, was definitely... a bad person. I spent so much of the book wondering... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
from Schocken
Customer Review:
it is well written but the whole story made me increasingly tense and anxious, as well it should. this was not a book that was fun or pleasurable to read. but it was extremely interesting. | 4.5 / 5.0
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