| 1. | ![]() | The Unbearable Lightness of Being
from Harper & Row
Customer Review:
Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being is a light masterpiece, encapsulating the philosophy of a writer who happened to be Czech, happened to live under a repressive regime, and chose to make the best of his life, realizing the futility of wondering "what if."
This is a book of ideas, though I... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $11.20
Customer Review:
An Auschwitz survivor tells us how the people the Nazis deported to this concentration camp lived, tried to survive and how mass murder by the Nazis was organized and carried out. Other former victims of deportation to extermination camps have told us the same stories, but the author of this book,... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | The Bridge on the Drina (Phoenix Fiction Series)
from University Of Chicago Press
Price: $10.20
Customer Review:
Mr. Andric wrote a masterpiece. I purchased and read this little gem during the Balkan crisis of the 90's and quickly purchased and read The Bosnian Chronicles. Of the two, this book is far superior. For a translation, the language is persuasive and compelling. Many peoples have suffered to be sure,... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 4. | ![]() | Quo Vadis?
from Hippocrene Books
Customer Review:
I saw the movie as a kid in the fifties and subsequently struggled through the available translation. Despite the quality of that translation, the power of the story came through. This was an accidental purchase (I thought the film was finally available) but a piece of good luck. Like Tina... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $10.88
Customer Review:
There's no getting around the fact that this book is funny and long, the latter characteristic often working might and main to detract from the former. Whether you muddle through to the end or not, it's a book you can dive into at any point and get anything from a chuckle to a snort to a few flecks... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $8.00
Customer Review:
Most 20th century plays are focused on the exploration of characters, not ideas. Karel Capek's R.U.R. (short for Rossum's Universal Robots) explores instead ideas, leaving character to one side. The character in this play are somewhat beside the point, irrelevant. The ideas about human beings, about... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | I Served the King of England (New Directions Paperbook)
from New Directions
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
I know I'm pretty much alone down here in two star land, but I was really disappointed by this novel. The style was irritatingly coy, cute and cliched. The narrator is insufferable. He brags about making whores fall in love with him and making absurd amounts of money selling hot dogs. Money always... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. | ![]() | Dictionary Of The Khazars
from Knopf
Customer Review:
I read this book my first year of college in Serbian language (Pavic's native language)and I was amazed. I re-read it several times and every time it supprised me again. Some details from the book, like the location of the certain grave near Sarajevo, do exist. Several of my friends confirmed it.... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 9. | ![]() | Moscow Circles
from Writers & Readers
Customer Review:
If dialectical materialism were turned on its head, something like angels would probably fall out. If you got drunk enough to cross Moscow a thousand times without seeing the Kremlin, something like freedom would happen, despite the State. If poky old Petushki became Eden, just because you loved and... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | War with the Newts (European Classics)
from Northwestern University Press
Price: $15.61
Customer Review:
Of all the science-fiction books I read in my teenage years, this is the one that stimulated my mind the most, and the one I've re-read most often. It's the story of a discovery of another intelligent species, not in space but on an island lost in the Pacific. The new species are man-sized newts,... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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