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What do readers say about The Master and Margarita?
dry and witty bizarre and confused long-winded and clunky writing vapid and dullSuppressed in the Soviet Union for twenty-six years, Mikhail Bulgakov's masterpiece is an ironic parable of power and its corruption, good and evil, and human frailty and the strength of love. Featuring Satan, accompanied by a retinue that includes t... More details on The Master and Margarita
At the hour of sunset, on a hot spring day, two citizens appeared in the Patriarchs’ Ponds Park. One, about forty, in a gray summer suit, was short, plump, dark-haired and partly bald. He carried his ...
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What do readers say about The Basic Eight?
dark & twisted bizarre and confusing high school hijinks a teenage journalFlannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. Tyrants, perverts, tragic crushes, gossip, cruel jokes, and the hallucinatory effects of absinthe - Flannery and the seven other friends in the Basic Eight have s... More details on The Basic Eight
August 25, Verona Dear Adam, Well, you were right–the only way to really look at Italy is to stop gaping at all the Catholicism and just sit down and have some coffee. For the past couple of hours I’v...
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What do readers say about House of Leaves?
complexity and inventiveness pretentious and boring existentialist horror story pretentious & highfalutin"A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious." -The New York Times
Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled... More details on House of Leaves
§Provide examples of hand shadows ranging from crabs, snails, rabbits,and turtles to dragons, panthers, tigers, and kangaroos. Also includehippos, frogs, elephants, birds of paradise, dogs, cockatoos,...
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What do readers say about Kafka on the Shore?
simple, compelling, and multi-layered part allegory, part fantasy patented magical realism hoshino's character progressionKafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers.
Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who is on the run, and Nakata, an aging simpleton who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their... More details on Kafka on the Shore
Cash isn't the only thing I take from my father's study when I leave home. I take a small, old gold lighter—I like the design and feel of it—and a folding knife with a really sharp blade. Made to skin...
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What do readers say about Annihilation?
stark and dry thick and luxurious vague and amorphous clear and linguistically appealingA MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC
The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had w... More details on Annihilation
The tower, which was not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and wind-gnarled trees of the marsh fl...
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What do readers say about The Starless Sea?
haunting and mesmerizing poetic and entrancing fantastic and fantastical very little plotNew York Times bestseller
Named a best book of the year by The Guardian, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret undergro... More details on The Starless Sea
(Close enough to see from behind the bars. Freedom kept in sight but out of reach, left as a reminder to the prisoner. No one remembers that now on the key side of the bars. The careful psychological ...
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What do readers say about One Hundred Years of Solitude?
exotic, epical style fantastic and abusurdist elements originality and creativity latin american magic realism"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is pr... More details on One Hundred Years of Solitude
MANY YEARS LATER, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty ...
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What do readers say about The Eye in the Pyramid?
nonlinear story telling stream of consciousness poorly researched speculation 70s sf conspirologyFilled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dol... More details on The Eye in the Pyramid
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What do readers say about I'm Thinking of Ending Things?
intense and suspenseful solidly unsettling vibe unsettling and ambiguous a bad dreamNow a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you won't know why…
I'm thinking of ending things. Once this thought ar... More details on I'm Thinking of Ending Things
The road is mostly empty. It’s quiet around here. Vacant. More so than anticipated. So much to see but not many people, not many buildings or houses. Sky. Trees. Fields. Fences. The road and its grave...
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What do readers say about Gravity's Rainbow?
clever and witty surreal science fiction excessive and exhausting meandering oblique styleDiscover Thomas Pynchon's brilliant writing in this postmodern literature classic.
'The greatest, wildest author of his generation' Guardian
We could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a prob... More details on Gravity's Rainbow
It is too late. The Evacuation still proceeds, but it's all theatre. There are no lights inside the cars. No light anywhere. Above him lift girders old as an iron queen, and glass somewhere far above ...
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