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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Category : Classics
Author : Douglas Adams
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0345391802
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Description : Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You'll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic dialogue. The Hitchhiker's Guide is rich in comedic detail and thought-provoking situations and stands up to multiple reads. Required reading for science fiction fans, this book (and its follow-ups) is also sure to please fans of Monty Python, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and British sitcoms.
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This book added on : 08-Oct-2002 by IamSquid
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The Inferno, the John Ciardi translation
Category : Classics
Author : Dante Alighieri
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0451527984
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Description : This is the best translation of the Inferno I have come across. Though the beautiful poetic structure of the writing is lost in the translation to English, Ciardi does not shame one word of it. Incase you have lived in a box, the Inferno is the first book of "The Divine Comedy". Little Goth boy, Dante, goes to Hell with his favorite poet of the antiquity, Virgil. The whole book is vividly entertaining, going from the sad and the pathetic, to the horrible yet hilarious. Another book everyone must read by default of existing.
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This book added on : 27-Mar-2003 by Sticupus
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The Prince (Penguin Classics)
Category : Classics
Author : Niccolo Machiavelli, Anthony Grafton, George Bull
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0140449159
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Description : Wanna understand how those fuckers in Washington are thinking? This was the original textbook for every tyrant in history.
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This book added on : 31-Oct-2003 by IamSquid
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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2)
Category : Classics
Author : J.R.R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkein
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0618002235
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Description : If you think that other books by Tolkien are good, then this one will blow your mind. Nonstop action, sorrows, and laughs. After seeing the movie I went and got the book, trust me, their differences are astronomical.
The fellowship has scattered. Some were bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Some were contending with the treachery of the wizard Saruman. Only Frodo and Sam were left to take the accursed Ring of Power to be destroyed in Mordor---the dark Kingdom where Sauron was supreme. Their guide was Gollum, deceitful and lust-filled, slave to the corruption of the Ring.
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This book added on : 22-Jan-2003 by PoeticChaos
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Wuthering Heights
Category : Classics
Author : Emily Bronte
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0553212583
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Description : Wuthering Heights is a classic tale of possessive and thwarted passion, one of the forerunners of today's soap operas and romance novels. The tempestuous and mythic story of Catherine Earnshaw, the precocious daughter of the house, and the ruggedly handsome, uncultured foundling her father brings home and names Heathcliff, is played out against the backdrop of English moors no less wild and raw than the love they develop for one another. Brought together as children, Catherine and Heathcliff quickly become attached to each other. As they grow older, their companionship turns into obsession. Family, class, and fate work cruelly against them, as do their own jealous and volatile natures, and much of their lives is spent in revenge and frustration. Yet there is something magnificent about the depth and intensity of their love. Even as you condemn Catherine and Heathcliff for the pain they inflict upon themselves and others, it is hard not to listen in awe when Catherine cries out "I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind; not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being."
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This book added on : 08-Oct-2002 by Monolycus
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