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The Brothers Karamazov
Category : Classics
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0374528373
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Description : ". . . Dostoevsky's [world], with . . . its resourceful energies of life and language, is . . . beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader."
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This book added on : 08-Oct-2002 by Monolycus
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I, Robot
Category : Classics
Author : Isaac Asimov
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0553294385
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Description : Possibly one of the best Asimov short story compilations. One of my favorite books, though eloquent, it can be appreciated by a fourth grader or an adult avid reader. It has that gentle, yet intelligent touch I have only seen Asimov possess. The book takes you to the beginning of robotics on earth, through the Robopsychologist Susan Calvin. It becomes extremely complex, utilizing the robotic psychological boundaries called The Three Laws. One of those books that everyone should read by default of existing.
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This book added on : 27-Jan-2003 by Sticupus
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Grendel
Category : Classics
Author : John Champlin Gardner, Emil Antonucci
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0679723110
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Description : Grendel is a beautiful and heartbreaking modern retelling of the Beowulf epic from the point of view of the monster, Grendel, the villain of the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon epic. This book benefits from both of Gardner's careers: in addition to his work as a novelist, Gardner was a noted professor of medieval literature and a scholar of ancient languages
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This book added on : 31-Oct-2003 by MystryssRavynDarque
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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 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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Lolita
Category : Classics
Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0679723161
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Description : An impecable look into the mind of a man driven by insanity, which manifests itself in peadophilic tentancies. He travels America giving it a new review in light of the dark secret he carries. Through his eyes the seemingly sane world can be viewed by all of us who read the book as a series of illogical stumblings.
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This book added on : 12-Jun-2003 by Abbadon
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