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November 2017
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An Essay in Aid of a Grammar Of Assent
John Henry Newman, Nicholas Lash
November 2016
21
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Hell House
I was not frightened by Hell House. To instill horror, the novel depends largely on the transgression of sexual mores. Thos...
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Hell House
Richard Matheson
July 2016
27
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I Want to Show You More
Jamie Quatro
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The Fun Parts
Sam Lipsyte
July 2016
01
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Duplex: A Novel
In my favorite passage of Kafka’s [b:The Trial|17690|The Trial|Franz Kafka|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320399438s/176...
January 2015
01
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
Have you ever attempted to create your own language? I have, though, admittedly, in a desultory kind of way.So, when I spott...
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
Arika Okrent
January 2014
01
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The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
Read “The Strange High House in the Mist”To the many excellent reviews already posted, I'll simply add my praise for two stor...
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The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft
January 2013
1
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The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
January 2012
01
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Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!
Yes, it's true that Goldstein strains to wring humor out of every story.But...This book earned 4 stars not by being funny, bu...
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Death on the Installment Plan
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim
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Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!
Jonathan Goldstein
January 2010
1
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Right Ho, Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
January 2006
1
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The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells
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Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
January 2005
1
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The Time Machine
Greg Bear, H.G. Wells
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The Divine Comedy:1 Hell
Dante Alighieri, Dorothy L. Sayers
January 2001
01
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
If you believe Snapchat and Twitter have satisfied humanity’s need for community, then Bowling Alone’s not for you.If, on the...
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Robert D. Putnam
January 1997
1
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace
January 1996
01
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Reading a Vonnegut novel can feel like going without sleep. Both are disorienting and both can make you irritable. BUT...t...
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
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Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz, Barry Miles
1996
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The Castle
Mark Harman, Franz Kafka
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The Castle
Mark Harman, Franz Kafka
January 1995
1
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard
January 1993
1
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The Castle: Definitive Edition
Franz Kafka, Edwin Muir, Willa Muir, Eithne Wilkins
January 1992
01
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The Trial
If you've ever wondered why Kafka gets his own adjective ("Kafkaesque"), read [book:The Trial|17690]. You won't be disappoin...
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The Trial
Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir
February 1991
28
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
January 1990
01
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Complicity and Conviction: Steps Toward an Architecture of Convention
Hubbard’s book, only 226 pages long, has had a profound influence on my thinking since I read it back in 1990. It was assign...
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Complicity and Conviction: Steps Toward an Architecture of Convention
William L. Hubbard
January 1988
01
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The Iceman Cometh
This edition has a great Forward by [a:Harold Bloom|236|Harold Bloom|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1212940902p2/236.jp...
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The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O'Neill
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