• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
    • BLAH. I got it. Censorship is bad
  • The Ugly American - William Lederer and Eugene Burdick
  • Atonement - Ian McEwan
    • Super good and a much needed change of pace
  • American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
    • Who would've known the 14-year-old boy whose fellow campers carried him into an icehouse, stripped him, knocked him out, painted his butt and genitals green, and locked him inside overnight would become the father of the atomic bomb?
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
    • Hm? What's all this now? Tightened muscles, a pit in my stomach...I wonder how this could possibly be!
  • The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint ExupĂ©ry
    • Richard Howard's translation is much better than Katherine Woods's, which is so dry and lacks any flow at all
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
  • The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
    • Good and super creepy
  • The Mouse that Roared - Leonard Wibberley
  • The Mouse on the Moon - Leonard Wibberley
  • The Giver - Lois Lowry
  • In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
    • This book wasn't read, it was defeated
  • Voltaire: Candide, Zadig, and selected writings - Translated by Donald Frame
jul 17 2008 ∞
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