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| | 1. | [no image] | The Unbearable Lightness of Being
from Harper & Row
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i really enjoyed this book, it's one of those ones you have to think about. the story follows two couples, tomas and tereza and sabina and franz. these people are used to embody certain ideals and characteristics, and i interpreted their actions more as metaphor rather than just an act in itself.more info
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| | 3. |  | The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
from Holt Paperbacks
Price: $12.92
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I purchased this book at a college book store. I think it was there because it was required reading for math education majors. It also might have been a book for elementary teachers that were taking a math methods course. Regardless of why it was there, I purchased it and read it. It was a fun and... more info
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| | 4. |  | The Joke
from Faber and Faber
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Very well-written novel about the moral deformity of a man, those who act against him, and of the communist system as a whole. Yes, the "joke" if you can call it that, is certainly on Ludvik and on everyone who puts their willing suspension of disbelief into communism.
That said, what's up with... more info
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| | 5. | [no image] | Too Loud a Solitude
from Harcourt
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After several false starts, I finally read Too Loud a Solitude in just two days (98 breezy pages). It is by Bohumil Hrabal, the Czech author of Closely Watched Trains. I don't know too much about Czech literature or culture, and I didn't know Hrabal was the author of Trains, but when I was reading... more info
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| | 6. |  | Peeling the Onion
from Harvest Books
Price: $9.00
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A nice way of finding out who this author is and how he started on the road to the nobel prize . The early years in Danzig are fascinating and his experiences in war frightening in the extreme. Not being able to ride a bicycle probably saved his life and watching a huge Russian tank roll at him in... more info
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| | 7. |  | Death in Venice
from Harper Perennial
Price: $10.36
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i literally finished this book in half a day. I could not put it down or get it out of my head. Quite simply, one of the best novels I have EVER read. Every word sticks, the body is transported to another world and then at the last page, brings you back into cold, harsh reality, breathless.
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| | 10. |  | The Ministry of Pain
from Telegram Books
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The Washington Post called Dubravka Ugresic's The Ministry of Pain "a shiningly weird novel...[it] almost reaches perfection."
Well, I don't know about the perfection nor the weird part, but The Ministry of Pain gives the reader something to think about. The author and the protagonist are both... more info
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