Snow Crash

Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison -- a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and ...
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Average rating: 7.2 | Comments

Atlas Shrugged

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the worldand did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he fight his hardest battle not against his enemies, but against the woman he loves?
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Average rating: 7.0 | Comments (3)

Battle Royale

Battle Royale, a high-octane thriller about senseless youth violence, is one of Japan's best-selling — and most controversial — novels.

As part of a ruthless program by the totalitarian government, ninth-grade students are taken to a small iso...
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Average rating: 7.0 | Comments (3)

Brave New World

Huxley's "Brave New World" is the story of a futuristic World State where all emotion, love, art, and human individuality have been replaced by social stability. An ominous warning to the world's population, this literary classic is a must-read.
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Average rating: 6.8 | Comments (3)

1984

George Orwell's celebrated and always timely 1948 vision of a world subsumed in tyranny and war describes the process of events by which Winston Smith, a London clerk at the Ministry of Truth, comes to understand the true nature and aims of the gover...
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Average rating: 6.7 | Comments (3)