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Vanessa rated harry potter the deathly hallows: 5 stars
harry potter the deathly hallows by J.K. Rowling (yep)
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Vanessa rated Long day's journey into night: 3 stars
Long day's journey into night by Eugene O'Neill
Depicts a day in the life of a family deteriorating from alcoholism, drug addiction, and imminent death. Ageing actor, James …
Vanessa rated The Shipping News: 3 stars
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her …
Vanessa rated Slaughterhouse-Five: 4 stars
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (A Dell book)
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is …
Vanessa rated Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: 3 stars
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
AMONG the great masters of the short story, Edgar Allan Poe retains his preeminence after more than a century. Ligeia, …
Vanessa rated The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: 4 stars
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or as it is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a …
Vanessa rated The Return of the King: 3 stars
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Return of the King (Paperback, Ballantine Books)
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings (3))
THE RETURN OF THE KING, which brings to a close the great epic of war and adventure begun in The …
Vanessa rated Cloud Atlas: 2 stars
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young …
Vanessa rated Haroun and the Sea of Stories: 5 stars
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, this classic children's novel inhabits the same …
Vanessa rated Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: 4 stars
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter, #6)
The war against Voldemort is not going well: even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of The …
Vanessa rated Gone with the Wind. Margaret Mitchell: 5 stars
Gone with the Wind. Margaret Mitchell by Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell's monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of …
Vanessa rated Gargantua and Pantagruel: 3 stars
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (Signet Classics) by Howard Pyle
The thrilling and timeless legend, masterfully illustrated. The story of the incomparable Arthur, the lovely Guinevere, the wicked Morgana le …