4.31 avg rating — 532,294 ratings

"beautiful book."

4.34 avg rating — 2,599,684 ratings

"super beautiful book."

4.26 avg rating — 7,110,703 ratings

"really captures a time and an era where maintaining a certain type of integrity was the priority."

4.12 avg rating — 1,147,490 ratings

"amazing story, magical and inspiring, love and hope and so many levels of life."

3.89 avg rating — 307,839 ratings

"incapsualtes New orleans for me through the life of such a freshly unusual protagonist, really makes me think about life and fate and coincidence."

4.12 avg rating — 812,105 ratings

"paints a picture of a world in which I have never experienced and a kind of devotion that is rare."

4.03 avg rating — 1,518,792 ratings

"Anaylzes the complex arguments of right, wrong vs. existence in it's pure form in a fresh and colorful simplicity."

4.20 avg rating — 795,070 ratings

"quintessential book on the notions of insanity and saneness, and the way freedom is determined and experienced."

4.03 avg rating — 4,795,120 ratings

"Wonderful, playful look at systems of power and corruption."

4.09 avg rating — 754,348 ratings

"Humanizes two people who have committed an act of inhuman violence and senselessness, and shows the relationship between ones past and human emotion and need as it connects to spontaneous actions of life altering proportions. "

4.28 avg rating — 448,310 ratings

"Fantastical, amazing, delightful- a spellbinding journey through the concepts of good, evil, god, satan, corruption, altruism, love, deceit, selfishness, selflessness and everything else in between. A book that needs to be read over and over again."

3.82 avg rating — 1,372,365 ratings

"A visually stimulating journey of inner strength, solitude, and the power of personal fortitude against the odds."

4.04 avg rating — 1,309,592 ratings

"So eloquently chronicles the decent into depression, and mental illness and the subsequent alienation and struggle of trying to find meaning in the boundariless state of being morbidly mentally ill."

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