Listopia > Michael Mattin's votes on the list Best Books Ever (45 Books)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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"Canon for any American"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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"Never think of war the same"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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"Canon, you need to know this "
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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Catch-22
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"explains the concept t"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
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"Canon"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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"Explains attitudes towards mental health care"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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"newcanon"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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The Brothers Karamazov
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"all of Dostoyevsky needs to be read and understood"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Old Man and the Sea
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"Hemingway/writing"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Complete Stories and Poems
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"origin of modern horror"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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Anna Karenina
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"Just a great writer"
Michael
rated it 4 stars
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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"Read it over and over...the Novel"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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1984
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"Too close to truth"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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"Americans need to read this as teenagers"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Metamorphosis
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"Kafka, to understand europe"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr
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"Duh...where our language came from"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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"All of Seiss should be memorized b children"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)
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"Explains baby boomers"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Lorax
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"modern ecology's philosophy"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Prophet
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"To understand love and feeling"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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Heart of Darkness
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"Too understand evil "
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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"very modern canon"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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Alice in Wonderland
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"plder canon"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Call of the Wild
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"To understand the West, for americans"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
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"Seuss...essential"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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Oliver Twist
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"my people came from England...this is part of why we left"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
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"Our ancient history"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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Treasure Island
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"So kids can imagine"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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Ulysses
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"Our relatively ancient history"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Canterbury Tales
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"Very early English"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The World According to Garp
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"To understand the 60s"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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A Farewell to Arms
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"War and tragedy, and writing"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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David Copperfield
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"England"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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Schindler’s List
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"Never forget, and never forget the heroes"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Sun Also Rises
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"Writing"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Wind in the Willows
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"For fun"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Iliad / The Odyssey
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"Classic, understand how people thought differently then"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Trial
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"Modernity"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
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"For fathers and sons"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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Othello
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"For understanding foolish emotions"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Idiot
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"Rusia"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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Paradise Lost
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"Religiosity"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Complete Works
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"canon"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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"canon"
Michael
rated it 5 stars
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