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  • Translators for Russian books: Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
  • Don't bother with
    • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
    • Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
    • The Way Of All Flesh by Samuel Batler
    • 1984 by George Orwell
    • Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    • The Wings Of The Dove by Henry James
    • The Ambassadors by Henry James
    • Animal Farm by George Orwell
    • Howards End by E.M. Forster
    • Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
    • Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
    • From Here To Eternity by James Jones
    • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
    • The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
    • Under The Net by Iris Murdoch
    • The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain
  • Introductory level math book: "What is Mathematics?" by Courant and Robbins. Favorite math book: A Course Of Pure Mathematics by G.H. Hardy link
  • For you guys that like movies, I recommend two books. The Hustler by Walter Tevis and The Color of Money by Walter Tevis
  • Recommended translator for Turgenev's Fathers and Sons - Bernard Guilbert Guerney
  • Les Miserables by Victor Hugo- It's much more than good. It's essential. Recommended translator - Julie Rose
  • The Joke by Milan Kundera - I thought it was fantastic. I read it twice