Alex rated The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1): 4 stars
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1) by Caleb Carr
The Alienist is a crime novel by Caleb Carr first published in 1994 and is the first book in the …
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Sono Americano e il mio Italiano é molto fuori di pratica. Studiavo per un anno al'Universitá di Bologna più di venti cinque anni fa. Italo Calvino é il mio autore Italiano favorito. Oh, wait, seems like a fairly international crowd here.
Over on Mastodon, I'm: @alex_galt@mas.to I'm not sure how to connect this thing to that thing.
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Alex rated The Canterbury Tales: 3 stars
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines …
Alex rated Black Hawk down: 3 stars
Mark Bowden: Black Hawk down (1999, Atlantic Monthly Press)
Black Hawk down by Mark Bowden
Late in the afternoon of Sunday, 3 October 1993, 140 elite US soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market …
Alex rated Neverwhere: 5 stars
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
"Richard Mayhew is an ordinary young man with an ordinary life and a good heart. His world is changed forever …
Alex rated Frankenstein: 3 stars
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks …
Alex rated The Last Unicorn: 4 stars
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn, #1)
The Last Unicorn is a fantasy novel by American author Peter S. Beagle and published in 1968, by Viking Press …
Alex rated Farewell to Arms: 3 stars
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War …
Alex rated The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1): 3 stars
The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1) by Terry Brooks
The Sword of Shannara is a 1977 epic fantasy novel by American writer Terry Brooks. It is the first book …
Alex rated Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: 3 stars
Alex rated The Magic Mountain: 3 stars
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain (German: Der Zauberberg, pronounced [deːɐ̯ ˈt͡saʊ̯bɐˌbɛʁk] (listen)) is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German …
Alex rated The Tale of Despereaux: 4 stars
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo
Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named …
Our Ancestors: The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight by Italo Calvino
Our Ancestors (Italian: I Nostri Antenati) is the name of Italo Calvino's "heraldic trilogy" that comprises The Cloven Viscount (1952), …
Alex rated Heart of Darkness: 4 stars
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River …
Alex rated Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal: 4 stars
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created …
Alex rated The house of the spirits: 5 stars
The house of the spirits by Isabel Allende
Primera novela de Isabel Allende. La casa de los espíritus narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes latinoamericanos. …