Alex rated Portnoy's Complaint: 3 stars
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Portnoy's Complaint is a 1969 American novel by Philip Roth. Its success turned Roth into a major celebrity, sparking a …
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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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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings …
Alex rated The Big Short. Movie Tie-in: 3 stars
Longitude by Dava Sobel
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to …
Alex rated A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century: 4 stars
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century is a narrative history book by the American historian Barbara Tuchman, first published …
Alex rated Orientalism: 3 stars
Orientalism by Edward W. Said (Vintage)
In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated …
Alex rated My cousin, my gastroenterologist: 4 stars
My cousin, my gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner (Vintage Contemporaries)
Alex rated The Metamorphosis: 5 stars
The Metamorphosis by Guy de Maupassant, Franz Kafka
Kafka Die Verwandlung The Metamorphosis
A story - not very long - about a man, Georg Samsa, who when waking …
Alex rated A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 3 stars
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Richard Ellmann
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman …
Alex rated The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays: 3 stars
Alex rated The Hound of the Baskervilles: 4 stars
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
Alex rated What's the matter with Kansas?: 4 stars
What's the matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank
One of "our most insightful social observers"* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker …
Alex rated The little prince: 5 stars
The little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Harbrace paperbound library -- HPL 30)
An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little man from a small planet who …
