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 …
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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 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 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 …
Alex rated Macunaíma: 4 stars
Alex rated The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: 3 stars
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein about a …
Alex rated The Remains of the Day: 5 stars
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take …
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the …
Alex rated The Importance of Being Earnest: 4 stars
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on …
Alex rated Down and Out in Paris and London: 4 stars
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have …
Alex rated Franny and Zooey: 4 stars
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey is a book by American author J. D. Salinger which comprises his short story "Franny" and novella …
Alex rated Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: 3 stars
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Read John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in Large Print. All Random House Large Print editions …
The Time Machine: H.G. Wells' Groundbreaking Time Travel Tale, Classic Science Fiction by H. G. Wells
The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, …
Alex rated Look to windward: 4 stars
Look to windward by Iain M. Banks
It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.
It led to the destruction of two suns …