Alex rated Les Misérables ...: Marius: 5 stars
Les Misérables ...: Marius by Victor Hugo
Les Misérables (, French: [le mizeʁabl(ə)]) is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is …
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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.
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Alex rated The Cat in the Hat: 4 stars
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat is a 1957 children's book written and illustrated by the American author Theodor Geisel, using …
Alex rated Fathers and Sons: 3 stars
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Fathers and Sons (Russian: «Отцы и дети»; Otcy i deti, IPA: [ɐˈtsɨ i ˈdʲetʲi]; archaic spelling Отцы и дѣти), also …
Alex rated The Republic: 4 stars
The Republic by Platone
The Republic (Greek: Πολιτεία, translit. Politeia; Latin: De Republica) is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BC, concerning …
Alex rated Around the world in eighty days: 4 stars
Around the world in eighty days by Jules Verne (Penguin classics)
Phileas Fogg, a very punctual man had broken into an argument while conversing about the recent bank robbery. To keep …
Alex rated THE SELFISH GENE: 3 stars
THE SELFISH GENE by Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene is a 1976 book on evolution by the ethologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon …
Alex rated Capital in the Twenty-First Century: 4 stars
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer, Ilse Utz, and 1 other
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, …
Alex rated Lies my teacher told me: 4 stars
Alex rated The Fellowship of the Ring: 5 stars
The Fellowship of the Ring 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 Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas: 3 stars
Tom Robbins: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (Paperback, 2002, No Exit Press)
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you--an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker--are …
Alex rated Love in the Time of Cholera: 5 stars
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera (Spanish: El amor en los tiempos del cólera) is a novel written in Spanish …
Alex rated A Doll\'s House: 3 stars
Alex rated Jurassic Park: 2 stars
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now, one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has …