Alex rated A Clash of Kings: 4 stars
A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
A Clash of Kings is the second of seven planned novels in A Song of Ice and Fire, an epic …
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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 A Wild Sheep Chase: 4 stars
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for …
Alex rated Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1): 4 stars
Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1) by Dante Alighieri
Inferno (Italian: [iɱˈfɛrno]; Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. …
Alex rated The Silmarillion (Middle-Earth Universe): 3 stars
The Silmarillion (Middle-Earth Universe) by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion (Quenya: [silmaˈrilliɔn]) is a collection of myths and stories in varying styles by the English writer J. R. …
Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics …
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 …
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 flavor of Wisconsin: 5 stars
Alex rated Democracy in America: 3 stars
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (Penguin classics)
De La Démocratie en Amérique (published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a …
Alex rated The Hotel New Hampshire: 5 stars
John Irving: The Hotel New Hampshire (1986, Black Swan)
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second …
Alex rated [Gone Girl] [by: 4 stars
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Alex rated The Magicians (The Magicians #1): 3 stars
The Magicians (The Magicians #1) by Lev Grossman
The Magicians is a new adult fantasy novel by the American author Lev Grossman, published in 2009 by Viking Press. …
Alex rated Another Roadside Attraction: 3 stars
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
What if the Second Coming didn't quite come off as advertised? What if "the corpse" on display in that funky …
Alex rated Starship Troopers: 2 stars
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids …
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 …