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Alex

Alex@bookwyrm.gatti.ninja

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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 waste land: 5 stars

The waste land by T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of …

Alex rated Nixonland: 5 stars

Rick Perlstein: Nixonland (2008, Scribner)

Nixonland by Rick Perlstein

From one of America's most talented historians comes a brilliant new account of Richard Nixon--set against the violent passions of …

Alex rated A Son of the Circus: 4 stars

John Irving: A Son of the Circus (Paperback, 1999, Ballantine Books)

A Son of the Circus by John Irving

Alex rated Contact: 3 stars

Carl Sagan: Contact (Paperback, French language, 1997, Pocket)

Contact by Carl Sagan

In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who …

Alex rated Holidays on Ice: 4 stars

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

Alex rated The jungle: 4 stars

Upton Sinclair: The jungle (2003, See Sharp Press)

The jungle by Upton Sinclair

The horrifying conditions in the meatpacking industry in the early 1900's are revealed through the experiences of immigrants as they …

Alex rated Let's explore diabetes with owls: 3 stars

David Sedaris, David Sedaris: Let's explore diabetes with owls (2013, Little, Brown and Company)

Let's explore diabetes with owls by David Sedaris, David Sedaris

From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing …

Alex rated Jitterbug Perfume: 4 stars

Tom Robbins: Jitterbug Perfume (Paperback, 2001, No Exit Press)

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

Jitterbug Perfume is an epic.Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until …

Alex rated Nausea: 3 stars

Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea (1964, New Directions)

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (A New Directions Paperbook)

A fascinating existentialist novel, written in the form of a journal, about a historian who moves to a small port …

Alex rated One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 4 stars

Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Paperback, 2008, Penguin Books)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, …

Alex rated Immortality: 4 stars

Milan Kundera: Immortality (Paperback, 1992, Faber)

Immortality by Milan Kundera

Alex rated Mother Night: 4 stars

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

Mother Night is a novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut, first published in February 1962. The title of the book …

Alex reviewed Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini

Luigi Serafini: Codex Seraphinianus (1983, Abbeville Press)

Review of 'Codex Seraphinianus' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

My dad found this in the remainder pile at some bookstore in the 1980s and it's haunted my dreams ever since. For the longest time this book was very hard to come by... original copies were selling for as much as a $1000. However it's now been reprinted, so as of now I feel everyone should have a copy of what is certainly a masterpiece of surrealist book art.

Alex rated Il cavaliere inesistente: 4 stars

Italo Calvino: Il cavaliere inesistente (Italian language, 1993, A. Mondadori)