Alex rated Italian Folktales: 5 stars
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
Chosen as one of the New York Times's ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection …
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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 Aesop's fables: 4 stars
Aesop's fables by Aesop (Oxford world's classics)
Alex rated The Year of the Flood: 4 stars
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (MaddAddam, #2)
The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as …
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 …
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
Alex rated Gravity's Rainbow: 2 stars
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the …
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 Great Expectations: 4 stars
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an …
Alex rated Foucault's Pendulum: 5 stars
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
En el año 2002, el estudio central de la Cadena SER se transformó en la nave del misterio. Con la …
Alex rated Bird by Bird: 4 stars
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott gives her perspective on the art and work of writing. The title comes from a family story when …