Alex rated Tuck Everlasting: 3 stars
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
A surprising encounter between a young girl and a family which is cursed with everlasting life develops into a deep …
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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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No Logo by Naomi Klein
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies is a book by the Canadian author Naomi Klein. First published by …
Alex rated The Dharma Bums: 3 stars
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 To the lighthouse: 3 stars
To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey, Virginia Woolf
This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now …
Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as …
Alex rated The Fortress of Solitude: 4 stars
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
The Fortress of Solitude is a 2003 semi-autobiographical novel by Jonathan Lethem set in Brooklyn and spanning the 1970s, '80s, …
Alex rated Mr. Vertigo.: 3 stars
Paul Auster: Mr. Vertigo. (Paperback, German language, 1997, Rowohlt Tb.)
Mr. Vertigo. by Paul Auster
Mr. Vertigo is a novel written by the American author Paul Auster. Faber & Faber first published it in 1994 …
Alex rated The Omnivore's Dilemma: 4 stars
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
What should we have for dinner? For omnivore's like ourselves, this simple question has always posed a dilemma: When you …
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 Breakfast of champions: 4 stars
Breakfast of champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that …
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth …
Alex rated The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol: 4 stars
Alex rated Atlas Shrugged: 1 star
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. Her fourth and final novel published during her lifetime, it was …
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 …