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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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It by Stephen King
A promise made twenty-eight years ago calls seven adults to reunite in Derry, Maine, where as teenagers they battled an …
Alex rated The Tin Drum: 4 stars
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Set against the backcloth of National Socialism, [this novel] is told in the first person by the central figure, Oskar …
Alex rated American Gods Volume 2: 3 stars
Alex rated The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: 5 stars
Alex rated The Stars My Destination: 3 stars
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination is a science fiction novel by American writer Alfred Bester. Set in the 24th or 25th …
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost man of letters. …
Alex rated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions: 4 stars
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in …
Alex rated Outliers: The Story of Success: 3 stars
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success is the non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company …
The Magus by John Fowles, John Fowles
A startlingly original novel about a young English graduate who takes a position as a teacher at a private school …
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
National Book Award Finalist - Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch …
Alex rated Dandelion Wine (Earthlight): 3 stars
Dandelion Wine (Earthlight) by Ray Bradbury
The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, …
Alex rated 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created: 5 stars
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
From the author of 1491 -- the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas -- a deeply engaging new history of …
Alex rated The Canterbury Tales: 3 stars
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines …
Alex rated On the Road: 3 stars
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Story of two restless young men in the late 1940s who cross and recross America, encountering parties, girls, drugs, loneliness …