Alex rated The Prince: 3 stars
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and …
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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 Prague Cemetery: 5 stars
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
The Prague Cemetery (Italian: Il cimitero di Praga) is a novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It was first published …
Alex rated Trainspotting (Mark Renton #2): 4 stars
Trainspotting (Mark Renton #2) by Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, first published in 1993. It takes the form of a …
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
I, Robot is a fixup novel of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories …
Alex rated Franz Kafka's The castle: 4 stars
Alex rated Fight Club: 4 stars
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. …
Alex rated 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus: 4 stars
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.Traditionally, Americans …
Alex rated The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: 3 stars
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Russian: Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, Arkhipelag GULAG)Note 1 is a three-volume non-fiction text written …
Alex rated The Right Stuff: 3 stars
Alex rated Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: 4 stars
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane …
Alex rated A Prayer for Owen Meany: 4 stars
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills …
Alex rated Kitchen Confidential: 3 stars
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying …
Alex rated Prozac Nation: 3 stars
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Prozac Nation is a memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel published in 1994. The book describes the author's experiences with atypical depression, …
Othello by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's tragedy of jealousy and suspicion presented scene by scene in comic book format.