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paul rated Forward the Foundation: 4 stars
Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov (The Foundation Novels, #7)
During the whole Foundation series, one man has always had his hand in the development of a galaxy. Merely hinted …
paul rated Foundation and Chaos (Second Foundation Trilogy): 4 stars
paul rated A Prayer for Owen Meany: 3 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 …
paul rated Steve Jobs: 5 stars
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs is the authorized self-titled biography of American business magnate and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The book was written …
paul rated The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 2 stars
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy …
paul rated Ender's Game: 5 stars
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more …
paul rated 2061: Odyssey Three: 4 stars
2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke (Odyssey #3)
A re-visitation of the imaginative future painted by Arthur C. Clarke in his previous two books [2001: A Space Odyssey][1] …
paul rated The Name of the Rose: 5 stars
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville’s investigation …
paul rated The Catcher in the Rye: 4 stars
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New …
paul rated A Wizard of Earthsea: 4 stars
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #1)
A Wizard of Earthsea is a fantasy novel written by American author Ursula K. Le Guin and first published by …
paul rated Faceless Killers: 3 stars
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (Kurt Wallander mysteries)
It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned …
paul rated Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four: 3 stars
paul rated Postmortem: 3 stars
Patricia Cornwell: Postmortem (1998, Pocket Books)
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
A serial killer is strangling victims, and Kay Scarpetta has to use forensic science to find him, before she is …
paul rated Brave New World: 3 stars
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good …