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French and English books, a few in German.
Many fields, including economics, philosophy and psychology, but lately more into Buddhism of the Zen persuasion.
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Alexia rated Existentialism is a Humanism: 2 stars
Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominent European intellectual of the post-World …
Alexia rated Less Than Zero (Picador Books): 4 stars
Less Than Zero (Picador Books) by Bret Easton Ellis
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost …
Alexia rated Strait is the Gate (La Porte etroite): 2 stars
Alexia rated Castle to castle: 3 stars
Castle to castle by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Castle to Castle is the English title of the 1957 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, titled in French D'un château l'autre. …
Alexia rated Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow: 3 stars
Alexia rated Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 4 stars
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
Collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories …
Alexia rated The Three Musketeers: 3 stars
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
A young Gascon nobleman, d'Artagnan, sets off for Paris in hopes of joining the Musketeers. He proves himself fighting with …
Alexia rated Cancer Ward: 3 stars
Alexia rated Being and Nothingness: 2 stars
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
Being & Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant philosophical books of the 20th century. The central work …
Alexia rated The Ladies' Paradise: 3 stars
The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola
Au Bonheur des Dames (French pronunciation: [obɔnœʁ deˈdam]; The Ladies' Delight or The Ladies' Paradise) is the eleventh novel in …
Alexia rated La bête humaine: 3 stars
La bête humaine by Émile Zola (The world's classics)
Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bête …
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
Glamorama is a 1998 novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis. Glamorama is set in and satirizes the 1990s, specifically …