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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 The informers: 2 stars
The informers by Bret Easton Ellis
Los Angeles, 1980s. Centers on an array of characters who represent both the top of the heap - a Hollywood …
Alexia rated War and Peace: 3 stars
War and peace.: War and Peace (AudiobookFormat, Russian language, 2008, Blackstone Audio)
War and Peace by War and peace.
Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the …
Alexia rated Death on the Installment Plan: 2 stars
No exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual …
Alexia rated The rules of attraction: 5 stars
The rules of attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
First Sentence: “And it’s a story that might bore you, but you don’t have to listen, she told me, because …
Alexia rated Twenty Years After (The D'Artagnan Romances #2): 2 stars
Twenty Years After (The D'Artagnan Romances #2) by Alexandre Dumas
Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed …
Alexia rated The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: 3 stars
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H. T. Willetts, Thomas P. Whitney, and 3 others
The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and …
Nana by Émile Zola
Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in …
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Citadelle (Paperback, French language, 1983, Gallimard)
Citadelle by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Collection folio -- 108)
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Nausea (French: La Nausée) is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. It is Sartre's …
Alexia rated The complete Claudine: 3 stars
Alexia rated Kafka on the Shore: 3 stars
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) is a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Its 2005 English …
