Alexia rated The Temple of the Golden Pavilion: 4 stars
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (金閣寺, Kinkaku-ji) is a novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. It was published …
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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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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century. …
Alexia rated George Orwell Boxed Set (1984 and Animal Farm): 3 stars
George Orwell Boxed Set (1984 and Animal Farm) by George Orwell
Contains:
- Animal Farm
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
Alexia rated Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray: 3 stars
Alexia rated Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1): 3 stars
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) by Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton. A cautionary tale about genetic engineering, it presents …
Alexia rated Remains of the Day: 2 stars
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the world's …
Alexia rated Bangkok haunts: 3 stars
Bangkok haunts by John Burdett
Royal Thai Police detective and devout Buddhist Sonchai Jitpleecheep investigates a mysterious snuff film in which the victim is Damrong, …
Alexia rated The Master and Margarita: 5 stars
The Master and Margarita by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.
An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and …
Alexia rated Whipping Girl: 4 stars
Alexia rated An introduction to game theory: 2 stars
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion …
Alexia rated Prozac Nation: 4 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, …
Alexia rated The Alchemist: 3 stars
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist details the journey of a young Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago. Santiago, believing a recurring dream to be …
Alexia rated Animal Farm: 3 stars
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells …