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Alexia

agaudeul@wyrms.de

Joined 2 years, 7 months ago

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 Bangkok asset: 3 stars

The Bangkok asset by John Burdett

Alexia rated La Reine Margot, Tome I: 3 stars

No cover — Alexandre Dumas: La Reine Margot, Tome I (Paperback, 2008, Dodo Press)

La Reine Margot, Tome I by Alexandre Dumas

Alexia reviewed La guerre n'a pas un visage de femme by Svetlana Aleksievich

Svetlana Aleksievich: La guerre n'a pas un visage de femme (French language)

Review of "La guerre n'a pas un visage de femme" on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Excellent compendium of witness accounts of WW2 from Belarus perspective.

Alexia reviewed The Second Coming by John J. Niven

John J. Niven: The Second Coming (Paperback, 2011, William Heinemann)

Review of 'The Second Coming' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Rather funny, a good exploration of a "what if?", stimulates the imagination.

Alexia reviewed Dead souls by Nicolas Gogol (Penguin classics)

Nicolas Gogol: Dead souls (2004, Penguin)

Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy. Set in Russia before the emancipation of …

Review of 'Dead souls' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

The first book is very amusing, but then it seems that Gogol does not know what direction to take. He seems to want to redeem his hero but probably got bored with writing about good people giving him the good example.

Alexia rated The Time Machine: H.G. Wells' Groundbreaking Time Travel Tale, Classic Science Fiction: 5 stars

H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells (Duplicate): The Time Machine: H.G. Wells' Groundbreaking Time Travel Tale, Classic Science Fiction (2010, Megalodon Entertainment LLC.)

The Time Machine: H.G. Wells' Groundbreaking Time Travel Tale, Classic Science Fiction by H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells (Duplicate)

The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, …

Alexia rated On the Shortness of Life: 4 stars

Seneca the Younger: On the Shortness of Life

On the Shortness of Life by Seneca the Younger

For the Latin song, see the article "De Brevitate Vitae".De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a …

Alexia rated War's unwomanly face: 4 stars

Svetlana Aleksievich, S. Alexiyevich: War's unwomanly face (Hardcover, 1988, Progress Publishers)

War's unwomanly face by Svetlana Aleksievich, S. Alexiyevich

Alexia rated Farewell to Arms: 3 stars

Ernest Hemingway: Farewell to Arms (1997, Penguin Random House)

Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War …

Alexia reviewed Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

Robert M. Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (2006)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values is a book by …

Review of 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Very long winded, slow to get to the point. Only at the end does it get quite exciting, but did the author really need so long to finally reveal what he meant by "Quality"? I felt rather cheated when I found out what he meant (no spoiler! so I do not extend further...). But then, maybe I have exactly the kind of mindset he seems to have a problem with, so it is not so surprising I was frustrated by this book. It took me two years to finally get to the end of it...