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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 Whipping Girl: 4 stars
Alexia rated African History: 3 stars
Alexia rated Lunar Park: 1 star
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Lunar Park is a mock memoir by American writer Bret Easton Ellis. It was released by Knopf in 2005. It …
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 …
Travesti by Don Kulick (Worlds of desire)
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 …
Alexia rated Journey to the end of the night: 3 stars
Journey to the end of the night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
A savage misanthropic novel of nihilistic gallows humour, this book has nevertheless been very influential, dealing as it does with …
Alexia rated Awakening the Buddha within: 3 stars
Awakening the Buddha within by Surya Das Lama, Lama Surya Das
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism …
Alexia rated Understanding Panic Attacks and Overcoming Fear: 3 stars
Alexia rated The Female Eunuch: 2 stars
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
The Female Eunuch is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in …
1984 by Empty Author (Classici moderni, #19)
Alexia rated All Quiet on the Western Front: 3 stars
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. 'In the West Nothing New') is a novel …
Alexia rated Waiting for Godot: 2 stars
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot (2006)
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot ( GOD-oh) is a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), …
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 …