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The Trial by Franz Kafka, Edibooks, David Wyllie
Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to …
jakob rated Der Schamane: 4 stars
jakob rated Der Medicus: 4 stars
Der Medicus by Noah Gordon
The Physician is a novel by Noah Gordon. It is about the life of a Christian English boy in the …
jakob rated Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: 4 stars
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner)
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, …
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Eragon is the first book in The Inheritance Cycle by American fantasy writer Christopher Paolini. Paolini, born in 1983, began …
jakob rated Stranger Albert Camus: 4 stars
Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert: Stranger Albert Camus (2021, Independently Published)
Stranger Albert Camus by Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert
L'Étranger est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera …
jakob rated Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: 4 stars
jakob rated Forever Free: 3 stars
jakob rated The Joy of X: 4 stars
The Joy of X by Steven H. Strogatz
A world-class mathematician and regular contributor to the New York Times hosts a delightful tour of the greatest ideas of …
jakob rated The Forever War 2: 5 stars
jakob rated The Forever War: 5 stars
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
"The legendary novel of extraterrestrial war in an uncaring universe comes to comics, in a stunningly realized vision of Joe …
jakob rated Verbrechen und Strafe: 5 stars
Verbrechen und Strafe by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: Преступленіе и наказаніе; post-reform Russian: Преступление и наказание, tr. Prestupléniye i nakazániye, IPA: [prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪje ɪ …
jakob rated Don't Panic: 4 stars
Don't Panic by Neil Gaiman, David K. Dickson, M. J. Simpson, and 1 other
'It's all absolutely devastatingly true -- except the bits that are lies' Douglas Adams
Don't Panic celebrates the life of …
jakob rated Neuromancer: 5 stars
Neuromancer by William Gibson (unspecified) (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)
The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in …