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The True Believer Dies In The Dream Of The Unborn Butterfly.
My name is James Haffner, and I began my sixty-sixth birthday by visiting my bucket and mop, my work colleague is the metal type on wheels. This is wh...
Dream Of The Unborn Butterfly
Dream Of The Unborn Butterfly. My life began when I surrendered my soul to nature, the way falling leaves surrender to the wind.This is when I bui...
Atlas Shrugged
Actually, this book doesn't make good predictions on what would happen if the wealthiest industrialists left society to form their own. For one thi...
Bad monkey
This mfkr is hilarious. Literally will make you laugh out loud and have people and animals give you a side-eyes glances like you might have lost your...
Gravity's Rainbow
Every time I read Pynchon, I am not sure what is going on, but the payoff is worth it. Sci-fi and Historical Fiction. It explores history, colonialism...
The Alchemist
An Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago dreams of a treasure while in a ruined church. He consults a Gypsy fortune-teller about the meaning of the r...
Victory
Ask most readers if they have read any Conrad and they’re likely to respond with Heart of Darkness—the classic tale that inspired the acclaimed film A...
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( Tell why you like the Book, what is your favorite chapter, what type of book is it, what did you learn from this Book, how did you first find out ab...
Love in the time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez narrates the various forms of love between human relationships: unrequited love, love in marriage, platonic love, anger-laden l...
Sophie's World
"Sophie's World" is a novel by Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder. It follows Sophie Amundsen, a Norwegian teenager, who is introduced to the history of...
Tom sawyer
If you are the oldies ... You must know this book besides " the adventure of huckleberry finn " ....
Hannibal
Hannibal is a historical (and also biographical) novel of the great general, by the important Austrian writer Mirko Jelusich. The writer chronicles...
Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks is the first work of one of the most important German writers, Thomas Mann, masterfully initiating his literary career. The story is b...
The New Life
Being a classic work of the famous Florentine poet, La vita nuova is one of the great innovations of the Renaissance Age, a kind of "milestone"...
The Island of the Day Before
In this story, the Italian intellectual Umberto Eco narrates the adventures of a castaway in the seventeenth century, when a nobleman reaches "the lim...
The Iliad
After the Christian Bible, Homer's Iliad was the second most read work in the world, being part of the universal tradition. The aoidói - a kin...
The Roman
This one is a classic work of Mika Waltari, a renowed Finnish writer: The Roman is about the life of a character who describes detailed its typical [i...
A Passage to India
This is considered E.M.Forster's master piece, published in 1924, the novel is an authentic evidence of all events that came to pass in India during t...
Howards End
The book describes about changes and transitions in England during the beginning of 1910 and the author seems to antecipate most events in Europe such...
Choque de Reyes
Es uno de los siete libros que integrará la heptalogía llamada "Canción de Hielo Y Fuego". Es una saga de fantasía medieval donde la magia es poca aun...
The Haj
This is a fictional tale of Saudi Arabian Muslims at the turn of the 19th century who must journey to Mecca as part of their religious/cultural commit...
Animal Farm
all animals are equal,but some animals are more equal then others...fav quote from the book...it's quite a chilling statement...
RE: Eckhart Tolle: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Book for beginner !!!...
RE: Patrick Suskind: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
@Olvena...
RE: Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged
It is totally apparent that the last post was from a person with no understanding of Ms. Rand, her life, or her philosophy. That is usually the case with people who react so negatively to her writings. First of all, if you cared to educate yourself a...
RE: John Ginesi: Ghost Of The Titanic (The Book)
I wrote this story when I was in hospital but never ever published it. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it. The Titanic was a tragedy but I always think fondly of the ill fated ship, I also wrote another short story "Titanic In Ne...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
lipsee I am not picky. There is a big difference between novel and play, especially when you talk about some one like Shakespeare. Nice...
Foucault's Pendulum
Summary The plot of this novel comes at the beginning of the seventies the twentieth century, when in Italy youth riots were still raging. However,...
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
One of Orwells lesser know books, it tells of financial hardship and love. An everyday struggle against society. BOOK REVIEW. "London, 1936. Gordon...
We Are the Goldens
When Nell starts high school in San Francisco, she plans to follow in the footsteps of her near-perfect sister Layla, whom she loves with a devotion t...
Songs of Innocence and Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an illustrated collection of poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were pri...
The Light Between Oceans
I found this book on a trip to NZ. Started reading and couldn't put it down. As the blurb says it's a" haunting novel of love and loss and remarkable...
portrait of a young man drowning
A very powerful book! Not a nice book, quite horrific in parts. The only book the author Charles Perry had published. The only manuscript for his othe...
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (1914) is a semi-biographical novel by the Irish writer Robert Tressell, published after his death from tuberculo...
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Brilliant book, have read several times, and every time I spot the movie on TV I watch again....
The great Gatsby
A work on emptiness, on the absence of real values, on authentic affections, on loneliness, on boredom, on the drama of the American myth....