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Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks: 4 stars
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Unseen Academicals: 4 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Cities of the Plain: 3 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Candide: 3 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated On the Road: 3 stars
Jack Kerouac: On the Road (1976, Penguin Books)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Story of two restless young men in the late 1940s who cross and recross America, encountering parties, girls, drugs, loneliness …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated On Liberty: 3 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Gulliver's Travels: 4 stars
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Malvina G. Vogel, Pablo Marcos, and 1 other
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Che Guevara: 4 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Rubicon: 5 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas: 4 stars
A (Conneticut) Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom by …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The museum of innocence: 3 stars
The museum of innocence by Orhan Pamuk
"It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it." So begins the new novel, his first …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Amerika: 3 stars
Amerika by Franz Kafka
"Franz Kafka's diaries and letters suggest that his fascination with America grew out of a desire to break away from …
