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Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Crossing: 3 stars
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (Border Trilogy (2))
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Fermat's Enigma: 4 stars
Simon Singh: Fermat's Enigma (1998, Anchor)
Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The house of the mosque: 5 stars
The house of the mosque by Kader Abdolah
Iran, 1969. In the house of the mosque, the family of Aqa Jaan has lived for eight centuries. The house …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated all the Pretty Horses: 3 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Communist Manifesto: 3 stars
The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx (Penguin classics)
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today
Originally published on the eve of the 1848 …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Road: 4 stars
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Spinoza in 90 minutes: 3 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Trial: 4 stars
Andrea Gouveia, Franz Kafka: The Trial (Paperback, 2016, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform)
The Trial by Andrea Gouveia, Franz Kafka
Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Odyssey: 4 stars
The Odyssey by Homer
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Once There Was a War: 3 stars
Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck
“Age can never dull this kind of writing,” writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbeck’s dispatches from World War II, …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Tales of the Greek Heroes: 3 stars
Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green
Explore the real Greek myths behind Percy Jackson's story - he's not the first Perseus to have run into trouble …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Homage to Catalonia: 3 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Shogun: 5 stars
Shogun by James Clavell
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer …
To Kill a Mockingbird (To Kill a Mockingbird, #1) by Harper Lee
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To …