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Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Mother Night: 4 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Midnight in Siberia: 3 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Story of Medieval England: 3 stars
Review of 'Short History of Russia' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Lolita: 4 stars
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Imperium: 4 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Master & Margarita: 5 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Russia: 3 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Russia: 4 stars
Russia by Martin Sixsmith
The full and fascinating story of Russia, from its founding in the waning years of the tenth century to its …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Foucault's pendulum: 2 stars
Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco
English:
An Enthralling Mystery, a breathtaking rollercoaster ride through a world of ideas and aberrations, an adventure into the …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Vikings: 5 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Daughters of Isis: 3 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The half has never been told: 4 stars
The half has never been told by Edward E. Baptist
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and …