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39% complete! Eivind (like the Terrible) has read 39 of 100 books.
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Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Bly: 3 stars
Bly by Lars Saabye Christensen
Kim Karlsen, hovedpersonen i romanen Beatles, kommer med danskeferga inn til Oslo. Han er på leting ettersammenhenger, etter noe å …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Papillon: 4 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Wee Free Men: 3 stars
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett (Carnegie medalist)
A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Time for outrage!: 5 stars
Time for outrage! by Stéphane Hessel
Rejecting the dictatorship of world financial markets and defending the social values of modern democracy, Hessel reminds us that life …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Iliad: 3 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Still Life with Woodpecker: 3 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated A Visit from the Goon Squad: 3 stars
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and …
Forcibly removed from the ancient village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of …
Review of 'Mornings in Jenin' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Good Omens: 4 stars
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right.
According …
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The age of reason: 3 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) rated The Yiddish Policemen's Union: 4 stars
Eivind (like the Terrible) reviewed The Gospel according to Jesus Christ by José Saramago (Harvest in translation)
Review of 'The Gospel according to Jesus Christ' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This Gospel is up there with Biff's :)
This Gospel is up there with Biff's :)
A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of “Naked”, presents a collection …
Review of 'Me talk pretty one day' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Bottleneck :)
Review of 'Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I was a bit perplexed when Genghis died about halfway through, as I thought this was his biography. It turned out to be a good overview of the entire period of the Mongol Empire instead. It got a bit tiresome the way he constantly felt the need to emphasize how much more humane the Mongols were than their European contemporaries, though. Not that I doubt that's true, and I understand that this is supposed to be revisionist, but still...
I was a bit perplexed when Genghis died about halfway through, as I thought this was his biography. It turned out to be a good overview of the entire period of the Mongol Empire instead. It got a bit tiresome the way he constantly felt the need to emphasize how much more humane the Mongols were than their European contemporaries, though. Not that I doubt that's true, and I understand that this is supposed to be revisionist, but still...