Category: Books
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[Books] The Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
This was a book (same as The Satanic Verses ) that got my full attention and kept my interest to the highest limits during the 600+ pages.
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[Books] The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people’s home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The mayor is going to be there. The press is going to be there. But, as it turns out, Allan is not…Slowly but surely Allan climbs…
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[Books] I married a communist – Philip Roth
I read The American Pastoral some time ago, which wasn’t exactly my cup of cake, but still decided to give Philip Roth another chance. And it was indeed a wise decision, as ‘I married a communist’ amazed me in every possible way: language, story, characters.
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[Books] The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Five novels in one OUTRAGEOUS volume. The best description for this absolutely incredible set of novels. Douglas Adams has just become my favorite writer and The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy my number one favorite book for this year, at least.
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[Books] The invisible man – Ralph Ellison
‘The invisible man’ was Ralph Ellison’s only book published while alive, a book that addresses many of the intellectual and social issues that African-Americans faced in the twentieth century. It’s a fictional book, but it has also a historical importance .
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[Books] Salman Rushdie – Satanic Verses
I’ve never heard of Salman Rushdie before and I can’t really tell how I got to buy this book in the first place. I know for sure that the reviews written on the back of the book and the fact that Salman Rushdie was sentenced to death after writing it, really raised my curiosity to the…
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[Books] Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
So simple, but still so brilliant! I read it very fast, it immediately caught my attention, although at a glance, it seems as if it lacks its sparkle, its I-don’t-know-what.
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[Books] American Pastoral – Philip Roth
It took me quite some time to read this book, but I finally managed to read its last pages a couple of days ago. It takes a lot of your energy to digest the events in the American Pastoral, as everything that happens seems to be too absurd to actually take place in a real…
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[Books] One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
I did see the movie a while ago, but the book was on my reading list so I had to read it,even if I knew the story. I was sure that the book would be better than the movie, but I have to admit that I am still thinking which one was actually better.
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[Books] Pismovnik – Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin
I received this book as a gift for my birthday from a good friend, with a taste in books I really admire. She read a review in an urban magazine and said to her self that the subject would actually fit me just fine. So right she was as I finished reading Pismovnik, almost devouring…
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[Books] Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
I haven’t read any of Chuck Palahniuk’s books before, but I saw Fight Club some years ago, and now I bought three of his books to see what’s the story with this guy. I read Fight Club, Invisible Monsters and Choke. Although everybody said that Fight Club is his best book, my favorite is definitely…
The Chocolates Of Life 