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~~Moved from GR~~ Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters I've never really understood why people try to decide what ...
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reviewed: The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
I have spent a year and a half trying to get through this book. I actually felt relief when my Kindle got broken so I couldn'...
The Book of Disquiet - Richard Zenith, Fernando Pessoa
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November 2013
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reviewed: A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark and Memoirs of the Author of the Rights of Women
Rated for Short Residence, as I had little interest in reading the biography.
Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark & Memoirs of the Author (2 in 1) - Richard Holmes, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft
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November 2013
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reviewed: The Idiot (Penguin Classics)
I've had this book for five years, since 2008, and finishing it was extremely satisfying. The three stars is for my enjoyment...
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David Magarshack
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September 2013
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reviewed: The Count of Monte Cristo
A fantastic book, which I wouldn't even know how to begin to review properly. I will just say this; the Wordsworth Classics-e...
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
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reviewed: Who Goes There
Too many adverbs and stilted dialogue made what would otherwise have been a very enjoyable collection of short stories into s...
Who Goes There? - John W. Campbell Jr.
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reviewed: Daughter of Elysium
Maybe it's because this is a semi-sequel, and I haven't read the book that precedes this, but I just couldn't get into the no...
Daughter of Elysium - Joan Slonczewski
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reviewed: The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Read to make myself more aware of what has been going on and is happening in the SF field, and how I can contribute to it thr...
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction - Helen Merrick, Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn
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December 2012
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reviewed: The Captain's Verses (Los versos del capitan) (English and Spanish Edition)
2.5 stars.Having read a collection of Neruda's odes in Norwegian, which I absolutely loved, I was so happy that I found a Kin...
The Captain's Verses (Los versos del capitan) (English and Spanish Edition) - Pablo Neruda, Donald Devenish Walsh
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December 2012
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reviewed: The Island Of Doctor Moreau
This was quite a bit more disturbing and disgusting than I had thought it would be from the start. The descriptions of the Be...
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
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December 2012
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reviewed: Poet To Poet Prufrock And Other Observations
In reality 4.5 stars. The title poem gets a full five stars, undoubtedly. It was a poem I thought I wouldn't like (heaven kno...
Prufrock And Other Observations (paper) - T.S. Eliot
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reviewed: blikket
Så overrasket jeg ble over hvor mye jeg likte mellom speil og speil av Vold, er den samme overraskelsen over hvor dårlig jeg ...
blikket - Jan Erik Vold
reviewed: mellom speil og speil
Jeg har lest en del Vold før, men som regel i form av enkelte dikt her og der. Å lese debutsamlingen hans var en interessant ...
mellom speil og speil - Jan Erik Vold
reviewed: Ta i mot
Starten på diktsamlingen var for min del den svakeste, der diktene ikke greide fange meg helt. Fra og med seksjonen som heter...
Ta i mot - Marte Huke
reviewed: HEKT
Til min gledelige overraskelse var HEKT helt annerledes enn den forrige diktsamlingen til Vold, og mye, mye bedre. Denne vill...
HEKT - Jan Erik Vold
reviewed: Speilet i speilet - en labyrint
A book I found impossible to finish. While I love Ende's children's books, Neverending Story being one of my all time favouri...
Speilet i speilet - en labyrint - Michael Ende
reviewed: Complete Poems
Elizabeth Bishop's poetry is beautiful, and though I'm not a fan of works collected in one book like this, I'm glad I have re...
Complete Poems - Elizabeth Bishop
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