User:Alexsmail/What to read
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Recently read books:
[edit | edit source]- Frederick Forsyth "The Day of the Jackal" 100% - political detective.
- Winston Churchill "Muscles of the World" 100%
- Fridreich August fon Hayek "The way to slavery" 100% - political, social-philosophical essay.
- Karel Capek "First rescue team" 100 % - philosophical essay.
- Karel Capek "War with salamanders" 100 % - philosophy-political essay.
- Bernard Gerber "Ants" 100% - mix of elements of science fiction, the adventure novel and philosophical essay.
- Umberto Eco "L'isola del giorno prima" ("Island on the eve") 0% - I haven't mastered
- Umberto Eco ""Il pendolo di Foucault" " ("Foucault's pendulum") 100% - I don't like it
- Umberto Eco "In noma dela Rosa" ("In the name of the Rose") 100%
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Recommended books:
[edit | edit source]- Oscar Wild "Dorian Grey's Portrait"
- George Orwell "1984"
- Strugatskich "Waves Extinguish a Wind"
- Strugatskich "Picnic on a Roadside"
- Jule Vern "Mysterious Island"
- Umberto Eco "In noma dela Rosa" ("In the name of the Rose") - for the philosphy books fan
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Planning to read (friend's recommendations):
[edit | edit source]- Ken Kizi "Flight above a jack of a cuckoo".
- Paul Koelyo "Veronicas Decides To Die".
- Paul Koelyo "11 minutes".
- Paul Koelyo "Alchemist".
- Ernest Hemingway "After whom calls a bell?"
- "Adventures of Gallant Soldier Shvejk".
- Nabokov "Feat".
- Victor Hugo "The Person Whom are Dared ".
- George Orwell "Farmyard".
- T.Erenbugr. "Trest D.E."
- Summa Technologiae, S. Lem.
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