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Huck

Joined 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Hello everyone, I'm from Europe and can remember the 80ies... at least partly. I like to read novels, sometimes non fictional books and would like to add more short stories into the mix. The books I read are mainly written in German or English, sometimes in Dutch. Since a couple of years, I'm part of a reading cycle. We are currently reading Trofee from Gaea Schoeters.

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Huck rated The Grapes of Wrath: 5 stars

John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath (2011, Penguin Books)

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won …

Huck rated Of Mice and Men: 5 stars

John Steinbeck, Klaus D. Gross: Of Mice and Men (Paperback, 2001, Klett)

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Klaus D. Gross

The second book in John Steinbeck’s labor trilogy, Of Mice and Men is a touching tale of two migrant laborers …

Huck rated Fools Die: 5 stars

Fools Die by Mario Puzo

Huck rated The Godfather: 5 stars

Mario Puzo: The Godfather (1969, NAL Trade)

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, …

Huck finished reading Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell

George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) (Paperback, 2008, Penguin Books Ltd (UK))

Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. …

The novel in combination with its appended introduction into new speech scared the hell out of me and if nothing else made me an advocate for data protection and privacy laws, that protect the citizen from the government, because it described the viability and the consequences of an all-knowing state very plausible.

Huck rated Notre-Dame de Paris.: 5 stars

No cover — Victor Hugo: Notre-Dame de Paris. (French language, 1972, le Livre de poche)

Notre-Dame de Paris. by Victor Hugo (Le Livre de poche classique, 1698)

In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and …

Huck finished reading Notre-Dame de Paris. by Victor Hugo (Le Livre de poche classique, 1698)

In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in …

I read it partly in French and four German translations. Two of them had their weaknesses, one was really bad - only the one of them was good and also complete: the one from Hugo Meier.