Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (The Gregg Press science fiction series)
During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as a weapon. Learning it turns …
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Piet rated This is How You Lose the Time War: 5 stars
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. …
Piet rated The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: 3 stars
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, #1)
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled …
Piet rated JavaScript Allongé: 5 stars
JavaScript Allongé by Reginald Braithwaite
JavaScript Allongé's primary focus is functions as first-class values and topics built on those fundamentals such as objects, prototypes, "classes," …
Piet rated Red Harvest: 5 stars
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (Crime Masterworks)
When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that …
Piet rated Ready Player One: 5 stars
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, Ernest Cline (duplicate) (Ready Player One, #1)
Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, …
Piet rated The Asphalt Jungle (Film Ink): 4 stars
The Asphalt Jungle (Film Ink) by W. R. Burnett
The perfect crime goes awry. The problem? Human nature. The seemingly foolproof jewel heist requires the involvement of Doc Reimenschneider, …
Piet rated The Maltese Falcon (Read a Great Movie): 5 stars
The Maltese Falcon (Read a Great Movie) by Dashiell Hammett
Classic noir. Private detective Sam Spade is hired to search for a valuable, gem-encrusted antique in the shape of a …
Piet rated Slaughterhouse-Five: 4 stars
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is …
Piet rated A Long Way Down: 4 stars
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
For the film of the same name, see A Long Way Down (film). Not to be confused with the Charlie …
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
Timequake is a 1997 semi-autobiographical work by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Marketed as a novel, the book was described as a …
Piet rated Breakfast of champions: 5 stars
Breakfast of champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that …
Piet rated Farewell, my lovely: 4 stars
Farewell, my lovely by Raymond Chandler (Vintage crime)
Farewell, My Lovely is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1940, the second novel he wrote featuring the Los …