rslomkow started reading Life and Fate by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
Russian literature at its most magnificent and intense. This novel rolls like the steppe unforgivably …
actually only listening to the BBC dramatization
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rslomkow rated Arguing for a Better World: 2 stars
rslomkow rated Don Quixote: 5 stars
Miguel de Unamuno: Don Quixote (2005, Ecco)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Unamuno
Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don …
rslomkow rated Ordinary Men: 5 stars
rslomkow rated Labyrinths: 5 stars
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (A New Directions paperbook -- NDP186)
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is …
rslomkow rated Kafka on the Shore: 5 stars
rslomkow rated The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: 5 stars
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Perennial classics)
The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and …
rslomkow rated Americanah: 3 stars
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National …
rslomkow rated Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: 3 stars
rslomkow rated Empire of things: 4 stars
rslomkow rated Time regained: 5 stars
Time regained by Marcel Proust (The Modern Library classics)
Monty Python paid hommage to Proust's novel in a sketch first broadcast on November 16th, 1972, called The All-England Summarize …
rslomkow rated Swann's Way: 4 stars
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, D. J. Enright (Modern Library Classics)
Swann's Way tells two related stories, the first of which revolves around Marcel, a younger version of the narrator, and …
rslomkow rated Modern Man in Search of a Soul: 4 stars
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung
Study about man and his spiritual search.
rslomkow rated Radical markets: 3 stars
Radical markets by Eric A. Posner
"Many blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the …
