Jack Humphrey rated Necessary evil: 4 stars
Necessary evil by Ian Tregillis (The Milkweed triptych -- volume 3)
"12 May 1940. Westminster, London, England: the early days of World War II. Again. Raybould Marsh, one of "our" Britain's …
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Jack Humphrey rated The Coldest War: 4 stars
Jack Humphrey rated Bitter seeds: 3 stars
Jack Humphrey rated One Hundred Years of Solitude: 3 stars
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad, American Spanish: [sjen ˈaɲoz ðe soleˈðað]) is a landmark 1967 …
Jack Humphrey rated Frankenstein: 5 stars
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks …
Jack Humphrey rated The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: 5 stars
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
NARNIA... the world of wicked dragons and magic spells, where the very best is brought out of even the worst …
Jack Humphrey rated Atlas Shrugged: 1 star
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. Rand's fourth and final novel, it was also her longest, and …
Jack Humphrey rated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: 5 stars
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter, #1)
Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a cloak of invisibility, befriended …
Jack Humphrey rated The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: 5 stars
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The novel begins in 1939 with the arrival of 19-year-old Josef "Joe" Kavalier as a refugee in New York City, …
Jack Humphrey rated The blind assassin: 5 stars
Margaret Atwood: The blind assassin (2001, Virago Press)
The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood
More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story …
Jack Humphrey rated Microserfs: 3 stars
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
Microserfs is an epistolary novel by Douglas Coupland. It first appeared in short story form as the cover article for …
Jack Humphrey rated Never Let Me Go: 5 stars
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat …
Jack Humphrey rated The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: 5 stars
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century. …
Jack Humphrey rated Middlesex: 5 stars
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, Jeffrey Eugenides
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a …
Jack Humphrey rated The Fountainhead: 1 star
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand. It was Rand's first major literary success and brought her fame …