I Am Legend - Richard Matheson

My rating: 4/5 Book review: I haven't watched the movie for one particular reason: there was a dog on the poster and only the thought that it might suffer and die (which I didn't actually know for a fact) was enough to avoid the movie. The same thing happened with The Road, because there...

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Ports of Call - Amin Maalouf

My rating: 4 out of 5 Book review: Amin Maalouf was born in Beirut, his mother in Cairo (where his parents also married) and he later moved to France, when the Lebanese civil war started in 1975. All these places, plus others like Istanbul and Haifa, are present in Ports of Call, as the characters...

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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Böll

        Rating: 4 out of 5 Book review: The voice of this novel was something new to me: it is written in the form of a report, apparently reserved and unbiased, which presents the slow but effective process of Katharina Blum's public humiliation by police and pres...

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Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Rating: 4 out of 5 Book review: I began reading this book in English, but something didn't feel right. The musicality of Márquez' writing was not there. I couldn't believe the old man changed his style over the years. I looked for the Romanian translation and felt relieved: everything sounded...

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The Obscene Bird of Night - José Donoso

My rating: 4/5 Book review: The Obscene Bird of Night is one strange, twisted, haunting, obscene book. It may well be the most difficult novel I've read so far. There were moments when I felt that I could connect to it and even understand it, but most of the time I felt like floating...

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Doctor Glas - Hjalmar Söderberg

      Rating: 4 out of 5 Book review: This short novel is a melancholic guide of Stockholm. It is a compendium of thoughts and reflections upon life from a peculiar character. It is a story of alienation and unrequited love. And it is also the story of a planned murder. Although...

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