chianti_cimex_reads rated The Frood: 3 stars
The Frood by Douglas Adams, Jem Roberts
'Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.' (Sass: know, be …
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"For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. Yes, indeed." - Mary Oliver
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chianti_cimex_reads rated The Sun Also Rises: 2 stars
Canto General, 50th Anniversary Edition (Latin American Literature and Culture, 7) by Pablo Neruda
"The Canto General, thought by many of Neruda's most prominent critics to be the poet's masterpiece, is the stunning epic …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Book Of Nothing: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated True Grit: 3 stars
Charles Portis: True Grit (Signet)
True Grit by Charles Portis
True Grit is Charles Portis' most famous novel--first published in 1968. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Heart of darkness and selected short fiction: 3 stars
Heart of darkness and selected short fiction by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent: 4 stars
The metamorphosis, In the penal colony, and other stories by Franz Kafka, Joachim Neugroschel
"Translated by Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Frankenstein: 3 stars
Frankenstein by Junji Itō (Viz signature)
"Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley! The master of horror manga bends all his skill into bringing the anguished and solitary …
chianti_cimex_reads rated A raisin in the sun: 3 stars
Lorraine Hansberry: A raisin in the sun (2002, Random House)
A raisin in the sun by Lorraine Hansberry
This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Wise blood.: 3 stars
Wise blood. by Flannery O'Connor
"Tells the story of Hazel Motes of Eastrod, Tennessee. After release from the army at twenty-two, he comes to a …
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Waste Land: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Beowulf: 5 stars
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian …