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]]> 943712 205 Corita Kent 0553344455 Corina 0 to-read 4.25 1992
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]]> 12539202 288 Harvey Black 1848767072 Corina 0 to-read 3.95 2011
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]]> 110871 Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Parisian society.

Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, this powerful novel tells how the heroine and her lover, Laurent, kill her husband, Camille, but are subsequently haunted by visions of the dead man, and prevented from enjoying the fruits of their crime.

Zola's shocking tale dispassionately dissects the motivations of his characters--mere "human beasts", who kill in order to satisfy their lust--and stands as a key manifesto of the French Naturalist movement, of which the author was the founding father. Published in 1867, this is Zola's most important work before the Rougon-Macquart series and introduces many of the themes that can be traced through the later novel cycle.]]> 201 Émile Zola 0140449442 Corina 0 to-read 3.73 1867
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]]> 14027 here.

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.
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While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents�� deaths, Kikuji encounters his father’s former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nature, but it is not long before he succumbs to passion—a passion with tragic and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs. Ota’s daughter, to whom Kikuji’s attachments soon extend. Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning.]]> 147 Yasunari Kawabata 0679762655 Corina 0 to-read 3.77 1952
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]]> 829616 THE classic work about improving creativity from world-renowned writer and philosopher Edward de Bono.

In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a loss when this approach fails. What then?

Lateral thinking is all about freeing up your imagination. Through a series of special techniques, in groups or working alone, Edward de Bono shows how to stimulate the mind in new and exciting ways.

Soon you will be looking at problems from a variety of angles and offering up solutions that are as ingenious as they are effective. You will become much more productive and a formidable thinker in your own right.]]> 272 Edward de Bono 0140137793 Corina 0 to-read 3.81
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]]> 375802
But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military's purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine's abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails.]]> 324 Orson Scott Card 0812550706 Corina 4 4.31 1985
author: Orson Scott Card
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]]> 13752 From the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes comes the luminous chronicle of a match of the Japanese game Go played between a master and a younger, more modern challenger that serves as a suspenseful elegy for an entire society.

Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other’s black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible Master and a younger, more modern challenger, Yasunari Kawabata captured the moment in which the immutable traditions of imperial Japan met the onslaught of the twentieth century.

The competition between the Master of Go and his opponent, Otaké, is waged over several months and layered in ceremony. But beneath the game’s decorum lie tensions that consume not only the players themselves but their families and retainers—tensions that turn this particular contest into a duel that can only end in death. Luminous in its detail, both suspenseful and serene, The Master of Go is written with the poetic economy and psychological acumen that brought Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature.]]> 189 Yasunari Kawabata 0679761063 Corina 0 currently-reading 3.87 1951
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]]> 70912 541 Luke Rhinehart 0006513905 Corina 3 currently-reading 3.57 1971
author: Luke Rhinehart
name: Corina
average rating: 3.57
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]]> 7967
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.

Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.

Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.]]> 382 Orson Scott Card 0812550757 Corina 0 to-read 4.10 1986
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]]> 84136
Grace Alexander doesn’t believe in much of anything. But when her “psychic�� girlfriend talks her into performing the spell as a joke on her birthday, the last thing she ever imagines is it working. But work it does. Now, she finds an ancient Greek general in her living room and trapped in her life for the next month. Worse, they learn too late that part of the spell means Grace will lose her sanity should he return to his captivity.

Now it’s a race against time to free him. Something much easier said than done, since it was the ancient gods who cursed him to his fate. And the last thing they want is to see him go free of the punishment the gods believe he
deserves. It’s man against the gods, and a race against time.]]> 337 Sherrilyn Kenyon 0312979975 Corina 2 4.16 1999
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name: Corina
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1999
rating: 2
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]]> 879608 381 Luke Rhinehart 0006513913 Corina 5 3.31 1993
author: Luke Rhinehart
name: Corina
average rating: 3.31
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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]]> 41811 206 Isaac Asimov Corina 0 to-read 4.19 1953
author: Isaac Asimov
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]]> 50091
In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age: when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind.
Contents

9 �� Introduction (The Complete Robot) �� (1982) �� essay by Isaac Asimov
15 �� A Boy's Best Friend �� (1975) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
19 �� Sally �� (1953) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
41 �� Someday �� (1956) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
55 �� Point of View �� [Multivac] �� (1975) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
59 �� Think! �� (1977) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
70 �� True Love �� (1977) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
77 �� Robot AL-76 Goes Astray �� (1942) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
93 �� Victory Unintentional �� (1942) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
117 �� Stranger in Paradise �� (1974) �� novelette by Isaac Asimov
151 �� Light Verse �� (1973) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
157 �� Segregationist �� (1967) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
164 �� Robbie �� (1940) �� short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow)
191 �� Let's Get Together �� (1957) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
211 �� Mirror Image �� [Elijah Bailey / R. Daneel Olivaw] �� (1972) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
231 �� The Tercentenary Incident �� (1976) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
253 �� First Law �� [Mike Donovan] �� (1956) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
257 �� Runaround �� [Mike Donovan] �� (1942) �� novelette by Isaac Asimov
280 �� Reason �� [Mike Donovan] �� (1941) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
302 �� Catch That Rabbit �� [Mike Donovan] �� (1944) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
329 �� Liar! �� [Susan Calvin] �� (1941) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
350 �� Satisfaction Guaranteed �� [Susan Calvin] �� (1951) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
368 �� Lenny �� [Susan Calvin] �� (1958) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
385 �� Galley Slave �� [Susan Calvin] �� (1957) �� novelette by Isaac Asimov
427 �� Little Lost Robot �� [Susan Calvin] �� (1947) �� novelette by Isaac Asimov
459 �� Risk �� [Susan Calvin] �� (1955) �� novelette by Isaac Asimov
490 �� Escape! �� [Susan Calvin] �� (1945) �� short story by Isaac Asimov
518 �� Evidence �� [Susan Calvin] �� (1946) �� novelette by Isaac Asimov
546 �� The Evitable Conflict �� [Susan Calvin] �� (1950) �� novelette by Isaac Asimov
575 �� Feminine Intuition �� [Susan Calvin] �� (1969) �� novelette by Isaac Asimov
605 �� ... That Thou Art Mindful of Him �� (1974) �� novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of —That Thou Art Mindful of Him!)
635 �� The Bicentennial Man �� (1976) �� novelette by Isaac Asimov
683 �� A Last Word �� (1982) �� essay by Isaac Asimov

THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - with surprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store...]]> 688 Isaac Asimov 0586057242 Corina 0 to-read 4.33 1982
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]]> 230817
This the book the BBC, Andrew Gilligan, Lord Hutton, Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell will not be able to ignore. This is an irresistible guide to clear thinking and understanding of the art of debate.]]> 138 Arthur Schopenhauer 1903933617 Corina 0 to-read 3.69 1831
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> 2074149 148 Alfred Adler 1568381964 Corina 0 to-read 3.87 1933
author: Alfred Adler
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]]> 69932 352 David Lodge 0142000868 Corina 0 to-read 3.73 2001
author: David Lodge
name: Corina
average rating: 3.73
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]]> 402093
Powerful and engrossing, capturing both the rich pageantry and stark realities of life in feudal Japan, Shōgun is a critically acclaimed powerhouse of a book. Heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat action melds seamlessly with intricate historical detail and raw human emotion. Endlessly compelling, this sweeping saga captivated the world to become not only one of the best-selling novels of all time but also one of the highest-rated television miniseries, as well as inspiring a nationwide surge of interest in the culture of Japan. Shakespearean in both scope and depth, Shōgun is, as the New York Times put it, "...not only something you read--you live it." Provocative, absorbing, and endlessly fascinating, there is only one: Shōgun.]]> 1152 James Clavell Corina 0 to-read 4.38 1975
author: James Clavell
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]]> 30016
Reacting in fear of the technological superiority of the Outer Worlds, the people of Earth have hidden themselves in vast underground cities, nursing a hatred for Spacers. The fifty Outer Worlds of the Spacers together are home to fewer people than planet Earth. And home to many, many more robots. Earthmen hate Spacer robots, too...

But Baley doesn't. He once had a robot partner, R. Daneel �� and when the authorities of the planet Solaria request terrestrial assistance in investigating a murder, Baley is once again teamed with Daneel. He is the first Earthmen in a millennium to travel to the Outer Worlds... and he must endure the glare of a sun far more deadly than Earth's.]]> 204 Isaac Asimov Corina 5
It's fun. ]]> 4.17 1958
author: Isaac Asimov
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Very easy to read and folow, good structure. The book revolves around the only murder case on the planet Solaria and the suspects are less predictable and harder to comprehend, because of the gigantic cultural differences. Unexperienced Solaria must call for Earth's help and a detective is recommended for the job. The planets' political implications, the human-robot partership - all contribute to the case.

It's fun.
]]> 29737
Out of desperate inventions and cauterizing truths, acts of weakness, tenderheartedness, and shocking cruelty, Philip Roth creates a work worthy of Strindberg—a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness.]]> 334 Philip Roth Corina 5 3.71 1974
author: Philip Roth
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]]> 51089 243 Henry Miller 0802131824 Corina 3

But, I will read this book again, a year from now, and, hopefully, see what I missed. :)
]]> 3.86 1936
author: Henry Miller
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average rating: 3.86
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Memoirs of a man about the evolution of his spirit.Some chapters were just a little bit to abstract for me, describing nonsense dream and residual feelings that were over-analyzed and concluded in .. nothing of real substance.


But, I will read this book again, a year from now, and, hopefully, see what I missed. :)

]]> 11033942 335 Caiete Corina 3 3.00 1999
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]]> 2187 Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.]]> 529 Jeffrey Eugenides 0312422156 Corina 5 4.03 2002
author: Jeffrey Eugenides
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> 817199 Set in 1930s Calcutta, this is a roman á clef of remarkable intimacy. Originally published in Romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the passionate awakenings of Alain, an ambitious young French engineer flush with colonial pride and prejudice and full of a European fascination with the mysterious subcontinent.

Offered the hospitality of a senior Indian colleague, Alain grasps at the chance to discover the authentic India firsthand. He soon finds himself enchanted by his host's daughter, the lovely and inscrutable Maitreyi, a precocious young poet and former student of Tagore. What follows is a charming, tentative flirtation that soon, against all the proprieties and precepts of Indian society, blossoms into a love affair both impossible and ultimately tragic. This erotic passion plays itself out in Alain's thoughts long after its bitter conclusion. In hindsight he sets down the story, quoting from the diaries of his disordered days, and trying to make sense of the sad affair.

A vibrantly poetic love story, Bengal Nights is also a cruel account of the wreckage left in the wake of a young man's self discovery. At once horrifying and deeply moving, Eliade's story repeats the patterns of European engagement with India even as it exposes and condemns them. Invaluable for the insight it offers into Eliade's life and thought, it is a work of great intellectual and emotional power.

"Bengal Nights is forceful and harshly poignant, written with a great love of India informed by clear-eyed understanding. But do not open it if you prefer to remain unmoved by your reading matter.It is enough to make stones weep." �� Literary Review

Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor in the Divinity School and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Many of his scholarly works, as well as his two-volume autobiography and four-volume journal, are published by the University of Chicago Press. Translated into French in 1950, Bengal Nights was an immediate critical success. The film, Les Nuits Bengali, appeared in 1987.

]]> 200 Mircea Eliade 9735004100 Corina 3 3.81 1933
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name: Corina
average rating: 3.81
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rating: 3
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A book of spontaneous intense feelings lied on white paper. A book of out-of-this-world sensuality of a young girl and the sexual desire of a man, the belief of spiritual and erotic bound.
]]> 29059 Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times.

Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved�� by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him.

When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park.

His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, renowned author of classics like Fight Club, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.]]> 293 Chuck Palahniuk 0385720920 Corina 4 3.71 2001
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]]> 219879 The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.

Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears to be a seamless tissue of boredom, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night to watch live sex shows and sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at first, but then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior explode in a release of sexual perversity, suppressed violence, and human degradation.

Celebrated throughout Europe for the intensity and frankness of her writings and awarded the Heinrich Böll Prize for her outstanding contribution to German letters, Elfriede Jelinek is one of the most original and controversial writers in the world today. The Piano Teacher was made into a film, released in the United States in 2001, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.]]> 288 Elfriede Jelinek 0802118062 Corina 3 3.65 1983
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average rating: 3.65
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rating: 3
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]]> 25225 272 Shūsaku Endō 0811213463 Corina 4 4.02 1980
author: Shūsaku Endō
name: Corina
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1980
rating: 4
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]]> 3218902 768 Hanny Alders 8483270307 Corina 3 3.25 1987
author: Hanny Alders
name: Corina
average rating: 3.25
book published: 1987
rating: 3
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]]> 69928
Tubby's quest for the source of it will lead into an obsession with Kierkegaard, brushes with the police, gossip-column notoriety, and strange beds and bedrooms worldwide.]]> 336 David Lodge 0140249001 Corina 5
Therapy is about a man falling in an existential void, obsessively tryin to(regain something) "breathe" through a dramatic philosophy, women, voyages and professional displeasure. And more! but I don't want to ruin it for you.

It's written rather nostalgic and humourous, but authentically pin pointing the(importance of having) downs in life.

]]> 3.82 1995
author: David Lodge
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First thing is that after reading the last words in the book, I closed the book with an intense satisfaction and with the same amount of satisfaction I wanted to start again.

Therapy is about a man falling in an existential void, obsessively tryin to(regain something) "breathe" through a dramatic philosophy, women, voyages and professional displeasure. And more! but I don't want to ruin it for you.

It's written rather nostalgic and humourous, but authentically pin pointing the(importance of having) downs in life.


]]> 666099 174 J. Krishnamurti 1596750014 Corina 3 4.21 1971
author: J. Krishnamurti
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average rating: 4.21
book published: 1971
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A new way of thinking.Amazing awareness of Krishnamurti makes me pity the life humans have damaged.
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