matthijs's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:50:59 -0700 60 matthijs's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy]]> 711592
There was no aspect of Nazi power untouched by economics, yet Adam Tooze is the first to place economics alongside race and politics at the heart of the story of the Third Reich. And America, in Tooze's view, is the true pivot for Hitler's epic challenge to a shift in the world order. Hitler intuitively understood how Germany's relative poverty in the 1930s was the result not just of global depression, but also of Germany's limited resources. He predicted the dawning of a globalized world in which Europe would be crushed by America's overwhelming power, against which he saw only one last chance: a German super-state dominating Europe. Doing what Europeans had done for three centuries, he sought to carve out an imperial hinterland through one last land grab to the east, to give him the self-sufficiency to prevail in the coming superpower competition. With the odds stacked against him, he launched his underresourced armies on their unprecedented and ultimately futile rampage across Europe.

Hitler knew by the summer of 1939 that his efforts to prepare for a long war with the West were doomed to failure. Ideology drove him forward. Hitler became convinced that Jewish elements in Washington, London, and Paris were circling round him, and from 1938, the international "Jewish question: was synonymous with America in his mind. Even in the summer of 1940, at the moment of Germany's greatest triumphs, Hitler was still haunted by the looming threat of Anglo-American air and sea power, orchestrated by, he believed, the world Jewish conspiracy.

Tooze also casts a stark new light on Albert Speer's role in sustaining the Third Reich to its bloody end, after the catastrophe of the Soviet invasion. Speer, Tooze proposes, was no apolitical agent of technocratic efficiency but a Hitler loyalist who would stop at nothing to continue a hopeless battle of attrition, at the cost of tens of millions of lives.

The Wages of Destruction is a chilling work of originality and tremendous scholarship that will fundamentally change the way in which we view Nazi Germany and the Second World War.]]> 802 Adam Tooze 0670038261 matthijs 0 to-read 4.52 2007 The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
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]]> Shirley 31168 Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday morning." Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, who is trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of a Yorkshire rectory and whose bare life symbolizes the plight of single women in the nineteenth century. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention.

A work that combines social commentary with the more private preoccupations of Jane Eyre, Shirley demonstrates the full range of Brontë's literary talent. "Shirley is a revolutionary novel," wrote Brontë biographer Lyndall Gordon. "Shirley follows Jane Eyre as a new exemplar but so much a forerunner of the feminist of the later twentieth century that it is hard to believe in her actual existence in 1811-12. She is a theoretic possibility: what a woman might be if she combined independence and means of her own with intellect. Charlotte Brontë imagined a new form of power, equal to that of men, in a confident young woman [whose] extraordinary freedom has accustomed her to think for herself....Shirley [is] Brontë's most feminist novel."]]> 624 Charlotte Brontë 0141439866 matthijs 2 3.76 1849 Shirley
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]]> Human Acts 34964181 From the internationally bestselling and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Vegetarian, a “rare and astonishing� (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice.

In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho’s best friend who meets his own fateful end to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother, their collective heartbreak and acts of hope tell the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice.

An award-winning, controversial bestseller, Human Acts is a timeless, pointillist portrait of a historic event with reverberations still being felt today, by turns tracing the harsh reality of oppression and the resounding, extraordinary poetry of humanity.]]> 226 Han Kang 9781101906 matthijs 4 4.28 2014 Human Acts
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]]> The Brothers Karamazov 4935
This powerful translation of The Brothers Karamazov features an introduction highlighting Dostoyevsky's recurrent themes of guilt and salvation, with a new chronology and further reading.]]> 1013 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0140449248 matthijs 5 4.46 1880 The Brothers Karamazov
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My ultimate DIVAAAA. De eerste klassieker die ik ooit las beviel nu nog beter. Hoofd ontploft, lachspieren geblesseerd, hart geraakt. Ik heb nooit de behoefte gehad om ander werk van Dostojevski te lezen, dit is het. Arthur Langeveld's vertaling is helder en dynamisch.
]]> The Vegetarian 25489025
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.]]> 188 Han Kang 0553448188 matthijs 0 3.61 2007 The Vegetarian
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]]> Greek Lessons 147779009 A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian.

'Breathtaking . . . She is simply my favourite living writer to read, and think with, and see the world with' Max Porter
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In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.

Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages.

Greek Lessons is a tender love letter to human connection, a novel to awaken the senses, vividly conjuring the essence of what it means to be alive.

Translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won.
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'Another stunning gem: quiet, sharply faceted, and devastating' Kirkus

'Han Kang's vivid and at times violent storytelling will wake up even the most jaded of literary palates' Independent

'Han Kang is a writer like no other. In a few lines, she seems to traverse the entirety of human experience' Katie Kitamura]]> 149 Han Kang 0241997062 matthijs 3 3.55 2011 Greek Lessons
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]]> Often I Am Happy 35457372 210 Jens Christian Grøndahl matthijs 2 3.00 2016 Often I Am Happy
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]]> Mothering Sunday 26014651
Twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild has worked as a maid at an English country house since she was sixteen. For almost all of those years she has been the clandestine lover to Paul Sheringham, young heir of a neighboring house. The two now meet on an unseasonably warm March day—Mothering Sunday—a day that will change Jane's life forever.

As the narrative moves back and forth from 1924 to the end of the century, what we know and understand about Jane—about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, remembers—expands with every vividly captured moment. Her story is one of profound self-discovery, and through her, Graham Swift has created an emotionally soaring, deeply affecting work of fiction.]]> 177 Graham Swift 1101947527 matthijs 4 3.71 2016 Mothering Sunday
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]]> <![CDATA[The Childhood of Jesus (Jesus Trilogy, #1)]]> 18332170
Simón finds a job in a grain wharf. The work is unfamiliar and backbreaking, but he soon warms to his stevedore comrades, who during breaks conduct philosophical dialogues on the dignity of labour, and generally take him to their hearts.

Now he must set about his task of locating the boy’s mother. Though like everyone else who arrives in this new country he seems to be washed clean of all traces of memory, he is convinced he will know her when he sees her. And indeed, while walking with the boy in the countryside Simón catches sight of a woman he is certain is the mother, and persuades her to assume the role.

David's new mother comes to realise that he is an exceptional child, a bright, dreamy boy with highly unusual ideas about the world. But the school authorities detect a rebellious streak in him and insist he be sent to a special school far away. His mother refuses to yield him up, and it is Simón who must drive the car as the trio flees across the mountains.

THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS is a profound, beautiful and continually surprising novel from a very great writer.]]> 336 J.M. Coetzee 0099581558 matthijs 3 3,5* 3.51 2013 The Childhood of Jesus (Jesus Trilogy, #1)
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]]> Over de gekte van een vrouw 58672869 A classic of queer literature that’s as electrifying today as it was when it originally appeared in 1982, On a Woman’s Madness tells the story of Noenka, a courageous Black woman trying to live a life of her choosing. When her abusive husband of just nine days refuses her request for divorce, Noenka flees her hometown in Suriname, on South America's tropical northeastern coast, for the capital city of Paramaribo. Unsettled and unsupported, her life in this new place is illuminated by the passionate romances of the present but haunted by society’s expectations and her ancestral past.

Translated into sensuous English for the first time by Lucy Scott, Astrid Roemer’s intimate novel—with its tales of plantation-dwelling snakes, rare orchids, and star-crossed lovers—is a blistering meditation on the cruelties we inflict on those who disobey. Roemer, the first Surinamese winner of the prestigious Dutch Literature Prize, carves out postcolonial Suriname in barbed, resonant fragments. Who is Noenka? Roemer asks us. “I’m Noenka,� she responds resolutely, “which means Never Again.”]]> 224 Astrid H. Roemer 9044649027 matthijs 4 4.00 1982 Over de gekte van een vrouw
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]]> Jane Eyre 10210 Alternate editions can be found here and here.

A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis in Penguin Classics.

Charlotte Brontë tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic, brooding Mr Rochester. As her feelings for Rochester develop, Jane gradually uncovers Thornfield Hall's terrible secret, forcing her to make a choice. Should she stay with Rochester and live with the consequences, or follow her convictions - even if it means leaving the man she loves? A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre dazzled readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom.]]> 532 Charlotte Brontë 0142437204 matthijs 4 4.14 1847 Jane Eyre
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]]> La Superba 17453021 En meer nog dan een roman over een schokkend echte en labyrintische stad, is het een liefdesverhaal dat tragisch eindigt.
En meer nog dan een stadsroman en een liefdesroman is La Superba een boek dat de fantasie van een beter leven elders onderzoekt, vertelt en ontrafelt en laat zien hoe mensen - van gerenommeerde schrijvers en verlopen heren van stand tot arme Senegalese sloebers en flanerende hoeren - op verschillende manieren verdwalen in die fantasie.
En meer nog dan over de stad, de liefde en het lot van de zoekende mens gaat deze grandioze meerstemmige roman over het schrijven van een grandioze meerstemmige roman.]]> 348 Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer 902958727X matthijs 4 3.74 2013 La Superba
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]]> Disgrace 6192 220 J.M. Coetzee 0143036378 matthijs 4 3.86 1999 Disgrace
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> <![CDATA[Night, Sleep, Death, the Stars]]> 53438387 The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writers


Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.

Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates’s latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author’s bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys.]]> 928 Joyce Carol Oates 0008381070 matthijs 3 3.53 2020 Night, Sleep, Death, the Stars
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]]> <![CDATA[Het gezicht van de dood (Smoky Barret, #2)]]> 10437830
Het eerste wat ik ruik is moord. Een schrijver heeft me eens gevraagd hoe moord ruikt. Hij was op zoek naar materiaal voor een boek dat hij aan het schrijven was, iets authentieks. 'Het is het bloed,' zei ik tegen hem. 'De dood stinkt, maar wanneer je voornamelijk bloed ruikt, ruik je meestal een moord.'
Daarop vroeg hij me om de geur van bloed te beschrijven. 'Het is alsof je een mond vol muntjes hebt die je niet kunt uitspugen.' Ik ruik het nu, die doordringende, weeïge, koperachtige geur. Tot op zekere hoogte windt het me op. Er is hier een moordenaar geweest. Ik jaag op moordenaars. Ik loop verder.

Het meisje is zestien jaar oud. Ze heet Sarah, bevindt zich op de plaats delict van een gruwelijke drievoudig moord en houdt een pistool tegen haar hoofd gedrukt. Ze beweert tegenover de politie dat 'de Vreemdeling' haar adoptiegezin heeft vermoord. Dat hij haar al haar hele leven achtervolgt en iedereen vermoordt van wie ze houdt. En dat niemand haar gelooft. En dat klopt, niemand gelooft haar. Tot nu toe�
Special agent Smoky Barrett heeft de leiding over CASMIRC, een speciale FBI-eenheid die zich bezighoudt met het opsporen van seriemoordenaars. En deze zaak zal het uiterste van hen vergen. Want een nieuwe wrede dubbele moord toont aan dat deze seriemoordenaar op een missie is en verdergaat dan welke moordenaar dan ook.]]> 419 Cody McFadyen 9022993574 matthijs 0 4.21 2007 Het gezicht van de dood (Smoky Barret, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Tijd om te sterven (Smoky Barrett, #4)]]> 11315363
Eenheid. Nummer 35. Het bewaren van vlees.

'Je bent hier omdat ik je wil vragen een besluit te nemen. Ik ga je vragen om te kiezen wie ik zal verminken en vrijlaten. Jou of nummer 36?'

'Wie is nummer 36?'

'De andere jonge agent die ik hier na jou heb gebracht.'

Hij noemt zichzelf Dali en biedt zijn diensten aan mannen aan die van hun 'lastige' echtgenotes af willen. Voor een aanzienlijk geldbedrag zorgt hij ervoor dat de vrouwen spoorloos verdwijnen. Zijn aanpak is uiterst zakelijk - nauwkeurig, emotieloos, zonder enige mores - waardoor hij vrijwel geen aanwijzingen achterlaat. Sterker nog, Smoky en haar team hebben zelfs geen weet van Dali's praktijken totdat hij een van zijn slachtoffers 'aflevert' op de stoep van de FBI. Maar waarom heeft deze vrouw het mogen overleven? En waarom wordt de FBI op het spoor van Dali gezet? Het zijn een paar van de vele raadsels die Smoky moet ontrafelen in haar jacht op een psychopaat die een spel speelt met regels die hijzelf geschreven heeft.]]> 393 Cody McFadyen 9022996832 matthijs 0 4.12 2009 Tijd om te sterven (Smoky Barrett, #4)
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]]> De stilte van de hel 17229747
Now Smoky dreams about picking up her weapon again. She dreams about placing the cold steel between her lips and pulling the trigger one last time. Because for a woman who’s lost everything, what is there left to lose?

She’s about to find out.

In all her years at the Bureau, Smoky has never encountered anyone like him–a new and fascinating kind of monster, a twisted genius who defies profilers� attempts to understand him. And he’s issued Smoky a direct challenge, coaxing her back from the brink with the only thing that could convince her to live.

The killer videotaped his latest crime–an act of horror that left a child motherless–then sent a message addressed to Agent Smoky Barrett. The message is enough to shock Smoky back to work, back to her FBI team. And that child awakens something in Smoky she thought was gone forever.

Suddenly the stakes are raised. The game has changed. For as this deranged monster embarks on an unspeakable spree of perversion and murder, Smoky is coming alive again–and she’s about to face her greatest fears as a cop, a woman, a mother…and a merciless killer’s next victim.]]> 360 Cody McFadyen 9022991334 matthijs 0 4.08 2006 De stilte van de hel
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]]> All My Precious Madness 218132975 242 Mark Bowles 191311158X matthijs 5 4,5* 3.91 All My Precious Madness
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]]> Les Misérables 26067902 The first new Penguin Classics translation in forty years of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece

The subject of the world’s longest-running musical and the recent Academy Award–nominated and BAFTA-winning film starring Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables is a genuine literary treasure. Victor Hugo’s tale of injustice, heroism, and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him, and has been a perennial favorite since it first appeared nearly 150 years ago. This exciting new translation will be a gift both to readers who have already fallen for its timeless story and to new readers discovering it for the first time.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 1456 Victor Hugo 0241248744 matthijs 0 currently-reading 4.46 1862 Les Misérables
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]]> Het archief 216341215 Een ode aan de niche, aan rituelen en aan het onvermoeibaar vasthouden aan de dingen die, zinvol of niet, het leven de moeite waard maken.

Er zijn verzoeken die je niet kunt weigeren. Zo twijfelt de jonge, ambitieuze Pierre geen moment wanneer hij gevraagd wordt als redacteur van Arabesk, een literair tijdschrift met een rijke geschiedenis. Vol frisse moed treedt hij toe tot de redactie en zo begint zijn nieuwe bestaan.

Pierre komt uit een gezin waar veel gelezen wordt, met een vader die als hoofdredacteur de gloriedagen van het geschreven woord meemaakte. Maar terwijl Pierre groeit in zijn rol als redacteur van Arabesk, kelderen de abonneecijfers. Soms lijkt alleen zijn vader nog te snappen wat de charme van het blad is, maar die zondert zich steeds meer af in zijn werkkamer, tussen stapels papier, obscure dvd’s en een radio die nooit uitgaat.

Hoelang moeten tradities en gewoontes in stand worden gehouden? En wanneer is het tijd om los te laten? Het archief van Thomas Heerma van Voss is een zowel geestige als ontroerende roman over een wereld die steeds verder verdwijnt.]]> 280 Thomas Heerma van Voss 9493320715 matthijs 3 'Wonderlijk dat iemand zo belezen is en toch zo optimistisch.']]> 3.95 2024 Het archief
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'Wonderlijk dat iemand zo belezen is en toch zo optimistisch.'
]]> Congo: Een geschiedenis 8225860
De kolonisatie door België in de periode van 1908 tot 1960 zorgde voor industrialisatie en infrastructuur, maar werd ook gekenmerkt door paternalisme, zo niet betutteling. De onverhoedse overgang van kolonie naar onafhankelijke staat rond 1960 is een adembenemend verhaal vol idealisme en gekonkel. Het nieuwe land stortte zich in een turbulent avontuur dat steeds wilder en chaotischer werd en na tweeëndertig jaar dictatuur onder Mobutu leidde tot een van de dodelijkste conflicten sinds de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Van Reybrouck baseert zich niet alleen op zeldzaam archiefmateriaal en baanbrekend onderzoek, maar vooral ook op honderden gesprekken die hij met Congolezen voerde.

Zijn ooggetuigen gaan van eeuwlingen tot kindsoldaten, van rebellenleiders tot smokkelaars, van ministers tot maniokverkoopsters. Hun verhalen heeft de auteur in zijn grote geschiedenis geïntegreerd.]]> 680 David Van Reybrouck 9023458664 matthijs 0 currently-reading 4.35 2010 Congo: Een geschiedenis
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]]> The Storyteller 53931 ]]> 245 Mario Vargas Llosa 0312420285 matthijs 0 to-read 3.74 1987 The Storyteller
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]]> <![CDATA[De kant van Swann (Op zoek naar de verloren tijd, #1)]]> 42744128 In De kant van Swann, het eerste deel van de cyclus, gaat de verteller herinneringsgewijs terug naar zijn jongensjaren en adolescentie. Hij vertelt over zijn initiatie in de liefde en in het complexe salonleven aan het einde van de negentiende eeuw, waarbij hij zich spiegelt aan de intrigerende figuur Charles Swann.]]> 608 Marcel Proust 9403119004 matthijs 5
Over het werk zelf heb ik nu niks te zeggen dat niet al gezegd is. Ik zoek constant naar zulke contemplatieve literatuur.]]> 4.15 1913 De kant van Swann (Op zoek naar de verloren tijd, #1)
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Uiteraard is Proust moeilijk te vertalen, maar veel van de complexere zinnen waren ongelofelijk mank. Elke headscratcher vergeleek ik met de Engelse Moncrieff vertaling, die zonder uitzondering duidelijk en muzikaal was; glashelder waren zinnen die me in het Nederlands hooguit een vermoeden van hun betekenis konden geven. Ik denk dat deze vertaling van Cornips het Frans probeert te vertolken in het Nederlands, zoals die van Lydia Davis in het Engels, maar alle precisie van Proust gaat hierbij gek genoeg verloren, voor een gevoel dat niet eens overkomt.

Over het werk zelf heb ik nu niks te zeggen dat niet al gezegd is. Ik zoek constant naar zulke contemplatieve literatuur.
]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)]]> 58613345
As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate, and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.

So it's the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Harry struggles to uncover the identity of the Half-Blood Prince, the past owner of a potions textbook he now possesses that is filled with ingenious, potentially deadly, spells. But Harry's life is suddenly changed forever when someone close to him is heinously murdered right before his eyes.

With Dumbledore's guidance, he seeks out the full, complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort, and thereby attempts to find what may be his only vulnerability.]]> 672 J.K. Rowling matthijs 0 4.58 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane]]> 35259553 Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, "a genius on the level of Beckett" (Teju Cole)

Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories--originally published from 1985 to 2012--offer an irresistible compendium of the work of one of contemporary fiction's greatest magicians.

While the Australian master Gerald Murnane's reputation rests largely on his longer works of fiction, his short stories stand among the most brilliant and idiosyncratic uses of the form since Borges, Beckett, and Nabokov. Brutal, comic, obscene, and crystalline, Stream System runs from the haunting "Land Deal," which imagines the colonization of Australia and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous people as a series of nested dreams; to "Finger Web," which tells a quietly terrifying, fractal tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny; to "The Interior of Gaaldine," which finds its anxious protagonist stranded beyond the limits of fiction itself.

No one else writes like Murnane, and there are few other authors alive still capable of changing how--and why--we read.

Contents:
When the mice failed to arrive --
Stream system --
Land deal --
The only Adam --
Stone quarry --
Precious bane --
Cotters come no more --
There were some countries --
Finger web --
First love --
Velvet waters --
The white cattle of Uppington --
In far fields --
Pink lining --
Boy blue --
Emerald blue --
The interior of Gaaldine --
Invisible yet enduring lilacs --
As it were a letter --
The boy's name was David --
Last letter to a niece.]]> 560 Gerald Murnane 0374126003 matthijs 0 currently-reading 4.11 2018 Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane
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]]> Godface 53052240 104 Asha Karami 9403165901 matthijs 0 3.93 Godface
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]]> Agnes Grey 298230 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Brontë wrote Agnes Grey in an effort to represent the many 19th Century women who worked as governesses and suffered daily abuse as a result of their position.

Having lost the family savings on risky investments, Richard Grey removes himself from family life and suffers a bout of depression. Feeling helpless and frustrated, his youngest daughter, Agnes, applies for a job as a governess to the children of a wealthy, upper-class, English family.

Ecstatic at the thought that she has finally gained control and freedom over her own life, Agnes arrives at the Bloomfield mansion armed with confidence and purpose. The cruelty with which the family treat her however, slowly but surely strips the heroine of all dignity and belief in humanity.

A tale of female bravery in the face of isolation and subjugation, Agnes Grey is a masterpiece claimed by Irish writer, George Moore, to be possessed of all the qualities and style of a Jane Austen title. Its simple prosaic style propels the narrative forward in a gentle yet rhythmic manner which continuously leaves the listener wanting to know more.

Anne Brontë, the somewhat lesser known sister, was in fact the first to finish and publish Agnes Grey under the pseudonym of Acton Bell. Charlotte and Emily followed shortly after with Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

As Anne passed away from what is now known to be pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of just 29, she only published one further title; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. As feminist in nature as Agnes Grey, Anne's brave voice resonates and permeates during one of the most prejudiced and patriarchal times of English history.]]> 226 Anne Brontë 0140432108 matthijs 2 3.71 1847 Agnes Grey
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]]> Dinky toys (Dutch Edition) 1530355 Dutch 112 Willem Frederik Hermans 9061693551 matthijs 1 3.00 1988 Dinky toys (Dutch Edition)
author: Willem Frederik Hermans
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average rating: 3.00
book published: 1988
rating: 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Runaways: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1]]> 234352 448 Brian K. Vaughan 0785118764 matthijs 0 4.19 2004 Runaways: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1
author: Brian K. Vaughan
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average rating: 4.19
book published: 2004
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]]> The Great Gatsby 41727059 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here and here

The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the writing," as well as Fitzgerald's sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald's "best work" thus far. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when, The New York Times remarked, "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s that resonates with the power of myth. A novel of lyrical beauty yet brutal realism, of magic, romance, and mysticism, The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.
This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of The Great Gatsby, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and authorized by the estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The first edition of The Great Gatsby contained many errors resulting from Fitzgerald's extensive revisions and a rushed production schedule, and subsequent editions introduced further departures from the author's intentions. This critical edition draws on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, along with Fitzgerald's later revisions and corrections, to restore the text to its original form. It is The Great Gatsby as Fitzgerald intended it.
Source: simonandschuster.com]]> 176 F. Scott Fitzgerald 0684830426 matthijs 3 4.10 1925 The Great Gatsby
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]]> Normal People 37539457
A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.]]> 266 Sally Rooney 0571334644 matthijs 4 3.93 2018 Normal People
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average rating: 3.93
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Je zal mijn ouders nooit ontmoeten]]> 208180047 Ceren Uzuner matthijs 0 4.67 Je zal mijn ouders nooit ontmoeten
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]]> Peachez, een romance 34059536 Peachez, een romance heeft Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer zich gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal: dat van een professor in Amerika die verliefd wordt op een fotomodel dat hij surfend op het internet leert kennen en voor wie hij een alles overstijgende liefde gaat koesteren die zijn leven overhoop haalt. Uiteindelijk blijkt zijn liefde te zijn gegrond op een fantasie. Maar geldt dat niet in wezen voor alle liefdesrelaties?

Peachez, een romance behandelt het moderne fenomeen van catfishing en zo ook het eeuwige thema van de zoektocht naar geluk in de liefde, maar het is ook een filosofische roman die leest als een thriller.]]> 176 Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer 9029511648 matthijs 2
(Voorheen 5*)]]> 3.64 2017 Peachez, een romance
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Herlezen was nog nooit zo messed up.

(Voorheen 5*)
]]> Middlemarch 37854403 Life in Middlemarch is a study in provincial life, indeed. Young Dorothea Brooke has high hopes in life, but soon settles in marriage. As it turns out, her much older husband is not what she really needs to accomplish her noble deeds in life.

Meanwhile, a young doctor moves to town but has a hard time fitting in. He finds himself settling in marriage, too. It begs the question, why marry at all, or why not wait for love?

All is not lost; Dorothea finds friendship in her husband's cousin, but jealousy ensues. What will happen when her husband dies but leaves a provision in his will, causing Dorothea to lose her inheritance if she marries the cousin? Can she live happily ever after?]]> 853 George Eliot matthijs 5
"Lydgate pausing and looking at her again began to feel that half-maddening sense of helplessness which comes over passionate people when their passion is met by an innocent-looking silence whose meek victimized air seems to put them in the wrong, and at last infects even the justest indignation with a doubt of it's justice."

En

"In reality, however, she was intensely aware of Lydgate's voice and movements, and her pretty good-tempered air of unconsciousness was a studied negation by which she satisfied her inward opposition to him without compromise of propriety."

En

"He felt the scenes of his earlier life coming between him and everything else, as obstinately as when we look through the window from a lighted room, the objects we turn our backs on are still before us, instead of the grass and the trees. The successive events inward and outward were there in one view: though each might be dwelt on in turn, the rest still kept their hold in the consciousness."]]> 4.37 1872 Middlemarch
author: George Eliot
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"Lydgate pausing and looking at her again began to feel that half-maddening sense of helplessness which comes over passionate people when their passion is met by an innocent-looking silence whose meek victimized air seems to put them in the wrong, and at last infects even the justest indignation with a doubt of it's justice."

En

"In reality, however, she was intensely aware of Lydgate's voice and movements, and her pretty good-tempered air of unconsciousness was a studied negation by which she satisfied her inward opposition to him without compromise of propriety."

En

"He felt the scenes of his earlier life coming between him and everything else, as obstinately as when we look through the window from a lighted room, the objects we turn our backs on are still before us, instead of the grass and the trees. The successive events inward and outward were there in one view: though each might be dwelt on in turn, the rest still kept their hold in the consciousness."
]]> <![CDATA[Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!]]> 9595 Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today’s follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Kurt Vonnegut’s pen into hilarious farce—a final slapstick that may be the Almighty’s joke on us all.]]> 288 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 0385334230 matthijs 4 Sophie was furious when she received a form letter from her President, who happened to be me, which instructed her to stop being a Rothschild. She was to become a Peanut-3 instead.]]> 3.87 1976 Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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average rating: 3.87
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rating: 4
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Sophie was furious when she received a form letter from her President, who happened to be me, which instructed her to stop being a Rothschild. She was to become a Peanut-3 instead.
]]> The Hour of the Star 13119746 A new edition of Clarice Lispector’s final masterpiece, now with a vivid introduction by Colm Tóibín.

Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free/She doesn't seem to know how unhappy she should be. Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narrator―edge of despair to edge of despair―and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader's preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love and the art of fiction. In her last book she takes readers close to the true mystery of life and leave us deep in Lispector territory indeed.]]> 128 Clarice Lispector matthijs 5 4,5* 4.00 1977 The Hour of the Star
author: Clarice Lispector
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> Great Expectations 518850
From the young Pip’s first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham’s mansion to the magnificently realized boat chase down the Thames, Great Expectations is filled with the transcendent excitement that Dickens could so abundantly provide.

Written in 1860, at the height of his maturity, it also reveals the novelist’s bittersweet understanding of the extent to which our deepest moral dilemmas are born of our own obsessions and illusions.

This edition includes Dickens’s original, discarded conclusion to the novel, the 1907 Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton, and twenty illustrations by F. W. Pailthorpe.]]> 469 Charles Dickens 0679405798 matthijs 5 Eerste Dickens omfg.

[spoilers removed] en ben ik doorgaans geen groot liefhebber van bildungsromans. Kortom: ik zou dit een voorspelbaar, irritant boek vinden, als Dickens niet zoooo goed schreef. Mensen hebben het vaker over zijn personages, plots en themas dan over de taal, maar hij werd direct een van mijn favoriete stilisten.

Het duurde lang voordat ik Dickens las omdat ik vermoedde dat het sentimenteel zou zijn, en het zit op dat randje, maar het is zo integer en goed gedaan, ik kan alleen maar klappen voor zulk vakmanschap]]> 4.10 1861 Great Expectations
author: Charles Dickens
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Eerste Dickens omfg.

[spoilers removed] en ben ik doorgaans geen groot liefhebber van bildungsromans. Kortom: ik zou dit een voorspelbaar, irritant boek vinden, als Dickens niet zoooo goed schreef. Mensen hebben het vaker over zijn personages, plots en themas dan over de taal, maar hij werd direct een van mijn favoriete stilisten.

Het duurde lang voordat ik Dickens las omdat ik vermoedde dat het sentimenteel zou zijn, en het zit op dat randje, maar het is zo integer en goed gedaan, ik kan alleen maar klappen voor zulk vakmanschap
]]> Life for Sale 52337238 'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will cause no bother at all.'

When Hanio Yamada realizes the future holds nothing of worth to him, he puts his life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper, thus unleashing a series of unimaginable exploits.

A world of revenge, murderous mobsters, hidden cameras, a vampire woman, poisonous carrots, espionage and code-breaking, a junkie heiress, home-made explosives and decoys reveals itself to the unwitting Hanio. Is there anything he can do to stop it?]]> 192 Yukio Mishima matthijs 1 3.81 1968 Life for Sale
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name: matthijs
average rating: 3.81
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rating: 1
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]]> Wuthering Heights 32929156 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

Emily Brontë's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the Penguin Classics edition of Wuthering Heights is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before; of the intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw; and how Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.]]> 359 Emily Brontë 0141439556 matthijs 5 4.04 1847 Wuthering Heights
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“I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.�
]]> Narziss en Goldmund 20413596 Narziss en Goldmund is een van de beste en meest geliefde romans van de Duitse schrijver Hermann Hesse. De filosofische roman gaat over de confrontatie tussen de intellectuele Narziss en de artistieke Goldmund en speelt zich af in de middeleeuwen. De gedisciplineerde Narziss overtuigt zijn rusteloze vriend Goldmund zijn hart te volgen en zijn leven in het klooster vaarwel te zeggen. De jonge Goldmund trekt vervolgens de wijde wereld in, op zoek naar schoonheid, genegenheid en spanning. Hij leidt een bewogen liefdesleven en lijkt even rust gevonden te hebben als beeldhouwer, maar het avontuur blijft lonken. Wanneer hij op een dag in hachelijke omstandigheden verzeild raakt, duikt tot zijn grote verbazing zijn goede vriend Narziss weer op.

Narziss en Goldmund is een roman over een bewogen en ongemakkelijke vriendschap tussen twee mannen die elkaars uitersten zijn. Een avontuurlijk verhaal over het innerlijke conflict tussen geest en lichaam, logos en eros. Een cultroman die door elke generatie opnieuw ontdekt wordt.]]> 288 Hermann Hesse matthijs 1 4.28 1930 Narziss en Goldmund
author: Hermann Hesse
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average rating: 4.28
book published: 1930
rating: 1
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Goeie genade wat schrijft hij slecht. Dit is het eerste boek dat me ooit werd aangeraden, later was het ook het eerste boek dat ik bij Hijman kocht tijdens mijn sollicitatie. Ik heb doorgeploegd omdat ik vond dat ik recht moest doen aan deze herinneringen. Hij had wel wat te zeggen maar dit proza is gewoon niet te doen
]]> Tess of the D'Urbervilles 15994662 "I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine ... I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you, my own dear! Come to me - come to me, and save me from what threatens me!"

When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. With its sensitive depiction of the wronged Tess and powerful criticism of social convention, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels.]]> 487 Thomas Hardy 0141199946 matthijs 5 Elke zin die Hardy schrijft � 3.99 1891 Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Elke zin die Hardy schrijft �
]]> All Fours 197798168
A semifamous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to New York. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey.

Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.]]> 336 Miranda July 0593190262 matthijs 3
"He looked genuinely confused by my surprise, like the idea of a coincidence was too nuanced for him. It was always like this in life. No one ever had the right reaction to anything."

3,5*?]]> 3.53 2024 All Fours
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Elke irrationele, verboden hersenkronkel is opgeschreven. Navelstaarderij op z'n best, heel goed geschreven, toch voelt elke rating verkeerd.

"He looked genuinely confused by my surprise, like the idea of a coincidence was too nuanced for him. It was always like this in life. No one ever had the right reaction to anything."

3,5*?
]]> <![CDATA[Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)]]> 206358
After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the son of the old bishop, Archdeacon Grantly, resentment and suspicion threaten to cause deep divisions within the diocese. Trollope’s masterly depiction of the plotting and back-stabbing that ensues lies at the heart of one of the most vivid and comic of his Barsetshire novels, peopled by such very different figures as the saintly Warden of Hiram’s Hospital, Septimus Harding, the ineffectual but well-meaning new bishop and his terrifying wife, and the oily chaplain Mr Slope who has designs both on Mr Harding’s daughter and the fascinating would-be femme fatale Signora Vesey-Neroni.

This is the second volume of Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire. In his introduction, Robin Gilmour examines the novel’s political and social background and Trollope’s concern with changes occurring in society. This edition also includes a preface by J. K. Galbraith.]]> 526 Anthony Trollope 0140432035 matthijs 4 4.10 1857 Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)
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Intrige, mind games en backstabbing. Erg verslavend.
]]> Madame Bovary 53182024 Tegen het decor van de verpletterende verveling op het Franse platteland tekent Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) het leven van een vrouw die te gronde gaat aan haar illusies.]]> 371 Gustave Flaubert 9020416251 matthijs 4 'Zij verlangde naar de dood en tegelijkertijd wilde zij in Parijs wonen.']]> 4.00 1856 Madame Bovary
author: Gustave Flaubert
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average rating: 4.00
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rating: 4
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'Zij verlangde naar de dood en tegelijkertijd wilde zij in Parijs wonen.'
]]> Honderd jaar eenzaamheid 941517 428 Gabriel García Márquez 9029000147 matthijs 2 4.10 1967 Honderd jaar eenzaamheid
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: matthijs
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]]> <![CDATA[Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump]]> 36221506
In Mistaken Identity, Asad Haider reaches for a different approach - one rooted in the rich legacies of the black freedom struggle. Drawing from the words and deeds of black revolutionary theorists, he argues that identity politics is not synonymous with anti-racism, but instead amounts to the neutralization of its movements, a retreat from the crucial passage from identity to solidarity, and from individual recognition to collective struggle against an oppressive social structure.

Mistaken Identity is an urgent call for alternative visions, languages, and practices against the white identity politics of right-wing populism. Responding with a contrary, pluralist identity politics has proven successful. The idea of universal emancipation now seems old-fashioned and outmoded. But if we are attentive to the lines of struggle which lie outside the boundaries of the state, we will see that it has been placed on the agenda once again.]]> 144 Asad Haider 1786637383 matthijs 0 3.90 2018 Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> Winter (Seasonal, #2) 34516974 The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential Seasonal Quartet—from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be Both.

Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer’s leaves? Dead litter.

The world shrinks; the sap sinks.
But winter makes things visible. And if there’s ice, there’ll be fire.

In Ali Smith's Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith's shape-shifting quartet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter.

It’s the season that teaches us survival.
Here comes Winter.]]> 322 Ali Smith 0241207029 matthijs 5 3.81 2017 Winter (Seasonal, #2)
author: Ali Smith
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average rating: 3.81
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]]> Hamlet 1432 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13:9780743477123, Hamlet.

Hamlet is the story of the Prince of Denmark who learns of the death of his father at the hands of his uncle, Claudius. Claudius murders Hamlet's father, his own brother, to take the throne of Denmark and to marry Hamlet's widowed mother. Hamlet is sunk into a state of great despair as a result of discovering the murder of his father and the infidelity of his mother. Hamlet is torn between his great sadness and his desire for the revenge of his father's murder.

Each Folger edition includes:

- Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
- Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
- Scene-by-scene plot summaries
- A key to famous lines and phrases
- An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
- An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
- Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books]]> 342 William Shakespeare matthijs 4 4.05 1601 Hamlet
author: William Shakespeare
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average rating: 4.05
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Eigenlijk ook gewoon 5 sterren maar vond het verhaal en de personages vaak vervelend
]]> <![CDATA[Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?]]> 6763725 81 Mark Fisher 1846943175 matthijs 4 4.20 2009 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
author: Mark Fisher
name: matthijs
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> Lolita 13602512 466 Vladimir Nabokov 0141197013 matthijs 3 4.07 1955 Lolita
author: Vladimir Nabokov
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 1955
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)]]> 206368 here.

"The Warden" centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to the purposes of the foundation. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his reforming zeal to exposing what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he is in love with Mr. Harding's daughter Eleanor. It was a highly topical novel (a case regarding the misapplication of church funds was the scandalous subject of contemporary debate), but like other great Victorian novelists, Trollope uses the specific case to explore and illuminate the universal complexities of human motivation and social morality]]> 201 Anthony Trollope 0140432140 matthijs 3 2,5* 3.74 1855 The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
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average rating: 3.74
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rating: 3
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2,5*
]]> <![CDATA[De diepst verborgen herinnering van de mens]]> 63056508 463 Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 9025472826 matthijs 3 4.17 2021 De diepst verborgen herinnering van de mens
author: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
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average rating: 4.17
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rating: 3
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]]> Dr. Wortle's School 149784
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 222 Anthony Trollope 0140434046 matthijs 5 De beste mannen<br />4,5* 3.83 1879 Dr. Wortle's School
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average rating: 3.83
book published: 1879
rating: 5
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De beste mannen
4,5*
]]> The Catcher in the Rye 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919�2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]> 277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 matthijs 5
Je ziet, beter dan in welk boek dan ook, iemand worstelen met zijn leeftijd en alles wat daarbij hoort. Hierin is hij, zoals de meeste pubers, radicaal en star. Het maakt dat hij bij vlagen strontirritant is, maar dit vergeef je hem, je moedigt het zelfs aan. Omdat je ziet dat het een worsteling is, en omdat het voortkomt uit een oprechte nobelheid: hij wil bovenal dat de wereld een mooie plek is. Hierin is hij af en toe hypocriet, irreëel - het is een gebrekkig karakter. Maar de integriteit van zijn goede bedoelingen voeren de boventoon. Het zijn vooral de onschuldigen die hij wil redden: al het contact dat hij met kinderen heeft is positief, hij geeft ongelooflijk veel om zijn zusje Phoebe, en hij wordt razend als hij ziet dat er 'Fuck you' geschreven is op de muren van zijn oudere basisschool.

Het is een simpel verhaal, dat ontzettend knap in elkaar zit. Of je Holden nou verschrikkelijk vindt of hem ziet als je evenbeeld, of je hem gelooft of alles wat hij zegt in twijfel trekt: het brengt iets teweeg (onnozelheid bij de haters vooral). Het was voor mij geen liefde op het eerste gezicht, maar ik vermoed dat het wel een langdurige liefde zal zijn.]]> 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
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Alles wordt verteld vanuit Holden's extreem gekleurde oogpunt, en toch zie je wat er niet klopt aan zijn verhaal; je prikt erdoorheen en ziet wat er nou eigenlijk echt gebeurt. Dit is onwijs knap van Salinger. In die zin 'tellt' Holden, en 'showt' Salinger, en ik kan me niet herinneren eerder een boek gelezen te hebben waarbij je zo fijnzinnig een tweede waarheid kan lezen, zonder dat er wordt gewisseld van vertelvorm.

Je ziet, beter dan in welk boek dan ook, iemand worstelen met zijn leeftijd en alles wat daarbij hoort. Hierin is hij, zoals de meeste pubers, radicaal en star. Het maakt dat hij bij vlagen strontirritant is, maar dit vergeef je hem, je moedigt het zelfs aan. Omdat je ziet dat het een worsteling is, en omdat het voortkomt uit een oprechte nobelheid: hij wil bovenal dat de wereld een mooie plek is. Hierin is hij af en toe hypocriet, irreëel - het is een gebrekkig karakter. Maar de integriteit van zijn goede bedoelingen voeren de boventoon. Het zijn vooral de onschuldigen die hij wil redden: al het contact dat hij met kinderen heeft is positief, hij geeft ongelooflijk veel om zijn zusje Phoebe, en hij wordt razend als hij ziet dat er 'Fuck you' geschreven is op de muren van zijn oudere basisschool.

Het is een simpel verhaal, dat ontzettend knap in elkaar zit. Of je Holden nou verschrikkelijk vindt of hem ziet als je evenbeeld, of je hem gelooft of alles wat hij zegt in twijfel trekt: het brengt iets teweeg (onnozelheid bij de haters vooral). Het was voor mij geen liefde op het eerste gezicht, maar ik vermoed dat het wel een langdurige liefde zal zijn.
]]> <![CDATA[My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)]]> 35036409 My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighbourhood, a city and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her two protagonists.]]> 331 Elena Ferrante matthijs 4 4.08 2011 My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
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]]> Lorna Doone 73960 Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by curiosity and a sense of adventure, he makes his way to the valley of the Doones, where he is discovered by the beautiful Lorna. In time their childish fantasies blossom into mature love—a bond that will inspire John to rescue his beloved from the ravages of a stormy winter, rekindling a conflict with his archrival, Carver Doone, that climaxes in heartrending violence.

Beloved for its portrait of star-crossed lovers and its surpassing descriptions of the English countryside, Lorna Doone is R. D. Blackmore’s enduring masterpiece.]]> 800 R.D. Blackmore 0143039326 matthijs 0 to-read 3.72 1869 Lorna Doone
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]]> The Mayor of Casterbridge 56759 Librarian note: The same ISBN is now being used here with a new cover.

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled ‘A Story of a Man of Character�, Hardy’s powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.]]> 393 Thomas Hardy matthijs 4 3.85 1886 The Mayor of Casterbridge
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average rating: 3.85
book published: 1886
rating: 4
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]]> Intermezzo 208931300 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]> 454 Sally Rooney 0374602638 matthijs 2 3.88 2024 Intermezzo
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Nu ik het wat langer uit heb: de roman lijkt gewoon niet helemaal verwezenlijkt.
]]> <![CDATA[Het einde van de rode mens. Leven op de puinhopen van de Sovjet-Unie]]> 28387230
In 1991, meer dan twintig jaar geleden, viel de Sovjet-Unie uit elkaar, ontdekten de Russen de wereld, en ontdekte de wereld de Russen. Even leek een romance in de maak, maar de liefde was snel voorbij. Terwijl men in het Westen nog steeds Gorbatsjov idealiseert en in het Oosten Poetin het begrip ‘democratie� wel erg ruim interpreteert, grijpen vele voormalige Sovjetburgers � ook jongeren � vol nostalgie terug naar de socialistische staatsmannen van weleer.
Onderzoeksjournaliste Svetlana Alexijevitsj laat honderden getuigen aan het woord over hun leven tijdens en na de Sovjet-Unie: goede mensen en minder goede mensen; schuldigen en slachtoffers; aanhangers van de perestrojka en hardleerse stalinisten. Met een opmerkelijke openheid vertellen zij hoe de omwenteling van 1991 hun levensloop beïnvloedde, hoe hun wereldbeeld veranderde, hoe ze op zoek moesten naar een nieuwe identiteit. "Het einde van de Rode mens" ontbloot de ziel van een getraumatiseerd, verdeeld volk.]]> 478 Svetlana Alexievich 902349802X matthijs 5
'Mijn moeder, mijn zoon en ik leven elk in een ander land, al heten ze alle drie Rusland. Maar wij zijn waanzinnig met elkaar verbonden. Waanzinnig! We voelen ons allemaal verraden.']]> 4.38 2013 Het einde van de rode mens. Leven op de puinhopen van de Sovjet-Unie
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LEES DIT. Het beste boek allertijden is een gedeelde eerste plek waar 'Het einde van de rode mens' zonder enige twijfel onderdeel van uitmaakt. Dit is nog eens werkelijke en complete geschiedschrijving; chaotisch, genuanceerd, tegenstrijdig. Hoewel het gaat over de Sovjet-Unie is dit een van de meest inzichtelijke boeken over mens en maatschappij in het algemeen, over proberen en hoop en oneerlijkheid en verraad en gemeenschap en betekenis en hulpeloosheid. Elke bladzijde staat vol met markeringen want mensen die anderzijds nooit aan het woord komen hebben zoveel te vertellen (en iedereen is op een of andere manier ontzettend poëtisch)

'Mijn moeder, mijn zoon en ik leven elk in een ander land, al heten ze alle drie Rusland. Maar wij zijn waanzinnig met elkaar verbonden. Waanzinnig! We voelen ons allemaal verraden.'
]]> Schaduwkind 1761223 Schaduwkind is het adembenemende relaas van dit zoeken naar woorden. Een heel leven wordt overhoop gehaald, elke betekenis moet opnieuw worden uitgevonden.]]> 109 P.F. Thomése 9025417280 matthijs 4 3.90 2003 Schaduwkind
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> Small Things Like These 58662236
Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.]]> 128 Claire Keegan 0802158749 matthijs 4 4.14 2021 Small Things Like These
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]]> Pedro Páramo 22931012 143 Juan Rulfo 1781253161 matthijs 5 3.93 1955 Pedro Páramo
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average rating: 3.93
book published: 1955
rating: 5
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]]> The Tunnel 156182 The Tunnel meditates on history, hatred, unhappiness, and, above all, language.]]> 652 William H. Gass 1564782131 matthijs 0 to-read 3.99 1995 The Tunnel
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]]> <![CDATA[Als de vogel door het glas vliegt]]> 35501448 105 Jante Wortel matthijs 0 Ademloos uitgelezen. 3.79 Als de vogel door het glas vliegt
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Ademloos uitgelezen.
]]> Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) 4799 Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on their luck and those who choose for other reasons not to live "up the hill" in the more respectable area of town. The flow of the main plot is frequently interrupted by short vignettes that introduce us to various denizens of the Row, most of whom are not directly connected with the central story. These vignettes are often characterized by direct or indirect reference to extreme violence: suicides, corpses, and the cruelty of the natural world.

The "story" of Cannery Row follows the adventures of Mack and the boys, a group of unemployed yet resourceful men who inhabit a converted fish-meal shack on the edge of a vacant lot down on the Row.

Sweet Thursday is the sequel to Cannery Row.]]> 181 John Steinbeck 014200068X matthijs 4 4.06 1943 Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> The Third Gilmore Girl 207298106 Brought to you by Penguin.

Beloved award-winning actress Kelly Bishop, famous for playing the iconic Emily Gilmore in Gilmore Girls , finally tells the whole story of her six decades in show business.

Kelly Bishop’s storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, from winning a Tony Award for her turn in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line to her memorable performance as Jennifer Grey’s mother in Dirty Dancing, but it is probably her role as matriarch Emily in the modern classic Gilmore Girls that cemented her legacy.
Now, Bishop reflects on her remarkable life and looks towards the future, sharing some of her greatest stories and the life lessons she’s learned on her journey. From her early transition from dance to drama, to marrying young to a compulsive gambler, to the losses and achievements she experienced—among them marching for women’s rights and losing her second husband to cancer—Bishop offers a rich, genuine celebration of her life.
Full of witty insights, The Third Gilmore Girl is a warm, unapologetic, and powerful memoir from a woman who has left indelible impressions on her audiences for decades.

]]> 256 Kelly Bishop 1668023776 matthijs 0 to-read 4.35 2024 The Third Gilmore Girl
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]]> Jeugdherinneringen 18482648
In Kinderjaren ervaren we door de ogen van het kind Aljosja het rauwe milieu van kleine ambachtslieden, waarin wreedheid en tederheid, heidens volksgeloof en christendom hand in hand gaan. Hoewel Aljosja opgroeit in een mallemolen van dwaas en sadistisch gedrag, vlucht hij nooit in zelfbeklag.

Onder de mensen laat vervolgens zien hoe de veertienjarige Aljosja na de dood van zijn moeder in zijn onderhoud voorziet. Hij beproeft zijn geluk als loopjongen in een schoenenwinkel, bordenwasser op een stoomschip op de Wolga en als leerling in een iconenatelier.

In Mijn universiteiten lezen we over Aljosja s lotgevallen in Kazán. Als hij niet wordt toegelaten tot de universiteit brengt hij zijn tijd door te midden van havenarbeiders, klaplopers, hoeren en anarchisten. Het zijn deze verschoppelingen van de maatschappij die hem belangrijke levenslessen leren.

Gorki s liefde voor mensheid en natuur en zijn intense drang de gedragingen van de mens te willen begrijpen maken deze trilogie tot een tijdloos en ontroerend monument.]]> 879 Maxim Gorky 9029585188 matthijs 0 to-read 4.33 1913 Jeugdherinneringen
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]]> De ontdekking van de hemel 88413 De ontdekking van de hemel: Een totaalroman.
Dit monumentale boek, waarin alle thema's en obsessies uit het werk van Harry Mulisch in 65 hoofdstukken bijeenkomen, is tegelijk een psychologische roman, een filosofische roman, een tijdroman, een ontwikkelingsroman, een avonturenroman en een alles overkoepelend mysteriespel.
--back cover]]> 905 Harry Mulisch 9023461231 matthijs 4 4.22 1992 De ontdekking van de hemel
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> Hope Abandoned 262750 684 Nadezhda Mandelstam 0002625032 matthijs 0 to-read 4.42 1973 Hope Abandoned
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]]> Hope Against Hope 106459 442 Nadezhda Mandelstam 0375753168 matthijs 0 to-read 4.38 1970 Hope Against Hope
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]]> <![CDATA[The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government]]> 24723229
America’s greatest untold story: the United States� rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials—including newly discovered U.S. government documents, U.S. and European intelligence sources, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dulles’s wife and mistress, and exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officials—Talbot reveals the underside of one of America’s most powerful and influential figures.

Dulles’s decade as the director of the CIA—which he used to further his public and private agendas—were dark times in American politics. Calling himself “the secretary of state of unfriendly countries,� Dulles saw himself as above the elected law, manipulating and subverting American presidents in the pursuit of his personal interests and those of the wealthy elite he counted as his friends and clients—colluding with Nazi-controlled cartels, German war criminals, and Mafiosi in the process. Targeting foreign leaders for assassination and overthrowing nationalist governments not in line with his political aims, Dulles employed those same tactics to further his goals at home, Talbot charges, offering shocking new evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

An exposé of American power that is as disturbing as it is timely, The Devil’s Chessboard is a provocative and gripping story of the rise of the national security state—and the battle for America’s soul.]]> 704 David Talbot 0062276166 matthijs 0 to-read 4.33 2015 The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hobbit, or There and Back Again]]> 5907 Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001).]]> 366 J.R.R. Tolkien matthijs 0 currently-reading 4.29 1937 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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]]> The Lost Daughter 1058564
But she soon finds herself intrigued by Nina, a young mother on the beach, eventually striking up a conversation with her. After Nina confides a dark secret, one seemingly trivial occurrence leads to events that could destroy Nina’s family.]]> 140 Elena Ferrante 1933372427 matthijs 3 3.70 2006 The Lost Daughter
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average rating: 3.70
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]]> De verborgen dochter 20626158 159 Elena Ferrante 9028422471 matthijs 3 3.30 2006 De verborgen dochter
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]]> Boven is het stil 4626738 264 Gerbrand Bakker 9059361067 matthijs 5 3.93 2006 Boven is het stil
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]]> De wetten 29356859 240 Connie Palmen 9044630555 matthijs 4 De wetten voor het eerst las, nadat ik enorm had genoten van haar roman Jij zegt het, was ik teleurgesteld (2,5* op ŷ). Ik miste de samenhang in het boek. Ik zag niet genoeg wat Marie Deniet had geleerd van de verschillende mannen, ik vond de vorm houterig werken, en bepaalde relaties diepgang missen. Het was een wankel boek, besloot ik.

Twee jaar later herlas ik het. Ik kreeg het idee dat ik de eerste keer stekeblind was geweest voor de rijkheid van dit boek. Op elke pagina word je om de oren geslagen met briljante vondsten � hetzij psychologisch, filosofisch of stilistisch. Zinnen als 'Buiten was het helder en licht geweest, maar binnen was iedere herinnering aan het uur van de dag uitgesloten,' zijn voorbeelden van de kleine pareltjes waar ze constant mee strooit.

De grootste kracht zit hem echter in de langere uiteenzettingen, waarbij ze vaak een gedachte of gevoel pakt, en deze helemaal uitpluist, contemplatief en associatief. Je merkt dat Connie Palmen haar hoofd vol opborrelende ideeën niet kon bedwingen toen ze dit schreef, en waar dit bij veel werken leidt tot een geforceerd, overvol boek, is het hier volstrekt natuurlijk. Het past bij het hoofdpersonage, en het soort boek dat De wetten is.

Palmens stijl neigt af en toe naar het barokke, iets dat volgens mij vaak niet bemerkt of benoemd wordt, en dit wisselt ze af met terloopse zinnen, vaak als afsluiter van een lang en serieus betoog. Een voorbeeld hiervan is: 'De onverwachte onbeschaamdheid waarmee hij in de gang zijn verveling prijsgaf en de zinnelijke manier waarop hij me nu bekeek, zonder een poging te ondernemen de richting van zijn blikken voor mij te verbergen, waren hoogstens raadselachtig in combinatie met zijn lelijkheid, maar voor de rest verwachtte ik van die zondag geen onvoorziene wendingen. Ik heb mij wel vaker op iets verkeken.'

Connie Palmen is een van Nederlands bekendste schrijvers, maar toch vind ik haar onderschat. Ze is verworden tot een persona, waar ze voor een groot gedeelte zelf verantwoordelijk voor is. Maar een gevolg daarvan is dat haar werk minder serieus wordt genomen. Het valt te vergelijken met Mulisch, bij wie het werk ook niet meer los te zien was van zijn publieke persoon.]]> 3.39 1991 De wetten
author: Connie Palmen
name: matthijs
average rating: 3.39
book published: 1991
rating: 4
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Toen ik De wetten voor het eerst las, nadat ik enorm had genoten van haar roman Jij zegt het, was ik teleurgesteld (2,5* op ŷ). Ik miste de samenhang in het boek. Ik zag niet genoeg wat Marie Deniet had geleerd van de verschillende mannen, ik vond de vorm houterig werken, en bepaalde relaties diepgang missen. Het was een wankel boek, besloot ik.

Twee jaar later herlas ik het. Ik kreeg het idee dat ik de eerste keer stekeblind was geweest voor de rijkheid van dit boek. Op elke pagina word je om de oren geslagen met briljante vondsten � hetzij psychologisch, filosofisch of stilistisch. Zinnen als 'Buiten was het helder en licht geweest, maar binnen was iedere herinnering aan het uur van de dag uitgesloten,' zijn voorbeelden van de kleine pareltjes waar ze constant mee strooit.

De grootste kracht zit hem echter in de langere uiteenzettingen, waarbij ze vaak een gedachte of gevoel pakt, en deze helemaal uitpluist, contemplatief en associatief. Je merkt dat Connie Palmen haar hoofd vol opborrelende ideeën niet kon bedwingen toen ze dit schreef, en waar dit bij veel werken leidt tot een geforceerd, overvol boek, is het hier volstrekt natuurlijk. Het past bij het hoofdpersonage, en het soort boek dat De wetten is.

Palmens stijl neigt af en toe naar het barokke, iets dat volgens mij vaak niet bemerkt of benoemd wordt, en dit wisselt ze af met terloopse zinnen, vaak als afsluiter van een lang en serieus betoog. Een voorbeeld hiervan is: 'De onverwachte onbeschaamdheid waarmee hij in de gang zijn verveling prijsgaf en de zinnelijke manier waarop hij me nu bekeek, zonder een poging te ondernemen de richting van zijn blikken voor mij te verbergen, waren hoogstens raadselachtig in combinatie met zijn lelijkheid, maar voor de rest verwachtte ik van die zondag geen onvoorziene wendingen. Ik heb mij wel vaker op iets verkeken.'

Connie Palmen is een van Nederlands bekendste schrijvers, maar toch vind ik haar onderschat. Ze is verworden tot een persona, waar ze voor een groot gedeelte zelf verantwoordelijk voor is. Maar een gevolg daarvan is dat haar werk minder serieus wordt genomen. Het valt te vergelijken met Mulisch, bij wie het werk ook niet meer los te zien was van zijn publieke persoon.
]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)]]> 29056083
It was always difficult being Harry Potter, and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is the complete and official playscript of the original, award-winning West End production. This updated edition includes the final dialogue and stage directions, a conversation piece between director John Tiffany and playwright Jack Thorne, the Potter family tree, and a timeline of events in the wizarding world leading up to "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."]]> 343 J.K. Rowling 0540027340 matthijs 0 3.42 2016 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: matthijs
average rating: 3.42
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> Fantastic Four: Season One 13479661 136 Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa 0785156410 matthijs 0 3.54 2012 Fantastic Four: Season One
author: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
name: matthijs
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> De meester (De Meester, #1) 6543880 429 Guillermo del Toro 9049500285 matthijs 0 3.38 2009 De meester (De Meester, #1)
author: Guillermo del Toro
name: matthijs
average rating: 3.38
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]]> Cell 10567 Where were you on October 1st at 3:03 pm?

Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction.

And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone...]]> 449 Stephen King 1416524517 matthijs 0 3.67 2006 Cell
author: Stephen King
name: matthijs
average rating: 3.67
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]]> Doctor No (James Bond, #6) 3757
Dispatched by M to investigate the mysterious disappearance of MI6’s Jamaica station chief, Bond was expecting a holiday in the sun. But when he discovers a deadly centipede placed in his hotel room, the vacation is over.

On this island, all suspicious activity leads inexorably to Dr Julius No, a reclusive megalomaniac with steel pincers for hands. To find out what the good doctor is hiding, 007 must enlist the aid of local fisherman Quarrel and alluring beachcomber Honeychile Rider.

Together they will combat a local legend the natives call ‘the Dragon,� before Bond alone must face the most punishing test of all: an obstacle course-designed by the sadistic Dr No himself-that measures the limits of the human body’s capacity for agony.]]> 233 Ian Fleming 0142002038 matthijs 0 3.81 1958 Doctor No (James Bond, #6)
author: Ian Fleming
name: matthijs
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1958
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]]> From a Buick 8 22076
Curt’s avid curiosity took the lead, and they investigated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years, the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the Buick 8 sitting out there like a still-life painting that breathes � inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from.

In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his eighteen-year-old boy, Ned, starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow. Sandy Dearborn, Sergeant Commanding, knows it’s the boy’s way of holding onto his father, and Ned is allowed to become part of the Troop D family. One day he looks in the window of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers, and the secret begins to stir, not only in the minds and hearts of the veteran troopers who surround him, but in Shed B as well. . . .

From a Buick 8 is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable.]]> 356 Stephen King 0743211375 matthijs 0 3.49 2002 From a Buick 8
author: Stephen King
name: matthijs
average rating: 3.49
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]]> <![CDATA[Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)]]> 3758
Bond is one of the most iconic characters in 20th-century literature. In addition to the 12 novels and 9 short stories written by Ian Fleming, there have been over 40 novels and short stories written about the spy by other authors, and over 25 blockbuster films starring such actors as Sean Connery and Daniel Craig.

Here's the first.]]> 192 Ian Fleming 014200202X matthijs 0 3.73 1953 Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
author: Ian Fleming
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average rating: 3.73
book published: 1953
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]]> Riding the Bullet 11605 Riding the Bullet is the ultimate warning about the dangers of hitchhiking.

A college student's mother is dying in a Maine hospital. When he hitches a ride to see her, the driver is not who he appears to be. Soon the journey veers off into a dark landscape that could only be drawn by Stephen King.

2 Cassettes / 2 Hours

]]> 66 Stephen King 0743525876 matthijs 0 3.65 2000 Riding the Bullet
author: Stephen King
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average rating: 3.65
book published: 2000
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]]> Moonraker (James Bond, #3) 3750
He’s a self-made millionaire, head of the Moonraker rocket programme and loved by the press. So why is Sir Hugo Drax cheating at cards? Bond has just five days to uncover the sinister truth behind a national hero, in Ian Fleming’s third 007 adventure.]]> 247 Ian Fleming 0142002062 matthijs 0 3.76 1955 Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
author: Ian Fleming
name: matthijs
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1955
rating: 0
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]]> Goldfinger (James Bond, #7) 3759 264 Ian Fleming 0142002046 matthijs 0 3.82 1959 Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)
author: Ian Fleming
name: matthijs
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1959
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]]> <![CDATA[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)]]> 3762 A Lancia Spyder with its hood down tore past him, cut in cheekily across his bonnet and pulled away, the sexy boom of its twin exhausts echoing back at him. It was a girl driving, a girl with a shocking pink scarf tied round her hair. And if there was one thing that set James Bond really moving, it was being passed at speed by a pretty girl.

When Bond rescues a beautiful, reckless girl from self-destruction, he finds himself with a lead on one of the most dangerous men in the world—Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. In the snow-bound fastness of his Alpine base, Blofeld is conducting research that could threaten the safety of the world. To thwart the evil genius, Bond must get himself and the vital information he has gathered out of the base and keep away from SPECTRE’s agents.—ŷ�.]]> 259 Ian Fleming 0142003255 matthijs 0 3.96 1963 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
author: Ian Fleming
name: matthijs
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1963
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]]> Desperation 10584
There's a place along Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's known as Desperation, Nevada.
It's not a very nice place to live. It's an even worse place to die.
Let the battle against evil begin.
Welcome to ... Desperation]]> 547 Stephen King matthijs 0 3.86 1996 Desperation
author: Stephen King
name: matthijs
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1996
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]]> De benen van Petrovski 33141715
De benen van Petrovski is de literaire weerslag van twee reizen die Lisa Weeda maakte naar en door Oekraïne, het land waar haar grootmoeder vandaan komt en waar nog een groot deel van haar familie woont. Het is een verhaal over kansen zien en kansen nemen, over generatiegenoten en hun onzekere toekomst, over een land waarvan Lisa niet zeker weet of ze zich er thuis mag voelen.

Lisa Weeda schrijft non-fictie met literaire middelen. Ze schuwt de metafoor niet en naast haar observaties durft ze ook te laten zien: dit is wat ik niet weet.]]> 70 Lisa Weeda 9079571415 matthijs 0 3.85 De benen van Petrovski
author: Lisa Weeda
name: matthijs
average rating: 3.85
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]]> Residu / Resident 35501455 38 Laura van Eck matthijs 0 4.50 Residu / Resident
author: Laura van Eck
name: matthijs
average rating: 4.50
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]]> 'Salem's Lot 5413 Also contains: One For the Road, Jerusalem's Lot. For standalone novel see ISBN 9780450031069.

Stephen King's second novel, the classic vampire bestseller 'Salem's Lot, tells the story of evil in small-town America. For the first time in a major trade edition, this terrifying novel is accompanied by previously unpublished material from King's archive, two short stories, and eerie photographs that bring King's fictional darkness and evil to vivid life.

When Stephen King’s classic thriller 'Salem's Lot hit the stands in 1975, it thrilled and terrified millions of readers with tales of demonic evil in small-town America. Now, thirty years later and still scaring readers witless, 'Salem's Lot reemerges in a brilliant new edition, complete with photographs, fifty pages of deleted and alternate scenes, and two short stories related to the events of the novel.

While the original edition of 'Salem's Lot will forever be a premier horror classic, 'Salem's Lot: Illustrated Edition, with the inclusion of material from King’s archive, is destined to become a classic in its own right and a must-have for all Stephen King fans. In this edition, the hair-raising story of Jerusalem’s Lot, a small town in Maine whose inhabitants succumb to the evil allure of a new resident, is told as the author envisioned it, complete with fifty pages of alternate and deleted scenes. With a new introduction by the author, two short stories related to the events and residents of Jerusalem’s Lot, the lavishly creepy photographs of Jerry Uelsmann, and a stunning new page design, this edition brings the story to life in words and pictures as never before.

No library will be complete without this ideal collector’s item for any King aficionado, the definitive illustrated edition of the great 'Salem's Lot.]]> 594 Stephen King 0385516487 matthijs 0 4.28 1975 'Salem's Lot
author: Stephen King
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average rating: 4.28
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]]> ’Salem’s Lot 11590 Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0450031063

Thousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.]]> 483 Stephen King 0450031063 matthijs 0 4.06 1975 ’Salem’s Lot
author: Stephen King
name: matthijs
average rating: 4.06
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)]]> 22842001 'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.'

When the KNIGHT BUS crashes through the darkness and SCREECHES to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at HOGWARTS for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, ESCAPED mass-murderer and follower of LORD VOLDEMORT, is on the RUN � and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an OMEN of death in Harry's tea leaves ... But perhaps most TERRIFYING of all are the DEMENTORS patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking KISS ...]]> 462 J.K. Rowling 1408855676 matthijs 0 4.70 1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: matthijs
average rating: 4.70
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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The Marauders Map and the Time Turner create many evident plotholes, and the whole book is about a massmurderer who turns out to be no threat. That makes it less rereadable for me, and it puzzles me that this is many people's favourite Harry Potter book
]]> Needful Things 107291 790 Stephen King matthijs 0 3.98 1991 Needful Things
author: Stephen King
name: matthijs
average rating: 3.98
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]]> <![CDATA[The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3)]]> 34084 422 Stephen King 0670032565 matthijs 0 4.25 1991 The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3)
author: Stephen King
name: matthijs
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1991
rating: 0
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]]> Carrie 10592
Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is...Carrie
--back cover]]> 272 Stephen King 1416524304 matthijs 0 4.00 1974 Carrie
author: Stephen King
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> The Dark Half 11597 #1, #2, #3

Thad Beaumont would like to say he is innocent. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home. But how can Thad disown the ultimate embodiment of evil that goes by the name he gave it-and signs its crimes with Thad's bloody fingerprints?]]> 460 Stephen King 045052468X matthijs 0 3.81 1989 The Dark Half
author: Stephen King
name: matthijs
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1989
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]]> <![CDATA[Batman: The Dark Knight Returns]]> 27209297 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker man.

The Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their level of violence. He is soon joined by a new Robin--a girl named Carrie Kelley, who proves to be just as invaluable as her predecessors.

But can Batman and Robin deal with the threat posed by their deadliest enemies, after years of incarceration have made them into perfect psychopaths? And more important, can anyone survive the coming fallout from an undeclared war between the superpowers -- or the clash of what were once the world's greatest heroes?

Celebrate thirty years of one of the most influential stories ever told in the comics medium with the undisputed classic Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, now with a new cover and introduction.]]> 224 Frank Miller 1401263119 matthijs 0 4.16 1986 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
author: Frank Miller
name: matthijs
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1986
rating: 0
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]]> Civil War: Ms. Marvel 422579
Collecting: Ms. Marvel 6-10, Special]]> 144 Brian Reed 0785123040 matthijs 0 3.76 2007 Civil War: Ms. Marvel
author: Brian Reed
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average rating: 3.76
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> Avengers: Disassembled 105969 Avengers sunt atacați de ai lor și cad unul după altul. Captain America și tovarășii lui nu știu cine e trădătorul, dar sunt loviți de cineva care le cunoaște toate secretele și punctele slabe... Va fi oare sfârșitul pentru Avengers?

Descoperiți în acest volum fascinant, scris de Brian M. Bendis (House of M) și ilustrat de David Finch (New Avengers), precum și de mai mulți ilustratori invitați.

ALBUMUL CONȚINE EPISOADELE AVENGERS (1963) 500-503 ȘI AVENGERS FINALE (2005).]]> 176 Brian Michael Bendis 0785114823 matthijs 1 3.95 2006 Avengers: Disassembled
author: Brian Michael Bendis
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average rating: 3.95
book published: 2006
rating: 1
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