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- The Time Traveler's Wife (181)
- By Audrey Niffenegger
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Finished on Nov 18, 2009
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- Choke (86)
- By Chuck Palahniuk
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Finished on Feb 15, 2009
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- Until I Find You (18)
- By John Irving
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Finished on Jan 4, 2009
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- Murder on the Orient Express (33)
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Finished on May 17, 1990
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- A Long Way Down (48)
- By Nick Hornby
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Finished on Sep 26, 2008
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Questo mi è piaciuto molto. Quattro voci di altrettanti aspiranti suicidi costituiscono i pannelli narrativi di una storia che riserva parecchi momenti divertenti senza sforare nel grottesco, un assemblaggio stilistico interessante ma non artificioso, la capacità di presentare la realtà senza infior ... (continue)
- — Sep 26, 2008 | 4 feedbacks
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- Everything Is Illuminated (56)
- By Jonathan Safran Foer
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Finished on Apr 30, 2008Finished (re-read) on Jul 20, 2008
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6 people find this helpful
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Definitely one of the books of my life.
It spoke to me, linking everything to everything else, inside and outside, with white strings made of words, with words made of feelings, with feelings made of everywaves, linking each nowhere to everywhere inside and outside. - — Jul 21, 2008 | 5 feedbacks
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- Water for Elephants (136)
- By Sara Gruen
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Finished on Mar 28, 2008
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Dennis was right to say that it is a great story.
Strong, moving, true, it goes back and forth in time, between an elderly house and a train circus. Two distinct time sets, two different narrative lines, but one voice, able to speak of life and death, hard times and real friendship, hate and wr ... (continue) - — Mar 29, 2008 | Add your feedback
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- The Shining (63)
- By Stephen King
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Finished on Jan 22, 2008
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- The Magus (9)
- By John Fowles
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Finished on Aug 19, 2007
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Un romanzo di cui è difficile parlare senza rovinarne uno dei piaceri, che è quello della sorpresa, ma che vale la pena leggere e non solo per divertimento.
- — Aug 21, 2007 | Add your feedback
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- Endgame (10)
- A play in one act, followed by Act without words, a mime for one player
- By Samuel Beckett
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Finished on Feb 4, 1992
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Finished in 1991
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- Waiting for Godot (37)
- By Samuel Beckett
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Finished on May 22, 1984
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The Time Traveler's Wife
This is huge, even too much; beautiful, funny, interesting, seminal. A wonderful novel, so fantastic and so deeply true.
Henry and Clare, timeless love, the mystery of life and death, of permanence and existence, of each here-and-now hopping through an unpredictable timeline.
He time-travels, she ... (continue)
This is huge, even too much; beautiful, funny, interesting, seminal. A wonderful novel, so fantastic and so deeply true.
Henry and Clare, timeless love, the mystery of life and death, of permanence and existence, of each here-and-now hopping through an unpredictable timeline.
He time-travels, she waits for him in her present, but she's already met him somewhere in the past and will find him again in the future. His lifestream is uneven as its tale, but time- and age-hints heading each chapter help the reader through it.
Actually, human beings are chrono-displaced by default; our emotional memory is, at any rate. Henry, in a way, embodies this condition.
Compelling as the plot is, it also carves our soul, affecting all that really really matters. Pulse, wishes, fulfilment, and frustration. Magic and loss, the bittersweet taste of this everyday adventure, whose true essence seems to glimpse at our life now and then, brightening hard times with enchantment every time we realize that time is nothing.
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