This is a good piece of work to understand the basic dynamics of mafia in terms of culture and its relationship with the economic environment. Also, it provides a useful insight on the development of organized crime as a social feature in Sicily, from unification of Italy to a century later.
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In pubblicazione in italiano col titolo "Dark Florida", In effetti nel paesotto di Citrus c'è una vena dark che si insinua. Un professore medita di uccidere una persona a caso solo per dare un senso alla sua vita. Toby rapisce la sorella della sua "ragazza" e la tiene segregata in un bunker nel bosc
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This is one Batman novel that delivers it all. If you are a fan of the Batman, this is a must read. Dennis O'Neil delivers a grand tale with both the history of the man behind the mask as well as the story behind Bane and Batman in such a way that it delivers the "WoW POW' punch that used to pop u
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Reading The Crimson Petal and the White is a surreal experience. It has the rare ability in a postmodern novel to transfer you to the Victorian London without bumps in the road, no evidence of being carried there, not even intentional. It could be easily been associated with the major realist text o
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This is yet another one of Koontz's best. He has the wide array of unusual characters in a tale that is out far to the left of normality. With a knack for making the unbelievable believable, his strange characters become favorites quirky favorites that gain your heart. Separately they are a littl
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Stello apre una porta che dà su un mondo caotico e pauroso: la psiche romantica, che ad essere sinceri è la stessa psiche di noi postmoderni, cinici sì, ma agitati dalle stesse ansie e preoccupazioni metafisiche dei nostri antentati ottocenteschi. Le storie in esso contenute sono delle vere e propri
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A book that ought to be read at least once. Its plot, its language, its characters, all in it breathes fiction and yet is more real than reality itself. It has all the features of a great book blended in a somewhat blurry yet beguiling mixture.
The single most extraordinary book ever written by the author. Its form is absolutely perfect, it sounds like pure music. The content is life itself, seen from all its possible angles.
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EnricoF on The Mafia of a Sicilian Village 1860-1960
This is a good piece of work to understand the basic dynamics of mafia in terms of culture and its relationship with the economic environment. Also, it provides a useful insight on the development of organized crime as a social feature in Sicily, from unification of Italy to a century later. ... (continue)
Flacovila on Invention Of Hugo Cabret
Good book nice ending, can't wait to watch the movie.
avatar-pr on Citrus County
In pubblicazione in italiano col titolo "Dark Florida", In effetti nel paesotto di Citrus c'è una vena dark che si insinua. Un professore medita di uccidere una persona a caso solo per dare un senso alla sua vita. Toby rapisce la sorella della sua "ragazza" e la tiene segregata in un bunker nel bosc ... (continue)
Bradley S. Hartman on Batman
This is one Batman novel that delivers it all. If you are a fan of the Batman, this is a must read. Dennis O'Neil delivers a grand tale with both the history of the man behind the mask as well as the story behind Bane and Batman in such a way that it delivers the "WoW POW' punch that used to pop u ... (continue)
Bradley S. Hartman on Call-Ops
One of the most unusual foes to have been put to paper in a long time. Tammy Wyatt Dolton, IL.
Adam has kept me up more nights to check under the bed and behind doors, then any other villain I've read in a while.
Sam Bolter Sarasota, FL.
Call-Ops kept me eagerly turning the pa ... (continue)
Black Mamba87 on The Crimson Petal and the White
Reading The Crimson Petal and the White is a surreal experience. It has the rare ability in a postmodern novel to transfer you to the Victorian London without bumps in the road, no evidence of being carried there, not even intentional. It could be easily been associated with the major realist text o ... (continue)
Bradley S. Hartman on The Face
This is yet another one of Koontz's best. He has the wide array of unusual characters in a tale that is out far to the left of normality. With a knack for making the unbelievable believable, his strange characters become favorites quirky favorites that gain your heart. Separately they are a littl ... (continue)
Black Mamba87 on Stello
Stello apre una porta che dà su un mondo caotico e pauroso: la psiche romantica, che ad essere sinceri è la stessa psiche di noi postmoderni, cinici sì, ma agitati dalle stesse ansie e preoccupazioni metafisiche dei nostri antentati ottocenteschi. Le storie in esso contenute sono delle vere e propri ... (continue)
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A book that ought to be read at least once. Its plot, its language, its characters, all in it breathes fiction and yet is more real than reality itself. It has all the features of a great book blended in a somewhat blurry yet beguiling mixture.
Black Mamba87 on The Waves
The single most extraordinary book ever written by the author. Its form is absolutely perfect, it sounds like pure music. The content is life itself, seen from all its possible angles.
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