Gabriel rated Flowers for Algernon (Bantam Classic): 5 stars

Flowers for Algernon (Bantam Classic) by Daniel Keyes
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew …
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Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew …

Life of Galileo (German: Leben des Galilei), also known as Galileo, is a play by the 20th century German dramatist …
Clarissa is giving a party. She is a complex human being, and Wolf's style marvelously captures her essence. But she is also a snob. I would have loved to know more about Sally, someone much more interesting, or Septimus, for that matter.

In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered …

Sidetracked (first published as Villospår in 1995) is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, the fifth in his …

La quatrième de couverture indique : "Le brouillard est épais en cette nuit automnale. Le vieil avocat Gustaf Torstensson est …
Al parecer no se trata de un libro sobre la física, versa acerca de los productos que podremos comprar gracias a la tecnología. Lo que es como aburrido. Llamelo "la vida en el año 2100".
Las primeras predicciones son como obvias. Googleglass... Pantallas de pared a pared con skype. (really?) Vamos a ver si la cosa mejora.
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Definitivamente, el campo de Michio es la física. El libro predice cambios en la medicina, exploración especial, la nanotecnología, y cómo las tecnologías derivadas de la física actual pueden cambiar la vida en el futuro. Un poco desfasado en algunas predicciones sobre el comercio electrónico ( nadie tiene el estómago para leer todos los comentarios sobre una lámpara ), y sobre la economía. Pero en general es un buen libro.

Inspired by an actual attempt in 1894 to blow up London's Greenwich Observatory, here is a chillingly prophetic examination of …
continues.... " southern Blacks ( in US) were deprived of civil rights until the 60's, and subjected to legal segregation... until the 80's"

Una tarde de primavera de 1992, la joven agente inmobiliaria Louise Akerblom es brutalmente asesinada en una solitaria y apartada …


The Castle (German: Das Schloss, also spelled Das Schloß [das ˈʃlɔs]) is the last novel by Franz Kafka. In it …