Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative …
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greybeard reviewed The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (Tommy and Tuppence, #1)
The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, …
Enjoyed!
4 stars
greybeard started reading The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (Tommy and Tuppence, #1)
The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, …
greybeard finished reading The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Warren Adams
From Wikipedia: "Source documents compiled by insurance investigator Ralph Henderson are used to build a …
Loved this. Apparently the first mystery novel ever written.
greybeard finished reading Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Excellent
greybeard rated Closed for winter: 4 stars
Closed for winter by Jorn Lier Horst
Ove Bakkerud, newly separated and extremely disillusioned, is looking forward to a final quiet weekend at his summer home before …
greybeard finished reading The mysterious affair at Styles
greybeard finished reading Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore" is a novel written by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The novel …
Amazing, though no clue as to how to classify this!
greybeard finished reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
From [wikipedia][1]:
Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступлéние и наказáние, tr. Prestupleniye i nakazaniye; IPA: [prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲə …
Some parts were amazing, other parts were downright annoying. What is with the "he-he-he" and doubled/tripled words at the ends of sentences? Was that a common usage during that era in Russia?
greybeard rated Crime and Punishment: 4 stars
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
From [wikipedia][1]:
Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступлéние и наказáние, tr. Prestupleniye i nakazaniye; IPA: [prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲə ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲə]) is a novel …
greybeard finished reading The Vivaldi Cipher by Gary McAvoy
A "light" read
greybeard reviewed Only the Dead by Jack Carr
Slower than others
4 stars
This one took a bit to take off since there was so much backstory to lay down first, but it ended with the usual bang.
greybeard rated SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome: 4 stars
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome is a 2015 book by English classicist Mary Beard that was published in the …
greybeard rated Animal Farm: 5 stars
Animal Farm by George Orwell
George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.
“All animals are …
greybeard rated 1984: a novel: 5 stars
1984: a novel by George Orwell (Signet Classics)
The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were …