Reader of a wide range of genres, including a lot of non-fiction. I’m an active member of a sci-fi book club and occasional attendee at a post-apocalyptic book club.
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50% complete! Paul has read 25 of 50 books.
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and …
Everyman's Library
The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and …
Excellent introduction to the top of ETFs and index funds.
This has many different works listed as 'editions' and needs cleaning up.
A 'middle of the road' Cyberman story, especially as a novelisation. It doesn't have the tension of Tomb or even Moonbase, and there's little development of the characters on the Wheel. With most of the televised episodes missing, it's hard to tell if this is a result of the original story or Dick's novelisation.
Robert Langdon, experto en simbología, recibe una llamada en mitad de la noche: el conservador …
Abandoned this half-way through as the pace was incredibly slow and nothing seemed to be happening.
Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land …
Humans are relational beings. This is the best self-improvement book to know how to create …
This was on my list of 'books to read to see what all the fuss is about'. It basically boils down to 'be nice to people when you are dealing with them and they will respond better than if you criticise them'. Like most self-help books, not exactly rocket science, but it's no doubt made the author and his publisher a small fortune and I wish I'd written it.
An interesting tour round all the countries which "we" (that is the British) have ever invaded. The author is somewhat jinogistic and overlooks or underplays the often atrocious treatment of other countries by the British, but this is a good starting point for further research/reading on the history of the British Empire and how one tiny windswept island invaded most of the globe.
The Magician's Nephew is a fantasy children's novel by C. S. Lewis, published in 1955 by The Bodley Head. It …
A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man's struggle to survive.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one …
