Coming soon at a node near you:
- Death Valley
- DNA dragnets and civil rights
sodium lauryl sulfate- Vajont dam disaster
- Bhopal disaster
- Squid
- Padua
- Caporetto
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Open mind, pour book inside, close mind, repeat:
- "Se questo e' un uomo" by Primo Levi (excellent)
- "Seta" by Antonio Baricco (strange, not one of his best)
- "Oceano mare" by Antonio Baricco (to read, perchance to dream...)
- "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley (more gripping than I thought)
- "Il terzo reich" by Michael Burleigh (slow, biased)
- "Fear and loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson (I was expecting something more interesting)
- "Una storia semplice" by Leonardo Sciascia (excellent, one of his best)
- "The picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde (another step in my plan to read all the classics)
- "Orizzonte" by Wilbur Smith (I was sick with stomach flu, with nothing else to read...)
- "Buick 8" by Stephen King (...except these two books)
- "Lullaby" by Chuck Pahlaniuk (as good as Fight Club)
- "The strange incident of the dog in the night-time" by Mark Haddon (touching)
- "Corpo a corpo" by Iain Banks (hm, judgment suspended until I've read more of his books)
- "How to be good" by Nick Hornby (starts OK, goes nowhere, feels too smug)
- "Venere lesa" by Paolo Maurensig (useless. What were you thinking, Paolo?)
- "La variante di Luneburg" by Paolo Maurensig (excellent!)
- "Mucchio d'ossa" by Stephen King (suggested by skybluefusion, a good King book, several scary moments)
- "Catch 22" by Joseph Heller (read it! now!)
- "Niente di vero tranne gli occhi" by Giorgio Faletti (a good thriller, several poetic descriptions)
- "The wee free people" by Terry Pratchett (not one of his best)
Hey, pssst, wanna see a good movie?
- "Passato prossimo" by Chiara Tognazzi
- "Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola
- "Fantozzi" by Paolo Villaggio
- "The 25th hour" by Spike Lee
- "Big fish" by Tim Burton
- "Y tu mama tambien" by Alphonse Cuaron
- "Santa Maradona" by Marco Ponti
- "A/R Andata e ritorno" by Marco Ponti
- "Kill Bill vol. 1" by Quentin Tarantino
- "Emma sono io"
- "Hero" by Zhang Yimou