puercomal rated The Player of Games (Culture, #2): 4 stars
The Player of Games (Culture, #2) by Iain M. Banks
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest …
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puercomal rated The Shepard's Tale: 3 stars
puercomal rated Iliad Of Homer: 3 stars
Iliad Of Homer by Όμηρος
This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem …
puercomal rated The Bartimaeus Trilogy: 5 stars
The Box by Marc Levinson
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container …
puercomal rated The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: 2 stars
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones
Imagine that all fantasy novels—the ones featuring dragons, knights, wizards, and magic—are set in the same place. That place is …
Bitter by Jennifer McLagan
"The champion of uncelebrated foods including fat, offal, and bones, Jennifer McLagan turns her attention to a fascinating, underappreciated, and …
puercomal rated The Ocean at the End of the Lane: 4 stars
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in …
puercomal rated Science...For Her!: 3 stars
puercomal rated Dark Cities Underground: 3 stars
puercomal rated Itsy Bitsy: 3 stars
puercomal rated The Uncertain Places A Novel: 4 stars
puercomal rated The big necessity: 3 stars
The big necessity by Rose George
Human waste is a major public health threat: population growth is taxing even the most advanced sewage systems, and the …
puercomal rated Debt: The First 5,000 Years: 3 stars
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided …
Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those …