Other Stuff
Here is something related to my life but unrelated to Computer Science...
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Last Update: 20th October 2023
Must-Read books
Q by Luther Blisset (1999)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley (1958)
Liquid Life by Zygmunt Bauman (2005)
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1957)
Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (2011)
American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1997)
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1923)
The Grand Inquisitor (must-read chapter taken from "The brothers Karamazov") by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880)
Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958)
Il partigiano Johnny by Beppe Fenoglio (1968)
Così è (se vi pare) by Luigi Pirandello (1917)
1984 by George Orwell (1948)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain (1900)
Fahrenheith 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
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Good books
The name of the rose by Umberto Eco (1980)
The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan (1988)
The pillars of the earth by Ken Follett (1989)
Sillabario Veneto. Viaggio sentimentale tra le parole venete by Paolo Malaguti (2012)
The brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880)
Nothing to envy: ordinary lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (2009)
The catcher in the rye by JD Salinger (1951)
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (1861)
Tortilla flat by John Steinbeck (1935)
Intervista con la storia by Oriana Fallaci (1974)
One, No one and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello (1936)
Vita by Melania G. Mazzucco (2003)
Venuto al mondo by Margaret Mazzantini (2008)
The Kolyma tales by Varlam Shalamov (1973)
Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
Ninety-three by Victor Hugo (1874)
Barney's version by Mordecai Richler (1997)
The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks (1985)
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini (2007)
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More other stuff...
Storia di emigrazione della famiglia Stecca (Italian Only) [Read]