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Matteo Colombo

    Diary
    How We Are Hungry
    Choke
    A visit from the goon squad
    Barrel Fever
    Rainbow pocketboeken - 265: De vanger in het graan
    • The hero-narrator is a sixteen-year-old native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. After leaving his prep school in Pennsylvania, he spends three days navigating New York City. Holden is both simple and complex, making it difficult to draw definitive conclusions about him or his experiences. He is deeply drawn to beauty, almost to the point of being trapped by it. The novel features various voices—children's, adults', and underground—but Holden's voice stands out as the most powerful. His expression transcends his own vernacular while remaining true to it, delivering a poignant mix of pain and pleasure. Like many artistic souls, he internalizes much of his pain, choosing to share his joy with others. This emotional complexity is available for readers who can appreciate it. J.D. Salinger's classic tale of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951 and has been recognized as one of the best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has faced challenges for its candid language and themes of sexuality, becoming a must-read for many teenage boys in the 1950s and 60s.

      Rainbow pocketboeken - 265: De vanger in het graan
      3,9
    • Barrel Fever

      • 256 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      *A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist. číst celé

      Barrel Fever
      3,8
    • A visit from the goon squad

      • 351 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      With music pulsing on every page, "A Visit from the Goon Squad" is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.

      A visit from the goon squad
      3,7
    • Choke

      • 304 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      Medical school dropout and former sex addict Victor Mancini comes up a scam to pay for his mother's Ahzheimer care by pretending to be choking in a restaurant and coning the individuals who "save" him into giving him money

      Choke
      3,7
    • How We Are Hungry

      • 224 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      A collection of short stories that twist and inspire the imagination.

      How We Are Hungry
      3,6
    • Diary

      • 260 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      Takes the form of a 'coma diary' kept by one Misty Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in hospital after a suicide attempt. Once, she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at art school and being brought back to Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid.

      Diary
      3,7
    • Al Franken, one of America's savviest satirists has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of 'slander', 'bias' and even 'treason'. He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the world. He's even watched Fox News. A lot. And in this fair and balanced report, Al bravely exposes them all for what they are: liars. Lying, lying, liars.

      Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them)
      3,5
    • Fantasmas

      • 442 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter. The stories are told by people who have all answered an ad headlined ' Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months '. They are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of 'real life' that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But 'here' turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside world - and where heat and power and, most importantly, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more desperate the stories they tell - and the more devious their machinations to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/non-fiction blockbuster that will certainly be made from their plight.

      Fantasmas
      3,6
    • As thirteen-year-old Madison tries to figure out how she died and ended up in Hell, she learns how to manipulate the corrupt system of demons and bodily fluids.

      Damned
      3,4
    • Telegraph Avenue

      • 480 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there--longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart--half tavern, half temple--stands Brokeland. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complications to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.

      Telegraph Avenue
      3,4
    • Estúpidos hombres blancos

      • 336 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Estúpidos hombres blancos es una obra lúcida y vigorosa cuya lectura no deja indiferente. Para los estadounidenses supone la condena despiadada de su actual Gobierno y de la hipocresía de una sociedad que incluso ha intentado censurar la obra de la que ahora hablamos. Para los demás, es un espejo de lo que también sucede en otras partes el mundo o una advertencia en clave de humor de lo que podría pasar.

      Estúpidos hombres blancos
      3,4
    • Snuff

      • 197 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple-X novel that goes where no work of fiction has gone before.'Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must-have movie for every discerning collector of thi

      Snuff
      3,3
    • Pygmy.

      • 241 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      Agent number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his small stature, arrives in the U.S. as an "exchange student" from a totalitarian regime reminiscent of North Korea, Cuba, Communist China, and Nazi Germany. His mission, codenamed Operation Havoc, is critical for success. Upon arrival at a Midwestern airport, he notes that fellow operatives Tibor, Magda, and Ling have already infiltrated American society, embedding themselves within middle-income families across the city. Pygmy is welcomed by his host family: a father working in the biological weapons industry, a mother with peculiar traits, a brother with a dog-like demeanor, and a self-assured cat sister. As he navigates the absurdities of postmodern American life, he views it all with disdain. Indoctrinated into the totalitarian mindset, Pygmy and his fellow operatives are plotting something catastrophic that aims to bring this complacent nation to its knees. The strategy involves a web of operatives, each positioned within their respective homes, schools, and neighborhoods, ready to execute their plan and expose the vulnerabilities of their unsuspecting hosts.

      Pygmy.
      3,0