Kuncz's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 19 Sep 2026 07:13:09 -0700 60 Kuncz's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Lavovi El-Rasana 142694680 0 Gaj Gavrijel Kej Kuncz 0 currently-reading 0.0 Lavovi El-Rasana
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]]> <![CDATA[Rat i mir, tom četvrti (Rat i mir, #4)]]> 40120796 530 Leo Tolstoy Kuncz 5 4.42 1865 Rat i mir, tom četvrti (Rat i mir, #4)
author: Leo Tolstoy
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]]> <![CDATA[Rat i mir, tom treći (Rat i mir, #3)]]> 39804806 521 Leo Tolstoy Kuncz 0 4.60 1865 Rat i mir, tom treći (Rat i mir, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Rat i mir, tom drugi (Rat i mir, #2)]]> 39792530 491 Leo Tolstoy Kuncz 5 4.74 1865 Rat i mir, tom drugi (Rat i mir, #2)
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average rating: 4.74
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]]> <![CDATA[Rat i mir, tom prvi (Rat i mir, #1)]]> 39778725 464 Leo Tolstoy Kuncz 5 4.66 1867 Rat i mir, tom prvi (Rat i mir, #1)
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average rating: 4.66
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]]> The Magus 16286 The Magus is Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where he befriends a local millionaire. The friendship soon evolves into a deadly game, in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas finds that he must fight not only for his sanity but for his very survival.]]> 656 John Fowles 0316296198 Kuncz 0 4.06 1965 The Magus
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]]> Alamut 171970 Alamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful elite fighters who are to become his "living daggers." By creating a virtual paradise at Alamut, filled with beautiful women, lush gardens, wine and hashish, Sabbah is able to convince his young fighters that they can reach paradise if they follow his commands.

Alamut tells the story of how Sabbah was able to instill fear into the ruling class by creating a small army of devotees who were willing to kill, and be killed, in order to achieve paradise. Believing in the supreme Ismaili motto “Nothing is true, everything is permitted,” Sabbah wanted to “experiment” with how far he could manipulate religious devotion for his own political gain through appealing to what he called the stupidity and gullibility of people and their passion for pleasure and selfish desires.

The novel focuses on Sabbah as he unveils his plan to his inner circle, and on two of his young followers — the beautiful slave girl Halima, who has come to Alamut to join Sabbah's paradise on earth, and young ibn Tahir, Sabbah's most gifted fighter. As both Halima and ibn Tahir become disillusioned with Sabbah's vision, their lives take unexpected turns.

Alamut was originally written in 1938 as an allegory to Mussolini's fascist state. In the 1960's it became a cult favorite throughout Tito's Yugoslavia, and in the 1990s, during the Balkan's War, it was read as an allegory of the region's strife and became a bestseller in Germany, France and Spain.]]> 510 Vladimir Bartol 0972028730 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.34 1938 Alamut
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]]> W 48841997
Priča o Walteru i Wladimiru otvara se pred Igorom i Tessom kao napeti politički triler suvremene europske povijesti koji nas vodi u sve kutke kontinenta. Kako bi saznali sve detalje i razotkrili tajne, njih dvoje moraju otići u Igorov i Walterov rodni grad Sarajevo. I sami upetljani u vrtlog povijesti, kroz svoju će istragu otkriti ne samo misteriju Walterove smrti već i Tessina postanka i Igorove osobne povijesti.

Najnoviji roman Igora Štiksa W knjiga je koja se doslovno ne ispušta iz ruku. Pisan u maniri najboljih skandinavskih trilera i vrhunske književne kombinatorike, prepun intriga i obrata, W nam daje presjek posljednjih pola stoljeća europske i svjetske ljevice, njezinih borbi, padova i ćorsokaka. Ovaj roman koji atmosferom i stilom podsjeća na Paula Austera ili Javiera Cercasa, a uzbudljiv je poput serije Babylon Berlin, nikoga ne ostavlja ravnodušnim.]]> 320 Igor Štiks 9533581670 Kuncz 4 4.03 2019 W
author: Igor Štiks
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> <![CDATA[Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism]]> 404273 Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology—terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti’s trademark.

Parenti shows how “rational fascism” renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. He also maps out the external and internal forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the “free-market” victory on eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism.

Written with lucid and compelling style, this book goes beyond truncated modes of thought, inviting us to entertain iconoclastic views, and to ask why things are as they are. It is a bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today.

"A penetrating and persuasive writer with an astonishing array of documentation to implement his attacks."—The Catholic Journalist

"Blackshirts & Reds discusses the great combat between fascism and socialism that is the defining feature of the Twentieth Century, and takes every official version to task for its substitution of moral analysis for critical analysis, for its selectivity, and for its errata. By portraying the struggle between fascism and Communism in this century as a single conflict, and not a series of discrete encounters, between the insatiable need for new capital on the one hand and the survival of a system under siege on the other, Parenti defines fascism as the weapon of capitalism, not simply an extreme form of it. Fascism is not an aberration, he points out, but a "rational" and integral component of the system."—Stan Goff, The Prism

Michael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one of the nation's leading progressive political analysts. He is the author of over 275 published articles and twenty books. His writings are published in popular periodicals, scholarly journals, and his op-ed pieces have been in leading newspapers such as The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. His informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.

]]> 166 Michael Parenti 0872863298 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.41 1997 Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)]]> 13486632 396 Jonas Jonasson 1843913720 Kuncz 4 3.80 2009 The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
author: Jonas Jonasson
name: Kuncz
average rating: 3.80
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rating: 4
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]]> Nada 211689961
Marina Vujčić]]> 184 Ante Tomić 9532594728 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.33 Nada
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]]> Intermezzo 208931300 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]> 464 Sally Rooney 0374602638 Kuncz 0 to-read 3.77 2024 Intermezzo
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]]> Črna mati zemla 17969057 Črna mati zemla roman je o uspješnom mladom piscu, Matiji Dolenčecu, koji stvaralačku i ljubavnu blokadu pokušava otkloniti dosežući vlastitu, do amnezije potisnutu priču, onu koju je kompenzirao izmišljanjem svih drugih priča. Potisnuto u Dolenčecovu životu traumatična je priča o njegovu djetinjstvu u međimurskom selu, o smrti oca, o osam samoubojstava, dva demona, gubitku prijatelja, o velikim mitovima i lokalnim legendama, o otvorenom povijesnom prijelomu 1991., svakodnevnim lažima i složenim osjećajima - ubojicama života.]]> 299 Kristian Novak 9533166525 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.60 2013 Črna mati zemla
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]]> Ciganin, ali najljepši 32956056 400 Kristian Novak 9533320494 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.63 2016 Ciganin, ali najljepši
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]]> Mesečeva palata 7201606 312 Paul Auster 8683053938 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.25 1989 Mesečeva palata
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]]> Vremensko sklonište 193054448
„Najbolja vrsta književnosti na temu našeg shvatanja vremena i njegovog protoka, napisana maestralno i u potpuno nepredvidivom stilu. Svaka stranica stiže kao iznenađenje i nikada ne znate gde će vas autor nadalje odvesti… Gospodinov je jedinstven po mnogo čemu... niko ne može da spoji intrigantan koncept, prekrasnu maštu i savršenu spisateljsku tehniku kao on. To je velika proza…“
Olga Tokarčuk, dobitnica Nobelove nagrade za književnost

„Objavljivanje romana prvenca Prirodni roman 2001. godine na srpskom jeziku bilo je ujedno i prvi izlazak neke prozne knjige Gospodinova u svet, van bugarskog jezika. Ako je Geopoetikino izdanje tada makar i simbolički najavilo uspešnu globalnu budućnost ovog talentovanog autora (objavljujući mu i druga prozna dela), izdavačka misija je ispunjena. I pre Vremenskog skloništa Gospodinovu je nebo, i u mašti i u realnosti, bilo granica. Gde li je tek sada?“
Vladislav Bajac, glavni urednik Geopoetike i pisac

„Veliki evropski pripovedač.“
Die Zeit

„Izvanredna ludorija kroz vreme i prostor, divno napisana i prekrasno domišljena meditacija na temu prošlosti i šta nam ona znači, da li je možemo ponovo uhvatiti i kako ona definiše našu sadašnjost. Ovo je savršen roman za ova samotnjačka bezvremena vremena.“
Alberto Mangel

„Moćan i briljantan pronicljiv, zloslutan, zagonetan. Roman u kojem budućnost popušta kao trula greda, a prošlost hrli kao poplava.“
Sandro Veronezi, dvostruki dobitnik nagrade Strega i član žirija]]> 280 Georgi Gospodinov Kuncz 0 currently-reading 3.91 2020 Vremensko sklonište
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]]> Cveće za Aldžernona 44169118
Priča koja ne prestaje da izaziva polemike. Jedan od najčešće zabranjivanih romana na cenzorskoj listi Udruženja američkih biblioteka.

Kladim se da sam ja prvi glup čovek na svetu da je otkrio nešto važno za nauku.

Čarli Gordon će uskoro krenuti na putovanje bez presedana. Rođen sa izrazito niskim koeficijentom inteligencije, izabran je kao savršen kandidat za eksperimentalni hirurški zahvat. Naučnici se nadaju da će pomoću njega Čarlijeva inteligencija značajno da poraste jer je to već uspešno testirano na laboratorijskom mišu po imenu Aldžernon.

Operacija je naizgled uspešna i Čarlijeva inteligencija raste toliko da on brzo prevazilazi doktore koji su uzrokovali njegov preobražaj. Izgleda da je eksperiment izuzetno naučno dostignuće, sve dok Aldžernon iznenada ne počne čudno da se ponaša. Hoće li se nešto slično desiti i Čarliju?

„Uverljiva, napeta i dirljiva priča.“ The New York Times

„Ovo je roman koji svojom originalnošću zaokuplja svu pažnju... Čitaće se još mnogo godina.“ Library Journal]]> 272 Daniel Keyes 8652132410 Kuncz 5 4.59 1966 Cveće za Aldžernona
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average rating: 4.59
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]]> Moj muž 29988778
Zbirka od jedanaest priča "Moj muž" za sada je vrhunac njezina pisanja. Sve priče ispripovijedale su vrlo različite žene iz prvog lica, ali te se priče tiču koliko njih toliko i njihove okoline, odnosa s muževima (jer jedino zajedničko im je to što su sve u brakovima, a jedna je već i sahranila svog muža), djecom, roditeljima, kolegama i prijateljima. Zbog toga se radi o galeriji iznimno upečatljivih i precizno profiliranih likova i majstorskim kondenziranim d(r)amama, o psihološkim ali i socijalnim, s posebnom osjetljivošću na patrijarhat, portretima. Jer, govoreći o svojim brakovima i muževima – ginekolozima, pjesnicima, veleposlanicima, policajcima – govori se o profesijama i njihovim statusima, o odnosima moći – većina ženskih likova ipak je zasjenjena i emotivno i socijalno zapuštena zbog prestiža njihovih muževa i njihovih profesija.

Rumena Bužarovska bez pardona zadire i u dijelom tabuizirane teme: piše o majkama koje, eto, ne vole svoju djecu, koje su joj, samo da ne bude osude okoline, u stanju i iz nehata naštetiti. Zapravo, autorica prije istražuje tamno i nestabilno u likovima, volju za moći i priznanjem, kompromise koji život oduzimaju, iracionalizam ljubavi, čovjeka kao skup oprečnosti koje rađaju unutarnju napetost. Sve je to ispisano u najboljem duhu američke kratkopričaške ekonomije, najzahtjevnijim načinom, jezikom običnih ljudi, mimo svake patetike, razorno i, valja priznati – istinito, jer je mjera istine u umjetnosti uvjerljivost koja se osjeća potkožno, tijelom.]]> 129 Rumena Bužarovska 9533047801 Kuncz 0 to-read, books-i-own 4.14 Moj muž
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]]> <![CDATA[The Metamorphosis and Other Stories]]> 7723 The Metamorphosis,” a story that is both harrowing and amusing, and a landmark of modern literature.

Bringing together some of Kafka’s finest work, this collection demonstrates the richness and variety of the author’s artistry. “The Judgment,” which Kafka considered to be his decisive breakthrough, and “The Stoker,” which became the first chapter of his novel Amerika, are here included. These two, along with “The Metamorphosis,” form a suite of stories Kafka referred to as “The Sons,” and they collectively present a devastating portrait of the modern family.

Also included are “In the Penal Colony,” a story of a torture machine and its operators and victims, and “A Hunger Artist,” about the absurdity of an artist trying to communicate with a misunderstanding public. Kafka’s lucid, succinct writing chronicles the labyrinthine complexities, the futility-laden horror, and the stifling oppressiveness that permeate his vision of modern life.]]> 224 Franz Kafka 1593080298 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.07 1915 The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
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]]> Dani punog meseca 54404274
postala jesen

pod drvetom kraj reke

u meni je dečiji strah

od grube reči i nerazumevanja

od ljudi

od policijskih kola

malih rečnih zmija

visine i saobraćaja

bojim se isto kao nekad

a stalno govore

treba raditi na sebi

ja mrzim bavljenje sobom

preobražavam se prirodno

punim se ko mesec

ne znam kako da postanem bolja

ali i ovakva

uspem nekom da osvetlim put.



Vitomirka Trebovac rođena je 1980. u Novom Sadu.

Objavila je zbirke pesama

Plavo u Boji (škart, Beopgrad, 2012) i

Sve drveće sva deca i svi bicikli u meni (LOM, Beograd, 2017)]]> 113 Vitomirka Trebovac 8679582581 Kuncz 5 4.44 2020 Dani punog meseca
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]]> <![CDATA[Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)]]> 386372
Death is the Grim Reaper of the Discworld, a black-robed skeleton with a scythe who ushers souls into the next world. He is also fond of cats and endlessly baffled by humanity. Soon Death is yearning to experience what humanity really has to offer, but to do that, he'll need to hire some help.

It's an offer Mort can't refuse. As Death's apprentice he'll have free board, use of the company horse—and being dead isn't compulsory. It's a dream job—until Mort falls in love with Death's daughter, Ysabell, and discovers that your boss can be a killer on your love life…]]> 243 Terry Pratchett 0061020680 Kuncz 5 books-i-own 4.24 1987 Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Kuncz
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1987
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]]> Dovoljno je malo sunca 75547268 i uhvati me to
da moram da budem dobra
svima da budem dobra
bolesnom da kažem ozdravićeš
slabom ojačaćeš
ljutom proći će
povređenom zaceliće
uhvati me to do suza
da svima kažem
nije bitno
ima nešto izvan svega
podigni glavu umorni svete
sunce je opet zasijalo
a to znači
sve uvek može ispočetka
jer ako može sunce
ponovo kroz mrak
možemo i mi
to je dokaz.

Vitomirka Trebovac rođena je 1980. u Novom Sadu.
Jedna je od najistaknutijih ličnosti naše poetske scene.
Objavila je četiri zbirke pesama:
Plavo u boji (škart, Beograd, 2012)
Sve drveće, sva deca i svi bicikli u meni (LOM, Beograd, 2017)
Dani punog meseca (LOM, Beograd, 2020)
Dovoljno je malo sunca (LOM, Beograd, 2023)]]> 97 Vitomirka Trebovac Kuncz 4 4.41 Dovoljno je malo sunca
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]]> <![CDATA[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]> 17125 The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury

This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available, and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.]]> 182 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Kuncz 0 to-read, books-i-own 3.98 1962 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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]]> Nevidljivi gradovi 17876484
So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which "has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be," the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take.]]> 151 Italo Calvino Kuncz 0 currently-reading 3.98 1972 Nevidljivi gradovi
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name: Kuncz
average rating: 3.98
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]]> Semper Idem 8161223 424 Đorđe Lebović Kuncz 5 4.82 2005 Semper Idem
author: Đorđe Lebović
name: Kuncz
average rating: 4.82
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> Čovek koji je voleo pse 60021056
„O ubistvu Trockog svom snagom grčke tragedije priča zagonetni kubanski pripovedač koga tokom priče polako upoznajemo. Iza toga, duboka istraga o ubici, Ramonu Mekaderu. Padura je veliki, veliki.“ Jan Gibson, El Pais]]> 626 Leonardo Padura 8652138583 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.46 2009 Čovek koji je voleo pse
author: Leonardo Padura
name: Kuncz
average rating: 4.46
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]]> Физика туге 58979584
Gospodinov bez zazora preispituje granice žanra. To čini tako da nam se čini kao da je ovo jedan od poslednjih pokušaja da se dokaže da roman kao književni rod ima još oblika za izmišljanje, obogaćivanje i pokazivanje. Autor istovremeno lakonski i temeljno preispituje roman kao oblik književnog istraživanja, dovodeći ga u ozbiljnu sumnju, te ga potom, tako negiranog, uspostavlja u jednom novom melanžu. Fizika tuge nije više i samo eksperiment; ona je nova romaneskna vrednost. Istorija književnosti verovatno će ga jednoga dana označiti kao: a) prekretnički roman, b) izdajnički roman, ili v) jedan od poslednjih romana koji bi da obuhvate - sve.

Ovaj pre svega poetičan roman, vrlo tanane duše, priča je o fizici ali i metafizici tuge. Čine ga: montaža, kinematografska struktura, pauze, grafika, simboli, tišina, prividna fragmentarnost, samoća, minotaurska napuštenost, lavirinti, antički mitovi, praznina. To je istorija sveta ispričana pogledom nevažnih događaja, netipičnih stvorenja (od puževa do dinosaura i ljudi). U zbiru svega glavni junak je Ja smo. To ja smo ključ je romana: ono je oscilirajuće klatno između prvog i trećeg lica, jednine i množine. Autorska snaga, koja je u svim pričama i telima ove knjige, mnogo je šira od tzv. Sveznajućeg autora.

Roman - vremenska kapsula. Roman u koji se zaljubljuje.

Ako je originalni i uspešni Prirodni roman G. Gospodinova, preveden na 20 jezika, od kojih je srpski bio prvi u svetu (Geopoetika, 2001), bio postmoderan u najplemenitijem smislu reči, Fizika tuge je roman apokaliptičan u najrevolucionarnijem značenju reči.]]> 344 Georgi Gospodinov 8661451434 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.42 2011 Физика туге
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]]> Heart of Darkness 4900 Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in “one of the darkest places on earth.” Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad.

A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is often considered one of the most influential works ever written.]]> 188 Joseph Conrad 1892295490 Kuncz 0 3.44 1899 Heart of Darkness
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]]> <![CDATA[Betmen nad Zvezdarom, Robin sa Krsta]]> 139884775 0 Jelena Bogavac 8678185082 Kuncz 4 books-i-own 3.33 Betmen nad Zvezdarom, Robin sa Krsta
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]]> Teško je biti Bog 12417266
Disfrazada con desfachatez de novela de intriga y aventuras, y tan ágil como chispeante en ese sentido, Qué difícil es ser dios (1964) se abre ante el lector como una muñeca rusa, revelando capas y más capas de sugerencias y connotaciones que la han convertido en una de las cumbres de la literatura soviética. Ofrece un análisis certero sobre el totalitarismo y, a la vez, una reflexión vívida e incisiva sobre el papel que, como su personaje, se veían obligados a representar los propios autores para sortear la censura. Un clásico complejo y apasionante que presentamos en todo su esplendor en su primera traducción directa del ruso al castellano.]]> 155 Arkady Strugatsky Kuncz 5 4.20 1964 Teško je biti Bog
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average rating: 4.20
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rating: 5
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]]> Pakao 60532286
U Luovom stilu, putovanje u srce tame vrca od apsurdnosti i crnog humora. Duhovit, preciznije, satiričan, naivno detinjast a mudar, Lu se razračunava sa stereotipima i ljudskim slabostima.

Kontradiktorno, a opet tako luovski – napisao je još jedan roman u kojem je neposredan, direktan, dovoljno hrabar da se poigrava sa onim s čim se ne igra, a i alegoričan, pun simbola i skrivenih poruka. Stoga, možda se ovaj neveliki roman i ne sme čitati samo jednom.

„Apsurdan i divan roman sa iznenađujućim krajem.“

Stejn Rol, Adreseavisen

„Novi roman Erlenda Lua je zabavan, ali i iznenađujuće inspirativan. Jezik podržava humor. Izreke, Dante i biblijski stihovi smenjuju se s modernim terapeutskim jezikom. Naivni ton će Luovi čitaoci svakako prepoznati.
Erlend Lu je napisao toplu knjigu. Ne samo zato što se odigrava u paklu.“

Gerd Elin Stava Sandve, Dagsavisen]]> 98 Erlend Loe 8661453879 Kuncz 3 3.56 2019 Pakao
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]]> Normal People 41057294
A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.

Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.]]> 273 Sally Rooney 1984822179 Kuncz 4 3.81 2018 Normal People
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem, #2)]]> 66562105
Earth has. Now the predators are coming.

Crossing light years, the Trisolarians will reach Earth in four centuries' time. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here. Only the individual human mind remains immune to their influence.

This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a last-ditch defence that grants four individuals almost absolute power to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from human and alien alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown.]]> 513 Liu Cixin 1784971588 Kuncz 4 4.49 2008 The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem, #2)
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average rating: 4.49
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]]> <![CDATA[Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)]]> 25451264
Now this epic trilogy concludes with Death's End. Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.

Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early 21st century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?]]> 604 Liu Cixin 0765377101 Kuncz 4 4.38 2010 Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
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average rating: 4.38
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]]> Horoskop 13605503 "Rođen sam 1932. godine u severnom Banatu, u selu Mokrinu, gde sam išao i u osnovnu školu. U gimnaziju sam išao u Kikindi i Pančevu, a studirao u Beogradu. Živim u Novom Sadu. To je čista moja biografija. U stvari, ja svima kažem da pravu biografiju, onakvu kakvu bih želeo, još nemam, i pored toliko knjiga koje sam napisao, slika koje sam izlagao, filmova koje sam snimio, dramskih tekstova, reportaža u novinama... Svakog jutra poželim da počnem jednu odličnu biografiju, koja bi poslužila, ako nikome drugom, bar đacima u školi, jer oni, nažalost, moraju da uče i život pisca.

Ja bih bio najgori đak, jer ni svoj život nisam naučio. A radio sam svašta. Bio zidarski pomoćnik, fizički radnik u pivari, kubikaš na pristaništu, mornar, pozorišni reditelj, bavio se vodovodom i kanalizacijom, radio kompresorima, obrađivao drvo, umem da napravim krov, glumio u jednom lutkarskom pozorištu, čak i pravio lutke, vodio televizijske emisije, bio konferansije...
Imam i neke nagrade i priznanja. Dve "Nevenove". Jednu za životno delo u poeziji za decu. Goranovu nagradu. Nagradu Sterijinog pozorišta. Zlatnu arenu za filmski scenario. Nagradu oslobođenja Vojvodine. Sedmojulsku nagradu Srbije. Nosilac sam ordena zasluga za narod. Neko bi od svega toga mogao da napise bezbroj stranica. Recimo: uređivao list "Ritam" ili uređivao Zmajev "Neven"...

Najviše bih voleo da sami izmislite moju biografiju. Onda ću imati mnogo raznih života i biti najživlji među živima.

Ostalo, što nije za najavu pisca, nego za šaputanje, rekao sam u pesmi "In memoriam".
I u svim ostalim svojim pesmama."]]> 129 Miroslav Antić Kuncz 0 books-i-own 4.62 1983 Horoskop
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]]> Mliječni zubi 56147958
Možda je centralni motiv svih priča i knjige, kao nesumnjive cjeline, stid. Stid zbog nemogućnosti života pod stegama patrijarhalnog, mizoginog, mizantropskog, mrziteljskog društvenog koda. U jednoj priči će stid natjerati djevojčicu da ubije svog oca. Iako se radi o jasnoj grotesci i hiperboli čak i takva radnja biva realistično motivirana. U ovim pričama skoro je nemoguće izvući se iz zagrljaja malograđanskog društva, a ono je, znamo to iz istorije, temelj svakog kvalitetnog fašizma ili kakvog drugog totalitarnog društvenog uređenja.

Nagovještaj pobune dešava se u priči Na bazenu, gdje se stid uspješno prevladava barem za jedan trenutak. Nema hepienda u ovoj knjizi, samo surova realnost mračnog postojanja. Ideja svjetla najbolje živi u najcrnjem mraku. Lana Bastašić je napisala neugodnu knjigu o poniženim i uvrijeđenim, koji nisu nimalo idealizovani kao žrtve. Nevini svijet odrastanja ovdje je metaforički prikazan kao stravično bojno polje na kojem nema pobjednika.]]> 110 Lana Bastašić Kuncz 3 4.05 2020 Mliječni zubi
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]]> <![CDATA[Moja mama zna šta se dešava u gradovima]]> 54456801
"U mom selu postoje pokorne žene i mrtve žene. Nikad zaista nisam napustila to mesto, nikad se uselila u ovaj stan. Ujutru prvo razmislim gde sam, čuje li se košava ili šum na srcu moje majke. Kažeš lepa sam, ali nekako uvek tužna, poput princes-krofne na zadušnicama. Želela sam i ja da budem latica, a trava sam koja izrasta iz betona, Morava što preti da se ulije u svačije cipele. Ništa te ne učini toliko snažnim kao porodica u kojoj se deca gaje kao kukuruz, pod uslovom da je preživiš. Možda ni ne znam da se vežem ni za šta drugo osim za stih. Pišeš i ti. Meni pesme, njoj romane. Nije važno, više volim poeziju.

Moja mama zna šta se dešava u gradovima, a ja znam zašto se u njih odlazi."

— Radmila Lazić, autorski tekst koji se nalazi na koricama knjige]]> 63 Radmila Petrović 8681360108 Kuncz 5 4.47 2020 Moja mama zna šta se dešava u gradovima
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]]> <![CDATA[The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)]]> 20518872 472 Liu Cixin Kuncz 4 books-i-own 4.07 2006 The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
author: Liu Cixin
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average rating: 4.07
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]]> Uhvati zeca 43062560 „Uhvati zeca“ je prvi roman u našoj književnosti o ženskom prijateljstvu u svojoj nimalo romantičnoj verziji. Bilo je očekivano da će se u 21. veku i kod nas pojaviti narativ o komplikovanom i u isto vreme opčinjavajućem odnosu dve osobe povezane suprotnostima od rođenja do konačnog buđenja. Ako je buđenje uopšte moguće u jednoj napaćenoj zemlji čuda gde nikada nije do kraja jasno na kojoj strani ogledala se nalazimo.
(Jasmina Vrbavac)]]> 209 Lana Bastašić 8689203915 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.01 2018 Uhvati zeca
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]]> <![CDATA[Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)]]> 77566 500 Dan Simmons 0553283685 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.27 1989 Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Nevernight / Godsgrave / Darkdawn (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1-3)]]> 51673262 0 Jay Kristoff 0678452350 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.50 Nevernight / Godsgrave / Darkdawn (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1-3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1)]]> 39943621
Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire and Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.

What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why did it become so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What is the origin of Daenerys’s three dragon eggs? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley. Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes as The World of Ice & Fire, but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of Targaryen history is revealed.

With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire and Blood is the ultimate game of thrones, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.]]> 706 George R.R. Martin 152479628X Kuncz 4 4.04 2018 Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Unutarnji mrak: Esej o melanholiji]]> 12021632
Egzistencijalno vreme melanholika je večna, prazna sadašnjost. On sebe smatra radikalno izdvojenim od ostatka sveta i u tom uzajamnom odbijanju njega i sveta on gubi sve iluzije, a osećaj razočaranja i zakasnelosti povećava egzistencijalni teret života.

Depresija je opšteljudski fenomen. Teško će se naći iko ko nije doživeo taj gubitak smisla i želje za životom koji depresija podrazumeva. Antidepresivi danas spadaju među najprodavanije medikamente u svetu.

Moderna medicina dostigla je zadivljujuće rezultate pristupanjem depresiji kao telesno zasnovanoj bolesti koja se može otkloniti lekovima. Opasnost, međutim, leži u tome što se ostale dimenzije tog stanja smatraju manje važnim. U knjizi Unutarnji mrak autor se okreće starijem i širem pojmu melanholije. Zanimljivim prikazom kulturne istorije melanholije, on pokazuje kako se shvatanje deprimiranog stanja menja u skladu sa okruženjem. Susrećemo se s melanholijom kakva se pojavljuje u klasičnoj književnosti, psihoanalizi i u modernoj umetnosti i filozofiji. Espen Hamer povezuje pojam melanholije sa doživljajem vremena, modernošću i nihilizmom. Šta karakteriše današnje odećanje besmisla? I kako možemo živeti s njim? Ova knjiga nudi izazovan pregled teme u kojoj su odgovori retko kad jednostavni.]]> 156 Espen Hammer 8676661936 Kuncz 4 books-i-own 3.94 2004 Unutarnji mrak: Esej o melanholiji
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]]> Always Coming Home 201901 Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers. More than five years in creation, it is a novel unlike any other.

A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast. The author makes the inhabitants of the valley as familiar, as immediate, as wholly human as our own friends or family.

Spiraling outward from the dramatic life story of a woman called Stone Telling, Le Guin's Always Coming Home interweaves wry wit, deep insight and extraordinary compassion into a compelling unity of vision.]]> 525 Ursula K. Le Guin 0520227352 Kuncz 3 books-i-own 4.07 1985 Always Coming Home
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Kuncz
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1985
rating: 3
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]]> Geometrija tela 25277100 95 Ian McEwan 8674485995 Kuncz 3 3.40 1977 Geometrija tela
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name: Kuncz
average rating: 3.40
book published: 1977
rating: 3
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]]> Dune (Dune, #1) 44767458
When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.]]> 658 Frank Herbert 059309932X Kuncz 5 books-i-own 4.34 1965 Dune (Dune, #1)
author: Frank Herbert
name: Kuncz
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1965
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Four Ways to Forgiveness (Hainish Cycle, #7)]]> 92605
In this stunning collection of four intimately interconnected novellas, Ursula K. Le Guin returns to the great themes that have made her one of America's most honored and respected authors.]]> 304 Ursula K. Le Guin 006076029X Kuncz 5 4.21 1994 Four Ways to Forgiveness (Hainish Cycle, #7)
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name: Kuncz
average rating: 4.21
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]]> Zen um, početnički um 50171742 Tako započinje jedna najpopularnijih knjiga o zenu. Retko kad tako malo reči pruži tako bogat nauk, kao što je to slučaj sa ovom slavnom uvodnom rečenicom.
Jednim jedinim udarcem, jednostavna rečenica otkriva istrajnu težnju učenika koji žele da se što više približe zenu, a potpuno gube njegovu suštinu. A to je samo početak.
U poslednjih pola veka od svog prvog objavljivanja, Zen um, početnički um je postao jedan od velikih savremenih spiritualnih klasika, veoma čitana i često preporučivana kao najbolja početnička knjiga o zenu. Roši Suzuki predstavlja osnove - od pojedinosti položaja i disanja u zazenu do percepcije nedualnosti - na način koji ne samo da je neverovatno jasan, nego takođe odiše radošću uvida od prve do poslednje strane.]]> 197 Shunryu Suzuki 8683737896 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.50 1970 Zen um, početnički um
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]]> Ispod majice 56373913 Neprijatan i mučan razgovor između dve bivše devojke istog momka, Luke Kralja, kome su prethodili meseci međusobnog praćenja i špijuniranja po društvenim mrežama, pretvara se u veliku priču o nadolazećoj generaciji, generaciji koja je uronjena u neurozu sadašnjice, neurozu odnosa između virtuelnog i stvarnog, između fikcije i realnosti.
Ovaj roman nas dijahronijski vodi kroz detinjstvo, ljubavi, bolest, seksualnost, nesporazume, PTSP i tugu. Svojim ogoljenim stilom, kroz oštru prizmu feminizma, Ispod majice igra emancipatorsku ulogu, upoznajući nas sa životom koji se nalazi ispod površine.


Ispod majice je prvi roman Marije Ratković, roman kojim probija glavom kroz zid. Bol, uzbuđenje i želja za životom protkani su kroz taj udarac, prvi, uvek najteži. Marija piše jezikom koji govori, pa će onaj ko je poznaje čuti njen glas. Roman koji ljuti, izaziva, nadahnjuje i preispituje život onda kada mislimo da treba da prestane ili kada nikome nije do njega. Marija bezobrazno želi da živi onako kako ona želi, i iako smo imali prilike da je čitamo kroz mnogobrojne tekstove, taj bezobrazluk je ona sirova iskra genijalnog života koju ćete osetiti u ovom romanu.
Magda Janjić, novinarka i urednica


U svom prvom romanu Marija Ratković uspeva da dekonstruiše čuveni bad girl arhetip, a da ne poklekne poznatim klišeima. Rezultat je smeo, ponekad surov roman koji otkriva istine koje svaku ženu tište ispod površine, a za koje mi, kao čitaoci, možda nismo dovoljno hrabri da nađemo reči. Srećom, dovoljno smo radoznali da ih čitamo.
Anja Paspalj, urednica kulture magazina Elle
Najtalentovanija spisateljica u Srbiji najzad se upisala među književnice! Nakon što smo se godinama smejali i plakali na njene kolumne, novinske tekstove, scenarija, tvitove i delili ih kao pesme koje govore nešto što bismo hteli i mi, kad bismo imali hrabrosti, Marija Ratković od sebe pravi fikciju, kako bi rekla istinu o svetu i generaciji kojoj pripada. Tako nastaje uzbudljivo štivo, knjiga zbog koje se treperi, sanja, ne spava, o kojoj se razmišlja. Knjiga u koju je moguće zaljubiti se... i zaboraviti svet, da bismo ga bolje razumeli, nakon čitanja. Emotivna, čulna, zabavna i bolna, ovo je literarna žestina koja se čita na eks i od koje vam se vrti u glavi.
Minja Bogavac, dramaturškinja i pozorišna rediteljka]]> 358 Marija Ratković 8660361024 Kuncz 0 3.62 Ispod majice
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]]> Jelena, žena koje nema 3551256 335 Ivo Andrić 8673463130 Kuncz 4 4.39 1962 Jelena, žena koje nema
author: Ivo Andrić
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average rating: 4.39
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]]> Conversations with Friends 32187419 A sharply intelligent novel about two college students and the strange, unexpected connection they forge with a married couple.

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed, and darkly observant. A college student and aspiring writer, she devotes herself to a life of the mind--and to the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi, her best friend and comrade-in-arms. Lovers at school, the two young women now perform spoken-word poetry together in Dublin, where a journalist named Melissa spots their potential. Drawn into Melissa's orbit, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband. Private property, Frances believes, is a cultural evil--and Nick, a bored actor who never quite lived up to his potential, looks like patriarchy made flesh. But however amusing their flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy neither of them expect. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally even with Bobbi. Desperate to reconcile herself to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment.

Written with gem-like precision and probing intelligence, Conversations With Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth.]]> 304 Sally Rooney 0451499077 Kuncz 3 3.72 2017 Conversations with Friends
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia]]> 13651 387 Ursula K. Le Guin Kuncz 5 4.25 1974 The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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average rating: 4.25
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]]> Ako ti jave da sam pao... 17937496 Džamonjine priče su do srži jasne, stil mu je brz i oštar, koji će vas iz suza u smijeh prevesti prije nego što se snađete. Mnogi su se složili u jednom – da samo istinski pisac umije oblikovati jezik na način na koji vajar oblikuje glinu, a da pri tome taj jezik ne bude stil nego trag ljudskog postojanja. Daco je to znao.]]> 827 Dario Džamonja Kuncz 0 to-read 4.64 2013 Ako ti jave da sam pao...
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]]> <![CDATA[God Emperor of Dune (Dune, #4)]]> 44439415
Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world's savior, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity's future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years.

Leto's rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance but his morality inhuman. A rebellion, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family, has risen to oppose the despot's rule. But Siona is unaware that Leto's vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted--or could possibly conceive....

Includes an introduction by Brian Herbert]]> 587 Frank Herbert 0593098250 Kuncz 0 3.90 1981 God Emperor of Dune (Dune, #4)
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> Children of Dune (Dune, #3) 44492286
The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities--making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of House Atreides.

Facing treason and rebellion on two fronts, Alia's rule is not absolute. The displaced House Corrino is plotting to regain the throne while the fanatical Fremen are being provoked into open revolt by the enigmatic figure known only as The Preacher. Alia believes that by obtaining the secrets of the twins' prophetic visions, she can maintain control over her dynasty.

But Leto and Ghanima have their own plans for their visions--and their destinies....

Includes an introduction by Brian Herbert]]> 609 Frank Herbert 0593098242 Kuncz 4 3.96 1976 Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
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average rating: 3.96
book published: 1976
rating: 4
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]]> A Long Petal of the Sea 45897568 From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits comes an epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents, following two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a new place to call home.

In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage neither of them wants, and together are sponsored by poet Pablo Neruda to embark on the SS Winnipeg along with 2,200 other refugees in search of a new life. As unlikely partners, they embrace exile and emigrate to Chile as the rest of Europe erupts in World War.

Starting over on a new continent, their trials are just beginning. Over the course of their lives, they will face test after test. But they will also find joy as they wait patiently for a day when they are exiles no more, and will find friends in the most unlikely of places. Through it all, it is that hope of being reunited with their home that keeps them going. And in the end, they will find that home might have been closer than they thought all along.]]> 325 Isabel Allende 198482015X Kuncz 0 to-read 3.91 2019 A Long Petal of the Sea
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]]> Anxious People 49127718
Each of them carries a lifetime of grievances, hurts, secrets, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises, these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in a motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next.

Humorous, compassionate, and wise, Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope—the things that save us, even in the most anxious of times.

Includes short story - The Last Round of Golf]]> 336 Fredrik Backman 198216963X Kuncz 0 to-read 4.15 2019 Anxious People
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]]> Utkani svet 12915497
Barker turns from his usual horror to epic-length fantasy for this account of the Fugue, a magical land inhabited by descendants of supernatural beings who once shared the earth with humans. The Fugue has been woven into a carpet for protection against those who would destroy it; the death of its guardian occasions a battle between good and particularly repulsive evil forces for control of the Fugue. Weaveworld is rich with memorable characters, exciting situations, and pockets of Barker's trademark horror.]]> 556 Clive Barker 867560016X Kuncz 0 to-read 4.35 1987 Utkani svet
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name: Kuncz
average rating: 4.35
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]]> Dune Messiah (Dune #2) 44492285
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known--and feared--as the man christened Muad'Dib. As Emperor of the Known Universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremens, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne--and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence.

And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family's dynasty...

Includes an introduction by Brian Herbert]]> 336 Frank Herbert 0593098234 Kuncz 0 3.90 1969 Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
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]]> Lolita 7604 Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537.

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.]]> 368 Vladimir Nabokov Kuncz 4 books-i-own 3.87 1955 Lolita
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average rating: 3.87
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rating: 4
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]]> Incidences 685172  
This collection of stories is composed of short miniatures, many of which the author called “incidents.” The quirky, bold writing of Incidences perfectly captures the surreal spirit of its times.]]> 240 Daniil Kharms 185242480X Kuncz 0 4.36 1939 Incidences
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)]]> 19161852
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.

Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.]]> 468 N.K. Jemisin Kuncz 0 to-read 4.27 2015 The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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]]> Bloodchild and Other Stories 19452425 Like all of Octavia Butler’s best writing, these works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world. She proves constant in her vigil, an unblinking pessimist hoping to be proven wrong, and one of contemporary literature’s strongest voices.]]> 228 Octavia E. Butler Kuncz 0 to-read 4.28 1995 Bloodchild and Other Stories
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]]> Muleum 3869157 206 Erlend Loe Kuncz 4 3.95 2007 Muleum
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]]> Nemoj me buditi 48611399
Kruno Lokotar

“Nemoj me buditi” je (anti)roman u kom su raspad naratora, ali i raspad priče koja sadrži traume iz prošlosti i surovu korumpiranost sadašnjosti, metafora o raspadu savremenog društva i savremenog čoveka. Kroz svoj prepoznatljivi stil – oštar i koncizan, a duboko liričan i ličan – Marko Tomaš nas bespoštedno vodi kroz mračno putešestvije u kom su bolesna ravnodušnost prema postojanju i panični strah od smrti u postojanom konfliktu.

Rumena Bužarovska]]> 128 Marko Tomaš 8679582360 Kuncz 0 3.34 Nemoj me buditi
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]]> Axiom's End (Noumena, #1) 51171377
It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to avoid the whole mess, since the force driving the controversy is her whistleblower father. Even though Cora hasn’t spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the government—and with him in hiding, that attention is on her. She neither knows nor cares whether her father’s leaks are a hoax, and wants nothing to do with him—until she learns just how deeply entrenched her family is in the cover-up, and that an extraterrestrial presence has been on Earth for decades.

Realizing the extent to which both she and the public have been lied to, she sets out to gather as much information as she can, and finds that the best way for her to uncover the truth is not as a whistleblower, but as an intermediary. The alien presence has been completely uncommunicative until she convinces one of them that she can act as their interpreter, becoming the first and only human vessel of communication. Their otherworldly connection will change everything she thought she knew about being human—and could unleash a force more sinister than she ever imagined.]]> 384 Lindsay Ellis 1250256739 Kuncz 0 to-read 3.67 2020 Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
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]]> Tvoj sin Huckleberry Finn 27400046
Matori se jednog jutra nije vratio s noćnog ribolova. Sin se boji da se dogodilo najgore, pa krene obilaziti savske ade i ribičke loge, traži Matorog i istovremeno ga je strah onoga što će naći pa se neprestano puca svojim ‘koktelima’. Tijekom potrage pripovijeda nam povijest kompleksnog odnosa s ocem, ali i druge ključne trenutke svog života, kao i svoju najveću riječnu avanturu, plovidbu Savskom bubom, s Norvežaninom Petterom i Japancem Mokuom, od Brčkog do Crnog mora. Bekim Sejranović napisao je fascinantan roman o životu na rijeci, prvi takav na ovim prostorima, pa posveta Marku Twainu nije nimalo slučajna. To je istovremeno i roman o potrazi za vlastitim identitetom, roman o odrastanju odnosno odbijanju da se odraste, roman o odnosu oca i sina, ljubavni roman, i na kraju, roman o drogiranju i borbi s ovisnošću, također prvi takav na ovim prostorima.

Zadnjih godina jedan drugi Norvežanin, Karl Ove Knausgaard, postao je svjetska književna zvijezda opisavši do najsitnijih i najintimnijih detalja svoj život, pritom nimalo ne štedeći ni sebe ni svoju obitelj. Sejranović radi slično, samo što je njegov roman beskompromisniji, iskreniji, kompleksniji, uzbudljiviji, autoironičniji, duhovitiji..]]> 336 Bekim Sejranović 9533047488 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.41 Tvoj sin Huckleberry Finn
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]]> The Wind's Twelve Quarters 77289
Ursula Le Guin, author of The Earthsea Trilogy, has a special way of blending stirring adventure with fantasy that has made comparison with such masters as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien inevitable.

Now, in The Wind's Twelve Quarters, seventeen of her favorite stories reaffirm Ursula Le Guin as one of America's outstanding writers.

CONTENTS:

Foreword
Semley's Necklace
April in Paris
The Masters
Darkness Box
The Word of Unbinding
The Rule of Names
Winter's King
The Good Trip
Nine Lives
Things
A Trip to the Head
Vaster than Empires and More Slow
The Stars Below
The Field of Vision
Direction of the Road
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
The Day Before the Revolution]]> 277 Ursula K. Le Guin 055302907X Kuncz 0 books-i-own 4.09 1975 The Wind's Twelve Quarters
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]]> The Eye of the Heron 250260
Luz understands what it means to have no choices. Her father is a Boss and he has ruled over her life with the same iron fist. Luz wonders what it might be like to make her own choices. To be free to choose her own destiny.

When the crisis over the new settlement reaches a flash point, Luz will have her chance.]]> 192 Ursula K. Le Guin 0765346125 Kuncz 5 books-i-own 3.83 1978 The Eye of the Heron
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average rating: 3.83
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rating: 5
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]]> Childhood’s End 414999
But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?]]> 224 Arthur C. Clarke Kuncz 4 books-i-own 4.12 1953 Childhood’s End
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average rating: 4.12
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Telling (Hainish Cycle Book 8)]]> 8508467 274 Ursula K. Le Guin 0547545622 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.31 2000 The Telling (Hainish Cycle Book 8)
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average rating: 4.31
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]]> Infinite Jest 6759
Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.

Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human—and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.]]> 1088 David Foster Wallace Kuncz 0 to-read 4.27 1996 Infinite Jest
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]]> Meisternovellen 1220464 - Brennendes Geheimnis
- Der Amokläufer
- Brief einer Unbekannten
- Die Frau und die Leidenschaft
- Verwirrung der Gefühle
- Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau
- Episode am Genfer See
- Die unsichtbare Sammlung
- Schachnovelle

]]> 496 Stefan Zweig 3596149916 Kuncz 4 4.45 1942 Meisternovellen
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average rating: 4.45
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rating: 4
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]]> Po šumama i gorama 48807752 Rajić, hodač i hodočasnik revolucije, ovo će pitanje pomeriti s onu stranu svake nostalgije i prepoznatljivih praksi sećanja. On je vodič u potrazi za tom zemljom i za imenima i sudbinama ranog partizanskog pokreta kroz koji je ona i nastajala.]]> 168 Milenko Bodirogić Kuncz 0 to-read 4.28 2019 Po šumama i gorama
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average rating: 4.28
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]]> Razgovori s prijateljima 40773835
Nezgoda sa najavama novih autora i knjiga (u tzv. blurbovima) u tome je što oni, uz neobjektivne pohvale, koriste preporuke kao obavezu da knjigu treba da pročitate, ako ne i morate pročitati, umesto da to samo i jednostavno poželite.

A u ovom slučaju to sa željom će se i desiti: Razgovori s prijateljima jedna je zavodnička i zavodljiva knjiga, četvorougao ljudskih odnosa sastavljen od dve mlade najbolje prijateljice i nešto od njih starijeg bračnog para. Da, zvuči kao kliše. Ali, on se sastoji od pitkosti pametnih rečenica ove 26-godišnje autorke sazdan na najboljem stilskom nasleđu čudne kombinatorike. Reč je o mladalačkom seksualnom i umetničkom samootkrivanju preko unakrsne ljubavi i sopstvene književnosti.

Sali Runi piše moderno, ironično, duhovito, a iznad svega - razumljivo. Ona savršeno kontroliše ton svoga glasa i dosledno sprovodi disciplinu upotrebe "ravnog" jezika. Majstor je dijaloga koji koristi kao tenisku loptu: rečenice samo preleću mrežu u oba pravca i ti udarci iznuđuju iskrene i zaslužene čitalačke aplauze. Zabava je obostrana; jedino se ne zna ko u ovoj igri više uživa - autor ili čitalac.

Ova Irkinja je svojom pojavom ozbiljno zatalasala svetsku književnu javnost jer je unela novi, mladalački pogled u tzv. običan život (i politiku), ali i stvorila hibrid romantične komedije i prpošne tragedije - realnu sliku puta u život.

Srećom po čitaoce, napisala je i drugi roman. I opet, mladost i ljubav. Koju biste da poželite.

Vladislav Bajac]]> 304 Sally Rooney 8661452953 Kuncz 0 to-read 3.83 2017 Razgovori s prijateljima
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]]> <![CDATA[Okorela zemlja čuda i Kraj sveta]]> 7505475
Murakami na vrlo osoben način zapravo istražuje prirodu ličnosti i ispituje da li smo potpuno definisani svojim iskustvima i sećanjima od kojih se sastoji naša svest. Ako bismo uklonili sve sećanje, kakva bismo osoba bili? Kako bi ličnost mogla da poseduje bilo kakve osobenosti sopstvenog individualiteta bez prizivanja događaja koji su usmerili i odredili njen razvoj? Ova neodoljiva igra u predvorju uma prava je poslastica za one koji tumače moć unutarnjih svetova.

"Tajanstven, nadnaravan i zabavan... fantastični svet ovog dela dostojan je jednog Kafke." - Philadelphia Enquirer

"Prepun akcije, neizvesnosti, čudnih likova, neočekivanih okolnosti... provokativno delo." - Los Angeles Times Review of Books

"Mešavina američke zabave i japanske strave." - Esquire

"Otkačeno, urnebesno, bizarno... sjajna, izuzetna knjiga." - Times (London)]]> 487 Haruki Murakami 8676661987 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.18 1985 Okorela zemlja čuda i Kraj sveta
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Kuncz
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1985
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]]> <![CDATA[This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond]]> 52434090 Industrial civilisation has no future. It requires limitless economic growth on a finite planet. The reckless combustion of fossil fuels means that Earth’s climate is changing disastrously, in ways that cannot be resolved by piecemeal reform or technological innovation. Sooner rather than later this global capitalist system will come to an end, destroyed by its own ecological contradictions. Unless humanity does something beautiful and unprecedented, the ending of industrial civilisation will take the form of collapse, which could mean a harrowing die-off of billions of people.

This book is for those ready to accept the full gravity of the human predicament – and to consider what in the world is to be done. How can humanity mindfully navigate the inevitable descent ahead? Two critical thinkers here remove the rose-tinted glasses of much social and environmental commentary. With unremitting realism and yet defiant positivity, they engage each other in uncomfortable conversations about the end of Empire and what lies beyond.

 

]]> 104 Rupert Read 0994282842 Kuncz 0 to-read 4.13 This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond
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]]> <![CDATA[Nezemaljski izraz njegovih ruku]]> 36102218 179 Miljenko Jergović 9940360312 Kuncz 5 books-i-own 4.37 2017 Nezemaljski izraz njegovih ruku
author: Miljenko Jergović
name: Kuncz
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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]]> Love in the Time of Cholera 9712 348 Gabriel García Márquez 140003468X Kuncz 0 3.92 1985 Love in the Time of Cholera
author: Gabriel García Márquez
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average rating: 3.92
book published: 1985
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]]> <![CDATA[Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5)]]> 29582
But is it the right choice for the destiny of mankind? While Trevize feels it is, that is not enough. He must know.

Trevize believes the answer lies at the site of humanity's roots: fabled Earth . . . if it still exists. For no one is sure where the planet of Gaia's first settlers is to be found in the immense wilderness of the Galaxy. Nor can anyone explain why no record of Earth has been preserved, no mention of it made anywhere in Gaia's vast world-memory. It is an enigma Trevize is determined to resolve, and a quest he is determined to undertake, at any cost.]]> 499 Isaac Asimov 0553587579 Kuncz 4 4.06 1986 Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5)
author: Isaac Asimov
name: Kuncz
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1986
rating: 4
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]]> The Right to Be Lazy 24485 70 Paul Lafargue 1892355035 Kuncz 0 to-read, books-i-own 3.68 1880 The Right to Be Lazy
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average rating: 3.68
book published: 1880
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]]> Cigarettes Are Sublime 30537 232 Richard Klein 0822316412 Kuncz 0 to-read, books-i-own 3.79 1993 Cigarettes Are Sublime
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average rating: 3.79
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]]> A Clockwork Orange 41817486 A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess’s introduction, “A Clockwork Orange Resucked.”]]> 240 Anthony Burgess 0393341763 Kuncz 0 books-i-own, to-read 4.04 1962 A Clockwork Orange
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> <![CDATA[Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7)]]> 76679 Librarian's Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

Here, from a grand master of science fiction, is the long awaited final novel of the greatest series ever told. Completed just before his death, Forward The Foundation is the crowning achievement of a great writer's life, a stirring testament to the creative genius of Isaac Asimov.

As Hari Seldon struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory and ensure a place for humanity among the stars, the great Galactic Empire totters on the brink of apocalyptic collapse. Caught in the maelstrom are Seldon and all he holds dear, pawns in the struggle for dominance. Whoever can control Seldon will control psychohistory—and with it the future of the Galaxy.

Among those seeking to turn psychohistory into the greatest weapon known to man are a populist political demagogue, the weak-willed Emperor Cleon I, and a ruthless militaristic general. In his last act of service to humankind, Hari Seldon must somehow save his life's work from their grasp as he searches for his true heirs—a search the begins with his own granddaughter and the dream of a new Foundation.]]> 464 Isaac Asimov 0553565079 Kuncz 0 books-i-own, to-read 4.16 1993 Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7)
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]]> <![CDATA[Prelude to Foundation (Foundation, #6)]]> 30013 This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780586071113

It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall—those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.

Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire. . .the man who holds the key to the future—an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.]]> 460 Isaac Asimov Kuncz 0 to-read, books-i-own 4.16 1988 Prelude to Foundation (Foundation, #6)
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]]> Penguin Island 346024 284 Anatole France 1426404050 Kuncz 0 to-read, books-i-own 3.70 1908 Penguin Island
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average rating: 3.70
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]]> <![CDATA[Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)]]> 76683
Meanwhile someone—or something—outside of both Foundations seems to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!]]> 450 Isaac Asimov 0553293389 Kuncz 5 4.16 1982 Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)
author: Isaac Asimov
name: Kuncz
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1982
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Discours d'un arbre sur la fragilité des hommes]]> 27422505
Prenant comme toile de fond les transformations violentes de la Chine contemporaine, Discours d’un arbre sur la fragilité des hommes revisite la fable du pot de terre contre le pot de fer. Belle et profonde méditation sur les liens qui unissent l’homme et la nature, ce roman, écrit dans une langue magnifique, est un conte réel qui ne laissera aucun lecteur indifférent.]]> 304 Olivier Bleys 2226318151 Kuncz 0 books-i-own, to-read 3.38 2015 Discours d'un arbre sur la fragilité des hommes
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average rating: 3.38
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]]> <![CDATA[Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)]]> 29580 256 Isaac Asimov 0553803735 Kuncz 5 4.27 1953 Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)
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average rating: 4.27
book published: 1953
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[We Have Always Lived in the Castle]]> 6708624
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here and here.]]> 158 Shirley Jackson Kuncz 0 to-read 4.09 1962 We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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average rating: 4.09
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]]> <![CDATA[Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)]]> 29581
Filled with nail-biting suspense, nonstop action, and cutting-edge speculation, Foundation and Empire is the story of humanity’s perpetual struggle against the darkness that forever threatens to overwhelm the light—and of how the courage of even a determined few can make all the difference in the universe.]]> 256 Isaac Asimov 0553803727 Kuncz 5 4.23 1952 Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
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average rating: 4.23
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]]> Foundation (Foundation, #1) 29579 The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.]]> 244 Isaac Asimov 0553803719 Kuncz 4 4.18 1951 Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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rating: 4
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]]> Shantaram 33600
So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.

Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.

As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.

Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas—this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature.]]> 936 Gregory David Roberts 192076920X Kuncz 3 4.27 2003 Shantaram
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average rating: 4.27
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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]]> Dyrene i Afrika 41960502
«[...] Loes humor og blikk for menneskelege særdrag er rikeleg til stades i romanen.» Marta Norheim, NRK «Erlen Loe eksellerer gjennom hele boken med sin både lakoniske og godlynte humor. Han parodierer moderne terapi- og organisasjonsspråk på det aller mest suverene, han viser oss hulheten i alle frasene vi kler våre virkelige intensjoner inn i, og han sørger for å ivareta den nødvendige dosen absurdisme. Erlend Loe har en lekende fantasi og et språklig overskudd som gir ham en helt egen plass i den norske bokheimen.» Sindre Hovdenakk, VG «Jeg har ikke ledd så mye i løpet av tre hundre sider, siden den forrige boken til Loe!» Stein Roll, Adresseavisen]]> 332 Erlend Loe 8202598893 Kuncz 4 3.66 2018 Dyrene i Afrika
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average rating: 3.66
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> Ubú en bicicleta 18044357
A más de cien años de su muerte aparece la silueta de Alfred Jarry, ávido de ejercicio físico y de nuevas sensaciones. La bicicleta, así como la absenta o el revolver, es una continuación natural de la máscara de Ubú que Jarry llevó toda su vida.

¿Acaso no dormía junto a su esqueleto externo, la Clement Luxe 96, mítica bicicleta que nunca llegó a pagar?

Ubú en bicicleta recoge los escritos velocípedos de Jarry, veremos a Jesús en derrapada en el Gólgota, Ixión atado a su rueda por la eternidad, el acróbata de la Vuelta de la Muerte, una quíntupla lanzada detrás de un tren de Paris a la Siberia, unos ciclistas borrachos y dopados con el Perpetuetal Food…]]> 118 Alfred Jarry 8493856908 Kuncz 0 books-i-own 2.89 Ubú en bicicleta
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]]> Johnny Got His Gun 51606
This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome... but so is war.

Winner of the National Book Award.]]> 309 Dalton Trumbo 0806512814 Kuncz 5 books-i-own 4.21 1939 Johnny Got His Gun
author: Dalton Trumbo
name: Kuncz
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1939
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Zavija treću noć pred vratima: izbor pesama]]> 27407370 140 Marina Tsvetaeva Kuncz 0 4.00 1971 Zavija treću noć pred vratima: izbor pesama
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> Ja sam niko! A ti, ko si? 36374488 I'M NOBODY, WHO ARE YOU? is a collection of Emily Dickinson's greatest poetry, from the wistful to the unsettling, the wonders of nature to the foibles of human nature.
]]> 95 Emily Dickinson Kuncz 0 books-i-own 4.29 1978 Ja sam niko! A ti, ko si?
author: Emily Dickinson
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average rating: 4.29
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]]> <![CDATA[Extension du domaine de la lutte]]> 106916 Écrit avant Les Particules élémentaires, le roman sulfureux qui fit la notoriété de Michel Houellebecq, Extension du domaine de la lutte est de la même veine : plume acérée, aride, assassine. On en sort laminé, mais bien déterminé à continuer la lutte, et c'est là que tout le paradoxe de la littérature prend un sens. Un roman saisissant à lire avec précautions. --Karla Manuele

]]> 155 Michel Houellebecq Kuncz 3 books-i-own 3.50 1994 Extension du domaine de la lutte
author: Michel Houellebecq
name: Kuncz
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1994
rating: 3
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]]> Fahrenheit 451 13079982
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.]]> 249 Ray Bradbury Kuncz 4 3.97 1963 Fahrenheit 451
author: Ray Bradbury
name: Kuncz
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1963
rating: 4
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