Retired linguist/law/IT. Avid reader in all languages (see polyglot.city/@FrankauLux/ ), both paper and ebooks. Mostly fictions these days.
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6% complete! François has read 7 of 104 books.
On an island in the East Indies, in a lost city buried deep in the heart of the rainforest, agents …
The story opens up with the Doctor and Sam in the TARDIS doing some maintenance …
Very nice 🙂👍
The story opens up with the Doctor and Sam in the TARDIS doing some maintenance when they are collected by …
Grant, a UNIT veteran, receives a call for help from an old colleague. A scientific …
I didn't like the style of writing of this book. I can't really explain why, maybe too broken, too many cuts to other scenes, whatever...
I didn't like the style of writing of this book. I can't really explain why, maybe too broken, too many cuts to other scenes, whatever...
It is London, 1894. Amid the fog, cold and degradation, a gruesome business is being …
Not bad, but not as good as the previous ones...
It is London, 1894. Amid the fog, cold and degradation, a gruesome business is being conducted. The bodies of the …
In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost …
Very good. Picks up nicely from the previous and convincing. :-)
In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless …
Immediately after the events of the TV film, the Eighth Doctor finishes reading The Time …
Much better than expected. As a fan of the TV series I was kindof wondering if the printed version would live up to the expectation, but it does amazingly well. Nice little read
Much better than expected. As a fan of the TV series I was kindof wondering if the printed version would live up to the expectation, but it does amazingly well. Nice little read
This story was first published in May 1968 in Playboy. It is about a husband …
Very short story - another world slowly dying, even if that is not the subject - that's the suggested background. Strange story, with a twist...
Very short story - another world slowly dying, even if that is not the subject - that's the suggested background. Strange story, with a twist...
Roman d'espionnage. À Moscou, pendant la perestroïka, Niki Landau se voit confier par une superbe …
Assez déçu par ce livre. Je ne connaissais pas vraiment Le Carré, autrement que de réputation, et pour moi elle est surfaite. C'était peut-être un beau film, mais comme bouquin, pour moi c'est pas terrible.
Assez déçu par ce livre. Je ne connaissais pas vraiment Le Carré, autrement que de réputation, et pour moi elle est surfaite. C'était peut-être un beau film, mais comme bouquin, pour moi c'est pas terrible.
Roman d'espionnage. À Moscou, pendant la perestroïka, Niki Landau se voit confier par une superbe Russe un manuscrit à remettre …
The novel tells the story of a physician trying to make his way deep into …
Last in the series after the downed world and the burned world, the crystal world gives us another go at an apocalypse drawing nearer when we followed some personnage tortured by their past. Again quite a good book, but to me the best of the three remains the drowned world (but I admit it's totally subjective).
Last in the series after the downed world and the burned world, the crystal world gives us another go at an apocalypse drawing nearer when we followed some personnage tortured by their past. Again quite a good book, but to me the best of the three remains the drowned world (but I admit it's totally subjective).
Entertaining but hardly comprehensive, this study offers a somewhat European angle on the "technological counterculture." The authors draw on interviews …
The novel tells the story of a physician trying to make his way deep into the jungle to a secluded …
