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Michael Crichton: Rivelazioni
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Michael Crichton: Rivelazioni
11 oct 17
Tom Sanders is a prominent executive at "Digicom," a company operating in the technology sector and on the verge of merging with another major corporation. Tom wakes up cheerful because he knows he will be promoted following that merger, but upon reaching the office, he begins to hear rumors that he has been passed over, and his boss's lawyer subtly indicates that the rumors hold some truth. When he arrives in his boss's office, he discovers that he has indeed been overshadowed by a very attractive executive with whom he had an intense relationship several years earlier.

The book was turned into the eponymous film starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, directed by Barry Levinson in '94.
Michael Crichton: Punto critico
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Michael Crichton: Punto critico
11 oct 17
Flight 545 of Transpacific Airlines experienced severe turbulence in the sky, or so reported the pilot, and was forced to make an emergency landing in Los Angeles due to three fatalities and numerous injuries. The reasons for the incident are unknown. The aircraft is a N-22 from Norton Aircraft, a model that had never caused serious issues for engineers, and the pilot had a significant number of flight hours under his belt, making the likelihood of human error improbable. (wikipedia)
Michael Ende: La storia infinita
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Michael Ende: La Storia Infinita
30 oct 17
Bastiano Baldassarre Bucci is a ten or eleven-year-old boy who, after his mother's death, can no longer communicate with his father and has withdrawn into himself, finding refuge in reading and fantastic stories. At school, he is a solitary type who is teased and bullied by his classmates. One day, fleeing yet another persecution, he finds shelter in the antique bookstore of Mr. Carlo Corrado Coriandoli. The man was reading a mysterious book titled La storia infinita. Bastiano is immediately drawn to the tome, as he has always wanted to read a never-ending story, so when the store's phone rings and Mr. Coriandoli leaves the room, he steals the book and flees to the attic of his school. Here, he begins to read La storia infinita. (wiki)
Michail Bulgakov: Il Maestro e Margherita
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Michail Bulgakov: Il Maestro e Margherita
2 oct 17
"The Devil is the most striking character in Bulgakov's great posthumous novel. He appears one morning before two citizens, one of whom is enumerating the proofs of God's existence. The newcomer doesn’t share this opinion... But there’s much more: he was also present at the second interrogation of Jesus by Pontius Pilate and provides a detailed account in a chapter that is perhaps the most astonishing in the book... Shortly thereafter, the demon performs at the Variety Theatre in front of a huge audience... A novel-poem, or if you will, a show in which many characters intervene, a book where an almost cruel realism merges or mixes with the highest of possible themes: that of the Passion." Eugenio Montale
Michail Bulgakov: Cuore di cane
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Michail Bulgakov: Cuore di cane
2 oct 17
« Uuuuhhh!!!
Look at me, I'm dying.
The storm howls the de profundis at the door and I howl along with it.
It's done, I'm done for!
A delinquent in a dirty cap, the cook from the staff canteen at the Central Council of National Economy, dumped boiling water on me and burned my left side.
What a scoundrel!
And he’s a proletarian too! »
(Chapter I)
Midnight Oil: Diesel and Dust
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★
Midnight Oil: Diesel and Dust
17 sep 17
Wikipedia

In Italian:
Diesel and Dust is the eighth studio album by the band Midnight Oil

In all other languages, it is the sixth...
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Chisciotte della Mancia
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Chisciotte della Mancia
5 oct 17
"Don Quixote is the wager of a genius, with two characters so complex and yet so free that they do not know until the end where they are headed, where their confused journey will take them, and above all the play of their relationships."

- Vittorio Bodini -
Milan Kundera: L’ignoranza
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Milan Kundera: L’ignoranza
21 sep 17
We believe that our memories coincide with those of those we have loved, we believe we have lived the same experience, but it is an illusion. (from Adelphi)
Milan Kundera: L’identità
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Milan Kundera: L’identità
21 sep 17
There are situations in which, for a moment, we do not recognize who is next to us, where the identity of the other fades away, while, in reflection, we doubt our own. (from Adelphi)
Milan Kundera: La lentezza
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Milan Kundera: La lentezza
21 sep 17
- suddenly, it will become clear to us that to speak of slowness means to speak of memory
- and to speak of memory means to speak of everything
(from Adelphi)
Milan Kundera: Il libro del riso e dell’oblio
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Milan Kundera: Il libro del riso e dell’oblio
21 sep 17
As a character in the novel says: "Man's struggle against power is the struggle of memory against oblivion..."
Milan Kundera: Il valzer degli addii
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Milan Kundera: Il valzer degli addii
21 sep 17
In a quaint spa town with a démodé charm, eight characters find themselves caught up in an ever more dizzying waltz: a lovely nurse; a talented gynecologist; a wealthy American (part saint and part womanizer); a famous trumpet player; a former political prisoner, victim of purges, and about to leave his country... (from Adelphi)
Milan Kundera: Amori ridicoli
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Milan Kundera: Amori ridicoli
21 sep 17
The world, as it appears with an air of serious composure, is happily falling apart before our eyes, shattered by the dual force of eros and mystification. (from Adelphi)
Milan Kundera: L’insostenibile leggerezza dell’essere
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Milan Kundera: L’insostenibile leggerezza dell’essere
21 sep 17
Tomáš, Teresa, Sabina, Franz exist for us immediately, after just a few touches, with an irreducible and almost painful concreteness. (Adelphi)
Mordecai Richler: Solomon Gursky è stato qui
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Mordecai Richler: Solomon Gursky è stato qui
22 sep 17
The story indeed spans two centuries, two shores of the Atlantic, and five generations of a Jewish dynasty in which everything is immense: vitality, wealth, luxury, an inclination toward pleasure in every form. But no great family is without blemish, and the blemish of the Gursky family is named Solomon... (from Adelphi)
Mordecai Richler: Quest’anno a Gerusalemme
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Mordecai Richler: Quest’anno a Gerusalemme
22 sep 17
As a child, sixty years before becoming Barney Panofsky, Mordecai Richler was absolutely forbidden from turning the lights on or off, answering the phone, or listening to the radio on Saturdays. In the days leading up to Yom Kippur, he was forced to swing a chicken over his head to transfer the sins of the past year onto the terrified animal. At thirteen, having become an apikoros, a heretic, he converted to the secular, socialist, and Zionist faith of Habonim, the Builders, eager to land in Palestine as soon as possible and establish a Jewish state. In the end, Richler would not emigrate to the Promised Land. He would visit it twice, in 1962 and 1992... (from Adelphi)
Mordecai Richler: Il mio biliardo
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Mordecai Richler: Il mio biliardo
22 sep 17
What do Paul Newman, the Queen Mother of England, and the sleepless people willing to watch on television, until dawn, the silent evolutions of colored balls on a full-screen green table have in common?
Simple: a passion, the same one that Mordecai Richler has always had and that he has decided to narrate in this book, his last.
Convinced that billiards is a game too serious to be left to sports journalists... (from Adelphi)
Mordecai Richler: La versione di Barney
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Mordecai Richler: La versione di Barney
22 sep 17
Barney talks to us about his three wives – an existentialist poet, a billionaire with robust appetites and an unstoppable chatter, and Miriam, the beloved Miriam, who has just left him.
He shares his passions, like commenting on the newspapers or listening to Miriam on the radio at night.
He describes his entertainments, such as imagining Terry McIver struggling in a shark-infested sea, or throwing galoshes at the forward of his hockey team who has just missed a goal. (from Adelphi)
  • perfect element
    22 sep 17
    It's on the list of books I need to read. Wonderful film.
  • Stanlio
    22 sep 17
    It's on the list of movies I need to watch. Wonderful book.
Moreno Veloso + 2: Music Typewriter
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Moreno Veloso + 2: Music Typewriter
10 sep 17
Unlike his father Caetano, Moreno embraces the tropical tradition yet colors and fills it with electronic sounds, noises, and dissonant arrangements that create stunning contrasts with the warmth of his voice.

"Music typewriter" is a little masterpiece full of fragile and subtle songs that will make you get up from wherever you are relaxing, be it on a beach or in a city bar.

Samba, bossa nova, Latin American ballads, rhythm 'n' blues, jazz, drum 'n' bass, funk, loops, and noise converge into a single sound that evokes and shakes both firmness and sweetness. (cit. mescalina.it)
Mumon: La porta senza porta seguito da 10 Tori di Kakuan e da Trovare il centro
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Mumon: La porta senza porta seguito da 10 Tori di Kakuan e da Trovare il centro
25 sep 17
"Zen has no doors.
The words of Buddha are meant to enlighten others.
Therefore, Zen must be without doors."

Thus wrote Mumon (1183-1260) introducing a collection of koans dedicated to a group of monks who were his students.

(cit. Adelphi)
Nada: Ma che freddo fa
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Nada: Ma che freddo fa
8 sep 17
At just fifteen years old (I was about ten), he made his debut at the Sanremo Festival with this song that I fell in love with and played over and over again...
Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
8 sep 17
With this second album, the long partnership with the band Crazy Horse began, who often accompanied him both in the recording studio and at concerts.
Neil Young: After the Gold Rush
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: After the Gold Rush
8 sep 17
It is still the Crazy Horse who accompany him, and among the guests is also Stephen Stills on backing vocals.
  • dsalva
    8 sep 17
    one of his masterpieces
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps
8 sep 17
A "classic," essential for fully understanding the artistic dichotomy that characterizes all of Young's career, namely the division between a subdued folk rock and a wild, electrified rock. (cit. wiki)
Neil Young: Decade
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: Decade
8 sep 17
Completed by Neil Young himself, with a track-by-track description of each song, Decade is a representative collection of almost every album released during his career up to 1977, except for "Four Way Street," a live album released with Crosby, Stills & Nash.
  • Zimmy
    8 sep 17
    In truth, this beautiful collection is entirely lacking in pieces taken from "Time Fades Away," the unjustly unloved '73 album by Neil.
  • Stanlio
    9 sep 17
    here's why they are missing...
Neil Young: Tonight's The Night
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: Tonight's the Night
8 sep 17
This album was dedicated to two of his friends who were lost to drugs, one of whom was also a member of Crazy Horse.
Neil Young: Prairie Wind
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Neil Young: Prairie Wind
8 sep 17
Third chapter of an ideal acoustic trilogy that began with the famous Harvest.

Recorded just before Neil Young suffered a brain aneurysm.
Neil Young: Dead Man
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: Dead Man
8 sep 17
It is the experimental soundtrack of the homonymous film released the year before by director Jim Jarmusch.
Neil Young: Are You Passionate?
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: Are You Passionate?
8 sep 17
It is an album from 2002, the most unusual since the eighties for its soulful style.
Neil Young: Le Noise
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: Le Noise
8 sep 17
Considered "garage rock," its name is a play on words based on the producer Daniel Lanois, who stated in an interview: "We recorded a couple of acoustic solo tracks, but the rest is very electric" and "there's no band, but I heavily contributed to the sound."
Neil Young: Hawks & Doves
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: Hawks & Doves
8 sep 17
Here a certain Tom Scribner plays a, uh, "musical saw" in the second track, namely The Old Homestead.
Neil Young: Harvest
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: Harvest Moon
8 sep 17
There is a huge difference between side A of the record and side B: the first side is much more traditional and musically conservative than the second, it celebrates the countryside over the city and family values and roles (even if with a certain irony not always grasped by country enthusiasts), work, attachment to one’s country; on the second side, more difficult themes are tackled, such as drugs, racism, depression, and aging. (source: wiki)

To say that I loved this record is an understatement; with it, I learned to chew through English a little less poorly, but let’s leave the rest where it is, otherwise I'll start shedding big tears down my rough cheeks...

All the songs were written by Neil Young.
  • Stanlio
    8 sep 17
    Side A
    1. Out on the Weekend - 4:35
    2. Harvest - 3:03
    3. A Man Needs a Maid - 4:00
    4. Heart of Gold - 3:05
    6. Are You Ready for the Country? - 3:21

    Side B
    7. Old Man - 3:22
    8. There's a World - 3:00
    9. Alabama - 4:02
    10. The Needle and the Damage Done - 2:00
    11. Words (Between the Lines of Age) - 6:42

    Musicians:

    Neil Young - vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano
    London Symphony Orchestra - orchestra on tracks 3 and 7
    Graham Nash - vocals
    Linda Ronstadt - vocals
    Stephen Stills - vocals
    James Taylor - vocals, 6-string banjo on Old Man
    Jack Nitzsche - guitar, slide guitar on Are You Ready for the Country?, piano, keyboards, orchestral arrangements
    Ben Keith - guitar, vocals
    Kenneth A. Buttrey - drums
    David Crosby - guitar, vocals
    Tim Drummond - bass, drums
    John Harris - piano on Harvest
    Andy McMahon - piano on Old Man
    Teddy Irwin - second guitar on Heart of Gold
    David Meecham - conductor
Neil Young: On the Beach
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: On the Beach
8 sep 17
I give this album a 10

All my pictures are fallin',
from the wall where,
I placed them yesterday.
The world is turnin',
I hope it don't turn away...

Peter Buck from R.E.M. has pointed out On the Beach as one of the albums to take to a desert island...
Neil Young: Greendale
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: Greendale
8 sep 17
An ambitious album that, however, did not achieve the hoped-for success from either critics or the public (source: wiki)
Neil Young: Mirror Ball
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: Mirror Ball
8 sep 17
Accompanied by Pearl Jam, here the "old rock lion" takes a swipe at the world of "grunge," leaving his mark!
Neil Young: Zuma
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: Zuma
8 sep 17
The title of the album can be understood both as the abbreviation of the name of the Aztec emperor Montezuma and as the name of the California beach near Neil's house. (Source: wiki)

He is accompanied by Crazy Horse and in one track by his old friends from escapades, Crosby Stills & Nash.
Neil Young: Comes A Time
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: Comes a Time
8 sep 17
The album was heavily criticized at the time of its release, but as often happens with Neil Young, it would be strongly reassessed in the years to come.

Here also plays my all-time favorite bluesman, J.J. Cale, on electric guitar.
Neil Young: Unplugged
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Neil Young: Unplugged
8 sep 17
It's a live acoustic album, recorded live during a video session for MTV Unplugged on February 7, 1993.
Niccolò Ammaniti: Io Non Ho Paura
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Niccolò Ammaniti: Io Non Ho Paura
26 sep 17
The story is set in the scorching summer of 1978 in the countryside of an unidentified region in Southern Italy, yet evoked with rare descriptive power. In this landscape dominated by the contrast between the blinding sunlight and the darkness of night, Ammaniti skillfully alternates between comedy, the world of childhood relationships, the language and the quirky wisdom of children, their tenacity, the strength of friendship, and the drama of betrayal. And at the same time, he outlines an unforgettable array of adults. (cit. Einaudi)
Niccolò Ammaniti & autori vari: Gioventú cannibale
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Niccolò Ammaniti & autori vari: Gioventú cannibale
26 sep 17
The great charge of eleven unrestrained, intemperate, splatter-format knights of the Apocalypse in the aisles full of every good thing of supermarket Italia.
Amid everyday atrocities, fierce adolescence, and blood melancholies. (cit. Einaudi)
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