Books (1994-2007)
2007
| Title | Score | Author | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tabloid Tokyo: 101 Tales of Sex, Crime and the Bizarre from Japan's Wild Weeklies | 7 | Mark Schreiber |  |
| Newspaper articles about the weirdest stories in Japan. Quite an interesting reading. | |||
| Lo mejor que le puede pasar a un cruasán | 4 | Pablo Tusset | |
| Dirty vocabulary and quite a simple detective story. | |||
| The World According to Garp | 8 | John Irving |  |
| Although I thought that Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was far more interesting than Garp and his marital problems, still a quite original book. It seems there is also a movie starred by Robin Williams | |||
2006
| Title | Score | Author | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | 7 | Douglas Adams | |
| The sequel to "The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy", but not as fun as the first one. One of my favourite quotes from this book: "If humans don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working". | |||
| Bad Twin | 7 | "Gary Troup" | |
| Written by a fictional character from the Lost TV series. The novel is a bit lame, I'd say, but it's interesting when thought in the context of Lost series. Novels usually share locations and other stuff with the real world. So this one shares things with the fictional Lost world. Things like Hanso Corporation or Oceanic Flights. | |||
| How the mind works | 10 | Steven Pinker | |
| Another textbook 😉 This is a very interesting book, although when I started reading it, I was like "okay! I know this, go to the point!". But that must be because I've read too many books on the topic. But if you've never read about intelligence before, probably here it is everything you need to know. | |||
| The Society of Mind | 8 | Marvin Minsky | |
| This is not a novel, but rather a textbook. However, I recommend it if you are interested in intelligence. It's a classic, and very easy to read. That doesn't mean I agree with everything he says, though 🙈 | |||
2005
| Title | Score | Author | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 8 | J.K. Rowling | |
| Nice reading. | |||
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 8 | J.K. Rowling | |
| The sequel is equally nice. | |||
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | 8 | J.K. Rowling | |
| Easy reading and it can help you to believe in magic again | |||
| The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy | 8 | Douglas Adams | |
| Quite fun and easy reading. I should consider reading the sequel... and watching the movie they released this year! 🐬 | |||
| 未来いそっぷ "Future Aesop" |
10 | 星新一 (Shinnichi Hoshi) |  |
| Fables reloaded. It's the irony of time. Very nice reading! | |||
| El código Da Vinci | 8 | Dan Brown | |
| Intriguing. Sometimes is a bit ... "come on! Am I supposed to believe that?". Interesting enough as for trying another of his books 😉 | |||
| Howl's Moving Castle | 8 | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| The novel is quite different from the movie. Both are good 😊 | |||
2004
| Title | Score | Author | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| On Intelligence | 9 | Jeff Hawkins (with Sandra Blakeslee) | |
| A plausible theory on how the neocortex works and what does it mean to be intelligent. A must-read. | |||
| Joc de testimonis The key to Nicholas Street |
8 | Stanley Ellin |  |
| Very interesting murder intrigue, where the story is told from 5 different characters involved in the murder. | |||
| Estúpids homes blancs Stupid White Men |
8 | Michael Moore | |
| It's very good and everybody should read to know how American government constantly deceives its people... However, it's not like a novel... So it may get boring to read after a while. | |||
| Breaking into Japanese Literature (第一夜、第三夜、第五夜、第七夜); (薮の中、鼻、羅生門 |
6 | Natsume Sôseki; Akutawa Ryûnosuke |
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| It's good if u wanna practice Japanese, 'cause it has the English translation in every page and a list of vocabulary. Also, u can download the sound files from the net. But, to tell the truth, I found the stories a bit boring. The best one is "In a Grove" (薮の中), also know as the Akira Kurosawa's film "Rashômon" (羅生門). The story of the same name (羅生門), is different from the film. | |||
| El lobo estepario Der Stepenwolf |
8 | Herman Hesse | |
| We shouldn't think too much. | |||
2003
| Title | Score | Author | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| La història més bella del món La plus belle historie du monde |
8 | Hurbert Reeves, Joel de Rosnay, Yves Coppens, Dominique Simonnet |
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| From Big Bang, 15.000 million years ago, to nowadays. Very interesting to think of the evolution of universe, Earth and ourselves. | |||
| El extranjero | 8 | Albert Camus | |
| Very short and easy to read. "El pasota"... No values, no expectations. | |||
| El arpista ciego | 9 | Terenci Moix | |
| History is ever boring to me; Egypt is not an exception. But this book puts gods to a human level, like a very funny soap opera. | |||
2002
| Title | Score | Author | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| El mundo digital (Being Digital) | 8 | Nicholas Negroponte | |
| Inventions and multimedia from MIT 😃 | |||
| Mientras nieva sobre los cedros | 7 | David Guterson | |
| OK | |||
2001
| Title | Score | Author | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lord of the Rings: The fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers The return of the King |
10 | J.R. Tolkien | |
| The original British version is so interesting! I enjoyed learning new words and the word plays from Tom Bombadil. I was surprised I enjoyed this so much, after having been bored to death with The Hobbit. Perhaps reading the original helps. | |||
| Just As I Am | 7 | E. Lynn Harris | |
| 🏳️🌈 A bit sad. A drama from both points of view. | |||
2000
| Title | Score | Author | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ice Station | 8 | Matthew Reilly | |
| LOTS and lots of action. | |||
| Los pilares de la tierra | 9 | Ken Follet | |
| I always thought that stories about middle age were very boring. But this is a very long novel that I read very fast! Very interesting! | |||
1999
Lots of things changed in my life this year... Rough times. I'm glad I found time to read books and disconnect.
| Title | Score | Author | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| La telaraña china | 7 | Lisa Lee | |
| OK. | |||
| Mapas en un espejo | 6 | Orson Scott Card | |
| Not-so interesting short stories. | |||
| The 3rd Twin | 8 | Ken Follet | |
| A page-turner | |||
| Expediente X: Eva, Los Calusari | 6 | Garth Nix / Chris Carter | |
| Avoid? | |||
| Hijos de la mente (Ender Saga 4) | 9 | Orson Scott Card | |
| Science-fiction gets so interesting with this author. | |||
| Ender el Xenocida (Ender Saga 3) | 8 | Orson Scott Card | |
| Another page turner. | |||
| La voz de los muertos (Ender Saga 2) | 8 | Orson Scott Card | |
| Surprising change in Ender's Saga. | |||
| El juego de Ender (Ender Saga 1) | 9 | Orson Scott Card | |
| Surprising ending. | |||
1998
| Title | Score | Author | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| A dry spell | 7 | Susie Moloney | |
| Helluva exciting. | |||
| Infinity's Child | 7 | Harry Stein | |
| Startling. | |||
| El maestro cantor | 10 | Orson Scott Card | |
| The first science-fiction book where I cried. | |||
| Lucky Star: El Ranger del espacio | 4 | Isaac Asimov | |
| Don't read it. | |||
| The final sacrifice (Magic) | 7 | Clayton Emery | |
| OK to pass the time. | |||
| Ojos de fuego | 8 | Stephen King | |
| Not a bad ending. Stephen King surprised me this time. | |||
| The Prodigal Sorcerer (Magic) | 7 | Mark Summer | |
| OK to pass the time. | |||
1997
| Title | Score | Author | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maleficio | 7 | Stephen King | |
| I was immersed reading it, but it is disgusting. | |||
| Cadenas Rotas (Magic) | 6 | Clayton Emery | |
| Just another story. | |||
| The Cursed Land (Magic) | 8 | Teri McLaren | |
| I think it may be better than Harry Potter. | |||
1996
| Title | Score | Author | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Death in Kashmir | 6 | M.M. Kaye | |
| Detectives. | |||
| La larga marcha | 6 | Stephen King | |
| Short and nicely disgusting, but I hate those endings. The Running Man. | |||
| Arena (Magic) | 7 | William R. Forstchen | |
| A nice story from the Magic The Gathering card game series. | |||
| La erupción del Erebus | 8 | Payne Harrison | |
| I don't usually like military stories, but this one is so well written! | |||
| 1984 | 7 | George Orwell | |
| Good, but depressing. Big borther is watching you. | |||
1995
| Title | Score | Author | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jurassic Park | 7 | Michael Kricton | |
| Better than expected. I liked the chaos theory. | |||
| Lo que el viento se llevó (Gone with the wind) | 8 | Alexandra Ripley | |
| Lots of history, which I usually don't enjoy, but this one was easy to read. | |||
1994 and earlier
| Title | Score | Author | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Hobbit | 6 | J.R. Tolkien | |
| Maybe because of the Catalan translation, but it was very boring to me. | |||
| El mecanoscrit del segon origen | 8 | Manuel de Pedrolo | |
| Very interesting, but depressing ending. | |||
| Un mundo feliz | 7 | Aldous Huxley | |
| Orgía porfía | |||