The best 20 novels of universal literature.
1. Ana Karenina, Leon Tolstoi
2. Madame Bovary, Gustav Flaubert
3. War and Peace, Leon Tolstoi
4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
6. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
7. The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald
8. Time Regained, Marcel Proust
9. Tales, Anton Chejov
10. Middlemarch, George Eliot
11. Don Quijote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
12. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
13. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
14. Ulysses, James Joyce
15. The Odyssey, Homero
16. Dublineses, James Joyce
17. Crime and Punishment, Fedor Dostoiesky
18. King Lear, William Shakespeare
19. Emma, Jane Austen
20. Cien años de soledad, Gabriel García Márquez. :)
The only two Spanish books: ...
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One thing is reacting to different situations in the heat of the moment, when we get hurt, because that's our animal instinct. ...
I don't know if radio stations do their publicity with the well defined intention of shocking people. While getting ready this morning, I was listening to my favourite station and then this ad came up, inviting girls to some kind of modeling contest. They literally say "Why waste time with classes and school when you can become a model?" -- Well, excusez-moi !
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I've never been a video game player. I spent a good amount of time playing Mario Bros. and Ice Climber when I was in High School. Other than that, my electronic game phase goes way back to the Atari days when animations were simple and Pitfall was like the coolest thing in town. I was never good, though.
But since we all have a child inside us, I recently purchased a Nintendo DS Lite (pink!) I'm very fond of. I saw the gadget when visiting some friends over the holidays, and I thought it would be a nice piece of entertainment ...