Leo rated The God Delusion: 1 star
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
A preeminent scientist—and the world's most prominent atheist—asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has …
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Leo rated Philosophical Investigations: 5 stars
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Posthumously published work by Wittgenstein, in which he came to overthrow some number of his earlier ideas as published in …
Leo rated The Joyful Wisdom: 5 stars
Leo rated Plato - Dialogues: 5 stars
Plato - Dialogues by Plato
Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato …
Leo rated Eating animals: 4 stars
Eating animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink …
Leo rated The Illustrated Brief History of Time: 4 stars
The Illustrated Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
The book was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe, but since …
Leo rated The man who mistook his wife for a hat: 3 stars
The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks
In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts …
Leo rated Effondrement: 3 stars
Effondrement by Jared Diamond
"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies …
Leo rated A short history of nearly everything: 4 stars
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything by American author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas …
Leo rated The Diary of a Young Girl: 4 stars
Leo rated Guns, germs, and steel: 3 stars
Leo rated The Fellowship of the Ring: 2 stars
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings (1))
The first part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolkien’s classic epic of Good versus Evil, set in the …
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. …
Leo rated The Hobbit or There and Back Again: 2 stars
The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. …
Leo rated Animal Farm: 4 stars
Animal Farm by George Orwell, D. J. Taylor
Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. …