A murder mystery set in a post-apocalyptic world, The Last is a novel that surprises with its blend of genres, featuring a main character who is both infuriating and fascinating in the way he’s tied to the story’s central themes. You know the drill. A bunch of people are stranded in a faraway place – in this case, a hotel …
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is both an effective detective story and a powerful cry about the situation of women in modern society. Stieg Larsson creates, in the first volume of the Millenium trilogy, a fascinating cast of characters and an engaging plot, but really excels when putting at the foundation of the story the problem of how women …
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Giordano Bruno (friar, philosopher, and the protagonist of Heresy) was persecuted by the Inquisition at the end of the sixteenth century for preaching the infinity of the universe and its heliocentric model, preceding even the famous Galileo. It is said that his last speech, when he was finally captured by the Inquisition in 1600 and sentenced to death for heresy, …
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