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De grote Lundia kast in de huiskamer van mijn ouderlijk huis bevatte genoeg materiaal om even zoet mee te zijn. Zo las ik bijvoorbeeld De waanzinnige veertiende eeuw van Barbara Tuchman en de Het prive-leven van Mao (onthuld door zijn lijfarts Li Zhisui). Maar het meest dankbaar ben ik voor mijn kennismaking met de wereld van SciFi/Fantasy via oa deze werken:
Dune - Frank Herbert
Gepubliceerd 1990-09-01 • 898 pagina's
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, David Dastmalchian, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem. Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece…
- Fiction
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
Gepubliceerd 1999 • 160 pagina's
Robert Neville is the last living man on earth ... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville¿s blood. By day he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for …
- Horror tales
Zoals veel mensen had ook ik een Stephen King fase, dus die mag uiteraard niet ontbreken. Twijfel tussen deze en The Stand. En Misery. En Carrie. En Pet Semetary. Argh, zoveel goeie werken. Ik kies toch deze, tijdloos en totaal uniek.
The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
Gepubliceerd 1999 • 388 pagina's
The dystopian classic written by Stephen King under his penname Richard Bachman
- Contests
Later een fase met history
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Gepubliceerd 1990 • 984 pagina's
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read #1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club Selection The “monumental masterpiece” (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett’s already phenomenal career. Look out for the prequel, The Evening and the Morning, coming from Viking in September 2020. “Fol…
- Fiction
The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
Gepubliceerd 2010 • 0 pagina's
The Clan of the cave bear is the first of Earth's Children series. Ayla, a tall, blond, blue-eyed girl lost her family in an earthquake. She is nurtured and protected by some members of the Clan, but there are those who would cast her out because of her strange and threatening ways. Ayla's adventures 25,000 years ago include details of the w…
- Ayla (Fictitious character)
Gelezen voor ze op tv kwamen
Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
Gepubliceerd 2001-05-01 • 304 pagina's
Sink your teeth into the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series—the books that gave life to the Dead and inspired the HBO® original series True Blood. Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Bon Temps, Louisiana. She's quiet, doesn't get out much, and tends to mind her own bus…
- Fiction
A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
Gepubliceerd 2005-08 • 0 pagina's
A tale of court intrigues in the land of Seven Kingdoms, a country "blessed by golden summers that go on for years, and cursed by cruel winters that can last a generation."
- Fiction
The Last Kingdom - Bernard Cornwell
Gepubliceerd 2006-01-03 • 368 pagina's
In the middle years of the ninth-century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the ruthless invaders until but one realm remained. And suddenly the fate of all England—and the course of history—depended upon one man, one king. From New York Times bestselling storyteller Ber…
- Fiction
Fijne reeksen
Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier
Gepubliceerd 2001 • 674 pagina's
Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum, faces the difficult task of having to save her family from its enemies, who have bewitched her father and six older brothers while forcing her to choose between the life she has always known and a special love.
- Celts
The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Gepubliceerd 1987-05-12 • 904 pagina's
The magical saga of the women behind King Arthur's throne. “A monumental reimagining of the Arthurian legends . . . reading it is a deeply moving and at times uncanny experience. . . . An impressive achievement.”—The New York Times Book Review In Marion Zimmer Bradley's masterpiece, we see the tumult and adventures of Camelot's court through…
- Fiction
The Warded Man: Book One of The Demon Cycle - Peter V. Brett
Gepubliceerd 2010-03-23 • 468 pagina's
As darkness falls after sunset, the corelings rise—demons who possess supernatural powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards—symbols of power whose origins are lost in myth and whose protection is terrifying…
- Fiction
Non-fictie. Spillover las ik al voor Corona ;-)
Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
Gepubliceerd 2019-03-12 • 0 pagina's
"Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into…
- Social Science
Spillover - David Quammen
Gepubliceerd 2013-09-10 • 0 pagina's
A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases, Spillover is “fascinating and terrifying … a real-life thriller with an outcome that affects us all” (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction). In 2020, the novel coronavirus gripped the world in a global pandemic and led to the death of h…
- Science