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Ik ben verslaafd aan boeken. Hieronder kan je mijn volledige lijst vinden van gelezen fictie- en non-fictie-boeken die in mijn boekenkast staan. Van sommige boeken kan je zelfs een korte bespreking vinden.
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Abridged. In the novel, Cabal , Boone, a recovering psychotic, is cleverly manipulated by his psychiatrist, Decker, into believing that he has committed several savage murders. Decker, of course, is the villain, but Boone does not catch on. Considering himself unfit for human society, Boone flees, eventually... [meer]
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One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.... [meer]
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A reissued Radio 4 dramatization of a Miss Marple mystery. Basking in the sunshine of the Caribbean, where nothing ever seems to happen, she finds her interest aroused by an old soldier's yarn. But just as he is about to show her an astonishing photograph, the major's attention wanders.... [meer]
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It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England's best-known and best-loved modern satirist, that event has been long overdue. Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent Discworld novels satirize and celebrate... [meer]
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Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches, and he's not sure there is a right side. There're the witches - young Agnes, who is really... [meer]
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Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has a gift - the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues. But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying... [meer]
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Het ijzingwekkende verhaal van een 17-jarig meisje en haar bovennatuurlijke krachten. Carrie White was altijd al een buitenbeentje. Haar kleren passen haar net niet, aan spelletjes doet ze niet mee, grappen begrijpt ze niet, kortom: Carrie hoort er niet bij. Integendeel, ze is een dankbaar object voor... [meer]
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In one way or another, everybody abused Carrie. Her fanatical mother forbade this 16-year-old misfit everything that was young and fun. She was teased and taunted by her classmates, misunderstood by her teachers, and given up as hopeless by almost everyone. But Carrie had a secret: she possessed terrifying... [meer]
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In the novel that introduced James Bond to the world, Ian Flemingâs agent 007 is dispatched to a French casino in Royale-les-Eaux. His mission? Bankrupt a ruthless Russian agent whoâs been on a bad luck streak at the baccarat table. One of SMERSHâs most deadly operatives, the man known only... [meer]
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For James Bond and the British Secret Service, the stakes couldnât be higher. 007âs mission is to neutralize the Russian operative Le Chiffre by ruining him at the baccarat table, forcing his Soviet masters to âretireâ him. When Le Chiffre hits a losing streak, Bond discovers his luck is inâthat... [meer]
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Dueling with mad magicians, battling possessed beasts, and surviving endless hostile landscapes? Easy. Loving someone you weren't supposed to? That was hard. A faceless killer terrorizes the five lands, extinguishing from great distances the lives of even the most powerful men. It is from this murderer... [meer]
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Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier... [meer]
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Anyone who has read J. D. Salinger's New York stories - particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme - With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the... [meer]
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"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar. The Cats of Ulthar was a personal favorite of Lovecraft's, who was an ardent cat lover.... [meer]
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The Spider-Man 2 Dream Machine -from original idea to final cut- unmasking the creative genius at work in the blockbuster movie The epic adventure of one of the greatest superheroes of all time explodes on the silver screen as never before. Now, in this captivating journey behind the scenes and into... [meer]
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On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. He's just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable him to support his family by making art instead... [meer]
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Le rÚglement est formel: ne viendrait-il qu'un élÚve, il faut l'accueillir. L'instituteur Henri Raymond est donc en passe de devoir renoncer às'evader de Paris comme presque tous ses concitoyens vont le faire àl'occasion d'un 'pont' prolongé, car il a dans sa classe le petit Jean... [meer]
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It is the summer of 1978 in a small town in Western Pennsylvania. School is out, and puny and pimplish Arnie Cunningham, target of the school bullies, buys a car. No ordinary car, but a huge scarlet and white 1958 Plymouth Fury with rusted chrome fenders, cracked and faded leatherwork and a shattered... [meer]
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Arnie Cunningham wordt vanaf de eerste oogopslag verliefd op Christine. Maar daar is ook Leigh nog. Het aantrekkelijke blonde meisje dat door haar ontwapenende persoonlijkheid ook grote indruk maakt op Arnie's beste vriend Dennis. Er ontstaat een vreemd soort driehoeksverhouding tussen Arnie, Christine... [meer]
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"There wasnât any limit, no boundary at all, to the future. And it would be so a man wouldnât have room to store his happiness." - John Steinbeck When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the worldâs most powerful internet company, she feels sheâs been given the opportunity of a lifetime.... [meer]
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Cinema audiences all over the world enjoy a good ghost story, and for over half a century stories by the famous writers of supernatural fiction have been adapted for the screen. Classics of the Supernatural brings together the best of these chilling, inspirational tales. Collected here for the first... [meer]
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De elfjarige Mark Sway en zijn broertje Ricky trekken op zekere dag het veld in om stiekem sigaretjes te roken. Daar zijn zij getuige van de dramatische zelfmoord van Jerome Clifford, een louche advocaat uit New Orleans, die aan de vooravond stond van een van zijn grootste zaken. Mark waarschuwt telefonisch... [meer]
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Hidden away somewhere in the deep south is the CSA, presenting itself to the outside world as the <quote>Common Sense Academy,<quote> a private college for young men. But to the inside world of gay life it is CockSuck Academy, an institution devoted to the higher arts and sciences of oral sex. Here one... [meer]
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January, 1958 - the darkest hour of the Cold War and the early dawn of the space race. On the launch pad at Cape Canaveral sits America's best hope to catch up with the Russians: the Explorer I satellite. But at the last moment, the launch is delayed due to weather, even though everyone can see it is... [meer]
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Spies, secret societies, religious cults as well as anyone who has used an ATM or the internet rely on the making and breaking of codes for security. Like a spy novel combined with the technology of a Tom Clancy thriller, Codes, Ciphers and Other Clandestine Communication successfully interweaves... [meer]
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On an impuls, Jim Ironheart, an ordinary schoolteacher, flies to Portland, Oregon without understanding why. There he saves a boy from being killed by a drunk driver and is observed by a reporter, Holly Thorne. Intrigued by Jim's heroisme, Holly tracks Jim to California. Their lives intertwine on one... [meer]
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After a run of failed movies, superstar Todd Pickett elects to have extensive surgery in a desperate bid to regain his lost beauty. The procedure goes horribly, grotesquely wrong. Hiding from his fans, and from the press he knows will tear his reputation apart if they find out about his operation, Todd... [meer]
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The new novel from international bestselling author Clive Barker is a savage, poignant ghost story set in Hollywood, that glamorous half-world in which beauty; power and youth is wealth, and all can be stripped away in a heartbeat. A world where every whisper is a conspiracy, and every kiss a lie, and... [meer]
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Frederick Clegg is a lonely young man who collects butterflies. Catches them, breeds them, pins them in display cases. Pores over their beauty in private. It is his only interest, until he wins ĂÂŁ73,000. Then he captures a more exciting specimen to add to his collection - a beautiful young woman..... [meer]
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On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues, and it's more than a year before the man is identified. And that's just the beginning of the... [meer]
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The Discworld is flat and rides through space on the backs of Berilia, Tubul, Great P'Thon and Jerakeen, the four elephants who stand in turn on the back of Great A'Tuin, the giant turtle. And this is where it all starts, with the naive tourist Twoflower and his incompetent and cynical guide, the wizard... [meer]
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The First Discworld Novel. On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe... [meer]
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Discworld, a world where magic works - sometimes. A world of gods, wizards, heroes, and dragons. A world where the first tourist decides to visit the city of Ankh-Morpork for fun. Twoflower is the innocent at large and all of Ankh-Morpork is queuing up to fleece him.... [meer]
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Op 11 en 12 juli 1990 worden in Gent een notarisweduwe en een pedofiel dood in hun huis aangetroffen met een kogel van zwaar kaliber in het hoofd. BOB-majoor Velge neemt het onderzoek bekwaam in handen, maar hij vindt geen spoor. Op 14 juli pleegt een gepensioneerde rijkswachtgeneraal zelfmoord. De Coltrevolver... [meer]
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For the first time, one book captures the story behind Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic tale of Martian invasion and the immediacy of the 1938 Halloween eve panic broadcast itself. The Complete War of the Worlds, in words and on two audio CDs, tells how Orson Welles and the Mercury... [meer]
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There is something strange about Coraline's new home. It's not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It's the other house - the one behind the old door in the drawing room. Another... [meer]
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The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring⊠In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to... [meer]
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Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friendsâand, of course,... [meer]
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Somewhere in Las Vegas, a killer walks free. Can you help the CSI Investigators solve the murder? Wealthy real estate developer Melvyn Bledsoe lives in a luxury mansion surrounded by high-tech surveillance cameras. When a masked intruder breaks into the mansion and leaves Bledsoe for dead, itâs... [meer]
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Castle Rock, Maine, woonplaats van het gezin Camber en hun huisdier, Cujo, een reusachtige Sint Bernard, en de beste vriend die de tien-jarige Brett Camber ooit had. Maar hierin komt op zekere dag op ingrijpende wijze verandering als Cujo in een grot een beet oploopt van een vleermuis, een ernstig ... [meer]
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Here is Hercule Poirot's last case, the triumphant climax to his long and brilliant career. The shrewd little Belgian detective has returned to Styles Court, the scene of his first English adventure in crime. But now the handsome country mansion is a guest house and Poirot, old and arthritic, is one... [meer]
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This, the final volume in a series that has been delighting the world since 1920, will be acclaimed by Hercule Poirot's legion of admirers as probably the best of all, even while saddening them because it is to be his last appearance. In Curtain the wheel has come full circle, and the little Belgian... [meer]
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Terror began in January - by the light of the full moon... The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her snug bedroom. Now scenes of unbelieving horror come each time the... [meer]
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