Reading Moby Dick was painful, it is a big heavy book and text has lot's of annoying sidetracks. Anyway I had decided to go through all that this time. It takes painstakingly long to get to the sea, then it takes hundreds of pages before any whales are encountered, then we see Moby Dick. And things start rolling, at last the writer founds the thread of the story. Ahab's monologues fill the pages as Pequed and reader are on their way to hell.

William Burroughs is the man, he'll enlarge your mind as he did enlarge his with a little help from chemicals. Queer is really short book, agonizing tale of one sided love story. You can't buy me love, but for a short while anyway. Take the trip to amazonian jungle and discover the queer in you.

The most famous mafia book, cronicle of Sicialian olive oil trader turning gangster, his sons and enemies etc. Really boring and translations quality is horrendous (I read this in finnish).

This is the first real modern book, the dawn of literature in 1902. Marlowe tells the story of his African adventure to his fellows while waiting for tide, at the mouth of familiar River Thames. As the story goes on, steamboat invading the virgin wilderness of African river, civilized man sees for the first time the true human nature. The Horror, the Horror!

Althought I'm a most rabid anti-communist, I just cannot stop being fascinated by this man. He was a Brit, well educated and judged from his writings, a jolly good ol fellow. Why did he take the side of Soviets in The Great Game, beats me! Anyway, after his career Philby was living in Moscow and died in his beloved Soviet Union before the collapse of comunims, the man lived his dream, and I just hope I could do the same even if my dream is as false as his was.
In his memoirs he vividly describes his work, his collegues and his downfall. But never does he tell why he is a communist. Maybe KGB censored that stuff, I just can't believe the idealism of this man after The World War II. Up to that point I can understand his drive to defeat the fascists by communism, as west seemed not being up to do it by itself, but after that? Who knows what this man thought...