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C. A. G. van den Broek

    De beste sci-fi uit Amazing & Fantastic 2
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    De toekomstbouwers
    Veel liefs van Roald Dahl
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    The Cider House Rules
    • One Hundred Years of Solitude

      • 422 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      This magical realist novel tells the history of the Buendias family, the founders of Macondo, a remote South American settlement. In the world of the novel there is a Spanish galleon beached in the jungle, a flying carpet, and an iguana in a woman's womb. 'His masterpiece and one of the undeniable classics of the century.' The Times 'One of a glittering constellation of contemporary Latin American novelists ... He is the author of a classic on the grandest scale ... the most obvious comparison is with Homer's Odyssey ... Garcia Marquez is a spellbinder' Spectator

      One Hundred Years of Solitude2001
      4.5
    • Wilbur Larch, a physician, philosopher, obstetrician, and abortionist at St. Cloud's orphanage struggles through his relationship with his apprentice and surrogate son, Homer Wells.

      The Cider House Rules2000
      4.6
    • 'Like all extraordinary books, The World According to Garp defies synopsis', wrote the Chicago Sun Times when Garp was first published in 1978. It is a marvellous, important, permanent novel by a serious artist of remarkable powers. Garp is a book that captivates all who read it. Peopled with the most extraordinary characters you will ever meet, here is a novel that will make you laugh, make you weep, and, above all, make you think.

      The World According to Garp1998
      4.1
    • A Prayer for Owen Meany

      • 637 pages
      • 23 hours of reading

      'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.' Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying.

      A Prayer for Owen Meany1989
      4.3
    • Setting free the bears

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Written Between 1965 And 1967, Setting Free The Bears Is 'Sensual, Moving, Truly Remarkable' (Time), And Concerns A Plot To Release All The Animals From The Vienna Zoo.

      Setting free the bears1989
      3.4
    • Raadsel van de aankomst

      • 424 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Autobiografische roman van de Westindische schrijver waarin Engeland centraal staat.

      Raadsel van de aankomst1988
    • Veel liefs van Roald Dahl

      • 661 pages
      • 24 hours of reading

      Bevat alle verhalen uit drie afzonderlijke bundels:Op weg naar de hemel (Orig. Kiss kiss)M'n liefje, m'n duifje (Orig. Someone like you)Gelijk oversteken (Orig. Switch bitch)

      Veel liefs van Roald Dahl1985
      4.4
    • The hotel New Hampshire

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      "The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels." So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they "dream on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany. "Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice." --Time "Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book." --Los Angeles Times "Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity." --Cosmopolitan

      The hotel New Hampshire1982
      3.8
    • De toekomstbouwers

      • 231 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Bevat: ASIMOV, Isaac - HET WAPEN TE VRESELIJK OM TE GEBRUIKEN (Amazing Stories, 1939, vert.door: Jean-A. Schalekamp) STURGEON, Theodore - ABREACTIE (Weird Tales, 1939, vert.door: Pon Ruiter) BRADBURY, Ray - DE FLUIT (Thrilling Wonder Stories, feb. 1943, vert.door: Pon Ruiter) LEINSTER, Murray - HET EEUWIGDURENDE NU (Thrilling Wonder Stories, herfst 1944, vert.door: Pon Ruiter) HEINLEIN, Robert A. - COLUMBUS WAS GEK (Startling Stories, mei 1947, vert.door: Pon Ruiter) CLARKE, Arthur C. - AANGESPOELD (Fantasy, 1947 onder het pseudoniem Charles Willis, vert.door: C.A.G. van den Broek) SHECKLEY, Robert - DE AANVAL (Space Science Fiction, 1953, vert.door: Pon Ruiter) ALDISS, Brian W. - EVENAAR (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1958, als feuilleton, vert.door: Pon Ruiter)

      De toekomstbouwers1979
      4.0