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About Me
- George Georgitsis
- Athens, Greece
- "My heart has been so full of love that I have no room for anymore"
My top ten books ever
- "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery
- "Disgrace" by J.M.Coetzee
- "Shalimar the Clown" by Salman Rushdie
- "In Search for Schrodinger's Cat" by John Gribbin
- "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
- "The Cairo Trilogy" by Naguib Mahfouz
- "The Parrot's Theorem" by Denis Guedj
- "Stalingrad" by Antony Beevor
- "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman" by Richard P. Feynman
- "The Iliad" by Homer
Books I've read this year
- "Russia" by Jonathan Dimbleby. Rating 4 out of 5
- "Resistance" by Owen Sheers. Rating 4 out of 5
- "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaeffer & Annie Barrows. Rating 4 out of 5
- "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. Rating 4 out of 5
- "Alexandria City of Memory" by Michael Haag. Rating 4 out of 5
- "The Night Watch" by Sarah Waters. Rating 3 out of 5
- "Nudge" byRichard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunsstein. Rating 3 out of 5
- "Outliers" by Malcom Gladwell. Rating 3 out of 5
- "Rites of Peace" by Adam Zamoyski. Rating 3 out of 5
- "Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar..." by Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein. Rating 3 out of 5.
- "The Welsh Girl" by Peter Ho Davies. Rating 3 out of 5
- "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen. Rating 3 out of 5
- "Amsterdam" by Ian McEwan. Rating 3 out of 5
- "Conned Again, Watson!" by Colin Bruce. Rating 3 out of 5
- "Brothers" by David Talbot. Rating 3 out of 5
- "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson and David Olivier Relin. Rating 3 out of 5
- "The Wisdom of the Crowds" by James Surowiecki. Rating 2 out of 5
- "A Partisan's Daughter" by Louis de Bernieres. Rating 2 out of 5
- "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers. Rating 2 out of 5
- "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Mohsin Hamid. Rating 2 out of 5
- "Close Range-Wyoming Stories" by Annie Proulx. Rating 2 out of 5
- "Tony Curtis: My Autobiography" with Peter Golenbock. Rating 1 out of 5
Books in the pipeline
- "Dirty Rotten Strategies" by Ian I. Mitroff and Abraham Silvers
- "D-Day" by Anthony Beevor
- "The Age of the Unthinkable" by Joshua Cooper Ramo
Movies I've seen this year
- "Slumdog Millionaire" by Danny Boyle with Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto. Rating 5 out of 5
- "Waltz with Bashir" by Ari Folman. Rating 5 out of 5
- "The Hangover" by Todd Phillips with Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Mike Tyson. Rating 4 out of 5
- "The Proposal" by Anne Fletcher with Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds. Rating 4 out of 5
- "Doubt" by John Patric Shanley with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davies. Rating 4 out of 5
- "Frost/Nixon" by Ron Howard with Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon. Rating 4 out of 5
- "The Reader" by Stephen Daldry with Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes. Rating 4 out of 5
- "Revolutionary Road" by Sam Mendez with Leonardo Di Caprio, Kate Winslet. Rating 4 out of 5
- "The Return" by Andrey Zryagintsev with Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravovo. Rating 4 out of 5
- "Le diner de cons" by Francis Veber with Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villevet. Rating 4 out of 5
- "Moon" by Duncan Jones with Sam Rockwell, Hevin Spacey (voice). Rating 3 out of 5
- "The Soloist" by Joe Wright with Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx. Rating 3 out of 5
- "Easy Virtue" by Stephen Elliott with Colin Firth, Jessica Biel, Hristin Scott Thomas. Rating 3 out of 5
- "Sukkar Banat" (Caramel) by Nadine Labaki with Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Elmasri. Rating 3 out of 5
- "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" by Mark Waters with Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas. Rating 3 out of 5
- "Gran Torino" by Clint Eastwood with Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carlay, Thao Vong Lor. Rating 3 out of 5
- "The Dust of Time" by Theodoros Angelopoulos with William Dafoe, Michel Piccoli, Irene Jacob. Rating 3 out of 5
- "The Pink Panther 2" by Harald Zwart with Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Andy Garcia. Rating 3 out of 5
- "Milk" by Gus Van Sant with Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, James Franco. Rating 3 out of 5
- "Law Abiding Citizen" by F. Gary Gray with Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx. Rating 2 out of 5
- "Familia Rodante" by Pablo Trapero with Graciana Chironi, Nicholas Lopez. Rating 3 out of 5
- "Julie & Julia" by Nara Ephron with Meryl Streep, Amy Adams. Rating 2 out of 5
- "The Inglorious Basterds" by Quentin Tarantino with Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz. Rating 2 out of 5
- "The Other Man" by Richard Eyre with Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Antonio Banderas. Rating 2 out of 5
- "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" by Peter Hyams with Michael Douglas, Jesse Metcalfe, Amber Tamblyn. Rating 2 out of 5
- "Last Chance Harvey" by Joel Hopkins with Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thomson. Rating 2 out of 5
- "In the Electric Mist" by Bernard Tavernier with Tommy Lee Jones. John Goodman. Rating 2 out of 5
- "Taken" by Pierre Morel with Liam Neeson, Famke Jansen. Rating 2 out of 5
- "Duplicity" by Tony Gilroy with Julia Roberts, Clive Owen. Rating 2 out of 5.
- "The Wrestler" by Darren Aronofsky with Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei. Rating 2 out of 5.
- "The Duchess" by Saul Dibb with Keira Knightely, Ralph Fiennes, Sharlot Rampling. Rating 2 out of 5
- "The Burning Plain" by Guillermo Arriaga with Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger. Rating 1 out of 5
- "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" by Rebecca Miller with Robin Wright Penn, Alan Arkin,Keanu Reeves. Rating 1 out of 5
- "Angels & Demons" by Ron Howard with Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer. Rating 1 out of 5
- "OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus" by Michel Hazanavicius with Jean Dujardin, Louise Monot. Rating 0 out of 5
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