2000s decade
- Beschreibung
- Just compiled a list of books from 2000s decade.
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von Mark Haddon
44,302 Mitglieder
1,328 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 3
Bewertung 13.28
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
2
von Susanna Clarke
26,981 Mitglieder
775 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 2
Bewertung 13.44
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:13 PM
- 4 Members
- bergg, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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- bergg: Set in an alternative England during the Napoleonic wars, Clarke envisages a world in which magic is a reality, albeit practiced in a mundane, academic fashion. -ign.com
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von Ian McEwan
26,479 Mitglieder
627 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 8
Bewertung 8.14
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:04 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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- bergg: A girl with a big imagination thinks she sees something. She is wrong, but she sticks to her guns. Lives are ruined. As an old woman, she wonders if she can repair her irreparable mistake. -pastemagazine.com
4
27,134 Mitglieder
631 Rezensionen
4.1
Globaler Rang 11
Bewertung 7.27
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
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- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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- bergg: A strange gender changing, time spanning complicated novel. Past and present combine to give this novel literary force. -randomnonsenseaboutthings.blogspot.com
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von Michael Chabon
18,783 Mitglieder
414 Rezensionen
4.2
Globaler Rang 17
Bewertung 6.15
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
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- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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- bergg: Two nice, mid-20th-century Jewish boys go to work in the nascent comic book industry, where the dreams and nightmares of the real world manifest themselves in the extravagant guise of entertainment for children. This buoyant tragicomic adventure story remains one of the most persuasive and gorgeously written depictions (and vindications) of the way popular culture transfigures our lived experience to become the modern-day equivalent of myth and folklore. -Laura Miller, Salon.com
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von J. K. Rowling
96,495 Mitglieder
1,565 Rezensionen
½ 4.4
Globaler Rang 29
Bewertung 4.82
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:06 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
7
von Junot Díaz
13,081 Mitglieder
487 Rezensionen
3.8
Globaler Rang 10
Bewertung 7.38
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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- bergg: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the book follows Oscar Wao, an overweight Dominican boy growing up in New Jersey. The book deals with themes of isolation and nostalgia while blending comedy and tragedy. -dailyiowan.com
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von Kazuo Ishiguro
22,811 Mitglieder
938 Rezensionen
3.8
Globaler Rang 9
Bewertung 7.57
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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- bergg: Kath, a seemingly ordinary British girl, goes to a special boarding school where she and her friends are groomed for a special fate while enjoying and suffering the loves and betrayals that come to young people everywhere. This odd, heartbreaking novel unfurls age-old conundrums about what it means to be a person; about the grievous sin of treating anyone, however unexceptional, as the means to an end; and about the unfathomable future that awaits each and every one of us. -Laura Miller, Salon.com
9
von Khaled Hosseini
52,780 Mitglieder
1,300 Rezensionen
4.2
Globaler Rang 1
Bewertung 14.31
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-25, 12:08 PM
- 5 Members
- dara85, bergg, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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von Yann Martel
43,575 Mitglieder
1,013 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 22
Bewertung 5.77
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:07 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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10,819 Mitglieder
363 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 18
Bewertung 6.07
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:08 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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- bergg: Following letters written by Rev. John Ames, this winner of the Pulitzer Prize centers on the memories and legacy of his life. Taking place in fictional Gilead, Iowa, Robinson explores themes of religion, family, love, and doubt. -dailyiowan.com
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von Dave Eggers
2,366 Mitglieder
30 Rezensionen
½ 3.5
Globaler Rang 13
Bewertung 6.89
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:08 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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- bergg: A Memoir written by Dave Eggers recounting the events leading to his current adult life through the death of his mother due to Stomach cancer and also the death of his father from lung cancer. Becoming the soul caretaker of his younger sibling results is Dave maturing beyond his years which eventually leads to his need to be irresponsible and reckless mostly through sex and alcohol.
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von J. K. Rowling
100,902 Mitglieder
860 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
Globaler Rang 41
Bewertung 3.6
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:09 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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39,462 Mitglieder
1,271 Rezensionen
4.1
Globaler Rang 35
Bewertung 3.89
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:09 PM
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von J. K. Rowling
101,298 Mitglieder
929 Rezensionen
½ 4.4
Globaler Rang 46
Bewertung 3.45
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:10 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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von Alice Sebold
35,869 Mitglieder
939 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Globaler Rang 37
Bewertung 3.79
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:07 PM
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von J. K. Rowling
102,324 Mitglieder
881 Rezensionen
½ 4.4
Globaler Rang 48
Bewertung 3.32
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-25, 12:15 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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von Markus Zusak
44,810 Mitglieder
2,125 Rezensionen
½ 4.4
Globaler Rang 14
Bewertung 6.53
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:12 PM
- 3 Members
- dara85, bergg, ahef1963
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- bergg: Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
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14,238 Mitglieder
266 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 43
Bewertung 3.57
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:11 PM
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von Peter Carey
4,235 Mitglieder
79 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Globaler Rang 25
Bewertung 4.99
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:11 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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- bergg: Retelling the story of Australian folk hero Ned Kelly where he writes the story for his daughter. Although set in Australia, you could say this is one of the best Westerns in a while. -randomnonsenseaboutthings.blogspot.com
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von Khaled Hosseini
30,292 Mitglieder
895 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
Globaler Rang 6
Bewertung 8.37
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:14 PM
- 4 Members
- dara85, bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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- bergg: Recounts the lives and experiences of two Afghan women Laila and Mariam starting with their separate lives as children and how they came to be best friends as two wives of a local shoe maker named Rasheed. During a time of war, poverty, gender issues, and abuse, this creatively written novel still offers a bit of hope.
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von Neil Gaiman
33,588 Mitglieder
932 Rezensionen
4.1
Globaler Rang 21
Bewertung 5.81
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:14 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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- bergg: America is no place for a divinity. Our soil isn’t fertile that way — myths don’t thrive the way they did in the old world. Reading American Gods, you can see why it takes a foreigner — Gaiman’s a Brit — to see what is invisible to the natives: the old deities scratching out a seedy living all around us — Norse, Slavic, Irish, Egyptian, voodoo, Egyptian — brought over by generations of immigrants and then left to die. Together they re-enact the old myths here on our barren soil, and Gaiman shows us that, even here, they still have their old power. -entertainment.time.com
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von Cormac McCarthy
11,071 Mitglieder
292 Rezensionen
4
Globaler Rang 24
Bewertung 5.15
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:18 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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von J. K. Rowling
107,041 Mitglieder
984 Rezensionen
½ 4.4
Globaler Rang 61
Bewertung 2.92
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:28 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
25
162 Mitglieder
2 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
Globaler Rang 62
Bewertung 2.91
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:26 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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von Ann Patchett
13,208 Mitglieder
459 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 30
Bewertung 4.77
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:12 PM
- 3 Members
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- bergg: tells the tale of fifty-nine people that were held hostage in an unnamed country in South America. The hostages, which include international ambassadors, Japanese businessmen, an opera singer, and local government officials, had gathered together to celebrate Katsumi Hosokawa's birthday. Hosokawa was being courted by local politicians to build a plant in their country. Bel Canto isn't the usual blood-and-guts tale of a hostage situation; instead, the novel focuses on the various hostages and terrorists and the relationships that grow amongst them all. -Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, cmlibrary.org
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von Margaret Atwood
17,013 Mitglieder
536 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 20
Bewertung 5.94
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-25, 09:31 AM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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von Joan Didion
10,300 Mitglieder
290 Rezensionen
3.8
Globaler Rang 49
Bewertung 3.24
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:19 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ahef1963
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- bergg: In this intensely personal, deeply moving account, the author exposes the layers and facets of her life over a year of dramatic and unexpected events. Her daughter's serious illness and her husband's sudden death "cut loose any fixed idea I had about death, about illness, about probability and luck ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." (summary from ISBN 159887005X)
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6,901 Mitglieder
296 Rezensionen
4.2
Globaler Rang 12
Bewertung 7.21
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:16 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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- bergg: The Biafran War of the late 1960s is seen through the eyes of Ugwu, a 13-year-old peasant houseboy, and the beautiful, passionate twin sisters Olanna and Kainene. This stunning piece of writing won the 2007 Orange Prize. -aggsliterature.wordpress.com
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von Suzanne Collins
64,434 Mitglieder
3,483 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
Globaler Rang 50
Bewertung 3.19
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:20 PM
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von Suzanne Collins
49,088 Mitglieder
1,792 Rezensionen
4.2
Globaler Rang 51
Bewertung 3.17
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:20 PM
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von J. K. Rowling
110,282 Mitglieder
996 Rezensionen
4.2
Globaler Rang 71
Bewertung 2.7
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-25, 09:33 AM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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von Philip Pullman
23,601 Mitglieder
407 Rezensionen
4
Globaler Rang 55
Bewertung 3.13
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:15 PM
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von Stieg Larsson
43,177 Mitglieder
1,748 Rezensionen
4
Globaler Rang 26
Bewertung 4.93
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:32 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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von Aravind Adiga
9,589 Mitglieder
423 Rezensionen
3.8
Globaler Rang 15
Bewertung 6.43
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:19 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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- bergg: Aravind Adiga on The White Tiger “The White Tiger is set in one of the fastest-changing societies on Earth — modern-day India — but the story it tells is an old one: of a man’s quest to be free. One afternoon I was in the zoo in New Delhi, and saw a white tiger in its cage, and I thought, ‘A man who is prepared to do anything for his freedom — sacrifice his family, kill another man — would be as rare as that animal” -http://aggsliterature.wordpress.com
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von Stieg Larsson
25,296 Mitglieder
726 Rezensionen
4.1
Globaler Rang 27
Bewertung 4.89
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:37 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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von Margaret Atwood
16,476 Mitglieder
384 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 19
Bewertung 6.07
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:16 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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von Richard Russo
8,773 Mitglieder
182 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 23
Bewertung 5.67
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:18 PM
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- bergg: Much of America made it out of the 20th century badly equipped to deal with the 21st. Richard Russo’s Empire Falls is set in just such a place, a rust-belt Maine town that’s kept going even though the industry that led to its creation can no longer sustain it. Russo brought his by-then-familiar command of memorable characters and comic moments to a novel more ambitious than any he’d attempted before. The book captures a time and place unnerved by a future that offers no reassuring promises of a better tomorrow beyond the comfort its inhabitants can give each other. -avclub.com
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17,190 Mitglieder
910 Rezensionen
4
Globaler Rang 33
Bewertung 4.44
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:27 PM
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- bergg: ...a rich story about secrets, ghosts, winter, books and family. The Thirteenth Tale is a book lover's book, with much of the action taking place in libraries and book stores, and the line between fact and fiction constantly blurred. It is hard to believe this is Setterfield's debut novel (released in 2006), for she makes the words come to life with such skill that some passages even gave me chills. -Erin Miller
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von Stieg Larsson
30,447 Mitglieder
931 Rezensionen
4.1
Globaler Rang 31
Bewertung 4.76
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:35 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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von Rick Riordan
31,616 Mitglieder
1,244 Rezensionen
4.1
Globaler Rang 63
Bewertung 2.89
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-25, 08:44 PM
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von Mary Ann Shaffer
19,375 Mitglieder
1,246 Rezensionen
4.2
Globaler Rang 64
Bewertung 2.88
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:27 PM
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von Bill Bryson
23,225 Mitglieder
398 Rezensionen
4.2
Globaler Rang 65
Bewertung 2.87
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:27 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ahef1963
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- bergg: Bryson, author of bestselling comic travelogues, bravely journeyed beyond his familiar territory to attempt a layperson’s guide to science.He manages to convey such subjects as the origins of the Universe with integrity, and without sacrificing his familiar humour. -http://aggsliterature.wordpress.com
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von Lynne Truss
15,655 Mitglieder
333 Rezensionen
3.8
Globaler Rang 66
Bewertung 2.86
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:28 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ahef1963
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- bergg: Every so often there comes along a book that we all feel we have to read to be better educated. Rarely are such books as beguiling as Truss’s punctuation guide, which, amazingly, made us laugh while we learnt about semi-colons. -http://aggsliterature.wordpress.com
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von Andrea Levy
3,998 Mitglieder
140 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 68
Bewertung 2.81
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:29 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ahef1963
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- bergg: A novel about racism, prejudice and injustice in the post war years in London as Jamaicans, escaping economic hardship, move to the Mother Country. Told from four characters’ points of view, it deserves all the accolade and prizes it has received. Powerful yet light in touch, humorous yet high in drama, it is a most rewarding and touching read. Won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004 and on the 25th Jan 2005 the Whitbread 2004 overall. -www.lovereading4kids.co.uk
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von Stephenie Meyer
58,268 Mitglieder
2,264 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Globaler Rang 95
Bewertung 1.4
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:08 PM
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von Dan Brown
70,247 Mitglieder
1,307 Rezensionen
½ 3.5
Globaler Rang 115
Bewertung 1.24
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:10 PM
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von Stephenie Meyer
40,477 Mitglieder
1,037 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Globaler Rang 116
Bewertung 1.22
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:13 PM
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von Stephenie Meyer
42,901 Mitglieder
828 Rezensionen
3.8
Globaler Rang 117
Bewertung 1.19
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:13 PM
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von Stephenie Meyer
46,744 Mitglieder
1,048 Rezensionen
½ 3.6
Globaler Rang 118
Bewertung 1.17
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:14 PM