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Welcome mister,sure start on a good foot here. We could of course have about 20 threads on every authors to satisfy touchy egos.

They do that with Amelie Nothomb too.She on the cover of all her books. No Gerbam i have not read the ones you mentioned but will if i come across(expect the Marklunb woman thanks BG). Actualy the three French crime writers i did not read in translation but in French so it does no really...

The only down point of Hobb is the terrible names she gave to her characteres in the Fraseer trilogie.Just terrible.

I read most of what Hobb writen so far.The 3 trilogies,Fraseer's,liveship and Fool are al related(specialy the first and last).If you read the Fraseer you should read the Fool ones(slightly less dark and more actives). The Shaman ones are also great(still have to read the last) She also wrote...

The all Vladimir debat about the transformation of slavery into a complexe economical procesus is very true but a luckwarm as a discovery. The question about personal freedom ,if a bit heavyweight, is still an interesting question. I listened to a interview of French singer Jacque Brel where...

I'm a hitman undercover of artistic work.I love it.

I'm a minor demon in Austria looking discretly after the developement of a promising young boy,his mother calls him Adi but he is better known a Adolf... The castel in the Forest-Normain Mailer

That is what i liked about the book,no easy pathos.The cold and sometime clinical analysis of loss came to me a very reserved aproche.A strong charactere breached by the unavoidable,a desir to control and understand often shatered by the weight of sorrow.I have great respect for the discretion...

I read The years of magical thinking a non fiction about the loss of her husband.A little in the line of Roth patrimony,very interesting,clever and touching.Her prose is indeed very good,i must try to find more.

Amin Maalouf-the century before beatrice 4/5 Franz Kafka-The trial 5/5 Le Cleziot-Ourania 4/5 Kevin Brockmeier - Brief History of the Dead 3/5+ Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Slave 4/5 Milan Kundera-The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 4/5 Mars by Jean pierre Bibring(lecture audio) 4/5...

In Rome having long conversations with my penis. Him and me by Alberto Moravia

Serious? No offence meant then Land.

Heretic!!!! Same here, never was into stamps collection.

You guys must read a lot or being unlucky because out of the 60 or so books i entered this years as read and about the same has to read 5 or 6 didn't have the right covers.And i don't mind switching for a better one if the one i own is uggly. Of course 25 dollard isn't much but i'm sure some...

Two autobiographies- Marguerite Yourcenar-Souvenirs Pieux (Dear departed) Sandor Marai-Confession d'un Bourgoies I started Yourcenar put it down and started Marai,then i realize that both birth are about the same time(1900). I have this extraordinary parallele of two writers lives (i...

I really like all the choices of covers for the books(i used a few for paintings already).Before reading or buying,i always consult Good read,check what people think and what they read in comparaison to their appreciation of the book.It really is a great help. Plus many books are in their...

Very good review BG,exactly my feeling with the book.It reads a bit of a bad trailer for bigger big.Even the fights are far to predictible. In the same veine i liked The abyssinian by JB Ruffins. (I'm waiting for a good version of Bandolino-the one i have is read by this old fart of georges...

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I am Henry james in England,i just got the perfect house and settle for the first time just to discover that the couple running my household are a bunch of sour drunkards. The Master -Colm Toibin

The ice people seem very interesting and it's the segond time the name of Barjavel is brought back from a past i thought long burried(Driss Chraibi mention him in a bio as one of his favorite writer).He had the reputation of a space hippy,pot smoker,a typical 70's figure but it sound that there...