Retired linguist/law/IT. Avid reader in all languages (see polyglot.city/@FrankauLux/ ), both paper and ebooks. Mostly fictions these days.
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52% complete! François has read 55 of 104 books.
Arriving at Fallingford House, Daisy's home, from their Easter term at Deepdean, they enter the house in the middle of …
Jusqu’au jour du Drame, il y avait deux familles Goldman. Les Goldman-de-Baltimore et les Goldman-de-Montclair. …
Très bon bouquin, dernier de la trilogie Harry Quebert. On ferme un pan secondaire de l'histoire HQ, même s'il se développe en pan primaire. Pas mon préféré des trois, masi bien fichu quand même.
Jusqu’au jour du Drame, il y avait deux familles Goldman. Les Goldman-de-Baltimore et les Goldman-de-Montclair.
Les Goldman-de-Montclair, dont est issu …
Avril 1999. Mount Pleasant, une paisible petite bourgade du New Hampshire, est bouleversée par un …
Excellent suite à la non moins excellente "Affaire Harry Quebert". Numéro 2 de la trilogie, le 3ème livre, "le livre des baltimore" est clairement annoncé. Il n'est pas obligatoire d'avoir lu le précédent - les points important sont rapellés de toutes façons, mais cela aide :-) Tout à fait conseillé. Je me plonge dans le 3 de ce pas :-)
Avril 1999. Mount Pleasant, une paisible petite bourgade du New Hampshire, est bouleversée par un meurtre. Le corps d'Alaska Sanders, …
In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized …
A bit disappointed by this one. First book in the serie was great, this is edging on boring with entire sections very didactic aiming at a public of which unfortunately I'm not part as I already know all that. I really got the impression that there is next to no plot and that the whole book is a pretext to explain certain stuff. mmmm come on Cory, you can do better than that!!!
In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the …
Le détective Auguste Dupin est informé par G..., le préfet de police de Paris, qu'une …
Petite histoire rapide, la troisième de la trilogie Dupin. Pas mal, même si archi-connue...
Le détective Auguste Dupin est informé par G..., le préfet de police de Paris, qu'une lettre de la plus haute …
One of the few books I re-read. It didn't seem as fantastic as the first time, probably because you can only have the "ha ha" moment once. Still very nice and enjoyable book - even if I have to disagree with the author. For example he says: "The passage of time is obvious to us all: our thoughts and our speech exist in time; the very structure of our language requires time – a thing ‘is’ or ‘was’ or ‘will be’. " Nope. It is if you speak italian or english. I can think of several languages where this does not exist, I even speak some of them :-) But all in all still a very enjoyable book as long as he stays in his area of expertise, ie physics :-) definitely worth a read. Pretty short book too, s it is a collection of articles originally published in a …
One of the few books I re-read. It didn't seem as fantastic as the first time, probably because you can only have the "ha ha" moment once. Still very nice and enjoyable book - even if I have to disagree with the author. For example he says: "The passage of time is obvious to us all: our thoughts and our speech exist in time; the very structure of our language requires time – a thing ‘is’ or ‘was’ or ‘will be’. " Nope. It is if you speak italian or english. I can think of several languages where this does not exist, I even speak some of them :-) But all in all still a very enjoyable book as long as he stays in his area of expertise, ie physics :-) definitely worth a read. Pretty short book too, s it is a collection of articles originally published in a newspaper.
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair is a novel by Swiss author Joël Dicker. …
Tout aussi excellent que la disparition de Sophie Mailer, même si le canevas est le même dans les grande ligne. Dicker est sans conteste un maître du suspense et cela se lit avec plaisir
As good as the disparition of Sophie Mailer, even if the template is broadly the same. Dicker is definitely a master of suspense and thriller, and this is a most enjoyable book !!!
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair is a novel by Swiss author Joël Dicker. It was published in the …
Nice little mystery, but again, not really his best. Dupin makes a come back, but this feels like a rushed job...
