François finished reading A Catskill Eagle by Robert Parker
Spenser is a private investigator in Boston. He had previously served as an infantryman in …
As good as previous one. I like the assumed humour of the caricature of the private eye.
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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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François finished reading Playmates by Robert B. Parker
Uses all the cliches of the roman noir, a real caricature of the private eye. I find it hilarious!!!
François finished reading And Four to Go (Crime Line) by Rex Stout
From Wikipedia:
And Four to Go (British title Crime and Again) is a collection of …
4 short stories. Don't like it too much because i don't feel i have the necessary information to solve the crime, and that's what I'm looking for in that time of stories. So jury's out at the moment
François finished reading L'énigme de la chambre 622 by Joël Dicker
Un meurtre a été commis une nuit de décembre, au Palace de Verbier dans les …
Toujours aussi bon. A riddle wrapped in an enigma shrouded in mystery. Tout a fait recommandé !!!
François finished reading Arsenic for Tea by Robin Stevens
Arriving at Fallingford House, Daisy's home, from their Easter term at Deepdean, they enter the …
Not really in target audience as kid book but not bad 😃
François finished reading Le livre des Baltimore by Joël Dicker
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.
François finished reading L'Affaire Alaska Sanders by Joël Dicker
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 :-)
François finished reading Homeland by Cory Doctorow
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!!!
François finished reading LA LETTRE VOLEE by Edgar Allan Poe traduction de Charles Baudelaire
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...
François finished reading Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
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.
François finished reading The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker
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 !!!
François finished reading The Mystery of Marie Roget by Edgar Allan Poe
Nice little mystery, but again, not really his best. Dupin makes a come back, but this feels like a rushed job...
François finished reading Eleonora by Edgar Allan Poe
"Eleonora" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842 in Philadelphia …
Not really my favorite Poe - can easily skip without missing too much - very short story
François finished reading The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Masque of the Red Death" (originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: …
short story, well in the expected Poe style -nice
François finished reading Lying for Money by Dan Davies
A field guide to fraud and the mechanisms by which it operates in economic systems. …
Extremely interesting book, examining most scams since the 19th century and tryig to extract rules to spot and prevent them. All big recent scams are there, t---p, maddof, blood analysis and paios bonds. definitely worth a read.