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...
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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 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.
François finished reading Philosophie de l'ameublement by Edgar Allan Poe
Encore une histoire courte qui ne m'a pas plu du tout. Poe a été très prolixe, et il faut séparer le bon grain de l'ivraie...
François finished reading Silence by Edgar Allan Poe
Histoire très courte et intéressante, mais avec un certain manque de finition et de "poli".
François finished reading The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
This Signet Classic edition contains Poe's macabre stories of men and women caught up by …
Not bad, but not his best either. Quite short.
François finished reading Quatre Bêtes en Une by Edgar Poe
Unde de ces petites histoires de Poe qui pour moi sont loin d'être les meilleures. A oublier vite fait (heureusement elle est courte)
François finished reading Mis Paginas Mejores. By Julio Camba. 1956 Edition by Camba, Julio
Este libro reúne —escogidos por el propio Camba— los mejores escritos del genial columnista gallego; …
Yo creo que el titulo le dice todo :-) Siempre me ha gustado a Cambas, y este libro no es una excepcion, sino que confirme la excellente impresion que yo tenia. Es un poco viejo, claro, hay cosas que cambiaron, pero otras no, y la sicologia de las distintas naciones que estudie 5alemana, USA, Inglaterra, Francia) sigue siende ejemplar y muy divertido. Muy aconsejado
François finished reading La Disparition de Stephanie Mailer by Joël Dicker
FASCINANT!. Ce bouquin est un des meilleurs polars que j'ai lu depuis longtemps. Je suis resté éveillé très tard juste pour savoir qui était le coupable, et jusqu'au dernier moment je me suis trompé. Très conseillé !!!!
François finished reading Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered …
Excellent book and quite well researched. It started a bit slow - very verbose and going around in circle (to me anyway), and then it took off. Despite the title, this is not light reading. There are some real questions about our society (or rather the anglo-saxon one as many things apply mostly to US/UK, but the rest of the world is concerned by several aspects as well). Definitely recommended
François finished reading L'Anomalie by Hervé Le Tellier
« Il est une chose admirable qui surpasse toujours la connaissance, l'intelligence, et même le …
Livre intéressant et bizarre à la fois, mais que je trouve bien écrit, même si vers la fin je trouve que l'auteur n'est plus à la hauteur de ses promesses. Vaut le détour :-)
François finished reading Heaven's reach (The Uplift Saga, book 6) by David Brin
Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to …
Same comment as for infinity shore: lots of totally unnecessary repetition. Not as many, but still. It is too bad because it spoils it - for me at least.
François finished reading Sale Gosse by Stephen King
Sale Gosse (titre original : Bad Little Kid) est une nouvelle de Stephen King publiée …
Très court et un peu prévisible. Mais c'est du Stephen King, donc c'est bon :-)
François finished reading Infinity's Shore (The Uplift Saga, Book 5) by David Brin
For the fugitive settlers of Jijo, it is truly the beginning of the end. As …
Disappointing. The story is still quite inventive, but for some reasons, there are dozen of repetitions, as if the author was paid by the line. I have seen this before, but that was i 19th centuries stories where the book started its life as a series in a newspaper or a magazine, hence the need to remind the reader of what had happened. Here is seems the author is paid by the line, because there is no reason to remind me what happened 5 pages ago by inserting a reminder/repetition that doesn't add anything to the story. The constant reminders are useless. They use loads of pages for nothing, as if I needed to be reminded of what happened in the previous chapter, or if the author was paid by the line. Or maybe the word ? By there are loads of repetitions. And they are boring, because they add …
Disappointing. The story is still quite inventive, but for some reasons, there are dozen of repetitions, as if the author was paid by the line. I have seen this before, but that was i 19th centuries stories where the book started its life as a series in a newspaper or a magazine, hence the need to remind the reader of what had happened. Here is seems the author is paid by the line, because there is no reason to remind me what happened 5 pages ago by inserting a reminder/repetition that doesn't add anything to the story. The constant reminders are useless. They use loads of pages for nothing, as if I needed to be reminded of what happened in the previous chapter, or if the author was paid by the line. Or maybe the word ? By there are loads of repetitions. And they are boring, because they add nothing to the plot. They just waste place. and paper, and space, and my patience. Almost as if the author got paid more for repeating what he already said. Otherwise not a bad book. Did I mention the repetitions ? Tiring.