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François

FrankAuLux@outside.ofa.dog

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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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La Maison Russie (French language, 1989, R. Laffont) No rating

Roman d'espionnage. À Moscou, pendant la perestroïka, Niki Landau se voit confier par une superbe …

Assez déçu par ce livre. Je ne connaissais pas vraiment Le Carré, autrement que de réputation, et pour moi elle est surfaite. C'était peut-être un beau film, mais comme bouquin, pour moi c'est pas terrible.

The Crystal World (1988, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) No rating

The novel tells the story of a physician trying to make his way deep into …

Last in the series after the downed world and the burned world, the crystal world gives us another go at an apocalypse drawing nearer when we followed some personnage tortured by their past. Again quite a good book, but to me the best of the three remains the drowned world (but I admit it's totally subjective).