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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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...
"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
"Eleonora" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842 in Philadelphia in the literary annual The …
"The Masque of the Red Death" (originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: …
short story, well in the expected Poe style -nice
"The Masque of the Red Death" (originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy") is a short …
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.
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.
A field guide to fraud and the mechanisms by which it operates in economic systems.
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...
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...
