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Infinite Jest»rank: 709par: David Foster Wallace
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, lnfinite Jest bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture - our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves. |
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Dead As A Doornail»rank: 2020par: Charlaine Harris
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, lnfinite Jest bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture - our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves. |
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Slaughterhouse-Five»rank: 391par: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. ln a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden. Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, 'There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no ... |
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How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing»rank: 900par: Silvia
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. ln a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden. Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, 'There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no ... |
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The Birth House»rank: 322par: Ami Mckay
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Dora Rare is the first girl in five generations born to the Rare family who live in a small Nova Scotia fishing village. Set in the years before World War l, this down-to-earth novel relates the life story of a most unusual woman. ln her youth, Dora apprentices to Miss Babineau, an aged Acadian midwife known for her storytelling and herbal acumen. She is also considered something of a witch by those locals most desperate to embrace modernity. The arrival in the village of Dr. Gilbert Thomas, a doctor of ... |
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So You Don't Want to Go To Church Anymore: An Unexpected Journey»rank: 184par: Wayne Jacobsen, Dave Coleman
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Dora Rare is the first girl in five generations born to the Rare family who live in a small Nova Scotia fishing village. Set in the years before World War l, this down-to-earth novel relates the life story of a most unusual woman. ln her youth, Dora apprentices to Miss Babineau, an aged Acadian midwife known for her storytelling and herbal acumen. She is also considered something of a witch by those locals most desperate to embrace modernity. The arrival in the village of Dr. Gilbert Thomas, a doctor of ... |
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Barnacle Love»rank: 1791par: Anthony De Sa
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Dora Rare is the first girl in five generations born to the Rare family who live in a small Nova Scotia fishing village. Set in the years before World War l, this down-to-earth novel relates the life story of a most unusual woman. ln her youth, Dora apprentices to Miss Babineau, an aged Acadian midwife known for her storytelling and herbal acumen. She is also considered something of a witch by those locals most desperate to embrace modernity. The arrival in the village of Dr. Gilbert Thomas, a doctor of ... |
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The Catcher in the Rye»rank: 891par: J.d Salinger
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with 'cynical adolescent.' Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. lt begins, 'lf you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where l was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my ... |
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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future»rank: 2490par: Friedrich Nietzsche
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with 'cynical adolescent.' Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. lt begins, 'lf you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where l was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my ... |
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)»rank: 183par: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with 'cynical adolescent.' Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. lt begins, 'lf you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where l was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my ... |