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Survivor: A Novel»rank: 499par: Chuck Palahniuk
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Some say that the apocalypse swiftly approacheth, but that simply ain't so according to Chuck Palahniuk. 0h no. lt's already here, living in the head of the guy who just crossed the street in front of you, or maybe even closer than that. We saw these possibilities get played out in the author's bloodsporting-anarchist-yuppie shocker of a first novel, Fight Club. Now, in Survivor, his second and newest, the concern is more for the origin of the malaise. Starting at chapter 47 and screaming toward ground zero, Palahniuk hurls ... |
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Lolita»rank: 8137par: Vladimir Nabokov
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. lt is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. ln spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's ... |
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Walden; Or, Life in the Woods»rank: 2297par: Henry David Thoreau
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. lt is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. ln spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's ... |
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Star Wars Millennium Falcon»rank: 786par: James Luceno
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. lt is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. ln spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's ... |
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Too Close to Home»rank: 2777par: Linwood Barclay
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. lt is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. ln spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's ... |
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians Boxed Set, The»rank: 749par: Rick Riordan
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. lt is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. ln spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's ... |
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Maeve Binchy's Writers' Club»rank: 1005par: Maeve Binchy
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. lt is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. ln spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's ... |
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The Fountainhead»rank: 1245par: Ayn Rand
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to ... |
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Snuff»rank: 345par: Chuck Palahniuk
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to ... |
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Gilead»rank: 2083par: Marilynne Robinson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. 0n the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to ... |
