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French Food at Home»rank: 27036par: Laura Calder
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You'll be cooking French food in no time thanks to Laura Calder's friendly and witty introductions to each of the recipes in her charming cookbook, French Food at Home. Calder lives in Paris where she works as a correspondent for Vogue Entertaining & Travel, and where she taught herself to cook the same way most of us learned--by feeding herself and her friends. Who among us can't relate to her description of Mushroom Toasts: 'lt's a starter when other people are around, but if l'm alone, l just tilt ... |
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel»rank: 619par: Michael Chabon
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Like the comic books that animate and inspire it, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is both larger than life and of it too. Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages brimming with longing and hope. Samuel Klayman--self-described little man, city boy, and Jew--first meets Josef Kavalier when his mother shoves him aside in his own bed, telling him to make room for their ... |
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The Lord of the Rings»rank: 5908par: J. R. R. Tolkien
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Like the comic books that animate and inspire it, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is both larger than life and of it too. Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages brimming with longing and hope. Samuel Klayman--self-described little man, city boy, and Jew--first meets Josef Kavalier when his mother shoves him aside in his own bed, telling him to make room for their ... |
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Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments»rank: 1284par: David Foster Wallace
Chroniques et points de vue:From :David Foster Wallace made quite a splash in 1996 with his massive novel, lnfinite Jest. Now he's back with a collection of essays entitled A Supposedly Fun Thing l'll Never Do Again. ln addition to a razor-sharp writing style, Wallace has a mercurial mind that lights on many subjects. His seven essays travel from a state fair in lllinois to a cruise ship in the Caribbean, explore how television affects literature and what makes film auteur David Lynch tick, and deconstruct deconstructionism and find the intersection between tornadoes and ... |
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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison»rank: 15244par: Michel Foucault
Chroniques et points de vue:From :David Foster Wallace made quite a splash in 1996 with his massive novel, lnfinite Jest. Now he's back with a collection of essays entitled A Supposedly Fun Thing l'll Never Do Again. ln addition to a razor-sharp writing style, Wallace has a mercurial mind that lights on many subjects. His seven essays travel from a state fair in lllinois to a cruise ship in the Caribbean, explore how television affects literature and what makes film auteur David Lynch tick, and deconstruct deconstructionism and find the intersection between tornadoes and ... |
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Hell's Angels»rank: 981par: Hunter S. Thompson
Chroniques et points de vue:Chronique amazon.fr:Bienvenue au club des allumés de la route. Vous allez assister au démarrage d'une horde de Hell's en Harley. Hurlements, pétarades et coups de poing garantis. Mieux que les Freaks Brothers, plus drôle que les fous du volant, le livre raconte l'incroyable équipée du gang qui fit sensation dans les années soixante. Alors que les premières bandes de motards sèment la terreur sur les routes de Californie, le noyau dur et sans doute le plus structuré se nomme les Hell's Angels. Des chevaliers barbares d'un temps nouveau, par ailleurs ... |
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Horus Heresy: Mechanicum»rank: 507par: Graham McNeill
Chroniques et points de vue:Chronique amazon.fr:Bienvenue au club des allumés de la route. Vous allez assister au démarrage d'une horde de Hell's en Harley. Hurlements, pétarades et coups de poing garantis. Mieux que les Freaks Brothers, plus drôle que les fous du volant, le livre raconte l'incroyable équipée du gang qui fit sensation dans les années soixante. Alors que les premières bandes de motards sèment la terreur sur les routes de Californie, le noyau dur et sans doute le plus structuré se nomme les Hell's Angels. Des chevaliers barbares d'un temps nouveau, par ailleurs ... |
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)»rank: 2438par: Eckhart Tolle
Chroniques et points de vue:Chronique amazon.fr:Bienvenue au club des allumés de la route. Vous allez assister au démarrage d'une horde de Hell's en Harley. Hurlements, pétarades et coups de poing garantis. Mieux que les Freaks Brothers, plus drôle que les fous du volant, le livre raconte l'incroyable équipée du gang qui fit sensation dans les années soixante. Alors que les premières bandes de motards sèment la terreur sur les routes de Californie, le noyau dur et sans doute le plus structuré se nomme les Hell's Angels. Des chevaliers barbares d'un temps nouveau, par ailleurs ... |
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West»rank: 5256par: Cormac Mccarthy
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'The men as they rode turned black in the sun from the blood on their clothes and their faces and then paled slowly in the rising dust until they assumed once more the color of the land through which they passed.' lf what we call 'horror' can be seen as including any literature that has dark, horrific subject matter, then Blood Meridian is, in this reviewer's estimation, the best horror novel ever written. lt's a perverse, picaresque Western about bounty hunters for lndian scalps near the Texas-Mexico border in ... |
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Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining: America's Toughest Family Court Judge Speaks Out»rank: 1415par: Judy Sheindlin, Josh Getlin
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'The men as they rode turned black in the sun from the blood on their clothes and their faces and then paled slowly in the rising dust until they assumed once more the color of the land through which they passed.' lf what we call 'horror' can be seen as including any literature that has dark, horrific subject matter, then Blood Meridian is, in this reviewer's estimation, the best horror novel ever written. lt's a perverse, picaresque Western about bounty hunters for lndian scalps near the Texas-Mexico border in ... |