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Silks»rank: 7054par: Dick Francis
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West»rank: 708par: 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 ... |
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Let the Right One In: A Novel»rank: 5119par: John A Lindqvist
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 ... |
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel»rank: 15997par: 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 ... |
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Brave New World»rank: 1628par: Aldous Huxley
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 ... |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time»rank: 823par: Mark Haddon
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Mark Haddon's bitterly funny first novel, The Curious lncident of the Dog in the Night-time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Christopher John Francis Boone is a 15-year-old boy, mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behaviour of his elders and peers. Late one night, Christopher comes ... |
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Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs»rank: 2620par: Elissa Wall, Lisa Pulitzer
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Mark Haddon's bitterly funny first novel, The Curious lncident of the Dog in the Night-time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Christopher John Francis Boone is a 15-year-old boy, mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behaviour of his elders and peers. Late one night, Christopher comes ... |
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Backup: A Story of the Dresden Files»rank: 17011par: Jim Butcher
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Mark Haddon's bitterly funny first novel, The Curious lncident of the Dog in the Night-time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Christopher John Francis Boone is a 15-year-old boy, mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behaviour of his elders and peers. Late one night, Christopher comes ... |
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Careless in Red»rank: 723par: Elizabeth George
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Mark Haddon's bitterly funny first novel, The Curious lncident of the Dog in the Night-time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Christopher John Francis Boone is a 15-year-old boy, mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behaviour of his elders and peers. Late one night, Christopher comes ... |
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Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters»rank: 837par: Wally Lamb, Nancy Whiteley, Tabitha Rowley
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Any book that can give voice to the voiceless should be celebrated. No one feels this more strongly than Wally Lamb, editor of Couldn't Keep lt to Myself, a collection of stories by 11 women imprisoned in the York Correctional lnstitution in Connecticut. Teacher and novelist Lamb was invited to head a writing workshop at York Correctional lnstitution in 1999. His somewhat reluctant acceptance soon turned into steadfast advocacy once the women in his charge began to tell their stories. Lamb maintains that there are things we ... |