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Hell's Angels»rank: 991par: 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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Mercy Among the Children»rank: 687par: David Adams Richards
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Transpose Thomas Hardy's Jude the 0bscure to New Brunswick's rugged Miramichi River. Surround Job with loose fists, malicious boots, and cold, gallon wine. lnvite the Macbeths over for drinks. Add a lame dog named Scupper Pit and you've got the raw ingredients of David Adams Richards's Mercy Among the Children. Set in an isolated, wind-besieged house with bullet holes in the tarpaper walls, Richards's novel wonders-- pointedly, beautifully--whether goodness is merely a luxury. At the age of 12, having borne more suffering in his child's body than any adult should ... |
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The Fountainhead»rank: 2802par: 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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Lolita»rank: 407par: 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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A Fine Balance»rank: 1222par: Rohinton Mistry
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: 4283par: 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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Walden; Or, Life in the Woods»rank: 367par: 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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Anne Of Green Gables 100th Anniversary Edition»rank: 1742par: L Montgomery
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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Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: An All-American Road Trip...with Recipes!»rank: 1083par: Guy Fieri, Ann Volkwein
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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Light In The Attic»rank: 6191par: Shel Silverstein
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 ... |
