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- The Hunger Games (796)
- By Suzanne Collins
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Finished on Feb 5, 2012
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- La Peau de Chagrin (27)
- (Pocket Classics)
- By Honore de Balzac
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Abandoned on Feb 3, 2012
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- Magic Kingdom for Sale--Sold! (85)
- (Magic Kingdom of Landover)
- By Terry Brooks
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Finished on Jan 22, 2012
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- Les trois mousquetaires (17)
- By Alexandre Dumas
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Finished on Feb 1, 2012
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coinvolgente e amaro
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Come negli altri romanzi di Dumas, se all'inizio la storia è poco credibile e i personaggi così improbabili da sembrare fiabeschi, con l'avanzamento della trama i toni cambiano e i personaggi assumono di grande spessore.
Ci si rende presto conto di trovarsi di fronte ad una storia molto complessa, ... (continue)
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- 20000 Lieues Sous Les Mers (80)
- By Jules Verne
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Finished on Dec 31, 2011
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sci-fi: you're doing it wrong
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Descrizioni infinite. Mi chiedo come lo scrittore possa aver pensato di intrattenere il lettore elencando per pagine intere tutti i differenti nomi di tutte le specie di pesce che popolano questo o quel mare. Aggiungere a questo il fatto che queste futili descrizioni si ripetono, ancora e ancora(a v ... (continue)
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- L'Ile mystérieuse (34)
- By Jules Verne
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Reading since Nov 8, 2011
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- La planète des singes (36)
- By Pierre Boulle
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Finished on Oct 15, 2011
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- Parla con il tuo cane (75)
- By Jan Fennell
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Finished on Nov 17, 2010
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- Le Comte de Monte-Cristo I (80)
- By Alexandre Dumas, père
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Finished on Feb 20, 2011
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Lungo
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Molto lungo, appassionante a tratti, scade nel finale.
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- L'éducation sentimentale (225)
- By Gustave Flaubert
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Finished on Sep 17, 2010
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geniale
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La storia con la quale mi sono maggiormente immedesimato fino ad ora.
Personaggio più divertente: Regimbart.
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Et un sourire homicide le dérida, en apprenant que l’adversaire était un noble.— Nous le ferons marcher tambour battant, soyez tranquille ! D’abord…. avec l’épée…
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- Lady Windermere's Fan (151)
- By Oscar Wilde
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Finished on Jul 20, 2008
Finished (re-read) on Apr 16, 2010
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- Une Vie (274)
- By Guy De Maupassant
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Finished on Apr 25, 2010
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- Bel-Ami (272)
- By Guy De Maupassant
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Finished on Apr 9, 2010
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- Frankenstein (2357)
- By Mary Shelley
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Finished on Feb 14, 2010
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- Le Petit Prince (2606)
- By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Finished on Dec 27, 2009
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The Hunger Games
This book has some merits but let's start with its faults: It is not particulary well written, actually the style is pretty blunt; its characters aren't that well developed or original in any way whatsoever; the first half of the book is painfully obvious and quite stupid at some points.
Now for th ... (continue)
This book has some merits but let's start with its faults: It is not particulary well written, actually the style is pretty blunt; its characters aren't that well developed or original in any way whatsoever; the first half of the book is painfully obvious and quite stupid at some points.
Now for the good bits: I must say the basic idea of having a bunch of kids fighting to death just for our entertainment, as much as it is preprosterous, it is also disturbingly interesting and daring.
In fact, even if plot twists and developments were awfully obvious in the first half of the book (Oh noes I shot an arrow at the game makers during my training performance, what I am gonna do now poor girl? Will they punish my family? Will they cut my tongue? Oh no look, I got the highest score because they liked my temper! What a surprise! Never mind the fact that I've been whining to you about it for the past ten pages just to make you think that wasn't going to happen!), things really pick up when the hunger games start and we finally get surprised with some original ideas. Even if the ending was somewhat blotched, the whole game thing was pretty entertaining and makes this book a great page-turner!
I won't be reading the follow up books in the series though, especially as I'm told there won't be more hunger games.
One last thing: someone should really tell the author that 1/8000 and 47/8000 aren't that much of a difference when it comes to chances. It's just 0,01% versus 0.58%, they're both very slim, even though the main character keeps repeating that Prim is as safe as it gets while Gale has one foot in the hunger games already. She should have made that each tesserae required you to enter your name at least ten times over, not just once! That would have made a difference between those getting tesserae and those who didn't.
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