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S's bookshelf: read en-US Thu, 01 May 2025 19:51:52 -0700 60 S's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert (Marcus Goldman, #1)]]> 16033842 863 Joël Dicker 2877068161 S 0 4.20 2012

La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert (Marcus Goldman, #1)

author: Joël Dicker
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]]> <![CDATA[I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years]]> 190572 576 Victor Klemperer 0375756973 S 0 4.38 1995

I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years

author: Victor Klemperer
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]]> <![CDATA[Short Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel Text]]> 253213 Daniel Boulanger's exploration of revenge and the desire for recognition in "The Hunter's Cafe," to Alain Gerber's brief and poetic "You Never Die," these stories make excellent reading in any language.]]> 214 Richard Coward 0140265430 S 0 3.33 1999 Short Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel Text

Short Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel Text

author: Richard Coward
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average rating: 3.33
book published: 1999
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]]> <![CDATA[Analyzing Baseball Data with R (The R Series)]]> 18184122 352 Max Marchi 1466570229 S 0 to-read 4.29 2013

Analyzing Baseball Data with R (The R Series)

author: Max Marchi
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]]> <![CDATA[Short Stories in French for Intermediate Learners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn French the fun way! (Readers) (French Edition)]]> 56481099 An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of French.Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too! - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in French for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from a low-intermediate to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to B1-B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you and give you a feeling of progress when reading.What does this book give you?· Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making reading fun, while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary· Controlled language at your level, to help you progress confidently· Realistic spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability· Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, in a stress-free way· Beautiful illustrations accompanying each story, to set the scene and support your understanding· Pleasure! Research shows that if you're enjoying reading in a foreign language, you won't experience the usual feelings of frustration - 'It's too hard!' 'I don't understand!'With intriguing plots that will spark your imagination and keep you reading, Short Stories in French for Intermediate Learners will take your grasp of French to the next level with key features to support and consolidate your progress, · A glossary for bold-face words in each text· A bilingual word list· Full plot summary· Comprehension questions after each chapter. As a result, you will be able to focus on enjoying reading, delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in French for Intermediate Learners uses reading as the perfect tool to not only delight in learning French, but to accelerate your journey towards fluency.Use the code inside the book and ebook to access the free bonus story and the discounted audiobook on our Language Readers Library site or on the Language Readers app.]]> 256 Olly Richards 1529361516 S 0 4.04 Short Stories in French for Intermediate Learners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn French the fun way! (Readers) (French Edition)

Short Stories in French for Intermediate Learners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn French the fun way! (Readers) (French Edition)

author: Olly Richards
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]]> L'ignorance 51575
]]> 181 Milan Kundera 2070769038 S 0 3.83 2000

author: Milan Kundera
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]]> Un avion sans elle 15764755 533 Michel Bussi 2258092787 S 0 to-read, to-proust 3.93 2013

author: Michel Bussi
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]]> La fille de papier 7789885 Impossible ? Et pourtant��
Ensemble, Tom et Billie vont vivre une aventure extraordinaire où la réalité et la fiction s’entremêlent et se bousculent dans un jeu séduisant et mortel...
Une comédie vive et piquante
Un suspense romantique et fantastique
Quand la vie ne tient plus qu’�� un livre !]]> 376 Guillaume Musso 2845634579 S 0 to-read, to-proust 4.05 2010 La fille de papier

author: Guillaume Musso
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> Le Labyrinthe (L'épreuve, #1) 16029242 416 James Dashner 2266200127 S 0 to-read, to-proust 4.16 2009

author: James Dashner
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> <![CDATA[L'Alliance des Trois (Autre-Monde, #1)]]> 5505135 496 Maxime Chattam 2226188630 S 0 to-read, to-proust 4.10 2008

author: Maxime Chattam
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]]> Ensemble, c'est tout 47777 This is an alternate cover edition for 9782290343715

Camille dessine. Dessinais plutôt, maintenant elle fait des ménages, la nuit. Philibert, aristo pur jus, héberge Franck, cuisinier de son état, dont l'existence tourne autour des filles, de la moto et de Paulette, sa grand-mère. Paulette vit seule, tombe beaucoup et cache ses bleus, paniquée à l'idée de mourir loin de son jardin.
Ces quatre-là n'auraient jamais dû se rencontrer. Trop perdus, trop seuls, trop cabossés... Et pourtant, le destin, ou bien la vie, le hasard, l'amour -appelez ça comme vous voulez -, va se charger de les bousculer un peu.
Leur histoire, c'est la théorie des dominos, mais à l'envers. Au lieu de se faire tomber, ils s'aident à se relever.]]> 574 Anna Gavalda S 0 to-read, to-proust 4.17 2004 Ensemble, c'est tout

author: Anna Gavalda
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]]> La place 399264 Paris-Normandie et se servait de son Opinel pour manger. Ouvrier devenu petit commerçant, il espérait que sa fille, grâce aux études, serait mieux que lui.
Cette fille, Annie Ernaux, refuse l'oubli des origines. Elle retrace la vie et la mort de celui qui avait conquis sa petite "place au soleil". Et dévoile aussi la distance, douloureuse, survenue entre elle, étudiante, et ce père aimé qui lui disait : "Les livres, la musique, c'est bon pour toi. Moi, je n'en ai pas besoin pour vivre."
Ce récit dépouillé possède une dimension universelle.]]> 114 Annie Ernaux 2070377229 S 0 to-read, to-proust 3.77 1983 La place

author: Annie Ernaux
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]]> Moderato cantabile 11926 122 Marguerite Duras 3518376780 S 0 to-read, to-proust 3.52 1958

author: Marguerite Duras
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]]> Ravage 106751 Un panique effroyable prend les Parisiens, laissant les hommes en proie à leurs instincts les plus primaires: égoïsme, folie, pillages, tuerie, barbarie...]]> 368 René Barjavel 207039428X S 0 to-read, to-proust 3.65 1943 Ravage

author: René Barjavel
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average rating: 3.65
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]]> La Vie tranquille 1058072 216 Marguerite Duras 207037341X S 0 to-read, to-proust 3.73 1947

author: Marguerite Duras
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]]> L'Amant 145542 ��’A��Գ�, Marguerite Duras reprend sur le ton de la confidence les images et les thèmes qui hantent toute son œuvre. Ses lecteurs vont pouvoir ensuite descendre ce grand fleuve aux lenteurs asiatiques et suivre la romancière danstous les méandres du delta, dans la moiteur des rizières, dans les secrets ombreux où elle a développé l’incantation répétitive et obsédante de ses livres, de ses films, de son théâtre. Au sens propre, Duras est ici remontée à ses sources, à sa �� scène fondamentale �� : ce moment où, vers 1930, sur un bac traversant un bras du Mékong, un Chinois richissime s’approche d’une petite Blanche de quinze ans qu’il va aimer. Il faut lire les plus beaux morceaux de ��’A��Գ� à haute voix. On percevra mieux ainsi le rythme, la scansion, la respiration intime de la prose, qui sont les subtils secrets de l’écrivain. Dès les premières lignes du récit éclatent l’art et le savoir-faire de Duras, ses libertés, ses défis, les conquêtes de trente années pour parvenir à écrire cette langue allégée, neutre, rapide et lancinante à la fois capable de saisir toutes les nuances, d’aller à la vitesse exacte de la pensée et des images. Un extrême réalisme (on voit le fleuve, on entend les cris de Cholon derrière les persiennes dans la garçonnière du Chinois), et en même temps une sorte de rêve éveillé, de vie rêvée, un cauchemar de vie : cette prose à nulle autre pareille est d’une formidable efficacité. À la fois la modernité, la vraie, et des singularités qui sont hors du temps, des styles, de la mode. »
-- François Nourissier (Le Figaro Magazine, 20 octobre 1984)

« L’histoire est sombre, à demi-muette, jamais encore racontée ni écrite, inavouable en quelque sorte. C’est l’histoire vraie, si l’expression a un sens, celle où les romans, le théâtre, les films sont venus puiser, les uns après les autres. La source donc, sans fond ni forme, insaisissable : cette histoire plus romanesque, pourrait-on dire, que toutes les fictions qui en sont dérivées, plus silencieuse, plus absolue, exemplaire.
Au commencement, une fille de quinze ans et demi, presque une enfant, dans un bac sur le Mékong. Ou plutôt, au commencement, une photo qui n’a pas été prise, celle d’un moment décisif qui fonde une manière de vivre et d’écrire. Un tournant, dit-on ; ici, une traversée. La photo d’une petite blanche, pensionnaire à Saïgon, l’écrivain à quinze ans, passant d’une rive à l’autre du Mékong. Le corps est frêle, sinon chétif, les cheveux nattés, la tenue, insolite, mélange de pauvreté et d’extravagance : une robe informe, des chaussures de bal en lamé or et un chapeau d’homme, �� un feutre souple couleur bois de rose au large ruban noir. �� Sous ce chapeau, un visage enfantin et précoce �� voyant ��, prémonitoire de ce qui l’attend de l’autre côté du fleuve, la vie, la jouissance, �� l’expriment. ��
Un homme est là, qui la regarde, fumant une cigarette près de sa limousine noire et de son chauffeur. II est riche, jeune. Il est chinois. Il sera ��’A��Գ�. Non pas �� un ��, parmi d’autres, ni même �� mon ��, mais �� le ��, par essence ; par définition et préfiguration. ��’A��Գ�, celui qui donne son titre au livre, comme si seule sa position était claire et désignée. Il est celui qui aime, qui donne le plaisir, qui voudrait se marier, dont le père interdit la passion ; celui qui prodigue l’argent que �� la petite �� attend de lui, qu’elle donne à sa mère en juste réparation de la ruine familiale. Elle, de son côté ne dit rien, elle ne sait pas, impuissante à qualifier ce qu’elle vit. Sans mots d’amour à l’égard de ��’A��Գ� ; muette auprès de sa famille qui ignorera la vraie nature de cette relation ; silencieuse dans la colonie blanche que son comportement scandalise. Toute entière donc du côté de cette mère et de ces frères murés dans un �� silence génial �� ; proche, déjà, de ces femmes de l’œuvre, absentes à elles-mêmes, traversées par la parole comme si elle leur était étrangère, suspendues dans l’attente, le ravissement, la folie : Lol. V. Stein, Anne-Marie Stretter, Alissa et les autres, figures contradictoires de l’ignorance et du savoir, du manque et de la puissance.
Serait-ce donc parce que certains mots n’ont jamais été dits, empêchés par une passion ancienne et terrible pour la mère, qu’ils ont pris dans l’œuvre tant de force, qu’ils ont formé ces phrases détachées, posées comme des objets dans l’espace, flottant de cette manière souveraine, somnambulique, presque impersonnelle qui est la leur ? Phrases d’un poids si particulier, si matériel, qu’elles peuvent se substituer aux images d’un film. Sur l’écran noir de L’Homme atlantique, les mots seuls, parce que dans l’expérience fondamentale, eux seuls auront manquer.
Ces mots, les voici dans ��’A��Գ�, retrouvés comme on le dit de sa langue. Non pas qu’il y soit dit ce qui ne peut pas l’être �� je t’aime, ou, elle l’aime, selon cette oscillation entre la troisième et la première personne qui est un des propres du livre �� mais parce...]]> 142 Marguerite Duras 2707306959 S 0 to-read, to-proust 3.71 1984 L'Amant

author: Marguerite Duras
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]]> Les Mots 572460 224 Jean-Paul Sartre 2070366073 S 0 to-read, to-proust 3.56 1963

author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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]]> Mémoires d'Hadrien 1112273
...suivi de Carnets de notes de Mémoires d'Hadrien.]]> 364 Marguerite Yourcenar 2070369218 S 0 4.18 1951

author: Marguerite Yourcenar
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average rating: 4.18
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]]> <![CDATA[The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day]]> 74145 174 E.A. Wallis Budge 0811807673 S 5 4.14 -1500

The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day

author: E.A. Wallis Budge
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average rating: 4.14
book published: -1500
rating: 5
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]]> Selected Poems 1032269 176 Joseph Brodsky 0140421645 S 0 to-read 3.83 1974

author: Joseph Brodsky
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]]> <![CDATA[Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class]]> 56876312 90 Catherine Liu 1452966044 S 0 to-read 3.84 2021

Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

author: Catherine Liu
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]]> <![CDATA[Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics]]> 117249 Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.

For Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), art almost ranked with religion and philosophy in its power to reveal the fundamental nature of existence. But although he lived in the German golden age of Goethe, Schiller and Mozart, he also believed that art was in terminal decline.

To resolve this apparent paradox, as Michael Inwood explains in his incisive Introduction, we must understand the particular place of aesthetics in Hegel's vast intellectual edifice. Its central pillars consist of logic, philosophy of nature and philosophy of spirit. Art derives its value from offering a sensory vision of the God-like absolute, from its harmonious fusion of form and content, and from summing up the world-view of an age such as Homer's. While it scaled supreme heights in ancient Greece, Hegel doubted art's ability to encompass Christian belief or the reflective irony characteristic of modern societies. Many such challenging ideas are developed in this superb treatise; it counts among the most stimulating works of a master thinker.

Table of Contents
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics Introduction A Note on the Translation and Commentary
INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON AESTHETICS

Chapter I: The Range of Aesthetic Defined, and Some Objections against the Philosophy of Art Refuted
[α Aesthetic confined to Beauty of Art
β Does Art merit Scientific Treatment?
γ Is Scientific Treatment appropriate to Art?
δ Answer to β
ε Answer to γ]

Chapter II: Methods of Science Applicable to Beauty and Art
[1. Empirical Method - Art-scholarship
(a) Its Range
(b) It generates Rules and Theories
(c) The Rights of Genius
2. Abstract Reflection
3. The Philosophical Conception of Artistic Beauty, general notion of]

Chapter III: The Conception of Artistic Beauty
Part I - The Work of Art as Made and as Sensuous
1. Work of Art as Product of Human Activity
[(a) Conscious Production by Rule
(b) Artistic Inspiration
(c) Dignity of Production by Man
(d) Man's Need to produce Works of Art]
2. Work of Art as addressed to Man's Sense
[(a) Object of Art - Pleasant Feeling?
(b) Feeling of Beauty - Taste
(c) Art-scholarship
(d) Profounder Consequences of Sensuous Nature of Art
(α) Relations of the Sensuous to the Mind
(αα) Desire
(ββ) Theory
(γγ) Sensuous as Symbol of Spiritual
(β) The Sensuous Element, how Present in the Artist
(γ) The Content of Art Sensuous]

Part II - The End of Art
3. [The Interest or End of Art
(a) Imitation of Nature?
(α) Mere Repetition of Nature is -
(αα) Superfluous
(ββ) Imperfect
(γγ) Amusing Merely as Sleight of Hand
(β) What is Good to Imitate?
(γ) Some Arts cannot be called Imitative
(b) Humani nihil - ?
(c) Mitigation of the Passions?
(α) How Art mitigates the Passions
(β) How Art purifies the Passions
(αα) It must have a Worthy Content
(ββ) But ought not to be Didactic
(γγ) Nor explicitly addressed to a Moral Purpose
(d) Art has its own Purpose as Revelation of Truth]

Chapter IV: Historical Deducation of the True Idea of Art in Modern Philosophy
1. Kant
[(a) Pleasure in Beauty not Appetitive
(b) Pleasure in Beauty Universal
(c) The Beautiful in its Teleological Aspect
(d) Delight in the Beautiful necessary though felt]
2. Schiller, Winckelmann, Schelling
3. The Irony

Chapter V: Division of the Subject
[1. The Condition of Artistic Presentation is the Correspondence of Matter and Plastic Form
2. Part I - The Ideal
3. Part II - The Types of Art
(α) Symbolic Art
(β) Classical Art
(γ) Romantic Art
4. Part III - The Several Arts
(α) Architecture
(β) Sculpture
(γ) Romantic Art, comprising
(i) Painting
(ii) Music
(iii) Poetry
5. Conclusion]

Commentary

]]> 197 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 014043335X S 0 3.91 Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

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]]> Ulysses Annotated 882850
The annotations gloss place names, define slang terms, give capsule histories of institutions and political and cultural movements and figures, supply bits of local and Irish legend and lore, explain religious nomenclature and practices, trace literary allusions and references to other cultures. Annotations are keyed not only to the reading text of the critical edition of Ulysses, but to the standard 1961 Random House edition, and the current Modern Library and Vintage texts.]]> 694 Don Gifford 0520253973 S 0 notes-and-reference 4.20 1922 Ulysses Annotated

author: Don Gifford
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Extremely useful for context and narrative. Have yet to cross-reference with any other notes.
]]> <![CDATA[The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming]]> 41552709
This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast. Without a revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century.

In his travelogue of our near future, David Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await--food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe. But the world will be remade by warming in more profound ways as well, transforming our politics, our culture, our relationship to technology, and our sense of history. It will be all-encompassing, shaping and distorting nearly every aspect of human life as it is lived today.

Like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring before it, The Uninhabitable Earth is both a meditation on the devastation we have brought upon ourselves and an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation.]]> 310 David Wallace-Wells 0525576703 S 0 4.00 2019 The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

author: David Wallace-Wells
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]]> <![CDATA[Capital in the Twenty First Century]]> 18736925 Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.

Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality—the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth—today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again.]]> 685 Thomas Piketty 067443000X S 0 4.04 2013 Capital in the Twenty First Century

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]]> À la recherche du temps perdu 223390907 Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé.]]> 2400 Marcel Proust 2070754928 S 0 4.00 1913

author: Marcel Proust
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]]> <![CDATA[Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx]]> 11784128
Separating communism from its metaphysical foundations, which include an abiding faith in the immutable laws of history and an almost holy conception of the proletariat, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala recast Marx's theories at a time when capitalism's metaphysical moorings—in technology, empire, and industrialization—are buckling. While Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri call for a return of the revolutionary left, Vattimo and Zabala fear this would lead only to more violence and failed political policy. Instead, they adopt an antifoundationalist stance drawn from the hermeneutic thought of Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty.

Hermeneutic communism leaves aside the ideal of development and the general call for revolution; it relies on interpretation rather than truth and proves more flexible in different contexts. Hermeneutic communism motivates a resistance to capitalism's inequalities yet intervenes against violence and authoritarianism by emphasizing the interpretative nature of truth. Paralleling Vattimo and Zabala's well-known work on the weakening of religion, Hermeneutic Communism realizes the fully transformational, politically effective potential of Marxist thought.]]> 264 Gianni Vattimo 0231158025 S 0 to-read 3.41 2011 Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx

Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx

author: Gianni Vattimo
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]]> Introduction to Logic 2713151 108 Immanuel Kant 0806529741 S 0 to-read 3.82 1953

author: Immanuel Kant
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]]> Saké Blue: Selected Writings 210412829
saké blue gathers critical essays, art reviews, and poetic fiction. Written in dialogue with the work of Martine Syms, Marlene Dumas, Hervé Guibert, or Camille Henrot, these texts combine the subjective and analytic, addressing power relations and the force of affect. Hoy spares nothing—and no one, exposing cultural clichés and urgent political issues through fast-paced acerbity. She advocates the work of women artists, mocks stereotypes, questions myths, and champions desire, sadness, and boredom. Simultaneously beautiful, lyrical, and cutthroat, her writing echoes to the reader like l’esprit d’escalier—we think of the perfect reply just a little too late.]]> 216 Estelle Hoy 2492650146 S 0 to-read 3.93 Saké Blue: Selected Writings

author: Estelle Hoy
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]]> Modern C 25097722 Modern C, author Jens Gustedt teaches you the skills and features you need to write relevant programs in this tried-and-true language, including Linux and Windows, device drivers, web servers and browsers, smartphones, and much more!

Modern C teaches you to take your C programming skills to new heights, whether you're just starting out with C or have more extensive experience. Organized by level, this comprehensive guide lets you jump in where it suits you best while still reaping the maximum benefits.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.]]> 222 Jens Gustedt S 0 currently-reading 3.71 Modern C

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]]> <![CDATA[Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming]]> 53778295 A detailed introduction to the C programming language for experienced programmers.The world runs on code written in the C programming language, yet most schools begin the curriculum with Python or Java. Effective C bridges this gap and brings C into the modern era--covering the modern C17 Standard as well as potential C2x features. With the aid of this instant classic, you'll soon be writing professional, portable, and secure C programs to power robust systems and solve real-world problems.Robert C. Seacord introduces C and the C Standard Library while addressing best practices, common errors, and open debates in the C community. Developed together with other C Standards committee experts, Effective C will teach you how to debug, test, and analyze C programs. You'll benefit from Seacord's concise explanations of C language constructs and behaviors, and from his 40 years of coding experience.You'll to identify and handle undefined behavior in a C programThe range and representations of integers and floating-point valuesHow dynamic memory allocation works and how to use nonstandard functionsHow to use character encodings and typesHow to perform I/O with terminals and filesystems using C Standard streams and POSIX file descriptorsHow to understand the C compiler's translation phases and the role of the preprocessorHow to test, debug, and analyze C programsEffective C will teach you how to write professional, secure, and portable C code that will stand the test of time and help strengthen the foundation of the computing world.]]> 273 Robert C. Seacord 1718501056 S 0 to-read 3.84 Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming

Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming

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]]> <![CDATA[Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software]]> 12533344
Written by an expert who's created embedded systems ranging from urban surveillance and DNA scanners to children's toys, this book is ideal for intermediate and experienced programmers, no matter what platform you use.]]> 325 Elecia White 1449302149 S 0 4.21 2011 Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software

Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software

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average rating: 4.21
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]]> The Structure of Awareness 1244421 292 Thomas C. Oden 0687400759 S 0 to-read 4.00 1969

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]]> Zazen 11563601
Reactions to the attacks are polarized. Police activity intensifies. Della’s revolutionary parents welcome the upheaval but are trapped within their own insular beliefs. Her activist restaurant co-workers, who would rather change their identities than the world around them, resume a shallow rebellion of hair-dye, sex parties, and self-absorption. As those bombs keep inching closer, thudding deep and real between the sounds of katydids fluttering in the still of the city night, and the destruction begins to excite her. What begins as terror threats called in to greasy bro-bars across the block boils over into a desperate plot, intoxicating and captivating Della and leaving her little chance for escape.

Zazen unfolds as a search for clarity soured by irresolution and catastrophe, yet made vital by the thin, wild veins of imagination run through each escalating moment, tensing and relaxing, unfurling and ensnaring. Vanessa Veselka renders Della and her world with beautiful, freighting, and phantasmagorically intelligent accuracy, crafting from their shattered constitutions a perversely perfect mirror for our own selves and state.]]> 274 Vanessa Veselka 1935869140 S 0 to-read 3.47 2011 Zazen

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]]> The C Programming Language 515601
From the Preface:
We have tried to retain the brevity of the first edition. C is not a big language, and it is not well served by a big book. We have improved the exposition of critical features, such as pointers, that are central to C programming. We have refined the original examples, and have added new examples in several chapters. For instance, the treatment of complicated declarations is augmented by programs that convert declarations into words and vice versa. As before, all examples have been tested directly from the text, which is in machine-readable form.

As we said in the first preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way. We hope that this book will help you to learn C and use it well.

]]> 272 Brian W. Kernighan 0131103628 S 0 4.44 1978 The C Programming Language

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]]> Lettera sulla felicità 3414307 Lettera a Meneceo, qui proposta in una traduzione che punta a restituirci l'affabilità della voce di un uomo che pose l'amicizia al di sopra di tutto, è uno dei pochissimi scritti di Epicuro che non siano stati distrutti nel corso della storia dall'odio ideologico.]]> 30 Epicurus 8872260604 S 0 to-read, ethics 3.94 -300 Lettera sulla felicità

author: Epicurus
name: S
average rating: 3.94
book published: -300
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]]> The Summer Game (Bison Book) 603712 303 Roger Angell 0803259514 S 0 to-read 4.30 1972

author: Roger Angell
name: S
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1972
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Essentials of Compilation: An Incremental Approach in Python]]> 63241382
Compilers are notoriously difficult programs to teach and understand. Most books about compilers dedicate one chapter to each progressive stage, a structure that hides how language features motivate design choices. By contrast, this innovative textbook provides an incremental approach that allows students to write every single line of code themselves. Jeremy Siek guides the reader in constructing their own compiler in the powerful object-oriented programming language Python, adding complex language features as the book progresses. Essentials of Compilation explains the essential concepts, algorithms, and data structures that underlie modern compilers and lays the groundwork for future study of advanced topics. Already in wide use by students and professionals alike, this rigorous but accessible book invites readers to learn by doing.]]> 232 Jeremy G. Siek 0262048248 S 0 4.00 Essentials of Compilation: An Incremental Approach in Python

Essentials of Compilation: An Incremental Approach in Python

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]]> La condition humaine 109837 La Condition humaine. Pour échapper à l'angoisse de "n'être qu'un homme", l'amour est un autre de ces moyens, mais seul l'amour véritable et fusionnel qu'éprouvent Kyo et May l'un pour l'autre est susceptible de briser la profonde solitude des êtres. Misérable humanité, humanité héroïque et grandiose, c'est "la condition humaine"... Elle résonnera à jamais comme un écho au fond de soi, tant il est vrai que ce roman est "d'une intelligence admirable et, malgré cela, profondément enfoncé dans la vie, engagé, et pantelant d'une angoisse parfois insoutenable", comme l'avait écrit Gide. --Lenaïc Gravis et Jocelyn Blériot]]> 337 André Malraux S 4 [+338, 368/10000, 9632] 3.71 1933 La condition humaine

author: André Malraux
name: S
average rating: 3.71
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rating: 4
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]]> ��&��ǲ�;É�ٰ��Բ�� 15688
��'é�ٰ��Բ�� est le premier roman d'Albert Camus, Prix Nobel de littérature en 1957.]]> 184 Albert Camus 2070360024 S 4 french, novels-novellas [+138, 1419/10000, 8581] 3.93 1942 L'Étranger

author: Albert Camus
name: S
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1942
rating: 4
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[+138, 1419/10000, 8581]
]]> Faust 14704 752 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe S 0 3.97 1808 Faust

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]]> Les Misérables I 60466152 Hugo retrace ici avec force les misères et les heures glorieuses des masses vivantes qui se retrouvent. Les événements se précipitent, les personnages se rencontrent, se heurtent, s'unissent parfois, à l'image de Cosette et de Marius. L'histoire du forçat évadé et de la petite miséreuse symbolisent quelque chose de plus grand : avec Les Misérables, Hugo réalise enfin l'esprit du peuple.]]> 960 Victor Hugo 2070409228 S 0 4.62 1862 Les Misérables I

author: Victor Hugo
name: S
average rating: 4.62
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]]> <![CDATA[The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports]]> 150065136
What if our goal had not been to land on Mars, but in pure consciousness? The experience of pure consciousness—what does it look like? What is the essence of human consciousness? In The Elephant and the Blind , influential philosopher Thomas Metzinger, one of the world's leading researchers on consciousness, brings together more than 500 experiential reports to offer the world's first comprehensive account of states of pure consciousness. Drawing on a large psychometric study of meditators in 57 countries, Metzinger focuses on “pure awareness�� in meditation—the simplest form of experience there is—to illuminate the most fundamental aspects of how consciousness, the brain, and illusions of self all interact.

Starting with an exploration of existential ease and ending on Bewusstseinskultur , a culture of consciousness, Metzinger explores the increasingly non-egoic experiences of silence, wakefulness, and clarity, of bodiless body-experience, ego-dissolution, and nondual awareness. From there, he assembles a big picture—the elephant in the parable, from which the book’s title comes—of what it would take to arrive at a minimal model explanation for conscious experience and create a genuine culture of consciousness. Freeing pure awareness from new-age gurus and old religions, The Elephant and the Blind combines personal reports of pure consciousness with incisive analysis to address the whole consciousness community, from neuroscientists to artists, and its accessibility echoes the author’s career-long commitment to widening access to philosophy itself.]]> 648 Thomas Metzinger 0262547104 S 0 to-read 3.93 The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports

The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports

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]]> Reading Genesis 127282468
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents, by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on the question of its basic coherency, just as fundamentalist interpretation has centered on the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally true.

Both of these approaches preclude an appreciation of its greatness as literature, its rich articulation and exploration of themes that resonate through the whole of Scripture. Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis , which includes the original text, is a powerful consideration of the profound meanings and promise of God’s enduring covenant with humanity. This magisterial book radiates gratitude for the constancy and benevolence of God’s abiding faith in Creation.]]> 344 Marilynne Robinson 0374299404 S 0 to-read 4.04 2024 Reading Genesis

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]]> A Short History of Decay 2855
E.M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history. He focuses on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science.]]> 186 Emil M. Cioran 1559704640 S 1 religious posturing that mistakes talking about Nothing for talking about nothing. Read Hume if you want something substantively destructive, Kierkegaard for something substantively upbuilding.]]> 4.27 1949 A Short History of Decay

author: Emil M. Cioran
name: S
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1949
rating: 1
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Tedious, fearful, profoundly religious posturing that mistakes talking about Nothing for talking about nothing. Read Hume if you want something substantively destructive, Kierkegaard for something substantively upbuilding.
]]> Le Misanthrope 17458017
�ѴǱ��è�� a enfermé toute une époque dans un salon mondain, pour critiquer une société ambitieuse, avide et cynique. Il donne parfois raison à Alceste, lui qui refuse de se soumettre au mensonge et à l'artifice, lui qui affirme radicalement : « J'ai tort, ou j'ai raison. »

Alceste n'est pas en accord avec son temps : il rejette les compromis, proteste conte la frivolité des salons et la fausseté des rapports humains. Le Misanthrope est ainsi la pièce la plus complexe de �ѴǱ��è��, car la plus fidèle aux contradictions de l'homme et de la société.]]> 217 �ѴǱ��è�� 2070449939 S 3 plays, french [+131, 1281/10000, 8719] 3.52 1666 Le Misanthrope

author: �ѴǱ��è��
name: S
average rating: 3.52
book published: 1666
rating: 3
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]]> Les Particules élémentaires 58375
Lors de sa sortie, ce livre a fait couler beaucoup d'encre, suscité de vives passions et de violents débats, alimentés par la personnalité de son auteur, volontiers provocateur et irrévérencieux. Cela ne fait qu'ajouter à la fascination que provoque la lecture de ce roman, qui remet en cause toutes nos certitudes et nous oblige à réagir. Que l'on aime ou pas le style Houellebecq, il est urgent de lire Les Particules élémentaires.]]> 316 Michel Houellebecq 2290351717 S 2 french, novels-novellas [+304, 1150/10000, 8850] 3.54 1998

author: Michel Houellebecq
name: S
average rating: 3.54
book published: 1998
rating: 2
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]]> Le Horla 6474567
Notre Double, notre frère, mais aussi notre rival : l'extra-terrestre dont la prochain venue signifiera la fin du règne de l'homme. Le conte de la folie s'achève ainsi en cauchemar parapsychique et en roman d'anticipation.]]> 215 Guy de Maupassant 2070377113 S 0 3.87 1886 Le Horla

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name: S
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1886
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]]> <![CDATA[Being and Ambiguity: Philosophical Experiments with Tiantai Buddhism]]> 338424
Ziporyn argues that we can make both of the claims below
This book is about everything. It contains the answers to all philosophical problems which ever shall exist. This book is all claptrap. It is completely devoid of objective validity of any kind.

These claims are not contradictory. Rather, they state the same thing in two different ways. To be objective truth is to be subjective claptrap, and vise versa. All interchanges of any kind - conversations, daydreams, sensations - are not only about something but also about everything.

Thus, this book concerns itself with no less than the nature of what is and what it means for something to be what it is. It provides a new approach to the basic Western philosophical and psychological issues of identity, determinacy, being, desire, boredom, addiction, love and truth.]]> 428 Brook Ziporyn 0812695429 S 0 to-read 4.56 2004 Being and Ambiguity: Philosophical Experiments with Tiantai Buddhism

Being and Ambiguity: Philosophical Experiments with Tiantai Buddhism

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average rating: 4.56
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]]> Le Tour du monde en 80 jours 1452956 Le Tour du monde en 80 jours notamment, sont conçus comme des machines théâtrales. Tout y est calibré, ajusté pour tenir le lecteur en haleine, l'étonner, le distraire ou le prendre à contre-pied. On est en pleine esthétique romantique, celle de Dumas en particulier, avec qui Verne collabora un temps. Mais le Tour du monde c'est aussi l'avènement du monde industriel, le culte de la machine, de l'efficacité, le pointage horaire étendu à une échelle universelle. Culte porté jusqu'à l'outrance, avec un humour féroce, une ironie mordante : Verne n'est pas dupe. Et s'il agite ses personnages comme des marionnettes prises de frénésie, c'est pour, en sourdine, articuler un discours de révolte : Philéas Fogg n'est pas si loin de Némo l'anarchiste, nouveau Faust moderne, et ce texte éblouissant cache bien des profondeurs. --Scarbo]]> 331 Jules Verne 2253012696 S 0 to-read 3.81 1872 Le Tour du monde en 80 jours

author: Jules Verne
name: S
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1872
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]]> Selected Stories 1770418 545 Alice Munro 0679446273 S 0 short-stories, to-read 4.15 1985

author: Alice Munro
name: S
average rating: 4.15
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]]> <![CDATA[In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)]]> 28393 Swann’s Way, along with the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. These superb editions—the first completely new translation of Proust’s novel since the 1920s—bring us a more comic and lucid Proust than English readers have previously been able to enjoy.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. In it, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal.

]]> 576 Marcel Proust 0670032778 S 0 4.30 1919 In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

author: Marcel Proust
name: S
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1919
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]]> Finnegans Wake 781824 628 James Joyce 0140062866 S 0 3.89 1939

author: James Joyce
name: S
average rating: 3.89
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]]> <![CDATA[S. Juan de la Cruz - Obras Completas (Maestros Espirituales Carmelitas) (Spanish Edition)]]> 470864
Este es el índice general:

ESTUDIO PRELIMINAR
VIDA DE SAN JUAN
SUBIDA AL MONTE CARMELO
LA NOCHE OSCURA
CÁNTICO ESPIRITUAL

CÓDICE A
CÓDICE B

LLAMA DE AMOR VIVA

CÓDICE A
CÓDICE B

CUATRO TRATADOS

CAUTELAS
CUATRO AVISOS A UN RELIGIOSO
AVISOS Y SENTENCIAS ESPIRITUALES
DICTÁMENES DE ESPÍRITU

CARTAS ESPIRITUALES
DOCUMENTOS VARIOS
�ʰ��Í��
OTROS ESCRITOS

COLOQUIOS ENTRE EL ESPOSO CRISTO Y SU ESPOSA EL ALMA
TRATADO DEL CONOCIMIENTO OSCURO DE DIOS AFIRMATIVO Y NEGATIVO]]> John of the Cross 8472398196 S 0 4.65 1618 S. Juan de la Cruz - Obras Completas (Maestros Espirituales Carmelitas) (Spanish Edition)

S. Juan de la Cruz - Obras Completas (Maestros Espirituales Carmelitas) (Spanish Edition)

author: John of the Cross
name: S
average rating: 4.65
book published: 1618
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]]> The Lights: Poems 65215738
The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. Sometimes the scale is intimate, quiet, and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the animation of our common world. Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights registers the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises, but for all their insight and critique, Ben Lerner’s poems ultimately communicate―in their unpredictability, in their intensities―the promise of mysterious sources of lift and illumination.]]> 128 Ben Lerner 0374279217 S 0 to-read 3.84 The Lights: Poems

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]]> Blindsight (Firefall, #1) 48484 Two months since the stars fell...

Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown.

Two months of silence while a world holds its breath.

Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune’s orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever’s out there isn’t talking to us. It’s talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route.

So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn’t want to meet?

You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees X-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won’t be needed, and a fainter hope she’ll do any good if she is needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called “vampire,�� recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist �� an informational topologist with half his mind gone �� as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge.

You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they’ve been sent to find.

But you’d give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them…]]> 384 Peter Watts 0765312182 S 3 sci-fi, novels-novellas
The story is shaggy and lumpy, although pretty conventionally-paced as a whole. The backstory involving the "love" affair felt pointless, and the parental issues did little to flesh out what is supposed to be an unfleshoutable character, and in the end, some of the details and even some of the storyline seemed to come out of left field.]]> 4.01 2006 Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

author: Peter Watts
name: S
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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A pretty smart, well-written scifi novel with consciousness as its core theme that is messy almost unto incomprehensibility. There's little to no narrative hand-holding; you're kind of thrown into a situation that assumedly follows the previously-presented situation and you have to fill in the blanks of what has led to this, and what exactly is happening, given the miles of jargon, mostly invented, that permeates much of the dialogue. The worst part is that a lot of the jargon masks pretty pedestrian concepts, although the reveal of what the alien was was actually very interesting to think about—the philosophical points of the novel were more interesting than anything else here. I almost would have preferred Watts write a nonfiction book.

The story is shaggy and lumpy, although pretty conventionally-paced as a whole. The backstory involving the "love" affair felt pointless, and the parental issues did little to flesh out what is supposed to be an unfleshoutable character, and in the end, some of the details and even some of the storyline seemed to come out of left field.
]]> <![CDATA[Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1]]> 325785 Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids some of the mistakes that have marred earlier versions and seeks to do justice to the literary qualities of the work. The introduction is by Ernest Mandel, author of Late Capitalism, one of the only comprehensive attempts to develop the theoretical legacy of Capital.]]> 1152 Karl Marx 0140445684 S 0 4.28 1867 Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1

author: Karl Marx
name: S
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1867
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]]> <![CDATA[The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox]]> 874419 1120 Shelby Foote 0394746228 S 0 to-read, history, non-fiction 4.53 1974

The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox

author: Shelby Foote
name: S
average rating: 4.53
book published: 1974
rating: 0
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]]> The Civil Wars 167816 480 Appian 0140445099 S 0 4.02 165

author: Appian
name: S
average rating: 4.02
book published: 165
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]]> <![CDATA[The Guide of the Perplexed, Vol. 2]]> 366382 384 Maimonides 0226502317 S 0 4.38

author: Maimonides
name: S
average rating: 4.38
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]]> <![CDATA[Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition]]> 394695 A deluxe edition of Whitman's crowning achievement, with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his great career, Whitman continuously revised, expanded, and republished Leaves of Grass, but as Harold Bloom reminds us, the book that matters most is the 1855 original. In celebration of the poem’s 150th anniversary, Penguin Classics proudly presents the 1855 text in its original and complete form, with a specially commissioned introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

]]> 160 Walt Whitman 014303927X S 3 poetry 4.25 1855 Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition

Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition

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]]> <![CDATA[The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)]]> 18801 In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive, the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on desire, sexual love, music, and the art of introspection.

For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).]]> 957 Marcel Proust 0375753117 S 0 to-read 4.38 1923 The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

author: Marcel Proust
name: S
average rating: 4.38
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]]> <![CDATA[Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: First Book: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology (Husserliana: Edmund Husserl �� Collected Works, 2)]]> 965566 424 Edmund Husserl 9024728525 S 0 to-read, phenomenology 4.15 1913 Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: First Book: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology (Husserliana: Edmund Husserl – Collected Works, 2)

Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: First Book: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology (Husserliana: Edmund Husserl – Collected Works, 2)

author: Edmund Husserl
name: S
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1913
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]]> <![CDATA[Les derniers jours de nos pères]]> 25547312 Soucieux de pallier l'anéantissement de l'armée britannique à Dunkerque, Winston Churchill a une idée qui va changer le cours de la guerre : créer une branche noire des services secrets, le Special Operation Executive, (SOE) chargée de mener des actions de sabotage et de renseignement à l'intérieur des lignes ennemies et dont les membres seraient issus des populations locales pour être insoupçonnables. Du jamais vu jusqu'alors. .
Quelques mois plus tard, le jeune Paul-Emile quitte Paris pour Londres dans l'espoir de rejoindre la Résistance. Rapidement recruté par le SOE, il est intégré à un groupe de Français qui deviendront ses compagnons de cœur et d'armes. Entraînés et formés de façon intense aux quatre coins de l'Angleterre, ceux qui passeront la sélection se verront bientôt renvoyés en France occupée pour contribuer à la formation des réseaux de résistance. Mais sur le continent, le contre-espionnage allemand est en état d'alerte.]]> 450 Joël Dicker 287706896X S 0 to-read 3.87 2011 Les derniers jours de nos pères

author: Joël Dicker
name: S
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2011
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]]> The Histories 831106 336 Tacitus 0140441506 S 0 to-read, antiquity 4.14

author: Tacitus
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]]> <![CDATA[A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics]]> 42970131
You'll learn about the central objects and theorems of mathematics, covering graphs, calculus, linear algebra, eigenvalues, optimization, and more. You'll also be immersed in the often unspoken cultural attitudes of mathematics, learning both how to read and write proofs while understanding why mathematics is the way it is. Between each technical chapter is an essay describing a different aspect of mathematical culture, and discussions of the insights and meta-insights that constitute mathematical intuition.

As you learn, we'll use new mathematical ideas to create wondrous programs, from cryptographic schemes to neural networks to hyperbolic tessellations. Each chapter also contains a set of exercises that have you actively explore mathematical topics on your own. By the end of the book, you will be able to learn mathematics on your own. In short, this book will teach you to engage with mathematics.]]> 378 Jeremy Kun 1727125452 S 0 to-read 4.16 A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics

A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics

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]]> <![CDATA[The book of Angelus Silesius [i.e. Johann Scheffler], with observations by the ancient Zen Masters]]> 4918270 English, German (translation) 148 Angelus Silesius 0704502003 S 0 to-read, poetry 3.78 1976 The book of Angelus Silesius [i.e. Johann Scheffler], with observations by the ancient Zen Masters

The book of Angelus Silesius [i.e. Johann Scheffler], with observations by the ancient Zen Masters

author: Angelus Silesius
name: S
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1976
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces]]> 42090018 747 Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau 198508659X S 0 4.62 2012

author: Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
name: S
average rating: 4.62
book published: 2012
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]]> <![CDATA[xv6 a simple, Unix-like teaching operating system]]> 28241422 102 Russ Cox S 0 4.00

xv6 a simple, Unix-like teaching operating system

author: Russ Cox
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]]> <![CDATA[Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary]]> 160171 288 Linus Torvalds 0066620732 S 0 to-read 3.97 2001

Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

author: Linus Torvalds
name: S
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2001
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]]> <![CDATA[iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It]]> 798635 iWoz traces the life and times of a brilliant, gifted... individual whose contributions to the scientific, business and cultural realms are extensive."��Bookpage

Before slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange, alien vending machines. But in "the most staggering burst of technical invention by a single person in high-tech history" (BusinessWeek��) Steve Wozniak invented the first true personal computer. Wozniak teamed up with Steve Jobs, and Apple Computer was born, igniting the computer revolution and transforming the world. Here, thirty years later, the mischievous genius with the low profile treats readers to a rollicking, no-holds-barred account of his life—for once, in the voice of the wizard himself.]]> 313 Steve Wozniak 0393330435 S 0 to-read 3.86 2006 iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It

iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It

author: Steve Wozniak
name: S
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2006
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]]> Agapē Agape 396655
For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told via a social history of the player piano in America. In the years before his death in 1998, he distilled the whole mass into a fiction, a dramatic monologue by an elderly man with a terminal illness. This "man in the bed" lies dying, thinking anxiously about the book he still plans to write, grumbling about the deterioration of civilization and trying to explain his obsession to the world before he passes away or goes mad.

Agape- Agape continues Gaddis's career-long reflection via the form of the novel on those aspects of the corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts. It is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.]]> 113 William Gaddis 0670031313 S 4 novels-novellas 4.07 2002 Agapē Agape

author: William Gaddis
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In which you begin to wonder if the speaker's concern for authenticity itself has fallen victim to programmatic manipulation, and in which a violent attraction/repulsion to/from elitism in all its forms becomes established as one of many fugue states. Not particularly elegant, but a nicer rant because of it.
]]> J R 11721654 The Recognitions, that tremendous book which, in the twenty years since its publication, has come to be acknowledged as an American masterpiece. And J R is a book of comparable magnitude, substance, and humor - a rushing, raucous look at money and its influence, at love and its absence, at success and its failures, in the magnificently orchestrated circus of all its larger - and smaller-than-life characters; a frantic, forlorn comedy about who uses - and misuses - whom.

At the center: J R, ambitious sixth-grader in torn sneakers, bred on the challenge of "free enterprise" and fired by heady mail-order promises of "success." His teachers would rather be elsewhere, his principal doubles as a bank president, his Long Island classroom mirrors the world he sees around him - a world of public relations and private betrayals where everything (and everyone) wears a price tag, a world of "deals" where honesty is no substitute for experience, and the letter of the law flouts its spirit at every turn. Operating from the remote anonymity of phone booths and the local post office, with beachheads in a seedy New York cafeteria and a catastrophic, carton-crammed tenement on East 96th Street, J R parlays a deal for thousands of surplus Navy picnic forks through penny stock flyers and a distant textile-mill bankruptcy into a nationwide, hydra-headed "family of companies."

The J R Corp and its Boss engulf brokers, lawyers, Congressmen, disaffected school teachers and disenfranchised Indians, drunks, divorcées, second-hand generals, and a fledgling composer hopelessly entangled in a nightmare marriage of business and the arts. Their bullish ventures - shaky mineral claims and gas leases, cost-plus defense contracts, a string of nursing homes cum funeral parlors, a formula for frozen music - burgeon into a paper empire ranging from timber to textiles, from matchbooks to (legalized) marijuana, from prostheses to publishing, inadvertently crushing hopes, careers, an entire town, on a collision course with the bigger world . . . the pragmatic Real World where the business of America is business, where the stock market exists as a convenience, and the tax laws make some people more equal than others . . . the world that makes the rules because it plays to win, and plays for keeps.

Absurdly logical, mercilessly real, gathering its own tumultuous momentum for the ultimate brush with commodity trading when the drop in pork belly futures masks the crumbling of our own, J R captures the reader in the cacophony of voices that revolves around this young captive of his own myths - voices that dominate the book, talking to each other, at each other, into phones, on intercoms, from TV screens and radios - a vast mosaic of sound that sweeps the reader into the relentless "real time" of spoken words in a way unprecedented in modern fiction. The disturbing clarity with which this finished writer captures the ways in which we deal, dissemble, stumble through our words - through our lives - while the real plans are being made elsewhere makes J R the extraordinary novel that it is.

From the first-edition dustjacket]]> 726 William Gaddis 1564784339 S 0 novels-novellas, to-read 4.44 1975 J R

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]]> The Recognitions 11786836 956 William Gaddis 1564786919 S 4 novels-novellas 4.37 1955

author: William Gaddis
name: S
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1955
rating: 4
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]]> The Persians 237794 48 Aeschylus 1419177060 S 4 in-translation, poetry 3.64 -472

author: Aeschylus
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average rating: 3.64
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rating: 4
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]]> Golden Zephyr (Buddhism) 1650619 Golden Zephyr is a step-by-step outline of the vast scope of Buddhist teachings. The book offers translations from the original Tibetan of two classical works, ��岵��ܲԲ�'s "A Letter to a Friend" and Lama Mi-pham's commentary, "The Garland of White Lotus Flowers." ��岵��ܲԲ�, the Father of Mahayana Buddhism, originally wrote his "Letter" to a close friend, instructing and encouraging him to practice the Dharma in his daily life. Through his common-sense analysis of the human situation we are able to unwind the frustration and confusion which we normally experience. ��岵��ܲԲ� progressively develops in his "Letter" the inner understanding that preceded and accompanied the Buddha's own enlightenment.

The enduring insight and conciseness of ��岵��ܲԲ�'s presentation prompted Lama Mi-pham, one of the most brilliant Tibetan lamas of the last century, to expand the original text for the edification of his own students. In his commentary Mi-pham interweaves an explanation of the Buddhist path, which refers to a continual unfolding of our inner potential. So, these instructions from a spiritual friend are aimed at a 'new vision', beyond confusion and doubt, which leads to a deep and satisfying 'joy'.]]> 185 ��岵��ܲԲ� 0913546216 S 0 to-read 4.30 100 Golden Zephyr (Buddhism)

author: ��岵��ܲԲ�
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average rating: 4.30
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]]> <![CDATA[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]> 17125 The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury

This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available, and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.]]> 182 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn S 0 to-read 3.98 1962 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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]]> <![CDATA[The PowerScore LSAT Logical Reasoning Bible]]> 22174167 736 David M. Killoran 0991299221 S 0 4.36 2004

The PowerScore LSAT Logical Reasoning Bible

author: David M. Killoran
name: S
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> The Portrait of a Lady 4100780 Washington Square and intricately woven and highly complex later novels such as The Golden Bowl and The Ambassadors, James's work is a required stop on any journey through our nation's artistic and cultural heritage.
An undisputed masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady is arguably James's most popular work, and certainly the finest of his early novels. It focuses on Isabel Archer, a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of Europe. She rejects two eligible suitors in her fervent commitment to liberty and independence, declaring that she will never marry. Thanks to the generosity of her devoted cousin Ralph, she is free to make her own choice about her destiny. Yet in the intoxicating worlds of Paris, Florence, and Rome, her fond illusions of self-reliance are twisted by the machinations of her friends and apparent allies. What had seemed to be a vista of infinite promise steadily closes around her and becomes instead a "house of suffocation."
Portrait of a Lady is at once a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal and a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in a web of relations she only comes to understand too late. This new edition includes helpful notes on the numerous changes James made between the first edition and the revised New York Edition, reproduced here, an up-to-date bibliography, and a new chronology.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
]]> 600 Henry James 0199217947 S 0 to-read 3.88 1881 The Portrait of a Lady

author: Henry James
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> <![CDATA[Waiting for Godot: A Bilingual Edition]]> 7314955 357 Samuel Beckett 0802144632 S 5 french, plays [+178, 846/10000, 9154] 3.99 1952

author: Samuel Beckett
name: S
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1952
rating: 5
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]]> Edda 887139
Over a period of twenty years Snorri Sturluson, scholar, courtier and poet, compiled the prose Edda as a textbook for young poets who wished to praise kings. His work surveys the content, style and metres of traditional Viking poetry and includes a lengthy poem of Snorrie's own, honoring the king of Norway. Ironically, Snorri was killed in his cellar in Iceland in 1241 on the instigation of the king of Norway, as a result of political intrigue.

The Edda contains the most extensive account of Norse myths and legends that have survived from the Middle Ages as well as the famous stories of Odin winning back the mead of poetic inspiration and Thor fishing for the Midgard serpent.]]> 260 Snorri Sturluson 0460876163 S 0 to-read, poetry 4.07 1220 Edda

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]]> <![CDATA[Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks)]]> 9455 This GuideBook introduces and assesses:
* Hegel's life and the background to the Phenomenology of Spirit
* the ideas and the text of the Phenomenology of Spirit
* the continuing importance of Hegel's work to philosophy.]]> 256 Robert Stern 0415217881 S 0 3.62 2001 Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks)

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks)

author: Robert Stern
name: S
average rating: 3.62
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]]> Frère d'âme 52944121 144 David Diop 2757875965 S 4 french, novels-novellas [+143, 668/10000, 9332] 3.73 2018

author: David Diop
name: S
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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[+143, 668/10000, 9332]
]]> Birth and After Birth 490265 96 Tina Howe 0573696101 S 0 to-read 3.57 1997

author: Tina Howe
name: S
average rating: 3.57
book published: 1997
rating: 0
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]]> Le Petit Nicolas 74256 167 René Goscinny 2070364232 S 0 french, novels-novellas [+157, 525/10000, 9475] 4.14 1959

author: René Goscinny
name: S
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1959
rating: 0
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[+157, 525/10000, 9475]
]]> <![CDATA[Le Comte de Monte-Cristo - Tome I]]> 17567506 ASIN 2253098051

1815. Louis XVIII rétabli sur le trône se heurte à une opposition dont l'Empereur, relégué à l'île d'Elbe, songe déjà à profiter. Dans Marseille livrée à la discorde civile, le moment est propice aux règlements de comptes politiques ou privés. C'est ainsi que le marin Edmond Dantès, à la veille de son mariage, se retrouve, sans savoir pourquoi, arrêté et conduit au château d'If... Paru en 1844-1846, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo connut un succès qui ne s'est pas démenti, ce qui en fait une des oeuvres les plus populaires de la littérature mondiale. L'abbé Faria, l'évasion inouïe, le trésor grâce auquel les bons seront récompensés et les traîtres punis le fabuleux destin d'Edmond Dantès possède la simplicité et la force des grands mythes. Conteur éblouissant, aussi à l'aise dans l'action que dans le dialogue, Dumas nous entraîne sans nous laisser reprendre souffle du cabinet de Louis XVIII à la Méditerranée des contrebandiers, des îles toscanes aux catacombes de Rome, puis aux salons parisiens où le mystérieux comte de Monte-Cristo se dispose à accomplir sa vengeance...]]> 798 Alexandre Dumas S 3 french, novels-novellas
Anyway, first 30 pages of my 10000-page 2024 French challenge down (only 9970 to go)

[+30, 30/10000, 9970]]]> 4.51 1844 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo - Tome I

author: Alexandre Dumas
name: S
average rating: 4.51
book published: 1844
rating: 3
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Pretty cool first half. Second half (after time skip) is brutal.

Anyway, first 30 pages of my 10000-page 2024 French challenge down (only 9970 to go)

[+30, 30/10000, 9970]
]]> Les Faux-monnayeurs 817280 364 André Gide S 0 to-read 3.75 1925

author: André Gide
name: S
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1925
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (Applause Books)]]> 10016918 Theatre 80 Adam Long 1617741558 S 4 plays, comedy 4.27 2000

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (Applause Books)

author: Adam Long
name: S
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at: 2013/12/25
date added: 2023/11/30
shelves: plays, comedy
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]]> La Peste 865251 �� J'attends le résultat des analyses.
�� Moi, je le sais. Et je n'ai pas besoin d'analyses. J'ai fait une partie de ma carrière en Chine, et j'ai vu quelques cas à Paris, il y a une vingtaine d'années. Seulement, on n'a pas osé leur donner un nom, sur le moment... Et puis, comme disait un confrère : "C'est impossible, tout le monde sait qu'elle a disparu de l'Occident." Oui, tout le monde le savait, sauf les morts. Allons, Rieux, vous savez aussi bien que moi ce que c'est...
�� Oui, Castel, dit-il, c'est à peine croyable. Mais il semble bien que ce soit la peste. »]]> 278 Albert Camus 3125972108 S 3 existentialism, french 3.98 1947

author: Albert Camus
name: S
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1947
rating: 3
read at: 2023/11/28
date added: 2023/11/28
shelves: existentialism, french
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]]> <![CDATA[Ultimate French Beginner-Intermediate (Coursebook) (Ultimate Beginner-Intermediate)]]> 7648864
�� 40 lessons with lively dialogues including the most common and useful idiomatic expressions.
�� English translations and explanations of French grammar and usage, pronunciation, vocabulary, and cultural notes.
�� Quizzes and review sections to check your progress.
�� A complete summary of French grammar, and verb charts covering all major tenses.
�� An extensive two-way glossary.]]> 448 Living Language 1400009634 S 0 3.85 2004 Ultimate French Beginner-Intermediate (Coursebook) (Ultimate Beginner-Intermediate)

Ultimate French Beginner-Intermediate (Coursebook) (Ultimate Beginner-Intermediate)

author: Living Language
name: S
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)]]> 317019 256 Patrick Kavanagh 0141183489 S 0 to-read, poetry 4.25 1970

Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)

author: Patrick Kavanagh
name: S
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1970
rating: 0
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]]> Voyage au bout de la nuit 3276661 636 Louis-Ferdinand Céline S 3 3.97 1932

author: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
name: S
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1932
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[La France profonde : entretiens sur la politique en Lorraine et en Mayenne (Mess Edit Soc) (French Edition)]]> 117563605 247 Michel Dion 2402140593 S 0 to-read 0.0

La France profonde : entretiens sur la politique en Lorraine et en Mayenne (Mess Edit Soc) (French Edition)

author: Michel Dion
name: S
average rating: 0.0
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]]> Calligrammes 54647835 320 Guillaume Apollinaire 2081445123 S 0 to-read 3.40 1918

author: Guillaume Apollinaire
name: S
average rating: 3.40
book published: 1918
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Les Fleurs du mal [ Petites Classiques Larousse ]]]> 24562699 256 Charles Baudelaire 203586156X S 0 to-read, poetry, french 4.00 1857

Les Fleurs du mal [ Petites Classiques Larousse ]

author: Charles Baudelaire
name: S
average rating: 4.00
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]]> <![CDATA[Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire]]> 7012524 This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 2070361861.

En sortant d'une longue et douce rêverie,en me voyant entouré de verdure,de fleurs,d'oiseaux et laissant errer mes yeux au loin sur les romanesques rivages qui bordaient une vaste étendue d'eau claire et cristalline,j'assimilais à mes fictions tous ces aimables objets;et me trouvant enfin ramené par degrés à moi-même et à ce qui m'entourait,je ne pouvais marquer le point de séparation des fictions aux réalités;tant tout concourait également à me rendre chère la vie recueillie et solitaire que je menais dans ce beau séjour.]]> 277 Jean-Jacques Rousseau S 0 to-read 3.27 1782 Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire

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]]> Les Misérables II 17181235 Les Misérables, Hugo réalise enfin l'esprit du peuple.]]> 960 Victor Hugo 2070409236 S 0 to-read 4.48 1862

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]]> <![CDATA[Le Comte De Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo, #2)]]> 1149590 ASIN 225309806X

La maison était triste parce qu'elle avait des remords, elle avait des remords parce qu'elle cachait un crime. « Oh ! qui dit que c'est un crime ? reprit Villefort, tentant un dernier effort. - Comment ! un enfant enterré vivant dans un jardin, ce n'est pas un crime ? s'écria Monte-Cristo.
Comment appelez-vous donc cette action-là, monsieur le procureur du roi ? - Mais qui dit qu'il a été enterré vivant ? - Pourquoi l'enterrer là, s'il était mort ? Ce jardin n'a jamais été un cimetière. - Que fait-on aux infanticides dans ce pays-ci ? demanda naïvement le major Cavalcanti. - Oh ! mon Dieu ! on leur coupe tout bonnement le cou, répondit Danglars. - Ah ! on leur coupe le cou, fit Cavalcanti. - Je le crois...
N'est-ce pas, monsieur de Villefort ? demanda Monte-Cristo. - Oui, monsieur le comte », répondit celui-ci avec un accent qui n'avait plus rien d'humain.]]> 797 Alexandre Dumas S 0 to-read 4.58 1844 Le Comte De Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo, #2)

Le Comte De Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo, #2)

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]]> <![CDATA[Jonas Ou L'Artiste Au Travail: Suivi de la Pierre Qui Pousse (Folio (Gallimard)) (French Edition)]]> 1806145 128 Albert Camus 2070426734 S 0 to-read 3.29 1957

Jonas Ou L'Artiste Au Travail: Suivi de la Pierre Qui Pousse (Folio (Gallimard)) (French Edition)

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]]> <![CDATA[Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928]]> 20821221 A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world

It has the quality of myth: A poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a revolutionary and finds a leadership role within a small group of marginal zealots. When the old world is unexpectedly brought down in a total war, the band seizes control of the country, and the new regime it founds as the vanguard of a new world order is ruthlessly dominated from within by the former seminarian until he stands as the absolute ruler of a vast and terrible state apparatus, with dominion over Eurasia. But the largest country in the world is also a poor and backward one, far behind the great capitalist countries in industrial and military power, encircled on all sides. Shortly after seizing total power, Stalin conceives of the largest program of social reengineering ever attempted: the root-and-branch uprooting and collectivization of agriculture and industry across the entire Soviet Union. To stand up to the capitalists he will force into being an industrialized, militarized, collectivized great power is an act of will. Millions will die, and many more will suffer, but Stalin will push through to the end against all resistance and doubts. Where did such power come from? We think we know the story well. Remarkably, Stephen Kotkin’s epic new biography shows us how much we still have to learn.

The product of a decade of scrupulous and intrepid research, Stalin contains a host of astonishing revelations. Kotkin gives an intimate first-ever view of the Bolshevik regime’s inner geography, bringing to the fore materials from Soviet military intelligence and the secret police. He details Stalin’s invention of a fabricated trial and mass executions as early as 1918, the technique he would later impose across the whole country. The book places Stalin’s momentous decision for collectivization more deeply than ever in the tragic history of imperial Russia. Above all, Kotkin offers a convincing portrait and explanation of Stalin’s monstrous power and of Russian power in the world. Stalin restores a sense of surprise to the way we think about the former Soviet Union, revolution, dictatorship, the twentieth century, and indeed the art of history itself.
]]> 976 Stephen Kotkin 1594203792 S 0 to-read 3.94 Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

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