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Pierre

pierre@wyrm.maraval.net

Joined 2 years, 3 months ago

Slow reader. English / French/ German / Italian.

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Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (Paperback, 1986, Berkley Books) 5 stars

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable …

Just finished it

4 stars

Well written, it's everything youmight have read about it. The narrator is extremely pedantic, I loved the French and German throughout the book.

Bent Flyvbjerg: How Big Things Get Done (Hardcover, 2023, Crown Currency) 4 stars

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to space …

Nice read

4 stars

This is an entertaining, easy to read and instructive book, relatively well crafted and with nice examples. The emphasis on modularity is a bit boring in the end. It has a surprising scientific aspect (to me), I didn't expect so many references.

Yukio Mishima: The Sound of Waves (2000) 5 stars

An idyllic theme of ideal love

5 stars

Well, the book is everything you can read somewhere else, and still very enjoyable. The ending is a bit surprising and I wish Mishima would have told us a little bit more about it. He's probably just being mischievous.

The themes of the island, the sea, purity qnd innocence, the work of the divers and fishermen are very nwell woven into this nice little novel.