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The Fall – Albert Camus
The Fall – Albert Camus – 1956 Reviewed by: Bill Stratton Date: 31 December 2001 Aside from being Camus’ crowning literary achievement, this work should also be viewed as one of the most important wor...
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The Stranger / The Outsider – Albert Camus
The Stranger – Albert Camus – 1942 Reviewed by: Lale Date: 23 November 2002 I read this book once when I was young and then again two years ago. Two different translations: the first one I read was called...
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The Plague – Albert Camus
The Plague – Albert Camus – 1947 Reviewed by: François Paltrinieri Date: 13 June 2006 One of Albert Camus’s better novels, this grim story of a doctor trapped in a plague-infested city does well to expose...
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The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir
The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir – 1954 Reviewed by: Lale A lot of shoulder shrugging. Dubreuilh shrugged his shoulders. Nadine shrugged her shoulders. There are exactly 140 shoulder shruggings in The Mandarins. ...
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She Came to Stay – Simone de Beauvoir
She Came to Stay – Simone de Beauvoir – 1943 Reviewed by: Lale I read a translation by Yvonne Moyse and Roger Senhouse. One of the worst translations I have ever read. There are such basic mistakes that even I (a t...
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Old Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
Old Goriot – Honoré de Balzac – 1835 Reviewed by: Chris Green Balzac’s Old Goriot contains some of the more interesting literary characters I’ve ever encountered. Rastignac, the naive provincial who yea...
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The Whirlpool – Jane Urquhart
The Whirlpool – Jane Urquhart – 1990 Reviewed by: Dave Date: 5 December 2002 Everyone in this novel is obsessive-compulsive, and they are SO obsessive that they compulsed me to stay behind in the trees so...
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The Stone Carvers – Jane Urquhart
The Stone Carvers – Jane Urquhart – 2001 Reviewed by: D.W. Cymbalisty Date: 1 September 2001 The Stone Carvers is an amazing book. Ah, I just loved it… LOVED IT. If this book were a movie, the first s...
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Away – Jane Urquhart
Away – Jane Urquhart – 1993 Reviewed by: Lale Date: 24 August 2001 I read Away four years ago when I was living in Ottawa. I mention that I was living in Ottawa, because the story, which starts in Ireland j...
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Vaudeville! Music Hall! – Gaétan Soucy
Vaudeville! Music Hall! – Gaétan Soucy – 2002 Reviewed by: Lale Eskicioglu Date: 5 December 2004 This was one of the top ten worst books I have ever read. I apologize to my friends to whom I have given this...
