Top 10 Livres selon LookingGlass

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"The moviegoer"

A man, a bit too detached from the world, must take care of his young cousin , who suffers from depression. This book touches me. each time. All the time. This quiet learning of compassion, this astute observation of society, this baffling irony that pervades all the narration, all this rings a perfect tone and sends me high... So frigging brilliant...

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"the logic of life"

One of the most beautiful books i have ever read... An amazing epistemological voyage in th world of biology and its history. One discovers the complexity of the world, in a book that reminds me of the "The words and the things " of Michel Foucault.

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To read "In remembrance of things past" is to perform a rite of passage. the reading is at first shaky, tricky, then it gets fluid, till it becomes a stream that rejoins a wider river. and along the shores are showing defining moments of our own existence, when we thought we were reading Proust's life. This book is a cathedral that breathes to the rhythm of Proust's prose, but is full of the echoes of our own personal experiences.

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One of the most refined writings in the French language. You read it like you drink a good wine...

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"The opposing shore"

Classic story on the theme of the Desert of the Tartars, but told in a language as precise as diamond. A masterpiece of style and beauty...

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"The end of times"

There is no perfect Murakami novel, he always seems to fall short in his endings... Except in this amazing book, which contains the same strangeness we are used to from him, but also a precision and a poetry superbly mastered. Here, not a single error, his magic operates from the first page to the very last line, in the country where shadows cry...

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"Autumn in Beijing"

The best Boris Vian. The sharpest also, with this drama that plays out in an improbable desert where a railroad is being built. Vian offers a magic that speaks to us all, for every moments of our lives...

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Feeling blue this morning? Not to worry, just read this beautiful collection of poetry, issued from the blood and the tears of the daily American adventure and explode with life and joy and a healthy happy spirituality. You won't stay blue very long, I promise!

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"The Wasp Factory"

Be brave and face the Wasp factory, the most underestimated book of English literature (but it is present in all the good lists). It is about a child that kills everyone around, it is cruel, it is vicious, it is superbly narrated and it is touching... Banks was the best author in the English language.

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"Slaughter-house 5"

An American soldier is caught under the Dresden bombings, this crime against mankind perpetrated by the allies in 1944. And he becomes "unstuck" in Time, living simultaneously different periods of his life, including his incarceration on the planet Trafalmagore. Sounds weird? It is weird. And it is amazing, quite simply amazing...