The Léviatemps, Maxime Chattam

The story: Too much desire death, broiled soul. Paris, 1900. Prisoner of its success, a writer decides to leave everything to go deep in his nightmares, its depths, explore what is worst in him. In this fertile fears hides the matrix monsters buried in us all. A Leviathan Shadow, a golem of violence. Guy wanted to dig up the dirt Timaeus, he will meet with evil. Esoteric circles of the capital to the excesses of the Expo, the beginning of the twentieth century inspires Maxime Chattam hallucinated a thriller where the progress of science feed the madness of lost souls in search of eternity.


Impressions: I always wondered how an author with such a pretty face and an air of perfect in-law could also have distorted ideas ..... Maxime Chattam takes us once again in a solid thriller, well constructed and bloody wish. His art lies in attention to detail, where chance has no place.
We both ride in a complex investigation and convincing, but in a Paris reconstituted with brio, the reader is totally immersed in that time. I read the book, a map of Paris by hand to try to identify the places he is talking about .. (Yes I know I've got all ..:))
A criminal investigation although difficult for his characters, a beautiful archaeological survey for the reader.
Nice work once again!

Philippe Claudel Survey

History: The Investigator is responsible for a mission in the Enterprise, it happens in a city where it loses its bearings. Concern the win. What happens to him on? Who are these people?

I RINTING: Future, so they do not include 

A worthy heir to Kafka and Aldous Huxley to whom he borrowed themes and atmosphere in a nightmarish fable and oppressive. The author takes us on a journey to the border of madness and absurdity. The reader is sucked, chewed, heckled, turn-balled by a current that leads the hero to nowhere. A powerful experience that sounds like a cry of alarm about the meaning of our lives.

A must read ...

'In each of these boxes, he said to himself, he is a man, a man like him, who had been heckled, abused, we had been led to expect, which had been led to believe he had a mission to fill a role to play, a place to exist, we did mess around, humiliated, belittled, which had been designated the fragility of his condition, his memories and his convictions, an investigator may or be claimed as a man who now shouted and banged against the walls and nobody could help him ....'

Suite (s) imperial (s), Bret Easton Ellis

The sequel, 25 years after "less than zero '... The author of trashy'American Psycho 'known for his novels always on the border of fantasy and good taste was highly anticipated .. Unfortunately he does not sign here a landmark book ...

Clay, quarantine, returned to Los Angeles for vague reasons of work, he found 25 years after his former friends become unrecognizable by plastic surgery. Used as a screenwriter, he lets himself be enchanted by a young actress who thinks that missed its charms replace his lack of talent.
All the action takes place among these people desperate to get someone hoping to become .. Pathetic characters in sordid circumstances, readers journey into the world (im) pathetic show business.
But the mayonnaise does not ....
The action is disjointed, unconvincing plot, the book sounds a bit hollow.
In short: bof, bof ....
You can expect that kind of pocket that one!

The color of feelings, Kathryn Stockett

History: Among Whites in Jackson, Mississippi, it is black who are cleaning, cooking and caring for children. It is 1962, racial laws are authoritative.
A young middle-class white and two black good. Nobody would believe in their friendship. Yet driven by a secret desire to change things, despite the fear, they will unite their destinies, and in secret to write a story upsetting. Exciting, funny, poignant, this book has conquered America with its unforgettable characters. Sold over two million copies, this first novel became a cultural phenomenon in America.

Impressions: I see your mines already skeptical, even a book blaming and moralizing. Another book well in tune with the times, and a little easier sopo. You're tired of the box of Uncle Tom .....
Well, you're wrong ....
This book is a marvel ...
The author does not stop that the relationship between communities (in this incredible environment of the twentieth century it said ..) but offers a reflection on the Status of Women in the South where conservative. Without dogmatism, this book is intended as an overview of a melancholy that nothing has rocked the youth of Kathryn Stockett.

There is no subject more risky for a writer of the South that the affection between a person black and one white in the unequal world of segregation. Because the dishonesty on which is founded a company makes suspect all emotion, making it impossible to know whether what was exchanged between two persons was a loyal sense of pity or pragmatism. Howell Raines.

But this book is not a treaty sociological and far!
The characters are likeable, the situations ring true, humor underlying and omnipresent About lightens and gives a healthy distance on a topic that may seem cumbersome.

I read in one go and I'm sure you will do the same ....

Demolition notices, Frederick Montlouis-Felicite

Here's a small wonder by a member of the small literary bf.

This is the first book of the author.

Eight new black all over and well written as each other.

Eight characters representing various aspects of our society.

Eight figures a chilling because nothing terribly close to us.

The topics are serious and grim, the style is still light and fast. To find out, hoping that there will be more ...

The man who stopped writing, Marc-Edouard Nabe: Grand Nabe

Author: Marc-Edouard Nabe, 51, 28 pounds to the counter, enfant terrible of French literature. Wherever he goes, everybody passes away. He likes to "kill" in his books, being a lover or understatement or restraint .... At age 27 he managed to commit suicide on mediatically "apostrophe" where he screams his hatred of licra and small écrivailleux untalented. He screams his love for Celine and Rebatet .... Suffice to say that the politically correct do not like it ....
Yet, his last book was shortlisted for the prize Renaudot ... He who no longer wish to cook something up with the publishing world has chosen to self-publish and self-distribute ... Do not look for it on the gondolas of bookstores he does not want to be .... It is for anti-publishing ....


The story: As you stop smoking, the narrator is the author decides to stop writing.Forced to leave his house he met a young blogger who leads in a succession of facets of Parisian life.
Without taking a breath, the reader is drawn into a vision of a decaying Paris where the poor and the virtual model is made a new life.

Impressions: Nabe was dead, long live !!!!! Nabe
Unable to close the book. The 700 pages can be read in one sitting. The torture of a beautiful book in a chapter written with genius!
In the manner of a slightly crazy Pausanias, the author stumbled and staggered traveler, we will discover what makes the world 'intellectual' today. We meet hundreds of characters known or unknown ... It "kills" with lightness and engineering all the people he meets, through their showing their weaknesses ....
You walk into places trendy 'place to be, facebook Jack Bauer, the new codes of' hipness' seen with the decline of a man that his time left.
Far from being just a settling of accounts (what his detractors accuse him), the author provides plenty of humor with a review of our sad world ...

This amateur loves to play jazz with the music of words, the rhythm of sentences. The style is very fast, the sentences are short and punchy.
A free-form jazz literary underlying melody and catchy that gives this novel the size of a Great.
Mr. Nabe, continue to stop writing we will continue to stop you ... Until next time!

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Djoliba, a river of blood. Alain Wagneur

The third installment of the adventures of Richard Zamanski. It is this time facing the world's French-African and sordid political shenanigans.
The Niger River in Bamako on the banks called Djoliba (river of blood) ... The commander put in a closet Zamanski provincial resumed service after the suicide of a strange old friend ... The drama apparently the result of his ordinary quiet little seaside town on the banks of the River Niger where he will be faced with the horror.

A very dark thriller, an author who masters his subject. A plot in surprising denouement. All the ingredients are there for fans of literary thrills ....

Cold alters the trajectory of the fish, Pierre Szalowski

The book pretty for the souls of children in search of good feelings and happy endings.

Abstract: A 10 year old boy learns that her parents will separate. He begged the sky for help. It will be understood literally since unprecedented ice storm descends on the city.
This deluge of ice will benefit all those around the boy and gradually changing for the better.

Yes you are not dreaming, yes I praised a book that ends well, where everyone becomes nice and the world becomes beautiful ... Why? Because this book is good.The style is never mawkish, always touching. The eyes of this child that we've all been solace drive and restore confidence in the future ...
A book that makes you want that winter happens ....