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Tom Wolfe - ME, CHARLOTTE SIMMONS

When, laboriously, a success story must get out of the cocoon of mediocrity an incorrigible scribbler ...

Tom Wolfe is first - and hopefully , finally - a journalist. Whoever goes well, through its success across the Atlantic, the inventor of New Journalism (the same as the old but certainly longer "chébran" or something of that ilk).
Okay, easy caricature. But I do not feel right. Why? Because I went after those pesky thousand pages of literary poverty!

First pitch. Charlotte Simmons is a small hick stuck, intellectual pride of his high school mountain, who won his ticket to Dupont, the most prestigious university in the country. So it expects to penetrate the inner sanctum of culture and knowledge, there are other breast and penetrations that will program the den of debauchery and vulgarity among the gothic walls of buildings grouses.
Tom Wolfe wants a portrait of contemporary American student life. And there certainly managed well, the trip is indeed surprising. Number of top experts have praised its realism, even naturalism should we say.

It is imperative to emphasize the quality of the bottom of the story. We discover a world of appearances which collapses the omerta of the campus that fall and the worst truths that are spread out before us, the public square. The characters are well drawn too. They are incredibly endearing, despite the endless vapidity of the poor heroine, sometimes jovial maid, sometimes shameless depressed.

But deuce, it's all poorly written! Certainly concede that the author employs the "real" language of the young United States, an emphasis that we know before we even start reading. But dozens of "fuck" and its variations by pages are not the worst. You get used. No, the Apocalypse is in use absolutely barbaric, even grotesque, punctuation! In an attempt to make us "hear" the accent, the punctuation is regularly reversed, resulting in fatigue tremendously. Worse, the author never learned to use an ellipsis. It bombards us, do not use that to stop along the way sentences to simply move more easily in the next paragraph! Point of rhythm, that's useful!

I barely dare mention the poverty of his images. Once it finds one that works, all happy, and serves it pours for three or four sentences, chewed and chewed, substantive value on about better.
pity for the characters! Read this book will eventually end up in my opinion a way to rescue people, or at least share their plight. I felt the spirit of a pilgrim helping to raise their poor parent, this cross that masked their profound quality.

Paradoxical. I do not know whether to recommend this book. But I do not recommend it either.

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Armistead Maupin - A VOICE IN THE NIGHT

And if love had neither age, nor head, nor any other reality than that which holds us to the heart?

It took me a year to come to immerse myself in a book of Maupin, again. Not that the author disappointed me - unthinkable! The Chronicles of San Francisco were of such quality at the checkout of my "masterpiece" favorite that disappointment had come to me whisper sweet fear. And if out of his famous Californian of the 80 chronic, post-hippies and joyously crazy at a time when the Internet was just a dream AIDS is an urban legend, this author does not lecture became a scribbler on return, an old man who refused to grow old, become so daring libidinous.

Well no, we are reassured, Maupin is great! I never really doubted, it is good sometimes to concoct small fears to rekindle a flame that will consume us as surely as the sun shines on this beautiful summer.

Gabriel No one is a celebrity, a successful author of a soap opera and many bestsellers. But at his advanced age, life is not yet what it was. His marriage broke. Ten years since he Jess lives with a beautiful male much younger than he took in a new spirit, a second youth who moves away from the big house with a husband and an old sick dog in the garden, to new adventures mornings and leather piercings. Gabriel knows he can not rebuild his life. So he clings to his end of the couple as to his sudden disillusionment creative: the page is definitely white. This is a young boy of thirteen, Pete, who head out of water. In the manuscript written by a young boy wounded by life, Gabriel will discover the horrors that would previously have imagined. But There is also the power of a kid now very sick and in pain of love, healthy, protective: paternal. Their conversations become more frequent, the thousands of miles separating them make sense Pete is he really? Is it not an invention of his enigmatic adoptive mother? Gabriel is the only one to believe and understand that boy, or only to get caught up in the end in a perverse set of tracks?

The number of questions raised by this masterpiece of the master of gay literature equal the intelligence of his answers or it leads us to build. Can you blame him for not giving any clear from the many springs of his plot? Somehow lose the drive on the last chapters? No, of course. Because beyond a story, this is for everyone to find their own answers, to confront his demons and his convictions to the vicissitudes of the human world.

All loves are surveyed here: the filial and paternal lack of love, love of others as self-love, disillusionment sexual too - the author has matured incredibly since the Chronicles. In a San Francisco has lost its splendor and stored some of his many balls faceted, it is in the light of a new projector that Maupin takes us into life, in the head, men. Simply.

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Donna Tartt - THE MASTER OF ILLUSIONS

ink distilled from the scalpel: Anatomy of the Spirit, the need for the unthinkable.

My passion for contemporary American literature is particularly strong in the summer time. Sun, sand, waves that scour the illusions, corrosion masks ... Summer lends itself to readings Automne or winter would not have allowed to try, they are cautious, heavy rains from October to frost in March, only scholars have their place on my bedside student.
month of August bringing with him any bad conscience - why a new novel while those treated colossal legal theory have been waiting for centuries under a pile of dust? - I started here in this novel, unearthed by the merest chance. A catchy title, a fourth cover upon presentable for once.

Aside: when the house will decide Folio does understand that some lines taken at random, as brilliant as they were, placed behind a book unknown alarm nobody new readers to their pages that are foreign?

Enough digressions: Donna Tartt is a brilliant pen. That is said, bluntly. And this may suffice for me to jump on the book. Not you? Well, then I insist.
Lord of Illusions presents a bunch of students a few specific campus of Hampden, Vermont. They have this peculiarity that they are seven followers of a single teacher in charge of the drive towards a degree in Ancient Greek. Seven students, a teacher, an office. The story is narrated by Richard, a brave Californian innocent, immaculate in white, to whom it will take forever to understand that its surrounding facades are just straw, a heap of illusions.
Who takes the reins? Julian, the tutor a little strange - you can not help but think of Robin Williams in The Dead Poets Society. Henry, the enigmatic head of the group, rich, generous but impenetrable? Francis, good shoulder on which each sits a little? Charles and Camilla, twins whose beauty is unparalleled and impeccable manners? Bunny, the bantering that all dunce world likes it anyway?

Admittedly, the exhibition is a bit long. Richard, the narrator a candid, arrived on campus in the normal course before joining this group. A comprehensive study of climate and indigenous habits gives us a comparison provided very California / Vermont. And the characters emerge. With precision but also with some confusion. Seven protagonists is a lot. And a multitude of recurring minor characters - we must all these people to fill seven hundred pages. Do not expect that stylistic analysis means schematically as "the modifying element" the initial situation before a very good quarter of the book. And locate them among the few portraits before that time be tough but worth it hang: the plot is revealed exciting, breathless. Donna Tartt

decrypts with unparalleled attention to detail the workings of crime - which, do not count on me to tell you! The unspeakable becomes necessary, the unthinkable is unavoidable, impregnable. And all this practically in real time, within seven points of view and at least through the eyes of a narrator irreproachable initially neutral, perfectly innocent, a bit manipulated, chouille an idiot on the edges.

is a masterpiece whose film adaptation, scheduled for a moment, waiting. A great moment of reading, a modern epic long matured and intelligent - the author has taken ten years to write. Do not put all to read.

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Head in the pages!

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