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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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| Part No: | 1933372605 |
| Manufacturer: | Europa Editions |
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| Customer Rating: | 3.5 / 5.0 |
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- ISBN13: 9781933372600
- Condition: New
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| I wanted to like this... | 2010-08-31 | 1 / 5 |
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| I was intrigued by the concept of this book. And after reading some reviews I decided to purchase it. However, the only reason I was able to finish it is because each chapter is 2 - 4 pages long. So I could read a chapter or two, stop, come back, read some more, stop, etc. Each chapter is as pretentious as the next. As an example, I just opened up the book to a random page: "But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed." Those sentences actually express the problem with this book. If there were a few passages like that, it might have been an interesting read. But every chapter, seemingly every paragraph, is written like that. |
| Would not recommend....DULL | 2010-08-31 | 2 / 5 |
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| I made it 100 or so pages in and decided life is too short to read a book that I don't enjoy. The book never drew me in and I felt like the author was overly wordy and it was a chore to get through page after page. Would not recommend. |
| Brand new condition | 2010-08-30 | 5 / 5 |
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| It took a while to get the book, but it was in brand new condition. |
| One fine book | 2010-08-28 | 5 / 5 |
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| This was a most enjoyable read with fine language and the most interesting of characters. I believe there is a little hedgehog in all of us. |
| The Elegance of the Novel | 2010-08-28 | 4 / 5 |
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Every once in a while a novel comes along that propriety tells me to just let alone, recommend with a suitable rating, then leave to the reader to accept and explore for themselves. The sublime qualities of Ms Barbery's book make me reluctant to make any effort to contextualize it, or somehow do justice to what's presented by way of a review.
So I'm going to limit myself to these two paragraphs and say that I was enchanted, I was challenged, I was made to feel included, I was made to laugh, to cry...to take a fresh look at humanity, at walking through this world with grace...at the sometime-need to 'reboot' and live Life from an entirely renewed perspective. I offer my thanks to the author for this opportunity.
Personal rating: 9/10 |
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