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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Mar 14, 2018 17:08:42 GMT
anyone a fan?
sadly, never read the dude.
if anyone has a suggestion as to what his best books are---please advise! thx.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2018 17:15:24 GMT
The only book i have read by him is Germinal which i thought was a good book.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Mar 14, 2018 22:10:28 GMT
The only book i have read by him is Germinal which i thought was a good book. cool. thank you.
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Post by karryon99v2 on Mar 15, 2018 0:31:00 GMT
I would recommend both Germinal and Therese Raquin.
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Post by darknessfish on Mar 15, 2018 9:20:28 GMT
I'd have to say that Germinal is probably his masterpiece, from what I've read, but Therese Raquin and L'Assommoir are also superb pieces of literature. The Earth was a lot more heavy going, and miserable even by Zola's standards.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Mar 22, 2018 4:04:10 GMT
thanks for the additional recs!
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Post by staggerstag on Jun 11, 2019 23:37:45 GMT
I'd deffo recommend Therese Raquin. Ain't read nothing else by him but that was a smasher, very entertaining and easy to finish.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Jun 11, 2019 23:59:28 GMT
I'd deffo recommend Therese Raquin. Ain't read nothing else by him but that was a smasher, very entertaining and easy to finish. Nice! Thanks!
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Post by novastar6 on Jun 12, 2019 5:05:34 GMT
Name sounds familiar but none of the titles ring a bell.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 15, 2019 16:19:34 GMT
I love many films based on his books but sadly haven't read much of his work. He's high on my list of writers to get to - French literature is filled with extraordinary writing talents, you could spend a lifetime exploring.
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Post by cooly44 on Jun 22, 2019 12:06:01 GMT
There are about 20 books in his Rougon-Macquart series, which comprises all the books mentioned in this thread. The series follows a couple of families through several generations. If youβre feeling ambitious you could read the whole shooting match. I know someone who did.
Iβve only read about five of them.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Jul 6, 2019 0:12:12 GMT
There are about 20 books in his Rougon-Macquart series, which comprises all the books mentioned in this thread. The series follows a couple of families through several generations. If youβre feeling ambitious you could read the whole shooting match. I know someone who did. Iβve only read about five of them. sound good! ---thanks!
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Post by amyghost on Jul 9, 2019 13:00:14 GMT
Prolific writer, of whom I've only read a small fraction. I've heard his technique described as being dull naturalism, but I recall sitting out in a garden one hot summer's day reading the opening chapter of Nana, which delineates the backstage preparations at a seedy French theater (where the title character is introduced) as being almost hallucinogenic in its description and claustrophobic, gas-lit atmosphere. Maybe the warm day and the setting had something to do with the impression the book left on me, but, sordid as the subject matter can be, I'd still rank this as one of the most engrossing novels I've read.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Dec 20, 2019 21:48:26 GMT
Prolific writer, of whom I've only read a small fraction. I've heard his technique described as being dull naturalism, but I recall sitting out in a garden one hot summer's day reading the opening chapter of Nana, which delineates the backstage preparations at a seedy French theater (where the title character is introduced) as being almost hallucinogenic in its description and claustrophobic, gas-lit atmosphere. Maybe the warm day and the setting had something to do with the impression the book left on me, but, sordid as the subject matter can be, I'd still rank this as one of the most engrossing novels I've read. very nice---i will have to check it out! thanks.
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