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Pierre Boulle

Born

in Avignon, France

February 21, 1912

Died

January 30, 1994

Genre

Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Autobiography

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Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French novelist best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963) that were both made into award-winning films.

Boulle was an engineer serving as a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore, when he was captured and subjected to two years' forced labour. He used these experiences in The Bridge over the River Kwai, about the notorious Death Railway, which became an international bestseller. The film by David Lean won many Oscars, and Boulle was credited with writing the screenplay, because its two genuine authors had been blacklisted.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 51,138 ratings · 2,935 reviews · 113 distinct works • Similar authors

	Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle, Xan Fielding (Translator) 3.98 avg rating — 40,295 ratings — published 1963 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle, Xan Fielding (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 9,462 ratings — published 1952 — 189 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ألعاب العلماء by Pierre Boulle, محمد عبد المنعم جلال (ترجمة) 2.97 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1971 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time Out of Mind 3.62 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1953 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Garden on the Moon 3.68 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1964 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Whale of the Victoria Cross 3.59 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1983 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'archéologue et le mystère de Néfertiti 3.28 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Photographer by Pierre Boulle, Xan Fielding (Translator) 3.62 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1967 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Noble Profession by Pierre Boulle, Xan Fielding (Translator) 3.54 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1960 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Virtues of Hell by Pierre Boulle, Patricia Wolf (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1974 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There's always some further action to take.”
― Pierre Boulle

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“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.”
― Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes

tags: apes, books, imitation, language, theme, writing

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“I racked my brains to discover some sense in the events I had witnessed. I needed this intellectual exercise to escape from the despair that haunted me, to prove to myself that I was a man, I mean a man from Earth, a reasoning creature who made it a habit to discover a logical explanation for the apparently miraculous whims of nature, and not a beast hunted down by highly developed apes.”
― Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes

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Which Of These SCI-FI OR FANTASY Books Would You Like To See As One Of Our Group Read Options For The Summer 2010 Challenge?

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

51 votes, 26.7%

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

39 votes, 20.4%

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

27 votes, 14.1%

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

17 votes, 8.9%

Dune by Frank Herbert

14 votes, 7.3%

Dreams Underfoot (Newford, #1) by Charles de Lint

12 votes, 6.3%

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

10 votes, 5.2%

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

10 votes, 5.2%

So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane

7 votes, 3.7%

Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle

4 votes, 2.1%

191 total votes

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