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Alexia
Nov 17, 2012 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics
Would I recommend this book. Sadly, no.

There is a good book in there, an amazing tale of a man trudging through life and doing the best he can. A tale of how sometimes, irrelevant of how hard you try, sometimes life will crush you. Those parts were dazzling.

However they were too few and far in between. Sometimes I got the impression that the author just loved the sound of his own voice. As in, do we really need a step by step description of the Battle of Waterloo? Do we need a detailed descripti
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Lukas
Jul 12, 2011 marked it as to-read
Shelves: owned
Melissa
Jul 13, 2011 rated it really liked it
Kim Ashby
Jul 21, 2011 marked it as to-read
Marie
Jul 25, 2011 rated it liked it
Catherine
Jul 26, 2011 marked it as to-read
Tesoro
Aug 03, 2011 marked it as to-read
Taunia Piknjac Phillips
Aug 09, 2011 rated it it was amazing
Anthony
Aug 18, 2011 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: language
R
Aug 20, 2011 is currently reading it
Shelves: french-classics
Becky Aitchison
Oct 22, 2011 rated it really liked it
Victoria
Jan 12, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Denise
Feb 14, 2012 marked it as to-read
Phoebe
May 22, 2012 marked it as to-read
Siddhi
Nov 01, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Michelle
Dec 11, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Kate Jenian
Dec 18, 2012 marked it as to-read
Greta
Dec 23, 2012 marked it as to-read
Erica
Jan 05, 2013 marked it as to-read
Sherri
Jan 06, 2013 marked it as to-read
Jeff Curtis
Jan 13, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: my-kindle
Ika Quiliem
Feb 05, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: own
Deborah
Mar 05, 2013 marked it as to-read
Deborah
Mar 12, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Trish
Jan 29, 2014 marked it as to-read