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Candide, ou L'optimisme, - Community Reviews back

by Voltaire
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Bloody Shambles
Bloody Shambles rated it 13 years ago
Updated - On hold for a bit until my stuff arrives from Canberra. I couldn't bring as many books up north with me as I'd have liked.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What an awesome find at the book grocer's! Voltaire AND Chris Ware in one book. It...
Sparkles and Lightning
Sparkles and Lightning rated it 13 years ago
Review coming soon!
UNICORN PORN FOR ALL
UNICORN PORN FOR ALL rated it 14 years ago
Dizzying! Voltaire moves fast. Now Candide's in El Dorado in Paraguay...three pages later he's in Venice. I have the impression Voltaire gets bored easily.And I don't think it would hurt to read this twice: once with all the footnotes and once without. They're important; this is one of those boo...
Books by the Lake
Books by the Lake rated it 14 years ago
This was pretty much the last thing that Voltaire wrote, and in it he summed up what he thought of a lifetime's experiences of politics, travels, and futile philosophical debates. He was more merciless than ever in puncturing pieties, hypocrisies, whitewash jobs, optimistic delusions, and well-meani...
The Moth Eaten Shelf
The Moth Eaten Shelf rated it 15 years ago
The cover lead me to buy it, and now I think that is why it is still sitting on my shelf. I didn't laugh at all while reading it; perhaps life imitates art too much or maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind to full enjoy it. Though I wonder, as I laugh at the SNL skits of the Penelope character, ...
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