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Le Père Goriot
Guerre et Paix
Boule de suif
Cyrano de Bergerac
Les stagiaires
Pyxis est une société dynamique qui incarne le rêve de nombreux jeunes passionnés par la culture des jeux vidéo et des mangas. Tous les six mois, l’entreprise voit arriver des stagiaires issus d’horizons variés. Ophélie, provinciale fraîchement débarquée et perdue, Arthur, étudiant en école de commerce souhaitant faire une parenthèse dans la finance… Tous aspirent à la même chose : obtenir un emploi à l’issue de cette période. Néanmoins, les recrutements se font rares.
Etudiante en école de commerce, stagiaire il y a 6 mois et stagiaire à nouveau dans 3 mois, j’ai lu ma biographie aujourd’hui. L’année de césure, la question du prestige du prochain stage, les soirées foireuses du BDE, les possibilités d’embauche qui n’aboutissent pas, l’afterwork du jeudi soir, le déménagement pour un stage sous-payé quitte…
50 Shades of Grey
How Watson learned the trick
This lavish cloth-bound gift edition faithfully recreates in beautiful detail the Sherlock Holmes…
This story is about half a page long, and it’s hilarious. I love how Conan Doyle obviously hates the character he created himself, and how he makes fun of his own work!
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
The dead rise…
A mysterious incident in Russia, a blip buried in the news—it’s the only warning humanity receives that civilization will soon be destroyed by a single, voracious virus that creates monsters of men.
Humanity falls…
A lawyer, still grieving over the death of his young wife, begins to write as a form of therapy. But he never expected that his anonymous blog would ultimately record humanity’s last days.
The end of the world has begun…
Governments scramble to stop the zombie virus, people panic, so-called “Safe Havens” are established, the world erupts into chaos; soon it’s every man, woman, and child for themselves. Armed only with makeshift weapons and the will to live, a lone survivor will give mankind one last chance against…
I didn’t think any zombie book could be as good as World War Z. This one wasn’t either. But hey, it was much better than most others I’ve read.
The Martian
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.
Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first.
But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?
A brilliant read. Sometimes, the humour gets heavy, but the scientific detail is just amazing, and never gets tiring even though it can at times be pretty technical. This book was very obviously written for an on-screen adaptation, but it still reads very easily.