Camus: L'Envers Et L'Endroit and L'Exil Et Le Royaume (Critical Guides to French Texts, No 47)

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Camus: L'Envers Et L'Endroit and L'Exil Et Le Royaume (Critical Guides to French Texts, No 47)
Peter Dunwoodie
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L'Exil Et Le Royaume (Folio)
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus 6: Camus Nouvelliste - l`Exil et le Royaume sous la direction de Brian T. Fitch (Revue des Lettres Modernes, #360/365)
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus: De L'Envers et L'endroit a L'Exil et Le Royaume
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Camus nouvelliste;: L'exil et le royaume (La Revue des lettres modernes, nos 360-365. Albert Camus, 6)
Brian T Fitch
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Das Exil und das Reich [L'Exil et le Royaume]
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DE L'ENVERS DE L'ENDROIT A L'EXIL ET LE ROYAUME

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L'\Exil et le Royaume
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
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Return now to the world of Recluce in The Towers of the Sunset

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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

Creslin chafes under the restrictions placed upon him in the matriarchal society he lives in. Therefore, he bails. Maybe he should have stayed where he was, because capture, privation, arranged marriage and political and power problems as the leader of a new society are no bed of roses.

This story shows the founding of the 'Black' magician society of Recluce.

So hard to read..........2006-02-16

If I had to sum up my opinion of this book in one word, it would be this: terrible. I don't use that word lightly or flippanlty, but I mean it in this case.

I read somewhere in an interview with Modesitt that he has gone through 3 failed marriages and 6 "headstrong" daughters. I certainly think this has influenced his writing. The main character in the book, Creslin, starts out as a very weak male character in a matriarchal society. The problem I have with this is that Modesitt reverses traditional gender roles in this book. I suspect that he does this for political reasons, which is his right as the author, but I personally found it very unappealing.

The lead female character in the story, Megeaera, is bound to Creslin through magic. She can hear his thoughts. She's attractive, and he does have impure thoughts about her. She always reacts very negatively at this, and attacks him for his stray thoughts (I said impure, but some are merely noticing her beauty). When she makes unchaste comments about his appearance, it's okay. This one sided morality becomes not only frustrating but also rather annoying.

Modesitt's writing style is also hard to read. The book is seperated into three sections, with 536 pages. With 144 chapters (the last section is filled with chapters ranging in length from less than a page to under ten pages) the story becomes very choppy and highly fragmented. Many chapters offer little to further the over all plot, some with information that could simply be done away with. The last section details the efforts at building Recluce into a viable nation, but settles on the mundane details such as crops and masonry. It made for a very boring read. (One particularly aggravating obsession of Modesitt is the constant need of the characters to "wash up." Far too much space is taken througout the book describing "washing up" from various chores).

Over all, the book was far too long for the plot, and filled with hard to read and choppy information so detailed as to be completely irrelevant. Save $7.99 and buy something more worthy of your money.

One last note--as in his first book in the series "The Magic of Recluce", Modesitt offers a somewhat graphic description of female anatomy during one scene. Although not "pornographic" in nature, I would describe it as impure or unchaste.

Best one of the Series.......2006-01-15

I loved this book. I have read it cover to cover a few times and get something a little more of the book. Highly recommend this entire series, but if you just need a book to pick up this one is for you too!!

Fantastic - I expected no less.......2005-04-26

Reviewers who have derided this book for its 2nd-person point of view should avoid anything else they find written in the 2nd-person. I will continue to love this style because it puts you right in the driver's seat. It gives you a sense of immediacy that, when used properly, contributes to the sense that the book you are reading is a "page turner". Towers Of Sunset is a page turner, in my opinion.

Good points:
1) As with all of Modesitt's main characters, he is smart, dangerous, and a good person. And best of all - he doesn't know it. He's a hero, plain and simple. His biggest weaknesses are ignorance and uncertainty. I kind of like this because we the reader discover things with him, and overcome obstacles with him (or that's how it feels at any rate).
2) I'm a sucker for romance in a novel, and he has it in this one. It wasn't perfectly executed, but I don't mind filling in the blanks.
3) This should have been the first point, and if I'd written a review for the first book it would have, but here goes: the whole order/chaos thing is PERFECT. I'm sick of good vs. evil. Its an amazing and amazingly executed concept. I might write a review of the first book and go more into this.
4) I'm sort of a sucker for a story-writing-trick that Modesitt uses (in all his books), which is: he likes to have his main characters overhearing other people going "oooh!" and "ahh!" about him when they think he can't hear. This is how we learn how amazing the character is. That and/or they say to him, "What manner of wizard are you...?" Sure, its a little transparant, but its cool. Creslin CAN throw storms around, after all, so its not entirely unbelievable.
5) Actually, this point should have been put first (heh): the book, and his others too, show incredible detail on the objects with which humans interact. That is, if there's a table in the room, its not just a table - its a "better-than-average white-oak table with an attempt at a design on the top and which has seen some rough use." This goes for people's clothes, saddle-bags, buckets, etc. etc. The first book started this trend - Lerris was a wood-worker as well as a wizard (which was reason enough to buy the first book - totally different take on a fantasy character).

Bad points (my policy is to write negative comments on all books, despite how much I loved them):
1) Modesitt is fascinated with matriarchal societies, men vs. women, femenism here, machismo there....and its sometimes distracting. The larger powers in this book - the nations - each have different ideas on a woman's role, a man's role, etc., and I just found it to be a distraction. Not major, but still a distraction. It worked better in his novels of the world of "Corus" for some reason.
2) Sometimes I'm not sure who is talking, who is feeling what, etc., in this book. He just needed to re-work the structure of some of the paragraphs a little, but that's about it.
3) This isn't a bad point so much as a wish list to be fulfilled as I read the rest of the series: I want more to be revealed about the spiritual world. We hear of angels and demons in this story, but they don't make any cameos. I just wonder if its mythology, if magic's the only supernatural thing, etc.

Here we go again........2005-01-10

This book really just mirrors the story in the first book. Young lad ventures out into the world, learns how to control and use his powers, and confronts the enemy in the last chapter.

Even worse this book is a prequel to the first book, so unless you've read the first book recently, you're likely to be a little lost in the beginning. Although the story is mostly self-contained.

Towers of the Sunset still uses the really good background of Order vs Chaos introduced in the first book, but it just tells the same story again.

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Towers of the Sunset :Recluce 2
L E Jr Modesitt
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The View from Sunset Towers
Kent R. Brown
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Hollywood wrap star: sheath over Sunset & Vine Tower serves as giant display for Motorola.(News & Analysis): An article from: Los Angeles Business Journal

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Hollywood wrap star: sheath over Sunset & Vine Tower serves as giant display for Motorola.(News & Analysis): An article from: Los Angeles Business Journal
Daniel Miller
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Rooftop fire turns Sunset Tower into even hotter property.(Santa Monica Doubletree Guest Suites.): An article from: Los Angeles Business Journal

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Rooftop fire turns Sunset Tower into even hotter property.(Santa Monica Doubletree Guest Suites.): An article from: Los Angeles Business Journal
Andy Fixmer
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The Recluce Series: The Magic of Recluce, The Towers of Sunset, The Magic Engineer, (Set of 4)

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The Recluce Series: The Magic of Recluce, The Towers of Sunset, The Magic Engineer, (Set of 4)
Jr L. E. Modesitt
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3 Titles By L.E. Modesitt, Jr. Saga of the Recluce (2-4) : 2. The Towers of Sunset 3. The Magic Engineer 4. The Order War

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3 Titles By L.E. Modesitt, Jr. Saga of the Recluce (2-4) : 2. The Towers of Sunset 3. The Magic Engineer 4. The Order War
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Sunset Towers/Don Everly
Don Cdravn 74 Everly
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The Towers of the Sunset
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Pleasant Surprise.......2007-06-22

It's been my experience that "Pro Fic" isn't exceptionally well written. However, Day of Descent proves the stereotype wrong. Set in the minutes/hours just following the show cliffhanger "Green Eyes" this book details how the Teconese actually crash landed in the Mojave. It gives a lot of detail about George and his family while exploring slavery. We get to meet rookie detective Matt Sikes and see how he's initially drawn into the plight of the Newcomers.

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Excellent for a fan of the show!!.......2001-05-15

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Arab Politics, Palestinian Nationalism and the Six Day War: The Crystallization of Arab Strategy and Nasir's Descent to War, 1957-1967
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Cancer! the Day Time Stood Still: An American With African Descent Brown Eyes View

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Surviving!

Cancer! the Day Time Stood Still: An American With African Descent Brown Eyes View
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Surviving!.......2004-09-07

Cancer is a word that strikes fear into the hearts of those who are diagnosed with this deadly disease. Antoinette Greene was devastated when she was diagnosed with not one, but two forms, lung and breast cancer. The prognosis began a crucial time in her life and she had to decide if she was going to let cancer beat her or if she was going to conquer cancer. Antoinette thought, as we all do, that awful things like this happened to other people and then she realized that to someone else, she was 'other people'.

After much prayer and forethought Antoinette decides that she is not going to let cancer rule her life, she is determined to be the victor in the battle for her life. She suffers through countless chemotherapy and radiation treatments, pain and loss, but yet she persevered.

CANCER! THE DAY TIME STOOD STILL: AN AMERICAN WITH AFRICAN DESCENT BROWN EYES VIEW is an amazing story of a brave woman who wanted to share her story with the world, so she could help others. While the book is very informative and inspirational, the writing often ventures in too many different directions and offers too much detail. I felt that the author could have given general overviews in some situations and would have still gotten her point across. I applaud Ms. Greene for her courage to share her story with others and I pray that she continues to stay in good health.

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A Funeral Address Delivered a the Internment of the Right Rev. Benjamin Moore, DD Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New-York; and Rector of Trinity Church in the City of New-York on Friday the First Day of March, 1816, in Trinity Church. To Which is Annexed an Appendix on the Place of Departed Spiritys, and the Descent of Christ into Hell

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A Funeral Address Delivered a the Internment of the Right Rev. Benjamin Moore, DD Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New-York; and Rector of Trinity Church in the City of New-York on Friday the First Day of March, 1816, in Trinity Church. To Which is Annexed an Appendix on the Place of Departed Spiritys, and the Descent of Christ into Hell
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DARK FANTASY - Number 20 - July 1979: The Ghoul; Sitthra Waits; A Taste of Old Delights; Conjural Rights; Invasion; The Inglorious Descent of Sir Edelric; Master of the Art; Thieves Lament

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The Day of Descent

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Genealogical history showing the line of descent from Samuel McIlrath: A native of Scotland who married Isabella Aikman of Morriss County, New Jersey, March Sixteenth, 1755

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Genealogical history showing the line of descent from Samuel McIlrath: A native of Scotland who married Isabella Aikman of Morriss County, New Jersey, March Sixteenth, 1755
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A Giant in his day: Sketch of Rev. Edwin Welles Dwight, a native of Stockbridge and man of notable descent
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Beyond Rhetoric and Emotions.......2004-07-24

As someone who is Christian and sympathetic to the difficulties of transgendered and homosexual people, I found the book to be of great help wrestling through the issues. Although a bit difficult to read, it provides interesting discussion questions at the end of each chapter for groups study.

Covers viewpoints from both sides of the debate.......2000-09-13

A very interesting collection of essays, surprisingly well-balanced and essential reading for anyone interested in religious implications of homosexuality

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Homosexuality in the Church, Both Sides of the Debate
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