Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles (LITT.GENERALE) (French Edition)

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The story moves along at a good pace and while some moments are cringe worthy, I did enjoy the story. Jan 15, switterbug Betsey rated it really liked it. He is unemployed; she is trying to make ends meet on her pittance as a 12tch century medieval scholar. Their radiantly beautiful and arrogant daughter, Hortense, is on the verge of womanhood, and has little respect for her overweight, overwrought mother, who carries herself with slack ill-confidence.

This means also dealing with her beautiful, wealthy, and manipulative socialite sister. Will this plan work? As the book jacket states, it is the "ultimate upmarket escapist read.

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And, of course, there's Antoine, struggling in Kenya. It's a very swift read--don't let the pages fool you. It's a smaller than average paperback, and the sentences just pour like silk milk. You can probably start it one day and finish the next. It's a feel good, witty story about transformation and coming to terms with your authentic self.

Well, sometimes you have to use a little subterfuge to get there Lo he intentado, he llegado a leer una cuarta parte del libro, pero se me estaba haciendo eterno y finalmente ha podido conmigo. Historia sin pies ni cabeza. Relata constantemente el pensamiento de varias mujeres. Oct 21, Cindy rated it really liked it. This book was a complete impulse purchase; I didn't know the author and the marketing copy on the back cover sounded suspiciously like chick lit not a genre I generally read. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed it!

The characters seemed to come alive. The story lines interwove and kept my interest. And set in Paris with side trips to London and the Caribbean, provided the perfect amount is escapism. While not great literature, it was a good read! May 26, Melanie rated it liked it. At times I loved the book, at others, I simply tolerated it. The book spends a vast amount of time laying the scenery and constructing the groundwork for the story. Everyone's read the synopsis, so I won't reiterate that. I hate it when reviewers regurgitate the information provided on the book jacket.

What I will say instead, is that there are about a hundred characters in this book. Not really, but at times it feels that way. Their plots all move at different paces bu Wow. Their plots all move at different paces but always in some sort of harmony with the main character, Josephine. Nearly pages whip by before Josephine's novel writing- which is described on the book jacket- actually begins, and by then, I'd almost forgotten what the book was about.

Some characters are vile and never learn; others you root for, but the main character, in my opinion, stayed surprisingly stagnant throughout. In the book, great pains are made to show how she blossoms from a quiet, passive creature, to one who takes control of her own destiny. But honestly, even by the last page of the book, Josephine isn't the one who stands up for herself, someone else does that.

The real changes she undergoes are physical- she loses weight, gets highlights in her hair, ho hum- and yes, physical changes often correspond with an emotional rebirth, but telling your evil, wicked witch of a sister 'no' one time does not a true transformation make in my mind.

Also, by the end, the main character still defines herself by how others view her. She decides she's pretty because a man shows interest in her. She believes she's brave because her daughter tells her she is. I'm not a fan of women defining themselves purely on the opinions of others. That's a bad precedent. Overall, it's a fun book.

Light hearted, with quick, succinct sentences, though the pacing drags a little at times. You know where this book is headed and at time you just want it to get there faster. Oh, and the ending. I had to flip the page back and forth a few times just to make sure it was really over. Trust me, it is. Ends in the middle of a conversation, and it's obvious why.

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It's more powerful that way, but I felt the earth tilting beneath my feet. Who pulled the ground out from under me?

It was a good book. Read it if you want a light chick lit book, but if wandering story lines and weak female protagonists who fail to ever truly grow a backbone don't interest you, it might be best to avoid this. Mi ha stupito notare quante persone abbiano dati un voto basso a questo romanzo, avevo avuto l'impressione che fosse piaciuto molto.

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E' la storia di Josephine, sposata e madre di due figlie, ma anche insicura, ingenua e buonista. Quando Josephine scopre che il marito la tradisce, lo butta fuori di casa. E il messaggio del romanzo non pare essere particolarmente originale.

The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles

I buoni prosperano, i cattivi cadono nella polvere! Per il momento, almeno Feb 19, Jaclyn Day rated it really liked it. I bought it as soon as I got my hands on my Kindle. The book was written in French and translated to English by two people and that in hindsight makes a lot of sense.

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The book can feel abruptly disjointed. Almost like two separate people translated it! Luckily I found this more of an annoyance than an actual distraction from the engaging story and characters. The book is about Josephine, a suburban Paris mom whose unemployed husband runs off to Kenya with his mistress to start a crocodile farm.

Affairs, secrets and general mayhem ensues. And fun is just right sometimes. Feb 17, Melissa C rated it really liked it. This is a fun and kooky story about a family of eccentrics. Set mostly in Paris, it tells of a chronically unemployed husband who runs off to Kenya with his mistress to start a crocodile farm. His wife, the mother of two, is left to make ends meet on her tiny salary as a medieval history scholar.

The shunned wife has a charismatic sister, Iris, who was more loved as a child, married a wealthy man, is beautiful and with all that, remains an unhappy and empty woman. Seeking to spice up her life, I This is a fun and kooky story about a family of eccentrics. Seeking to spice up her life, Iris works a deal from a famous publisher to write a book on twelfth-century romance her sisters' area of expertise.

Iris, always the worm, talks her sister into ghost writing the book. You can only imagine how that plays out. And this only describes the central story in the book. There are a bunch of subplots as well, all filled with kooky people and circumstances. At times it was all kind of silly, but mostly it was fun. I wish I could give it 3. Tyyppi naurahti ja ryhdyimme puhumaan Suomen ilmastosta. This novel grabbed me from the first page and I could hardly bear to put it down. The story is delightfully engaging and clever, with multiple story lines that keep the reader wanting more.

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The characters are diverse and well-developed, and the reader can resonate with their entanglements and emotions. Although the author is French and the novel is set in Paris, it addresses universal themes that make it enjoyable for anyone. It was originally published in and has sold 2. Thank you Penguin Books! I hope we can expect the sequels soon - I can't wait! May 20, Srta.

We acknowledge and remind and warn you that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. The complete review 's Review:. Iris is four years older, and married to the extremely successful lawyer Philippe; they have a ten-year-old son, Alexandre. None of the married couples are faring well in their relationships: Antoine has a mistress, Iris hears rumors about Philippe which she's more inclined to believe, given how little of a physical relationship is left between them , and Marcel has long been "taken for a ride by Henriette", who is head of his company's board of directors, meaning he apparently has to get approval for every major business decision from her.

Antoine takes off for Kenya with his mistress to run Croco Park, a Chinese-owned crocodile farm where he rules over 70, crocodiles and Marcel begins an affair with Josiane -- hoping to get the one thing he really wants, a baby. But even Iris is not entirely satisfied with the superficialities wealth allows her, and at a dinner where a publisher is present she claims to be writing a novel. The publisher is interested, and so Iris feels compelled to do something about it.

But this is only a small part of the sprawling story that is The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles -- albeit the most prominent one. One problem with many of the other storylines: So there's Philippe, planning something very elaborate. There's Marcel -- trying to make a baby, but also planning a big coup. There's Shirley, whose mysterious background turns out to be a pretty big deal that she has good reason to keep secret even as she doesn't do so particularly well.

When they go on a date and she asks whether he's ever been married or ever wanted to have kids he replies: And, of course, teenage occasional vixen Hortense wants to keep everything from her cellphone to her shockingly inappropriate boyfriend to the fancy clothes she gets on the sly secret from her mother. Among the few storylines that are presented relatively straightforwardly is Antoine's crocodile farm misadventure. There's actually probably enough of Antoine and his Kenyan adventures as well as his mistresses more successful one -- and the yellow eyes of the crocodiles of the title certainly are a nicely haunting image -- but where Pancol fails, here and almost everywhere else, is in any sense of these relationships.

Dialogue-heavy though the novel is, there's little proper communication, and there doesn't seem to be much to many of these relationships. Pancol insists Philippe begins to devote himself to his son, spending a great deal of time with him, but even there we largely have to take her word for it, getting little sense of a true father-son relationship. There's also exceptionally little romance, and even Marcel's affair with Josiane -- the one truly enthusiastic relationship -- is tinged with some cynicism:

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