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Pleasant read. Some stories rather unappealing, but others moving and even captivating.
Sauvy knows her way round the massif!
 
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Kindlegohome | 1 muu arvostelu | Jul 9, 2015 |
I wasn’t as captivated by this collection of mountaineering short stories at first, but perhaps the subject matter is difficult to get at satisfactorily in a short piece on a first read. In my experience, short stories provide all the significant details in the text and exhort the reader to extract meaning; whereas the reader is supposed to extract the significant details from a novel. There are some good ideas contained within this collection: my favourite was the mountain as a tourist attraction for a people whose world is flat. Some of the endings felt a little contrived and the dialect in one of the stories was a little difficult for me to understand, but the concepts contained within them are sound: climbing beyond your limits and how to deal with getting older, settling down, your children turning into you, progress not always being a good thing, and being a statue shouldn’t stop you having one last climb if you wait for the right opportunity.… (lisätietoja)
 
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Tselja | 1 muu arvostelu | Dec 12, 2013 |
Nouvelles fantastiques sur la montagne
 
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zerline | Jan 2, 2011 |

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Teokset
12
Jäseniä
28
Suosituimmuussija
#471,397
Arvio (tähdet)
½ 4.5
Kirja-arvosteluja
3
ISBN:t
13
Kielet
2