"La collera è preziosa, protegge dalla disperazione"Avvincente.Una partenza lenta (un paio di pagine); ma subito si viene risucchiati in questo racconto lungo o romanzo breve, colti da una inarrestabile voglia di vedere come va a finire. Di cosa parla esattamente? Chi è il protagonista? Chi vince? Chi perde?Difficile dirlo, ma qui sta il bello.Alla fine tutto si chiude, con una strana morale:"La persona che ama è sempre la più forte"Bel concetto, che mi ha fatto riflettere. Chissà, ho sempre pensato valesse il contrario. Tutto sommato, l'idea della Nothomb mi piace di più: l'amore è come una forza interna che alimenta e sostiene solamente chi lo prova. Tre stelle e mezzo. Abbondanti, per le due ore passate rapidamente e molto piacevolmente.

Les prénoms épicènes

• I generally try to respect people's taste in books as much as possible. I never even judged the mainstream audience that made 50 Shades Of Gray a best-seller. But After reading Nothomb, I got a bit confused to  Why is she is that popular in France? I honestly could not find an answer.   I can see this book being a thing for middle school/ early high school teenagers, or maybe the kind of people who love watching "Petits secrets entre voisins"..  • Everything was predictable since the start. The story is simple, light, dramatic, but still boring.   A bit like a cheesy soap opera that has few entertaining parts but you just can't take seriously.   • The characters are overly cliché, especially  - Dominique; the ridiculously naive wife with an erased personality who is so desperate that she sticks with a cold husband for 20 years resulting in pretty much traumatising her own child (I mean, if she is so submissive that an occasional 'ma cherie' and a Chanel perfume shut her up, she could at least make a little effort for her daughter).  - Epicène, like any YA protagonist, Extremely smart, impresses everyone around her, has a strong personality, has sky high grades in school but is not that social because she doesn't find anyone interesting enough ..     The plot can be summed up in few sentences:  - A guy gets heartbroken because the super gorgeous hottie he sleeps with leaves him to marry a rich guy. So, to get revenge, he marries a random dumb chick who believes whatever she is told. Haves a child who spends a big chunk of the book talking about her daddy issues, and works his ass of to move to the city his ex lives in (I still don't see how this is called revenge but eh okay).  - He confronts the hottie ex, gets her flowers, and tells her stuff like  'hey omg you're so pretty. And uhm, I imitated your life to get revenge, now Come back to me babe'  - The ex was like "uh I actually kinda don't give a denim about your life bruh? Bye creep smh"  - Like every clishé soap opra, bollywood movie, or latino telenovela, the wife Coincidentally hears everything.   * dominique be like*   She divorces her husband, and moves back to her parents' place with Epicène.  -  Evil daddy gets cancer, asks to see his daughter, she told him 'well you're dying now, ha ha, that's karma daddy', Unplugs the machine thing that keeps him alive for few mins, stares at him dying, then puts the plug back and calls the nurses (Idk how many times i've seen that in movies but I would say that was the least boring part of the novel.).   - Epicene and her mom move on, have a perfect life, live happily ever after. The End.

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