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This is it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Impressions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I had heard about this book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nypl.org\/voices\/blogs\/blog-channels\/librarian-is-in\">via a podcast<\/a> a year or two ago. The hosts talked about this book with enough enthusiasm that I was seriously intrigued and kept it in my head all this time. They said it was a striking, original book, and they refused to reveal the \"punch\" to reserve the \"fun\" for the readers. (Yes, lots of quotation marks.) They weren't the only ones who loved it. On the back cover, I could learn that the book won the <em>Carnegie<\/em>medal. The <em>Times <\/em>declared that it was \"Monumental\" and that \"Everyone should read this novel.\" We also learn that it has been the subject of much controversy because of its violence and radical nihilism. 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There is no food at all, no heating, and eventually, no water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I kept my hopes up until the end. I tried to stay positive. I kept telling myself that the fact that there wasn't really a story was original in itself. Until the last page, I was hoping something surprising would happen, anything. But no. It ends like this. Everyone died of thirst, hunger and cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It's terrible. It's heartbreaking. It's profoundly unnecessary. Everyone should not <em>not <\/em>read this book. And the translation was pretty bad. I admit that it has the quality of not leaving anyone indifferent.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Si vous aimez souffrir pour rien, faites-vous plaisir. Mais sinon, ne lisez pas \u00e7a. J&#8217;ai un malaise juste \u00e0 en parler. R\u00e9sum\u00e9 Ce ne sera pas long. Un psychopathe dont on ne conna\u00eet rien enferme 6 inconnus dans un bunker. 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Pas trop compliqu\u00e9 de comprendre que ce n&#8217;est pas parce que le narrateur a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 s&#8217;\u00e9chapper et qu&#8217;il vit heureux avec sa femme et ses enfants. Il s&#8217;agit donc d&#8217;une lecture longue et p\u00e9nible o\u00f9 on regarde six personnages plus ou moins attachants, avec plus ou moins de profondeur, perdre peu \u00e0 peu tout le maigre espoir qu&#8217;ils avaient de s&#8217;\u00e9chapper. \u00c0 la moindre tentative d&#8217;\u00e9vasion, ils se font punir s\u00e9v\u00e8rement : plus de lumi\u00e8re, plus de chauffage, plus de nourriture, des bruits assourdissants en plein milieu de la nuit. \u00c0 la fin on a carr\u00e9ment la naus\u00e9e : on dirait que leur ge\u00f4lier les a oubli\u00e9s. Il n&#8217;y a plus de nourriture du tout, plus de chauffage, et \u00e9ventuellement, plus d&#8217;eau. J&#8217;ai gard\u00e9 espoir jusqu&#8217;\u00e0 la fin. J&#8217;ai essay\u00e9 de rester positive. Je me disais que le fait qu&#8217;il n&#8217;y avait pas vraiment d&#8217;histoire \u00e9tait original en soi. Jusqu&#8217;\u00e0 la derni\u00e8re page, j&#8217;esp\u00e9rais que quelque chose de surprenant arrive, n&#8217;importe quoi. Mais non. \u00c7a finit comme \u00e7a. Tout le monde est mort de soif, de faim et de froid. C&#8217;est \u00e9pouvantable. \u00c7a donne mal au coeur. C&#8217;est profond\u00e9ment inutile. Tout le monde ne devrait pas lire ce livre. Et la traduction \u00e9tait assez mauvaise. 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