Le ver à soie

roman - traduit de l'anglais par Florianne VIdal

Paperback, 576 pages

French language

Published Oct. 15, 2014 by GRASSET, Grasset.

ISBN:
978-2-246-81066-7
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4 stars (16 reviews)

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives--meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced. When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before.

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I really enjoyed Cormoran and Robin. He's got some annoying hangups, but he is obviously lovable. I love him because he hates Christmas (like I do). But he's also a jerk to people who are nice to him. Do better, Cormoran.
I love Robin, but she is a Mary Sue. Perhaps some readers think that good authors don't write those. But they do.

I really did not enjoy the author's making the bad guy monstrous. Again. Rowling, psychopaths exist, but they are rare. The worst atrocities in the world are overwhelmingly committed by ordinary human people. You sort of got it right when you wrote about the Death Eaters. Probably because you based them on a real group - Nazis. They were Death Eaters even during Voldemort's absent years, because they had created social norms that made their deeds normal.
Social norms like these are the reason that soldiers kill. …

reviewed The silkworm by J. K. Rowling (A Cormoran Strike novel)

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5 stars

Thoroughly enjoyed this second effort by JK Rowling (writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith). She's a gifted writer -- as much as I enjoyed the Harry Potter series, I never realized how artfully she can describe a scene. My favorite moments are the things she doesn't write, that reward the reader who's reading closely with a discovery that's hinted at but not spelled out.

Great whodunnit, fun read.

reviewed The silkworm by J. K. Rowling (A Cormoran Strike novel)

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5 stars

Even better than the first! I really like the characters. In fact, I think that I enjoyed the book so much because the audiobook narrator did such a fantastic job. Thankfully, not many people at my local library listen to audiobooks, so I can usually get popular ones quite quickly.

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