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Southern Mail by Curtis Cate, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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hannebrum's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

L'histoire d'amour m'a deplu, je n'ai pas accroché
En revanche, des phrases magnifiques, des instants de vies et de sublimes traversées dans le ciel nocturne et le désert :)

lessidisa's review against another edition

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1.75

Je n'avais qu'une envie c'était d'arrêter de lire ce livre. Il ne m'a pas intéressée une seule seconde car de toute façon on comprend rien. Ça doit être du surréalisme c'est la seule explication. Mais comme il est court j'ai persisté.

On ne sait pas qui est en train de raconter, ça peut-être Jacques, ça peut être Bernis (en fait c'est la même personne), ou leur pote. On ne suit pas une histoire linéaire mais des fragments de vie de-ci de-là. On est en avion, on est a Paris, on est en enfance, on est en voiture, est-ce Jacques ou est-ce son pote, retour en avion, on est Toulouse, retour en avion, mais deux aviateurs différents racontent tour à tour. Rien compris. Et pour couronner le tout il a fallu que je lise Wikipédia pour comprendre leur histoire de courrier France-Amérique sauf que Bernis emmène le courrier à Dakar pas en Amérique : le courrier prend le bateau à Dakar -_-

0/20 le livre vraiment c'est pas possible. Je ferais mieux de lire le Petit Prince à ce tarif.

rschmidt7's review against another edition

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3.0

As with all of St.-Exupery's writing, this contains beautiful and moving poetic passages about the glory and danger of flight. The plot is simple - it follows the pilot, Jacques Bernis, as he flies the mail route from Toulouse, France south to Africa, with an ultimate goal of South America - and the book is so well-written in parts that it is almost a prose-poem. The subplot about the love between Bernis and Genevieve I thought was distracting and took away from the book as a whole. If you like St.-Exupery's other books, you will enjoy this, but I don't think it one of his best. "Night Flight" covers some of the same ideas and does them better; I would recommend that over "Southern Mail."

sic_corneille's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

eugeniekildine's review against another edition

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Some beautiful sentences sometimes bloom but I have no clue what’s going on except some bored-with-life’s dude quest to use women and endangering activities to try and get outside of himself. See ? It’s so messy that even making a simple sentence about it is impossible. I’m so, so disappointed