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Candide

Voltaire

3.56 AVERAGE

haponte's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

sofportela's review against another edition

4.0

3.5 stars

eliottavedis's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Very satirical and funny. Comments on the critiques of literature, the savagery of political and religious organizations, mocks the fairy tale romance, the greed of western civilization, and most of all philosophy.

itsalesbiancat's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging funny fast-paced

ophirbun's review against another edition

3.75

dark funny fast-paced

whale_shark_called_blue's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I found the writing style a little disorienting at first but I got used to it and I ended up quite enjoying this book.

Content Warnings

tomasawyer's review against another edition

3.0

Vu tout ce que traversent les personnages, on devrait ressortir du bouquin avec le sentiment
d'avoir assisté à des aventures extraordinaires, malheureusement, c'est pas le cas. Les épisodes les plus marquants de l'histoire sont souvent rapportés à postériori par les personnages, ça donne l'impression de ne jamais les vivre et de tout subir. Au final, c'est un conte sympa sans plus. On ne retrouve ni l'esprit chevaleresque d'un Chrétien de Troyes, ni la drôlerie des aventures rabelaisiennes.

biblioslut's review against another edition

3.25

challenging funny medium-paced

Putting aside Voltaire was a racist anti-semite (among other things), I gave this a shot with the necessary notes/summaries to help with lost historical context and references. The Leibniz snark was clever, but it was like an SNL parody. He kept running the jokes to the ground. 🫠

sulaco's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark funny reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

maxt98's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark funny reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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