Reviews

Les Belles Images by Simone de Beauvoir

martin_gabe's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective relaxing tense slow-paced

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

4.0

miiyayukii's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

maja_1003's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

gourdonne's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

bartvdz's review against another edition

3.0

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gommette's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.75

La narration rend la lecture compliquée mais le livre est intéressant en tant que que témoin d'une époque.

galadu's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

reasie's review against another edition

5.0

It took me a bit to get into it, because the author switches freely between first and third person and it took a chapter to realize that Laurence was “I” and it took a few lines to realize Laurence was female, because the name is male in English. (We love reversing genders on French names, don’t we, Michelle?)

Anyway - love love loved it. Real deep, earnest, true stuff in here about life, death, the unfairness of both, and the tenderness of growing up. Not bad fora novel essentially about an upper-middle-class woman having an existential crisis.

lenasch's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

annereads33's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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

3.0