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Scott Fitzgerald<br> <b>Changing Places</b>, David Lodge<br> <b>Rhapsody, a Dream Novel (Eyes Wide Shut)</b>, Arthur Schnitzler<br> <b>Paradise News : a Novel</b>, David Lodge<br> </font> <br>  <b><u>Last books read</u></b> (updated February 16th 2003)<br> 2003<br> <b>Stupid White Men</b>, Michael Moore {=}<br> <b>De Gaulle et Churchill, la msentente cordiale</b>, Franois Kersaudy {++}<br> <b>Isral, Palestine</b>, Alain Gresh {-}<br> <b>La Grande Histoire de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (Tome I)</b>, Philippe Montagnon {++}<br> 2002<br> <b>Code Breakers</b>, F.H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp {=}<br> <b>Bridget Jones : The Edge of Reason</b>, Helen Fielding {+}<br> <b>Ces Gestes Qui Vous Trahissent</b>, Joseph Messinger {=}<br> <b>L'Obsession Anti-Amricaine</b>, Jean-Franois Revel {-}<br> <b>Devez Savant, Devenez Sorcier</b>, Georges Charpak, Henrie Broch {=}<br> <b>eXtreme Programming Explained</b>, Kan Auer and Roy Miller {++}<br> <b>Software for your Head</b>, Jim McCarthy, Michele McCarthy {+}<br> <b>L'Univers Elgant</b>, Brian Green {+}<br> <b>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</b>, J.K. Rowling {++}<br> <b>La Laisse</b>, Fraoise Sagan {++}<br> <b>Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban</b>, J.K. Rowling {++}<br> <b>L'Hypnose</b>, Lon Chertok {++}<br> <b>Le Grand Gaspillage</b>, Jacques Marseille {++}<br> <b>Petit Lexique des Ides Fausses sur les Religions</b>, Odon Vallet {-}<br> <b>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets</b>, J.K. Rowling {++}<br> <b>Further Tales of the City</b>, Armistead Maupin {+}<br> <b>Bonjour Tristesse</b>, Fraoise Sagan {++}<br> <b>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone</b>, J.K. Rowling {++}<br> <b>L'effroyable Imposture</b>, Thierry Meysan{=}<br> <b>La Guerre du Faux</b>, Umberto Eco {=}<br>  <br> 2001<br> <b>L'Islamisme : une Rvolution Avorte</b>, Antoine Basbous {++}<br> <b>Le Monde Nous Appartient</b>, Christophe Aguiton {=}<br> <b>99 francs</b>, Frdric Beigdeber {+}<br> <b>More Tales of the City</b>, Armistead Maupin {++}<br> <b>Le Journal de Bridget Jones</b>, Helen Fielding {=}<br> <b>The Restaurant at the End of the Universe</b>, Douglas Adams {=}<br> <b>Comment Paye-t-on les Fautes de ses Anctres</b>, Nina ? {+}<br> <b>The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy</b>, Douglas Adams {=}<br> <b>Au Coeur des Multinationales</b>, ATTAC {=} <br> <b>Peplum</b>, Amlie Nothomb {+}<br> <b>Chroniques de San-Francisco</b>, Armistead Maupin {+}<br> <b>Side Effects</b>, Woody Allen {-}<br> <b>Mercure</b>, Amlie Nothomb {+}<br> <b>Comment j'ai Foir ma Startup</b>, Nicolas Riou {=}<br> <b>Le Plerin de Compostelle</b>, Paulo Coehlo {=}<br> <b>Le Cas Dominique</b>, Francois Dolto {+}<br> <b>Le Terrorisme Intellectuel</b>, {+}<br> <b>La Plaisanterie</b>, Milan Kundera {=}<br> <b>De l'Analyse Transactionnelle  l'Action Transactionnelle</b>, {+}<br> <b>Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus</b>, John Gray {++}<br> <b>Contes  Faire Rougir les Petits Chaperons</b>, Jean-Pierre Enard {++}<br> <br> 2000<br> <b>L'Etudiant Etranger</b>, Philippe Labro {++}<br> <b>Le Vatican Mis  Nu</b>, "Les Millnaires" {-}<br> <b>Comprendre la PNL</b>, Catherine Cudicio {+}<br> <b>Le Principe de Peter</b>, Laurence Peter et Raymond Hull {++}<br> <b>Breath by Breath</b> Larry Rosenberg {++}<br> <b>Pour Solde De Tout Compte</b>, Jean-Michel Rossi et Franois Santoni {+}<br> <b>A Quoi Sert Le Couple</b>, Willy Pasini {=}<br> <b>Histoire d'O</b>, Pauline Rage {-}<br> <b>Sur Le Bord De La Rivire Piedra Je Me Suis Assise Et J'ai Pleur</b>, Paolo  Coelho {+}<br> <b>Pourquoi Les Hommes n'Ecoutent Jamais Et Les Femmes Ne Savent Pas Lire Une  Carte</b>, Allan et Barbara Pease {=}<br> <b>Le Pigeon</b>, Patrick Sskind {+}<br> <b>Le lien</b>, Vanessa Duris {+}<br> <b>Acheter, crer, entretenir son bonsa</b>, Corinne Gagneux {=}<br> <b>Belle du Seigneur</b>, Albert Cohen {+}<br> <b>Uncommon Therapy</b>, Jay Haley {++}<br> <b>The Power Tactics of Jesus-Christ, and other essays</b>, Jay Haley {+}<br> <b>L'Ile des Gauchers</b>, Alexandre Jardin {=}<br> <b>Autobiographie d'un Amour</b>, Alexandre Jardin {++}<br> <b>Huis-Clos</b>, Jean-Paul Sartre {+}<br> <b>Le Zubial</b>, Alexandre Jardin {++}<br> <b>Le Zebre</b>, Alexandre Jardin {++}<br> <b>A Confederacy of Dunces</b>, John Kennedy Toole {=}<br> <b>The Alchimist</b>, Paulo Coelho {++}<br> <b>How to Become CEO</b>, Jeffrey J. Fox {+}<br> <b>How Proust can change your life</b>, Alain de Botton {-}<br> <b>Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid</b>, Douglas Hofstadter {=}<br> <b>Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere</b>, Adele Westbrok and Oscar Ratti {++}<br> <b>You Just Don't Understand</b>, Deborah Tannen {+}<br> <b>Le Harcelement Moral</b>, Marie-France Hirigoyen {=}<br> <b>Le Vol Nuptial</b>, Francesco Alberoni {++}<br> <b>L'intuition de l'instant</b>, Gaston Bachelard {--}<br> <b>On Love</b>, Alain de Botton {++}<br> <b>Cape Code</b>, Henry David Thoreau {-}<br> <b>Je m'en vais</b>, Jean Echenoz {-}<br> <b>The Intimate Enemy</b>, George Bach {+}<br> <b>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</b>, Milan Kundera {++}<br> <b>Exil</b>, Saint-John Perse {-}<br> <b>The Metamorphosis</b>, Franz Kafka {=}<br> <b>La Religieuse</b>, Diderot {+}<br> <b>Les Thanatonautes</b>, Bernard Werber {=}<br> <b>Antigone</b>, Jean Anouilh {=}<br> <br> 1999<br> <b>La Nausee</b>, Jean-Paul Sartre {+}<br> <b>L'Horreur Economique</b>, Vivianne Forrester {=}<br> <b>Propos sur le bonheur</b>, Alain {++}<br> <b>Tout le Monde est Occupe</b>, Christian Bobin {=}<br> <b>Le Hasard et la Necessite</b>, Jacques Monod {+}<br> <b>Movement and Institution</b>, Francesco Alberoni {+}<br> <b>Barron's Guide to Making Investement Decisions</b>, Presto<br> <b>Noces</b>, Albert Camus {+}<br> <b>The Spirit of Aikido</b>, Kisshomaru Ueshiba {=}<br> <b>Fragments d'un Discours Amoureux</b>, Roland Barthes {=}<br> <b>To Kill a Mockingbird</b>, Harper Lee {++}<br> <b>Eichmann in Jerusalem, a Report on the Banality of Evil</b>, Hannah Arendt{+}<br> <b>Mother Tongue</b>, Bill Bryson {-}<br> <b>Rhapsody, a Dream Novel (Eyes Wide Shut)</b>, Arthur Schnitzler {++}<br> <b>Neurolinguistic Programming : the New Technology of Achievement</b>, Various{+}<br> <b>Best American Short Stories of 1998</b>, Various<br> <b>Extension du Domaine de la Lutte</b>, Michel Houellebecq {+}<br> <b>Inside the Tornado : Marketing Strategies from Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge</b>,  Geoffrey Moore<br> <b>Crossing the Chasm : Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream  Customers</b>, Geoffrey Moore<br> <b>Brave New World</b>, Aldous Huxley {++}<br> <b>Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction</b>, M. 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Hall{=}<br> <b>Les Particules Elementaires</b>, Michel Houellebecq {=}<br> <b>The Alienist</b>, Caleb Carr {=}<br> <b>Je t'aime</b>, Francesco Alberoni {++}<br> <b>Tout est Langage</b>, Francoise Dolto {=}<br> <br> 1998<br> <b>Britannicus</b>, Racine {+}<br> <b>Money : A Suicide Note</b>, Martin Amis {+}<br> <b>Success</b>, Martin Amis {+}<br> <b>Cat's Eye</b>, Margaret Atwood {+}<br> <b>Lucky Jim</b>, Kingsley Amis {+}<br> <b>We the Living</b>, Ayn Rand {+}<br> <b>Best American Short Stories of 1997</b>, Various<br> <b>Sophie's World</b>, Justin Gaarder {+}<br> <b>Visitors</b>, Anita Broockner {+}<br> <b>The New-York Trilogy</b>, Paul Auster {=}<br> <b>Les 120 Jours de Sodome</b>, Sade {=}<br> <b>Truismes</b>, Marie Darrieussecq {=}<br> <b>The Secret History</b>, Donna Tart {+}<br>  <br><br>   <!--end  of news cell--> 		</td></tr></table> 	</td></tr></table>  </td> <td width="9" bgcolor="#988468"><br></td> <td width="2" bgcolor="#685440"><br></td> <td width="9" bgcolor="#988468"><br></td> </tr>  <tr> <td width="9" bgcolor="#988468"><br></td> <td width="2" bgcolor="#685440"><br></td> <td width="9" bgcolor="#988468"><br></td> <td width="520" bgcolor="#988468" colspan="3"><br></td> <td width="9" bgcolor="#988468"><br></td> <td width="2" bgcolor="#685440"><br></td> <td width="9" bgcolor="#988468"><br></td> </tr>   <tr> <td width="20" bgcolor="#C8BCB0" colspan="3"> 	<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="20"><tr> 	<td width="20"  bgcolor="#685440"> 		<table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="20"><tr> 		<td width="20"  bgcolor="#C8BCB0"></td></tr></table> 	</td></tr></table> </td> <td width="520" bgcolor="#988468" valign="middle" colspan="3"><hr size="2" noshade color="#685440"></td>  <td width="20" bgcolor="#C8BCB0" colspan="3"> 	<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="20"><tr> 	<td width="20"  bgcolor="#685440"> 		<table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="20"><tr> 		<td width="20"  bgcolor="#C8BCB0"></td></tr></table> 	</td></tr></table> </td>    </tr></table> </center> <br></body> </html> 
