Download Séduction French Edition Sacha Tolstoï 9782414009879 Books

Product details Paperback 178 pages Publisher Edilivre (December 23, 2016) Language French ISBN-10 241400987X

Séduction French Edition Sacha Tolstoï 9782414009879 Books Reviews

• [[ASINB003NX7536 Seduction]
  I have been travelling and so wanted some good plane reading. Seduction was perfect. I downloaded the kindle version to my ipad and so whenever stuck in one place eg plane or waiting I would pull it out and read on from the last spot. I loved the main character Kate and the portrayal of her mental strength and frailities. The intellectual twists and turns along with the academic double speak were well done. Reading the back pages Catherine Gildiner acknowledged the editors who chopped down the original drafts by hundreds of pages. I think that editing showed up in the final chapters which pulled together the plot very quickly. However with a 600 page book is no longer the impossible physical problem of paper books and perhaps we will see more books allowed to take their full course. The murder plot involving the Freudian analyst community was so imaginative and held my interest throughout the whole book. I chose this book because I loved Too close to the falls and couldnt get the follow on biography in a kindle version. I was not disappointed and will be buying this as a Christmas gift for girlfriends.
• This is a very good book.
• I just finished reading 'Seduction' mere minutes ago, and as soon as I finished I felt compelled to leap into cyberspace and spread the word about this novel. 'Seduction' is an intelligent, fast-paced romp through the worlds of Darwinian and Freudian theory, with some murder most foul (not to mention some Wedgwood china history) thrown in for good measure. If this sounds too pedantic, be assured that it is anything but. In order to temper the rather intellectual premise, Gildiner has created one of the funniest, smartest and most engaging female protagonists / narrators in recent memory.
  
  Kate Fitzgerald, an incarcerated felon-cum-Freudian scholar with her dead husband's blood on her hands, is one day plucked from her six-by-nine foot cell and recruited by an unctuous prison psychiatrist to investigate certain slanderous accusations being made against Sigmund Freud (and therefore the psychoanalytic community in general) by one Anders Konzak. Anders Konzak, a handsome intellectual golden boy and soon-to-be curator of the Freud archives, has suddenly (and in an embarassingly public fashion) denounced Freud as a [...] for unknown reasons. Kate is granted a temporary absence from prison, and along with another ex-con named Jackie, she begins to unravel the mystery behind Anders, Freud, and psychoanalysis itself.
  
  Although Kate, an incredibly insightful and well-read woman, is a fascinating lead character on her own, much of the novel's interest stems from her volatile relationship with Jackie. She's a glacial WASP princess, he's a gruff thug with bad teeth, and although they are both very intelligent they approach the case with very different attitudes and often clash over each other's methodologies. However, as the novel progresses a pseudo-romantic relationship begins to develop. Now, a stereotypical romance between them would be far too cliched for a novel as original and inventive as this one, but their strained 'courtship' is touching in its own way.
  
  This novel is, in many respects, similar to Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code'. Both novels, while fictional, have a strong basis in historical fact, and both weave together factual information with fictional details in such a way as to create a dream-like ambience in which one is rarely sure what is real and what is not. This, however, is most certainly a good thing. Both novels also provide tantalizing glimpses into worlds that are most often highly cloistered and insular - in 'The Da Vinci Code' it was the Catholic Church, and in 'Seduction' it is the world of psychoanalysis and the highly guarded Freud Archives. However, personally I enjoyed 'Seduction' much more than 'The Da Vinci Code'. I found the narrative voice of 'Seduction' to be much more engaging and erudite than that of 'The Da Vince Code', and I found the characters to be much more compelling and fully-realized.
  
  If you enjoy thrillers with a little more intelligence than most contemporary novels allow, then 'Seduction' definitely deserves a closer look. In addition to the well-drawn characters and an engaging, unpredictable plot, the novel is filled with fascinating tidbits about Freud, his daughter Anna (who, as a result of extensive psychoanalysis during adolescence at the hands of her own father, grew into a sexually repressed spinster), Charles Darwin, and even Josiah Wedgwood III. Pick it up - you might even learn something!
• After having read Too Close To The Falls, this book was a disappointment. Too Close To The Falls was one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read and I was hoping Catherine Gildiner would write another book. Seduction had a decent mystery storyline and delightful detectives. The lengthy psychological discussions interferred with the flow of the story. Some of the discussions were necessary to the plot but it would have been a better book at 300 pages instead of almost 500 pages. I did find the information about Freud and Darwin interesting but was never sure what was truth and what was fiction. Unless someone is into psychology this isn't a "can't put it down" book.