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Summary: Such a great book
Review: I hate to give this book 4 stars but I have to leave some room at the top. This book is beautiful, evil, heart breaking, touching...It is so damn good. It reads like a cool glass of gatorade on a hot day. Les Liaisons is an epistilary novel which means it is written as a series of letters. De Laclos manages to become each of his characters with such depth and sincerity...wow.Read this book. Infact, I'm bumping it to five stars. By they way, Cruel Intentions may be based on Les Liaisons but except for the girl on girl action it is complete garbage.
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Summary: A Classic Worthy of a Spot in Any Booklover's Collection
Review: I must admit, I have to force myself to read the "classics" since I am usually drawn to whichever modern book is getting -- or has recently received -- quite a bit of hype from the media. It made for an interesting literary journal to skip from The Corrections to Les Liasons Dangereuses. Beautifully bound and typeset, this edition of Les Liasons Dangereuses tells a twisted story of the plotting and eventual downfall of two young rich lovers whose evil schemes end up getting the best of them. If you are like me, you may have read this novel after you had seen films based on this 18th century French novel (including -- but not limited to -- 1988's Dangerous Liaisons with Glenn Close and John Malkovich, 1989's Valmont with Annette Bening and Colin Firth, or even 1999's Cruel Intentions with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon). If you enjoyed these movies, reading the original book -- as is the case in most see-the-movie-then-read-the-book situtations -- will only heighten your appreciation for Pierre C. De Laclos' artful, and at times erotic, storytelling.
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Summary: It was alright.
Review: I thought that it was good for the most part. It took a while to get to the point and the letter writing was a little much. Other than that it was very sexy and the characters were cold and malicious.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: I'm 13 and the reason I bought the book was that I LOVED the movie. I was worried by the fact that it was written in letters but after the first few pages I was completely taken in by it. Dracula was written similarly in letters - but the letters were more descriptive than personal. In the bookwe get in a very close insight into the characters. The true emotions of the characters are conveyed. The conflict of the Presidente's emotions and the tragedy and irony of the Marquise are put across beautifully. A work of art- buy it.
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Summary: Slight caveat
Review: It should be noted that there is a 1985 PLAY version, not an edition of the French novel (oops). If, like me, you wandered in looking for the novel, wander back out and search under Laclos and get an edition not coauthored by someone named Hampton. That said, it's a good play by a good playwright, and I rather liked the movie made from it. Just be careful about which book you buy, since they all seem to share a common pool of reviews.
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Summary: Battle of the Sexes
Review: Keen insights into the battle of the sexes: the more things change, the more things remain the same. Full of witty and elegantly phrased observations--you will want to immediately start committing quotes and passages to memory.
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Summary: a masterpiece
Review: Les Liaisons Dangereuses have a special place in French Litterature. This book offer a perfect view on the libertinage during the 18th century, as well as the way of life of this period (school with cecile de Volange, Marriage with both cecile and Mme De Merteuil, the situation of men : Valmont and St Preux). What makes this book unique : its style, made of letters, you can recognise all characters by his own style. Laclos really gives life to all its characters, each of them having its own voice. Moreover, the typical "double language" is unique. the story, which is part a duel, part a romance. According to me surely the best book ever written. read it, you will love it
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Summary: and you thought WE were wicked....
Review: Many people have seen one of several movie productions of this book and assumed that it is a modern story that has taken the 18th century as its setting. In fact, the book was written at that time, and it provides a shocking, thrilling, sexy window into the lives of the french aristocracy. It is a thing of beauty. The exploits of the central characters make your average daytime soap opera look tame, and it is all done with a cunning and an evil grace that went out of style with the french revolution. Language is used as an aphrodesiac, a lever, and occasionally a cudgel, and since the book takes the form of the published letters of the main characters we hear it straight from the pens of those involved.
"Les Liasons Dangereuses" will make you mourn the invention of the telephone. Such skill with the written word! The double meaning was king, with muddied intentions as its queen.
Read this book: you really must. If you love language it will become a favorite of yours, just as it did for me.
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Summary: Maybe I just don't like letter writing
Review: Several things led to my inability to finish this book: it was long, it took too long to get to the point--or any point--and it was written in a format that just took all the enjoyment out of reading it. Dracula was written the same way, but Dracula had a clear plot that didn't require half a book of little tid-bits of nothing for no apparent reason. I'd try to read it again, but there are better things to read out there.
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Summary: Great Movie Inspired Me to Read Play
Review: The film "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" was one of my favorite movies of the 1980's. I bought the novel upon which the film is based, even though I don't like reading a book AFTER I've seen the movie. (The fact that I bought the book after viewing the movie is a testament to how much I loved the movie.) Somehow, even though I've tried more than a dozen times since the theatrical release of the movie, I have never been able to get into the epistolary novel (written by a French writer named Choderlos de Laclos) upon which the film is based. Just recently, it dawned on me that "LLD" had been a stage play, and so I got the play and read it. I liked it -- a lot. If you're sometimes cynically romantic, and other times, romantically cynical, but always somewhat romantic, and somewhat cynical, then this play is for you.
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