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Kvinden og aben by Peter Høeg

clarinade's review against another edition

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1.0

I simply had no interest in finishing this book. In the end it was worth just putting it away and reading something else!

eishe's review against another edition

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4.0

How it rarely happens with compulsory reading, I really enjoyed reading this book.
With bright characters, events and cleverly introduced technical vocabulary, it created a surprisingly lively image of higher societies and also man's view on the world, actions and attitude towards nature and everything and everyone they believe to be beneath them.
The book presented me with a question - who is the animal and who is the human in our society, and in a way answered it.

edwardmartini_'s review against another edition

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3.0

HELP, in realtà per avere una traduzione datata di tempo è tradotto bene, molto scorrevole, un po troppo in alcune parti ma mi è piaciuto

ms_tiahmarie's review against another edition

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Thought provoking page turner that is highly entertaining.

beckydk's review against another edition

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4.0

Provocatively deals with questions such as "what is it to be human" and ideas such as love and intelligence. Intriguing.

jjeepa04's review against another edition

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3.0

Very odd yet charming story.

morninglightmama's review against another edition

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3.0

Hmmm... not sure what to say. This was a bizarre book, but that's not to say that I didn't enjoy it. It took me a while to become invested in these characters, but at some point it just happened, and I found myself actually pulling for this supposedly 'unnatural' couple. I had to take the events and characters at a different 'representational' level, rather than take them at face value. When they become embodiments of the ideas of humanity versus the animal world, it became much easier to accept the course of events.