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| Title | : | La Mécanique du cœur |
| Author | : | Mathias Malzieu |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 177 pages |
| Published | : | October 22nd 2007 by Flammarion (first published October 2007) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Romance. Fiction. Science Fiction. Steampunk. Young Adult |
Mathias Malzieu
Paperback | Pages: 177 pages Rating: 3.6 | 18478 Users | 2052 Reviews
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Le jour de la naissance de Jack, en 1874 à Edimbourg, est si froid que son coeur en reste gelé. La sage-femme qui l'a mis au monde, mi-sorcière mi-chaman, remplace l'organe défectueux par une horloge qu'il ne faut pas oublier de remonter tous les matins. Le garçon doit aussi éviter toute émotion : pas de colère, pas d'amour. Mais il va rencontrer une chanteuse de rue au regard de braise...Itemize Books As La Mécanique du cœur
| Original Title: | La Mécanique du cœur |
| ISBN: | 2081208164 (ISBN13: 9782081208162) |
| Edition Language: | French |
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Ratings: 3.6 From 18478 Users | 2052 ReviewsCriticism About Books La Mécanique du cœur
What a pity! With a different ending this would have gotten four stars. (view spoiler)[And I don't mean a happy ending! No, actually I think that a not-so-happy ending really fits the story's atmosphere. But as it was, it was simply illogical: First, Jack repeats his mistake to hide something from Acacia, and when she finds out about it and leaves him, he does nothing. Why doesn't he tell her that he has been in a coma for three years, and lets her talk to Jehanna, the nurse who has cared forBorn on the coldest day ever recorded, Jack's heart is frozen and replaced with a cuckoo-clock. Abandoned by his mother and raised by the witch doctor, Dr. Madeleine who installed the clock, Jack is warned that he must never fall in love because it could overwhelm his unusual pacemaker. Jack does well for about ten years, until he meets Miss Acacia, a street performer who wears glasses and has a pretty voice. Jack is in love and sets out to find Miss Acacia.Thus begins the story of "The Boy With
Very disappointed in this. The premise seemed very intriguing and I'm a sucker for love stories with a bizarre/dark twist to them (think Edward Scissorhands and you'll be on the mark!) But this, well suffice to say doesn't even come close to Tim Burton's genius. The reason why this falls so very short is the writing. One of my pet hates is when writers use that lazy technique of jumping forward in time with no explanation of what happened during the skipped part. Usually it reads 'so and so did
I read this book in french and I really liked it. Mathias Malzieu is so poetic, his words struck me deep down. "Firstly: don't touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. Secondly: master your anger. Thirdly: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break once more." I haven't tried in English, but I guess that any translation can't worth the original book, that is why I always enforce myself to read books in
The Boy With the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 53Plot/Story:4 Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactfulMalzieus The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a fantastical tale of one boys struggle to love normally and not crookedly. The reader meets the boy, Jack, at birth, where a strange confluence of events results in his infant heart being fused with a cuckoo-clock, in what would be a 19th Century makeshift-pacemaker. We ride along with him to
It's a really cute and well written story ( I don't know if this book is published in another language than French, though) !This book is written with songs lyrics, and the songs actually exists, which is wonderful ! Mathis Malzieu is the leader of a French rock band called dyonisos and he created Jack as a little doppleganger.Jack is this child which was born during a really cold night. So cold, that his heart stopped beating. Madeleine saved him by creating an artificial heart, made of a
I'm being very generous when I give this 2 stars. I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt that, because it's a 'translation', something is lost between the original and the translated version. Actually a lot is lost, but that may be neither here nor there. I still think that despite the loss of the subtlety of languages, one still has to have an ability to write in the first place. Mathias Malzieu doesn't have that. A singer he may be. Creative he may be. But a writer he is not. Least
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