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Sulphuric Acid
Sulphuric Acid | Am'lie Nothomb
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Sulphuric Acid tells the story of a reality TV death camp, which has become the nation's obsession - an amoral spectacle played out through the media. It is a blackly funny and shocking satire on the modern predilection for reality television and celebrity, in which the audience at home develops a taste for blood.
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kaysworld1
Sulphuric Acid | Am'lie Nothomb
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Currently reading Sulphuric acid by Amelia Nothomb.
It's sounds really interesting check out the blurp on the back, It's like Auschwitz of reality TV.
#reading #books #bookworm #femaleauthors #foreignaithors 📚🤟♥️

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Abailliekaras
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Excellent. A disturbing story of citizens forced into a concentration camp for reality tv. Both the camp & the public seeing it as entertainment are horrifying. But Nothomb has a wonderful dry wit & draws strong, memorable characters. Moving tension between guard Zdena & Pannonique, the viewers‘ favourite prisoner. Explores loss of identity, how low we will go for ‘entertainment‘, apathy & the mob mentality. A great novella. #passportlitsy

Cinfhen Sounds disturbing and chilling! And something I could imagine happening today for "entertainment" "shock value"? 6y
Abailliekaras @Cinfhen it does resonate but hopefully we‘re not that bad! 😳 6y
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Abailliekaras
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One of my reading spots from last weekend - a magical stay at Kangaroo Island. Sulphuric Acid was excellent - review to follow! 😎 #Belgium #PassportLitsy

eanderson Wow!!! Beautiful! 6y
Tamra Awesome! 6y
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Redwritinghood Looks so good to me stuck up here in cold grey New England! Beautiful spot. 6y
BarbaraBB Gorgeous! 6y
Joanne1 Love Kangaroo Island! 6y
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Yanes
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What a freaking book! It's about a reality show recreating a concentration camp. It is so absurd that it makes you question everything. First thing that takes you off guard is that the prisoners are randomly chosen and abducted while the guard aplied regularly...
While reading I asked myself so many questions. Mostly why the major popularity don't put an end to it.

So worth reading and questioning that I rate this book with 5 out of 5 stars

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teebe
Sulphuric Acid | Am'lie Nothomb
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Playing catchup for #aprilbookshowers 👍🏼 Nothomb has been writing a book every year for the past 24 years (2017 will make 25) and has been translated into almost 40 languages. #womenintranslation

diovival That cover. This pic. 👏👍 7y
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teebe
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I love reading in the rain ⛈ and I'm enjoying this so far. This is the translated version, but the language manages to be both plain and kind of beautiful. I want to read the original French version eventually.

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