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From: bookie Category: Books Date: 21 January 2007 Time: 10:10 AM Review: I've always liked Flaubert and philosophical novels, like Candide. So this should have been right up my street. Yes Flaubert is still good, it's me that's has changed. I am bored by great minds, books, and ideas. I am going to be one of those old folk who only read biographies. The grand hope and illlusions have departed my weary body, and I am left with shitting and the mild irony of repetitions. I am Bouvard ( or is it the other one) before he inherits the money, not even that perhaps. At least I am not nostalgic,nostalgia strikes me as a stupid fallacy like racism (judging the individual by the wrong information or a general unproven view) in which you presume because you are unhappy about getting old, that everything else must be getting worse.