Friday, April 8, 2011

Jacques Bertin - La femme triste


(paroles non officielles)
Translated to English here.

Donnez-moi une femme triste
Riche de ses amours déçues
La maison au bord de la piste
La bonne hôtesse, le lait cru

Qui remonte chargée de pommes
D'un jardin dèjà dans l'hiver
Qui rit peu, qui aime les hommes
Et se souvient qu'elle a souffert

Donnez-moi une femme lente
Donnez-moi des silences vrais
Donnez-moi - jamais qui ne mente -
La vraie confiance, les "J'aimais..."

Bruits d'horloge halant dans l'ombre
Ce qu'on se fait comme raisons !
Chaland fidèle qui ne sombre
Jamais, ton beau penchant si long !

Puis feuille de menthe, vieux meubles
Vraie confidence, vrai café
Belle et lourde comme un vieux meuble
Donnez-vous soudain tout-à-fait

Ma main protège cette lampe !
Donnez-vous lente, et j'y croirai
Il y a du gel à tes tempes
Dans tes yeux monte une marée

Tout ment, tu sais, d'aller trop vite
Oh, soupir jamais envolé !
J'absous ta tristesse, j'hésite
Donnez-moi cette voix voilée

Du mal que l'on vous fit naguère
Vous me parlerez, vos amants
Ou vous vous tairez, puis la guerre
Vous parlerez. Tout ce qui ment

Les canonnades dans la plaine
Les beaux gosses, les orphéons
Derrière le rideau des peines
O, miracle des abandons !

Le manteau dans l'eau, le veuvage
Jetez votre âge dans ce bal
Faites sarment de votre mal
Pour brûler, prenez vos tourments
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Chris Isaak - Wicked game



The world was on fire and no one could save me but you.
It's strange what desire will make foolish people do.
I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you.
And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you.

No, I don't want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I don't want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)
With you (This world is only gonna break your heart)

What a wicked game to play, to make me feel this way.
What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you.
What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way.
What a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you and,

I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)
With you.

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you.
It's strange what desire will make foolish people do.
I never dreamed that I'd love somebody like you.
And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you,

No, I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)
With you (This world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I... (This world is only gonna break your heart)
(This world is only gonna break your heart)

Nobody loves no one.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Steven Erikson - Midnight Tides


So here we continue on the main serie of the Malazan book of the fallen. Except that it's not about Malazan's. To be honest that buggs me quite a lot. The serie is great, the book is good, it's in the same world but it doesn't fit the serie. (or let's say I'd have prefered it to be on a separate line).
Basically we follow a character we have read about "Trull Sengar" and that seems to be enough of an excuse. Oh well so be it.
So Trull who this time isn't as frightened and weak is in fact not a character I enjoyed following much but there have been other characters in the book that are worth the read. Mostly Tehol and his servant in fact, there it shows how good a writer Erikson is. He really manages now to inspire very different characters that could be writen by someone else but aren't. Very impressive.
Aside of the span of the book taking place elsewhere (or somewhere else), I found the society depicted a bit too shallow, not believable enough, not dirty enough.
It's a worty read still just not as good as the former ones

Ian C. Esslemont - Night of Knives


The same universe as Erikson's as it was co-created by both authors. However Night of Knives is different, first it's betterly organised than Erikson's book and I won't spit on that for sure. Also it's shorter, much shorter, both in number of pages and in span (the events take place over one night mostly).

But it's alas a bit underwhelming and after a while (done the book for quite some time now) I think I'd have prefered not to have read it. Not because it's bad but because it tells the story of an event we have heard about quite often in Erikson's books without knowing what happened. And most of us had the time to imagine it differently. In a more epic way, gritty. Not going to spoil it, some might like it anyway but I was expecting something else. Also the shorter span of the story stops Mr Esslement to make his characters shines (though he has a couple good one there too) and due to my lacking english skills some events simply slipped through me (Also the vocabulary is a bit more elaborated than Erikson hence more difficult for me to comprehend sometimes). However it's hard to judge the author for that first glimpse into the same universe with different eyes. It's just not as mandatory to go through the book than I thought it was (at least so far).