This amazing book (for piano, vocal, chords) contains the most beautiful songs of Céline Dions CD "Let's Talk About Love". It contains 15 titles: The Reason * Immortality * Treat her like a lady * Why oh why * Love is on the way * Tell him * Where is the love * When I need you * Miles to go (Before I sleep) * Us * Just a little bit of love * My heart will go on * I hate you then I love you * To love you more * Let's talk about love. It also contains some beautiful and official pictures of Céline...

Le nord est le deuxième livre dans le " trilogy " qui commence par le " château à se retrancher " et les extrémités avec " Rigadoon"... encore, Celine nous dit une histoire fascinante de toutes les personnes formant un train de la mort sans fin après la guerre mondiale 2...

Kristeva rules... To everyone who has some interest in the ABJECT matter, here's the Bible! Uncanny...

I first read this book in junior high, and have been re-reading it ever since ( I'm a freshman in college, now). I absolutely, positively love this book. This book may be hard for certain readers to enjoy, because it is written in such an original, frank, lyrical way, and the views of the narrator, Celine, may be very different from the views of the readers. However, myself being a child of divorce with a step-parent I hardly ever get along with, I connected with this book in a way I don't think the author ever intended. Celine's views on life, people, divorce, friendship, everything are right on. Sometimes I think Brock Cole was peering into the murky depths of my head when he was writing this book. Celine's obnoxious, unwanted boyfirend, Dermot, is extremely realistic; I've met other versions of him, and how she puts up with him is eerliy similar to real life. So are all the other characters in the book; every one is like someone I know in real life. Their actions and reactions, which Cole paints expertly and subtly, are perfectly realistic, and Celine's views of these people are insightful and true. What is so extremely good about this book is how it takes all of our modern culture and, through subtle writing and not-so-subtle writing, shows it for what it is. Everything Celine sees or thinks about her society is dead-on. The people she interacts with are true to life. I love this book, and getting a chance to peek in on a life through this book so very much like my own. Celine is filled with great humor, insight, and wisdom. The writing is superb. I recommend this book to anyone who liked The Saskiad, The Bell Jar, She's Come Undone, The Goats (of course), Cress Delahanty, The Catcher in the Wry (or anything else by Salinger), or anything written through the eyes of a wise, mature, insightful, different, humorous girl.

This is one of the best Young Adult novels I have ever read. Celine is a fascinating character, and her outlook on life is refreshing and funny. Several passages made me laugh out loud, even on my third reading of it. The narrative is original, lively, and captivating. This book is a real gem.

Brock Cole demonstrates an unparalleled poetry of language and an unforgettable sense of humor. A book populated thickly with absolutely realistic characters, from Celine herself to Lucile to Paul Barker. At once sad and hilarious, it ends as it should, undecided. I find myself recalling lines and situations from it often, even if I haven't read it in forever. My favorite for three years running! Deserves every single award it gets!

A well-written chronicle of Celine Dion's rise to fame, including tales of her earliest appearances, her recent top-selling tour, and her experiences in Hollywood. This is an inside look at Dion, who is at once fascinating and simple. Her intense love affair with husband Rene Angelil is told from both sides--his and hers. And it provides a blinding flash of the obvious: they are soulmates. The book is written by a Quebecois writer who was allowed to travel and live with the singer and her entourage. He tells about her days-long silences to preserve her voice, family squabbles, and the everyday pressures of being on tour. It reads as a good story about a good woman who starts singing professionally as a preteen and at 30 has reached, and surpassed, her goals. It's inspiring stuff.

This is an excellent biography of the pop diva. It also includes bio information about her husband and about their incredible romance. She has come a long way since she started singing at the age of 12; this book chronicles how she did it and who she met along the way. It's an interesting read if you're a fan, but it's also interesting if you'd like to know how someone gets from nowhere to a top pop icon. Nice writing style.

Voici le meilleur livre a propos de Celine Dion. Evidemment, il vient de sortir aux E-U, mais je l'ai achete a Quebec et pendant ces derniers mois, j'avais eu la chance de le lire. C'est vraiment incroyable. This is the first authorised book about Celine Dion. All others, including the extremely cheesy and untrue "Behind the Fairytale" are not worth your money. This is a wonderful book and it is currently being translated into English. If you can read French, though, you should definetely get this version. Georges-Hebert Germain is a very gifted writer and each chapter flips between a scene from when he was touring with her last year to a gradual, chapter by chapter biography of Celine and her husband Rene. I definetely recommend this book.

'Death On The Installment Plan' is a raging animal of a novel that eclipses even Celine's own 'Journey' (though, it must be said, not by much). Structurally it's a shambles, but the unbelievable energy behind each & every sentence is enough to propel the reader straight through the 600-odd pages. What few of the other reviews have pointed out is how gut-bustingly funny this book is. A laugh a line with Celine and no mistake...More than that, 'Death...' contains absolutely the funniest sex scene ever written, bar none. While 'Journey' is tighter and harsher and the later works are more crazily surreal, 'Death...' is the shot of pure Celine that literature needed when it was first published and which the literate world could use another dose of now. And that's no Cambridge lie.

Though not as consistent as "journey to the End of the NIght", "Death..." is where Celine perfects his style, a scattershot volley of sincere human emotion. "Sincere" is the right word; Celine never wrote a line that approached the glibness and superficiality of postmodern writing, and yet his best work (though most of it was written in the 1930s) continues to erode the facade of lies that the 20th century has erected over reality. His passages on a childhood filled with with petty soulessness ring true even in our time, and his never wavering cynicism reveals his most subtle quality; compassion, or, more accurately, an empathy for those who do not fit and yet struggle to live the best life they can under the immutable, spirit-crushing reality thay are born into. In a few words, a transcripted nightmare we all share. A wothy companion to "Journey", although its long-windedness makes it salighty inferior. And that's still a high compliment. Read "Journey" first, then settle down with "Death." Highly recommended for a rainy, raw day.

Andre Gide said of Celine, "...he writes not about reality, but of the hallucinations which reality provokes"...this is most evident in Mort, Celine takes us into his early bourgeois childhood and in so defines it as 'stale, petite and engaged with episodes of merde and vomit'...it's a hillarious romp through life's false mirror...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine is honestly one of the few writers who really really makes me laugh. You gotta love this French S.O.B.'s outrages. Who else has this audacity? Mama Mia!

Published in English seven years after his death, this is considered one of Celine's darkest novels. It is also autobiographical. Like the author, the novel's central character is a Nazi collaborator who is nonetheless destroyed by them. Mixing black humor and piercing cynicism, Celine recreates his own experiences at a castle in Sigmaringen, Germany, where the Germans installed remnants of the French collaboritionist government after Allied landings in 1944...

Castle is a book that Celine felt he had to write before he died,...in it he describes his flight from France in 1944 and engages the reader with the last vision of the dying Vichy government in exile...Celine is humorous and even shows a hint of redemption for the destructive behavior of man that produced World War 2...

I thought this book was very good. Celine story is inspirational. This book tells that Celine Dion knew she wanted to be a singer at an early age and she worked hard to make it happen. She does not think of herself as a star and remains close to her large family. Celine Dion was a very interesting person to read about.

This was my first Celine book that I have read. I thought that it was great, but true Celine fans knew everything that the author had wrote. We want to know the untold stories, and the secrets of how Celine really is offstage.

This book is totally awesome, I loved it. It was well worth the money, it gives very descriptive details about Celine's life. I'm so glad it wasn't another one of those 'Behind The Fairytale' type books. It says alot of good things about Celine and gives a complete discography too. For people that don't like to read big, thick books, this paperback takes alot less time to read. This book is a must-have for Celine fans that long to know the real her.

To a follower of St. Therese, this book about her sister Celine (Sr. Genevieve) is, of course, very interesting, even fascinating. I wish there were a little more scholarly info, however. Celine always seemed especially interesting to me. She had many opportunities: a marriage proposal, a proposal to found an active order in Canada, apparently a strong talent in art and photography. Yet these don't really shine through in this book. Conversely, her sanctity didn't come through either, for me. Still, I would recommend this book to anyone who loves reading the details about Therese's family. I would love to see a good book about her sisters Pauline and Marie, also. I understand that one about Leonie is already in print.

This book was a truthful account of the life of Celine, sister and witness to Saint Therese. Celine worked very hard to carry on the way of "spiritual childhood" as her sister suggested, and the book tells of some of her trials towards seeing Therese canonized. Celine is a wonderful person herself, delightfully human, and a woman I would have wanted to meet. If you've enjoyed the stories of Therese, you'll enjoy this book.

"I knew only one thing about that blackness, which was so dense you had the impression that
if you stretched out your arm a little way from your shoulder you'd never see it again, but of
that one thing I was absolutely certain, namely, that it was full of homicidal impulses." --From Journey
In 1932, Dr. Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, a.k.a. Céline, changed the
face of literature with the publication of his novel, Voyage au bout de la
nuit (Journey to the End of Night). The book was an utterly pessimistic
epic brimming with nihilism and wry humor. But it was beautifully written in
a dramatic, revolutionary style. It shattered literary conventions,
established new boundaries of acceptability for serious literature, and
made Céline an overnight sensation. Because Voyage's outlook is so dark, and its language was so earthy,
its reception by many people was (and still is) sharply divided
along aesthetic lines. It was hailed as a masterpiece by enthusiasts of
the experimental, and derided as an obscene, cynical monstrosity by
traditionalists. Alternating between the hopelessly bleak and the completely
vehement, this novel remains my favorite by Céline. His style is
solid, his prose is lean, his humor and sarcasm unchecked, and he was at
ease with his powers of exaggeration. Nearly 70 years later, the strength of his books has not diminished. They
stand as some of the most powerful existential visions ever penned, and
their influence extends to the farthest reaches of post-modern
experimental literature. Céline's primary contribution to literature was his unique style, which was
an unprecedented combination of street slang and unconventional
punctuation. This sounds trivial. But upon reading his work, you discover
its poetic rhythm and its visceral urgency. His style allows you to feel the
power of his prose. He is probably one of the greatest writers in the history of literature...

Celine was a WWI veteran, sometimes discontented vagabond, and qualified but barely surviving Doctor/Physician who wrote one of the greatest novels of the 20th Western century. This is it. It's like a bomb hitting you on every page. The level of pessimism, cynicism, black humor, and its concomitant in the bargain--unflinching honesty--had never been equaled before in literature & few have matched it since. By his example, he inspired Henry Miller, Philip Roth, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jack Kerouac & many other luminaries to write in a similar no-holds-barred style. But as they say, the original is always the best & Celine was an original. No less a literary master and 'black satirist' than Nabokov himself has called Celine nothing but a second-rater; but even if you agree with that assesment of Celine's purely literary skills, you have to give credit to the guy for originating the no-nonsense style which made possible an artistically illuminating foray of unprecedented brutal honesty into the seedier aspects of life.

During the second World War, Celine wrote and distributed anti-semitic pamphlets and was ardently pro-Nazi and pro-German occupation of France. A lot of people couldn't understand how such an indisputably important artist could also be a Fascist sympathizer. Fascism & art didn't go together in their minds (especially since most of the literati in France who had liked Celine's novels were either strong lefists and/or pro-USSR Communists). Celine had to live in exile for many years as a result of this war-time pro-fascist business, and never regained the scary perfection of form, the shattering style evident on every page of "Journey" (and its less impressive but still amazing follow-up "Death On the Installment Plan").

There's very little in "Journey" that's scatologically trite & meandering, ... this is strong, even poetic stuff--some of the most original prose ever written. At this point in his career Celine's writing was an absolute revelation to most people who read it, and it was equally popular with low-brow and high-brow readers alike. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir used to know entire passages of "JTTEOTN" by heart and quoted from it often to spice up conversations that were getting too uptight.

Some people swear by the newer Mannheim translations as the absolute best, but I for one, found them a little too willing to please 'hip' American audiences by using certain more popular forms of speech, at the expense of a stronger but more restrictively high-brow literary quality. That's why I say, read the Manheim versions but don't ignore the older translations available in the libraries , some of them are brilliant and turn Celine into a much more refined writer than Manheim, even if the curse words are toned down and euphemised. Of course, most French people will tell you that it's absolutely ridiculous to read Celine in anything but French!

As soon as I'd put down "Journey" for the first time twenty years ago, I made a vow to learn French for the single purpose of reading Celine in his own language. I never kept that vow, but I've returned to Manheim's translation of "Journey" twice since that time, and I haven't had my fill yet. Celine's hallucinatory masterpiece still shocks, still inspires that thrill that comes in the presence of a great and lasting work of literature. Celine was and still remains wholly original; it is as if the man conceived the idea of writing a novel without ever having read one. No book you have ever read will prepare you for "Journey", yet it is no mere exercise in literary experimentation; it is a riveting and tremendously readable picaresque novel for our century and the one to come. Celine rages and rants, but curmudgeon and nihilist he's not. Bardamu, Celine's antihero, is no more a true nihilist than Celine himself, the doctor who tended Paris' poor. Without the weight of Celine's conscience, this would have been nothing more than a prolongued tirade. Once you've devoured "Journey", there is Frederic Vitoux's recent biography of Celine, a powerful and completely non-apologetic insight into one of the century's great writers.