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Night Flight
Night Flight | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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A group of pilots must conquer the savage Andean weather as well as the mechanical shortcomings of early aircraft to establish an air-mail service to South America
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MariaW
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I was fed up after having to read The Little Prince in school years ago. I could never understand the hype about that story. So I was pretty biased when coming across another of de Saint-Exupery‘s stories. I was positivly surprised. Night Flight is written as light as a feather - or the wind carried by the wind.

TheBookgeekFrau I still don't get the hype about Little Prince 🤷ðŸ»â€â™€ï¸ 8mo
Kitta I skipped some of the worlds he visited in Little Prince because it felt so repetitive (edited) 8mo
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MariaW
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Already, beneath him, through the golden evening, the shadowed hills had dug their furrows and the plains grew luminous with long-enduring light. For in these lands the ground gives gives off this golden glow persistently, just as, even when ghe winter goes, the whiteness of the snow persists.
What a first paragraph! 😮

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Jari-chan
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This is a book to read more than once. Beautifully written, deep and thoughtful. Small, but big on the inside. A tiny and dark masterpiece.

@TheAromaofBooks #BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Great review!! 4y
Jari-chan @TheAromaofBooks Thank you â¤ï¸ 4y
Deifio Never heard of this. Only ever read The little Prince 😅 Is this in similar? 4y
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Jari-chan @Deifio The Little Prince is his most famous work. But Night Flight is nothing like the Prince. If you read the Flight with the Prince in mind, you'll be disappointed. I for myself like Night Flight a lot better (maybe because I'm sick of the Prince hype... 🙃) 4y
Deifio Thanks, now I know what not to expect, so I can give it a try 4y
Jari-chan @Deifio I hope you'll like it as well 😊 Let me know what you think about it when you've finished it â˜ºï¸ 4y
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Jari-chan
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Bingo! 😠Thanks to Antoine de Saint-Exupery and his beautiful book “Night Flight“. Review will come later as well 😄

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TheAromaofBooks Yay bingo!! Fabulous progress!! 4y
Jari-chan @TheAromaofBooks Thank you 😊 4y
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IamIamIam
Night Flight | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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In honor of what would have been Saint-Exupéry's 100th birthday, I thought I'd jump into this one. I forget how beautifully he wrote, though, so it's considerably more meaty than I expected. 💕 The legacy he left in a short 44 years is incredible.

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rabbitprincess
Vol de Nuit | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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A novel of impressions and vignettes more than a fast-paced plot. It's poetic and almost magical in a way. It draws on Saint-Exupéry's own experiences flying the mail routes in South America and is certainly a book I'll be reading again.

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rabbitprincess
Vol de Nuit | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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I'm in Montréal (heading home today) so of course I had to buy some French books ?

Cathythoughts ðŸ‘ðŸ»â™¥ï¸ 5y
tournevis âœˆï¸ 5y
Henrik_Madsen Great idea. I read Vol de nuit (in translation) last year and enjoyed it. 5y
rabbitprincess @Henrik_Madsen I'm looking forward to it! 5y
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Henrik_Madsen
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I absolutely LOVE the cover of my 1941 edition of Night Flight!

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Blaire
Vol de Nuit | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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In this novel, at the dawn of commercial aviation, pilots take risks, flying transatlantic routes at night from South America to make deliveries on time, sometimes with tragic results. Explores what an individual does for an overall greater goal. Part of my small French book collection. #lucyintheskywithdiamonds #folio #heyjune #frenchbooks

Cinfhen French Folio 🙌ðŸ»c‘est tres bien 6y
Blaire @Cinfhen merci! Bisous! 6y
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Henrik_Madsen
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Ooops I did again!
Nice bookhaul today. A couple of old Saint-Exupéry fly books and a couple of shiny new ones. #classics #bookaholic #happiness

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meltedsquirrel
Night Flight | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Book set in South America.
#booktober #bookssetinsouthamerica #day2

Oblomov26 Love St Exupery - the ultimate philosopher adventurer 8y
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GDLeon
Night Flight | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Have you ever thought about how flying was in the early days? Follow a mail pilot during a storm and getting lost - it took a bunch of brave men to accomplish the human dream of flying. It's a short read, but it will stay with you for a long time.

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