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Belgium Books
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I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.09 — 513,768 ratings — published 1995
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 94 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,770 ratings — published 1998
Stupeur et tremblements (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.75 — 46,197 ratings — published 1999
War and Turpentine (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,353 ratings — published 2013
Het verdriet van België (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.64 — 3,889 ratings — published 1983
Bruges-La-Morte (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,182 ratings — published 1892
The Lady and the Unicorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.71 — 47,647 ratings — published 2003
On Black Sisters Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,826 ratings — published 2007
Memoirs of Hadrian (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.21 — 36,452 ratings — published 1951
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,484 ratings — published 1938
De helaasheid der dingen (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.81 — 15,528 ratings — published 2006
Tintin in Tibet (Tintin #20)
by (shelved 29 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.24 — 19,666 ratings — published 1959
De engelenmaker (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,069 ratings — published 2005
Dirty Snow (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,404 ratings — published 1948
Het smelt (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.68 — 23,900 ratings — published 2016
The Castafiore Emerald (Tintin #21)
by (shelved 27 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,178 ratings — published 1963
Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,542 ratings — published 2007
King Ottokar's Sceptre (Tintin #8)
by (shelved 26 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,560 ratings — published 1943
Le Lotus bleu (Tintin #5)
by (shelved 26 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,463 ratings — published 1935
Hygiène de l'assassin (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,338 ratings — published 1992
Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.47 — 10,227 ratings — published 1930
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.01 — 269,489 ratings — published 2004
Tintin in America (Tintin #3)
by (shelved 25 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.73 — 18,615 ratings — published 1932
The Black Island (Tintin #7)
by (shelved 25 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.04 — 15,242 ratings — published 1943
Metafísica de los tubos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.98 — 25,331 ratings — published 2000
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Tintin #1)
by (shelved 24 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.57 — 19,713 ratings — published 1930
Tintin au Congo (Tintin #2)
by (shelved 24 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.14 — 12,204 ratings — published 1930
The Secret of the Unicorn (Tintin #11)
by (shelved 24 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,253 ratings — published 1943
Red Rackham's Treasure (Tintin #12)
by (shelved 24 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.29 — 17,978 ratings — published 1943
The Seven Crystal Balls (Tintin #13)
by (shelved 24 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.21 — 15,317 ratings — published 1948
The Crab With the Golden Claws (Tintin #9)
by (shelved 24 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,811 ratings — published 1941
Cigars of the Pharaoh (Tintin #4)
by (shelved 24 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,391 ratings — published 1934
The Broken Ear (Tintin #6)
by (shelved 23 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,508 ratings — published 1937
Villette (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.78 — 81,269 ratings — published 1853
Prisoners of the Sun (Tintin #14)
by (shelved 22 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,455 ratings — published 1948
33 Place Brugmann (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,766 ratings — published 2025
The Warm Hands of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,613 ratings — published 2024
La Vraie Vie (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,747 ratings — published 2018
La camera azzurra (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.84 — 13,625 ratings — published 1964
The Red Sea Sharks (Tintin #19)
by (shelved 21 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,021 ratings — published 1958
The Shooting Star (Tintin #10)
by (shelved 21 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,182 ratings — published 1942
Land of Black Gold (Tintin #15)
by (shelved 21 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,636 ratings — published 1950
Malpertuis: The Classic Modern Gothic Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,524 ratings — published 1943
Destination Moon (Tintin, #16)
by (shelved 20 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.22 — 16,356 ratings — published 1950
Niccolò Rising (The House of Niccolò, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,686 ratings — published 1986
Het vierkant van de wraak (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.30 — 1,625 ratings — published 1995
L'Œuvre au noir (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,244 ratings — published 1968
The Calculus Affair (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as belgium)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,130 ratings — published 1956
Acide sulfurique (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as belgium)
avg rating 3.57 — 13,093 ratings — published 2005
“The British people realise that they are fighting for the hegemony of the Empire. If necessary we shall continue the war single-handed.”
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“Hochschild is at pains to convince the reader that anyone opposing the EIC was good, whether brutal slave trader, inveterate cannibal, fetish priest, or ethnic-cleansing warlord. His treatment of the 1895 rebellion by native soldiers at a military camp named Luluabourg in the southern savannah strains to portray the rebels as noble savages pining for freedom and a return to pastoral life. In his telling, the Belgian commander Mathieu Pelzer was a “bully” who “used his fists” and thus got his comeuppance at breakfast with a knife to the throat. Actually, Pelzer had nothing to do with it. The rebels were former soldiers for a black slave king. The EIC had brought them to the southern camp to reintegrate them as government soldiers. But their loss of royal prerogatives to whore, steal, and maim caused them to rebel. The group never exceeded 300 (Hochschild speculates that it reached 2,500) and petered out in the northern jungles in 1897, a rag-tag criminal gang gone to seed.”
― King Hochschild’s Hoax: An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production is better described as historical fiction.
― King Hochschild’s Hoax: An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production is better described as historical fiction.
