JG Ballard: High-Rise
It took me a while to figure out what other book JG Ballard’s „High-Rise“ reminds me of. In my defence I have to write that it has been ages since I’ve read „Lord of the
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Kategorie: Books
Ian McEwan: The Child in Time
Time. You will need time. Because when you start Ian McEwan’s „The Child in Time“ it will hook you from the very beginning and will only release you to your real life after you have
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James Rhodes „Der Klang der Wut“ – A story like a fairy tale
The truth one might think is something you can’t suppress. But it looked highly unlikely that the book „Instrumental“ („The sound of rage“ is it in German – my note) would never make it onto
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Shakespeare in the World
William Shakespeare is one of the best known author of plays. And even if one hasn’t read or seen any of them at all, some sentences seem to be familiar, written forever in the memory
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Bücher meines Jahres
Zum dritten Mal ziehe ich Buch-Bilanz (zum ersten Mal auf meiner eigenen Url) und wie auch schon in den Jahren 2013 und 2014 ist das Ganze wieder zutiefst subjektiv und bar jeglichen feuilletonistischen Anspruchs. Im Vergleich
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Prof Alan Turing decoded
What is the point in writing another biography of Alan Turing more than 60 years after his death? And what can be really new when you know Andrew Hodges‘ „Enigma“ which is both a thrilling
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Letters of Note II
The moment you free that huge coffee table book from its packings, you feel that is indeed something special. This is of course because of its size (21 x 3,5 x 28,9 cm) but it
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Donna Tartt: The secret history
What is a good book, a good novel? One that grabs you, draws you inside it’s pages, inside the story and even stays in your mind when you have read the last word. At least
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James Rhodes: Instrumental: Violence, music and love
The thing with autobiographies is they can go totally wrong, trying to convince the reader what a perfect, clever, self-confident and of course perfect looking human being the writer is – and leaving you as
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My dear Bessie
In times when everybody had a pen and pencil and using a computer or chatting online seemed unthinkable or only possible in the mind of some people living way ahead of their time or writing science
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