by Keith Richards Not great literature. But hilariously funny at times and a must for any rock fan. Richards is truly not that conceited, and this makes his story believable.…
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by Frank Schätzing Everybody knows the Cologne cathedral, right? Using the construction phase of this icon as a backdrop of a crime story, in which the architect is murdered, is…
by Richard David Precht For several weeks it was in the bestseller list in Germany. Unbelievable but true: a philosophical work achieved his. I am still surprised. The young author…
by Ferdinand von Schirach This is a summary, which I am writing almost year after I listened to it. So it is not very authentic, normally I just jot down…
by Don DeLillo A noel which take 9/11 as background. The best artistic approximation to those events I have read so far. The secret is maybe that the book is…
by Walter Kempowski “From Great Times” – that is the ambiguous title of the book. The great times are always in the past when you are getting older. But these…
by Leon de Winter Lately I listen to more books than I read. Actually, it is not as bad as it sounds: these books are additional “lecture” since I listen…
by Herta Müller What a revelation for me! Until the Nobel Prize 2009, Herta Müller was not known to a wide audience, but always acclaimed by the critics. Atemschaukel describes…
by Peter Ustinov Germans adore Ustinov. I am no exception. I think it is less due to his movie career, which is of course exceptional. I guess it is more…
by Philip Roth “Arise, ye who refuse to be bondslaves! / . . . Indignation fills the hearts of all of our countrymen, / Arise! Arise! Arise!” That is what…