by William Faulkner Another American classic I read in the last month. This one was hard to get through. In the beginning I got constantly lost regarding who was actually…
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by Philip Roth The acclaimed novel abut getting old and about sickness. Inevitable but mostly denied. The is nothing nice when you reach the age which one thought would never…
by Rubem Fonseca Alternative literature! It is not like Bukowski, it is real literature, it is Rubem Fonseca from Rio de Janeiro. I discovered him via a podcast where they…
by Hellmuth Karasek Actually, Karasek is not the man I would be interested in. a typical intellectual softie I would have said. He is a softie, but how interesting is…
by Tom Wolfe That soft soft man with a white suit, white socks and white shoes: a dandy: Tom Wolfe. I knew this picture of him and therefore I concluded…
by Jô Soares I guess I forgot one book to my reading list last year. It was a book by Jô Soares “O Xangô de Baker Street” which I read…
by Patrick Süsskind It is a best-seller. It is a long-seller. it is exceptional. Most exceptional books do not fulfil the first condition. This book you can find on every…
by Daniel Pennac Read Daniel Pennac! read his Malaussène novels! Read all of them! In serious, I can not imagine that anybody would not like it. This is a relatively…
by Tom Robbins A bourne-again monkey, a stock market crash, the weather of Seattle, an university in Timbuktu, a Philippine broker, the disappearance of the frogs, a Japanese who invented…
by Georges Simenon I am not a big fan of detective novels. Simenon is famous for his novels with detective Maigret as main character. To raise my reservation even further:…