by Jacques Roubaud Besides the fact, that it is a disturbing story about friendship and betrayal, I found it interesting that it follows self imposed formal restrictions. Roubaud is member…
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by William Lithgow Written in the first half of the 17th century it is refreshingly incompatible with today’s political correctness. You will laugh a lot about Lithgow’s rigorous, sometimes misinformed…
by David Foster Wallace I read the paperback edition in German. And I do not know if this was an “Infinite Jest”, since the book has 1600 pages, printed in…
by Jörg Juretzka Seldom I read mystery novels designed as such and with all the typical features of the genre. But the literature podcast I listen to regularly has also…
by Stefan Zweig After more than at least 12 years I turn again to a book of Stefan Zweig. He was one of those i devoured at some stage of…
by Edward Abbey I needed to read a book about the South-West of the United States since I have spent so much time in Tucson on various business trips. Lately…
by Nicholas Nassim Taleb My relation with the book is ambiguous: on one hand I love it since it describes very eloquently so many things in believe in, on the…
by Monika Maron Monika Maron leaves you with very ambiguous feelings. The first person narrator tells us twice that she would feel better if her male counterpart would die. First…
by Arno Schmidt if you expect an absorbing tale, just do not read it. It is a simple story in the after-war Germany. But Arno Schmidt’s mastering of the German…
by Robert Sutton A very catchy title indeed. It persuaded me as well. The author even dedicates a long section in the epilogue to that fact. He just labels people…