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…
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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 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…
by Rodolfo Walsh One more of those books that came to me attention by the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2010 when Argentina was the featured country. In all the reviews…
by Walter Kempowski The big treks of German refugees after II World War fleeing the progressing Red Army to the homeland. That is the topic of “All in Vain” (the…
by Bernardo Carvalho Bernardo Carvalho is in the circle of the most important contemporary writers in Brazil. A friend gave it to me as a birthday gift and I usually…
by John Briggs and F. David Peat It was written in 1989. I bought it in 1993. I started to read it several times, and never passed page 54. In…
by Bastian Sick The author has famous column in the magazine “Der Spiegel”. It delas with the German language and its everyday use and abuse in a very ironic manner.…