by Dan Ariely I liked Ariely’s second book “The Upside of Irrationality”. His first one has the same basic topic: human behavior as we don’t expect us to behave. The…
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by Yann Martel Having to cross the Adriatic Sea by ferry and going by train from Bari to Rome I needed to buy more literature. Between all the usual beach…
by Peter Buwalda I read it on my vacation in Croatia, the spectacular Dalmation coast had a true contender of my attention. A family novel on my honeymoon travel, one…
by Saul Bellow It is widely considerer as a classic of American literature. I read it because it was translated again recently into a more modern German. Here is a…
by Christoph Ransmayr The novel tells the story of the Austro-Hungarian Payer-Weyprecht expedition from 1872 to 1874, during which the northernmost part of Eurasia, the Franz Josef Land, was discovered.…
by Dan Ariely The book caught my attention in Tucson’s Barnes&Noble because I had seen Dan Ariely’s TED Talk. As entertaining as he is a orator as funny and equally…
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez Already on the first pages I was drawn into the book – not into the story, but what the author said about life and how. The…
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…
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 Wladimir Sorokin Russian literature is great. And there is a certain Russian tradition of writing.. tradition is not bad but easily turns into an unshakable expectation on the reader’s…