Buch-Review: A Sport and a Pastime von James Salter
I had difficulties getting into this book. Mainly, this is the fault of the peculiar construction. There's a first-person narrator, probably the author himself. He seems to be the main…
Buch-Review: Serotonin von Michel Houellebecq
With each new book, Houellebecq seems to get more and more disappointed with society and life if that's possible at all given his consistently misanthropic and pessimistic oeuvre. I have…
Buch-Review: Rabbit Omnibus: Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux and Rabbit is Rich
Let me start out by copying my introduction from the review to Rabbit at Rest: The Rabbit series is an exceptional literary effort. About every ten years, Updike published a…
Buch-Review: Rabbit at Rest von John Updike
The Rabbit series is an exceptional literary effort. About every ten years, Updike published a new installment with Rabbit aging as much as the author and always taking place in…
Buch-Review: Zeit der Vögel von James Blish
What nonsense! Science Fiction is about ideas but the ideas here are far-fetched and underdeveloped. None of the events is explained in any believable fashion. The effort of giving depth…
Buch-Review: Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger von Carson McCullers
I can see why this novel got such an outstanding reception. It broached the important issue of racial discrimination at a time long before it got common sense that Blacks…
Buch-Review: Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins von Milan Kundera
One of the few books that I chose to read a second time. And I don't regret it. If at all, it's gotten better with reading it again. Mostly because…
Buch-Review: Der Fangschuß von Marguerite Yourcenar
I wasn't really prepared for Coup de Grâce. At its surface, it's a long monologue of Erick de Lhomond, looking back at an obscure place and time in history, the…
Buch-Review: Der Verfolger von Julio Cortázar
The Pursuer is a short sketch about a musician on the verge between genius and insanity. It's only thinly disguised that it's about Charlie Parker and his drug-fueled decline and…
Buch-Review: Under the Volcano von Malcolm Lowry
It's been a long time since I last abandoned a book. But I couldn't get any enjoyment out of this one and in the week I occupied myself with this…