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Favourite books - Dein Lieblingsbuch

started by deleted user ( 7 January 2008)

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  deleted user

  7 January 2008

  Welches Buch kannst Du empfehlen?

  Which book would you like to recommend?

  
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  PJebsen

  Admin

  7 January 2008

  Gutes Thema! :-)

  Ich hab’s schon oft erwähnt:

  Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential (Geständnisse eines Küchenchefs)
  Hervorragend geschriebener Rückblick auf ein pralles Leben, mit interessanten Einblicken ins Gastro-Business.

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  deleted user

  7 January 2008

  Für Leseratten, Klugscheißer und Freunde des abgedrehten Humors:

  (Doch, der schreibt sich mit Ff - der ist Waliser!)

  Jasper Fforde: Der Fall Jane Eyre

  The Eyre Affair

  The right book for bookworms, wisenheimers and friends of a manic humour!

  
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  Lakritze

  7 January 2008

  Eines??? Na, dann heute für Abenteuerreisende und Nostalgiker: Fremde auf dem Pfad der Nachdenklichkeit von Fritz Mühlenweg. Der war in den 1930ern mit Sven Hedin in der Wüste Gobi und hat ein herzzerreißend schönes, witziges, weises Buch darüber geschrieben.

  Sorry, guys -- it’s not translated. Would be a treat, though!

  
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  Lakritze

  7 January 2008

  @buchstäblich: Right, and all the subsequent books! :)

  
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  deleted user

  7 January 2008

  Well, “The Eyre Affair” is just the introductory offer!

  
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  arlene

  7 January 2008

  Albert Camus is(was) a magnificent writer. The purity of his language is beautiful; his message is always powerful and thought-provoking. (He won the Nobel prize for literature in the 1960s). L’Etranger (The Outsider) is a great starting point. (I’m sure he translates well into German too).

  
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  Lakritze

  7 January 2008

  @amethyst: Yay, quite a different league. But talking about language: I like John Banville’s (The Book of Evidence, Ghosts, The Untouchable), even if his subjects tend to be depressing. (No Nobel prize material, though.)

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  deleted user

  7 January 2008

  Depressive tendencies seem to fit very well for the Nobel prize, or did you repress Elfriede Jelinek that successful? ;-)

  
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  Lakritze

  7 January 2008

  *schauder*

  To change subject subtly: Did anyone read Pullman’s “His dark materials”? And would recommend it?

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  deleted user

  14 January 2008

  Did you ever read the crime stories of Dorothy Sayers around Lord Peter Wimsey? Great stuff!

  
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  Lakritze

  14 January 2008

  The Nine Tailors is one of my absolute favourites…!

  
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  deleted user

  14 January 2008

  Mine, too! I knew you would know it ….

  
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  PJebsen

  Admin

  29 January 2008

  Lacking my last but one wisdom teeth since yesterday, I tried to pick a not-too-complex novel out of my stack of unread books for today’s bus ride to the post-operation check-up by the dental surgeon. I was lucky! I found Suzanne Schlosberg’s “The Curse of the Singles Table: A True Story of 1001 Nights Without Sex” which I had picked up at a flea market last year, for just one euro.

  I was sold on it after having read the first three paragraphs:

  “I could tell you that I came to the most remote corner of Arctic Russia because of an interest in life on the tundra in the post-Soviet era. Except it wouldn’t be true. The reason I’m here is that I have gone one thousand forty-four days without sex.
  Let me clarify: I did not come to Provideniya to get laid. That would be like traveling to North Dakota for Ethiopian food. There are maybe forty single guys in this town, and it appears that the majority are border guards wearing the type of oversized sunglasses last seen on Starsky and Hutch. Not a good look really.
  The truth is, I came to Provideniya - a near ghost town of crumbling concrete with no cafes, no hotels, not even hot running water - because it seemed like the perfect place to commemorate my One Thousand Days. My own personal New Millennium.”

  After the first 50 pages, I can tell you that’s it a pretty funny read!

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  arlene

  30 January 2008

  Sounds diverting… Should take your mind off the wisdom tooth! Happy recovery!