Trying to explore a wide range of literature, especially fiction, and I'm not afraid of challenging texts. In general, all periods and genres, with a preference for postmodern literature and Science Fiction. Reading in german and english.
Versuche, mir ein möglichst weites Feld an Literatur, vor allem der Belletristik, zu erschließen; es darf gerne auch mal herausfordernd sein. Grundsätzlich alle Epochen, alle Genres, mit besonderer Vorliebe für die Postmoderne und Science-Fiction. Lese auf deutsch und auf englisch.
Kraftvoll und politisch, mit unvergesslichen Charakteren und zeitlosen Themen: Irvings moderner Klassiker ist ein herausragender Roman. Er erzählt die Geschichte …
Die Verwandlung vom Menschen zum Käfer: kraftvolle Metaphern und innovative Erzählweise
»Als Gregor Samsa …
Hilarious and sadly too relatable
5 stars
This book made me laugh out loud so many times. Its genius lies in the way Gregor’s thoughts mirror our own cognitive dissonance living in a society that has turned us all into wage slaves.
Oh, our government is deploying the national guard to arrest my neighbors? Jeez, I’ve got to get to work. Oh, I’ve been turned into a giant bug? I think I can still catch the next train to get to work!
Einer der Größten des Kinos, vielleicht der größte Regisseur seiner Epoche: Zur Machtergreifung dreht G. …
Hat mir wieder sehr gut gefallen
5 stars
Ein ähnliches Rezept wie bei der "Vermessung der Welt", was mir auch sehr gefallen hat. Aber dieses Mal geht es um Film und Filmkunst und den Nationalsozialismus. Ich kann das Buch sehr empfehlen.
Ein ähnliches Rezept wie bei der "Vermessung der Welt", was mir auch sehr gefallen hat. Aber dieses Mal geht es um Film und Filmkunst und den Nationalsozialismus. Ich kann das Buch sehr empfehlen.
A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, …
A gripping episodic adventure through a strange, hidden world of marvels.
4 stars
...even though marine science and geology have passed it by.
Captain Nemo is compelling and mysterious as ever, if the passengers are rather broadly drawn (at least all three of them are distinct) and the crew is more or less faceless. (Aside from Nemo, the crew doesn’t speak to the passengers, so they’re never able to pick up the Nautilus’ private language.)
And Verne has really thought things through. Like, how did Nemo get something of this scale built without someone noticing? He farmed out different parts and systems to different factories scattered across the world. Ocean-based textiles, undersea mines, an isolated source of fuel that no surface-based ship will find.
Even the parts where he made up oceanography out of whole cloth, like the deeper outflow throgh Gibraltar (which as it turns out does exist, but not for the reasons Nemo suggests, which have since been …
...even though marine science and geology have passed it by.
Captain Nemo is compelling and mysterious as ever, if the passengers are rather broadly drawn (at least all three of them are distinct) and the crew is more or less faceless. (Aside from Nemo, the crew doesn’t speak to the passengers, so they’re never able to pick up the Nautilus’ private language.)
And Verne has really thought things through. Like, how did Nemo get something of this scale built without someone noticing? He farmed out different parts and systems to different factories scattered across the world. Ocean-based textiles, undersea mines, an isolated source of fuel that no surface-based ship will find.
Even the parts where he made up oceanography out of whole cloth, like the deeper outflow throgh Gibraltar (which as it turns out does exist, but not for the reasons Nemo suggests, which have since been found to be incorrect) or the open sea at the south pole (which doesn’t) – or Atlantis, for that matter, with the Canaries as the remnants of the sunken peaks – have at least some logic beyond the rule of cool.
I read an abridged version years ago, when I was in my early teens, and I’ve been meaning to read the whole thing ever since. I’m glad I finally got around to it! Though I suspect a lot of the abridgment had to do with the frequent (and lengthy) lists of fish.
