Komischer Schluss. Erst ein Kapitel, das als Collage aus Zitaten oder Paraphrasen aus Thomas Manns Zauberberg daherkommt, aber für mein Gefühl wie ein Fremdkörper bleibt, danach ein sehr deprimierendes, hoffnungsloses Ende, aber anders als bei Thomas Mann. Eigentlich fand ich das Buch gut, aber das Ende hat mich doch ziemlich runtergezogen. Muss das erst mal sacken lassen.
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I read books in German and English. I try to explore a wide range of literature, especially fiction, and I also like challenging texts. In general, all periods and genres, with a preference for postmodern literature. I also like magical realism, sci-fi, and sometimes fantasy.
Lese auf deutsch und auf englisch. Ich 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. Magischer Realismus und Sci-Fi gerne, phantastisches manchmal.
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Alff by Jakob Nolte
Benjamins Leiche wird in einen Zaun genäht aufgefunden. Er ist das erste Opfer des »Vollstrickers«, einem Phantom, das die Bewohner …
Paranoid Fish rated Zauberberg 2: 4 stars

Zauberberg 2 by Heinz Strunk
Eine Hommage an einen Klassiker, ein großer Roman, ganz und gar Heinz Strunk Jonas Heidbrink, ein Erfolgsmensch. Schon vor dem …
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Zauberberg 2 by Heinz Strunk
Jonas Heidbrink, ein Erfolgsmensch. Schon vor dem dreißigsten hat er sein Start-up versilbert; arbeiten muss er sein Leben lang nicht …
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Zauberberg 2 by Heinz Strunk
Eine Hommage an einen Klassiker, ein großer Roman, ganz und gar Heinz Strunk Jonas Heidbrink, ein Erfolgsmensch. Schon vor dem …
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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from …
Paranoid Fish rated Hey guten Morgen, wie geht es dir?: 4 stars

Hey guten Morgen, wie geht es dir? by Martina Hefter
Tagsüber hilft Juno ihrem schwerkranken Mann Jupiter dabei, seinen Alltag zu meistern. Außerdem ist sie Künstlerin, tanzt und spielt Theater. …
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Hey guten Morgen, wie geht es dir? by Martina Hefter
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Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr.
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel takes a harsh, uncompromising …
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@davidstarfish My favourite book. I first read it when I was eleven years old, and I read it again every few years. I also read it to my children.
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@Willowmill I can recommend the Wind-up Bird Chronicles. That's one of my favorite Murakami novels.

willowmillway reviewed Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
4 stars
I couldn't help but feel that this story was "Lynchian". The premise is mundane, Kafka Tamura is just another kid running away from his family. The deepening of the story involves chance encounters which later become inseparable from a dramatic notion of fate. Tamura is drawn into a vortex, his fate at odds with the rational, modern, mundane sense of reality brings out the surreal. This is something that the story stylistically clarifies: that surrealism is about subverting what we expect from reality. Dreams are based on our experiences but they are uncanny because they do not follow the rules of the waking world. on the Shore also interestingly seems to suggest kinship between surrealism and myth, Murakami places in our mind the idea that myth is dream and dream is myth. Oedipus and Orpheus live in the unconscious, ruling our fates whether or not we realize it. And this …
I couldn't help but feel that this story was "Lynchian". The premise is mundane, Kafka Tamura is just another kid running away from his family. The deepening of the story involves chance encounters which later become inseparable from a dramatic notion of fate. Tamura is drawn into a vortex, his fate at odds with the rational, modern, mundane sense of reality brings out the surreal. This is something that the story stylistically clarifies: that surrealism is about subverting what we expect from reality. Dreams are based on our experiences but they are uncanny because they do not follow the rules of the waking world. on the Shore also interestingly seems to suggest kinship between surrealism and myth, Murakami places in our mind the idea that myth is dream and dream is myth. Oedipus and Orpheus live in the unconscious, ruling our fates whether or not we realize it. And this notion seems to nicely complement Shinto and Buddhism, blurring the boundaries of east and west, asserting a shared experience. I loved reading this book, my first of Murakami and I doubt it will be my last.