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Markus Hell
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Born
in Germany
Member Since
January 2015
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Intergalaktisches Seemannsgarn
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2013
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3 editions
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| I actually liked this more than I expected. I'm very wary of self-help books masquerading as novels and fairly superficial insights being presented as some deep truth (see especially: The Alchemist, which I hated), and sure this book definitely is a ...more | |
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| Loved this. It's a fundamentally strange story, reminiscent of Borges' or Calvino's imaginary worlds, starting off with genuinely disorienting opening chapters where Piranesi presents the strange world he lives in. But once I got into the world and t ...more | |
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Starts off furiously and ends beautifully, but unfortunately loses a lot of steam in between. I genuinely loved the opening chapters. The narrative voice is rich and epic, and despite the vast number of characters Diamant manages to keep each characte ...more |
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| I was quite disappointed in this which is a shame as I normally like Lem. I'm well used to classic science fiction being rather weak on the characters, which is certainly the case here - there is really only one sort of fleshed out character, Rohan, ...more | |
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Victoria Rodriguez Piceda's review
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La sombra del viento (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #1):
"Después de varias lecturas en el último tiempo La Sombra del Viento fue un prueba más que la literatura te puede hacer sentir emociones, intriga y sensaciones. Que hay una belleza inexplicable que los libros te pueden hacer generar.
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| One of the very few comedies from 100+ years ago that is still genuinely, laugh-out-loud funny. Interestingly, that's not really because you could call it "timeless" - on the contrary, it's very much rooted in its time through its satire of the Engli ...more | |
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A fascinating book - although I'm not sure I fully get it, especially the ending. The bizarre setting is well drawn from the very beginning, a strange world where objects need to be continually named and marked so they don't dissolve. The protagonist ...more |
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