Kurioses Wien

by Harald Havas

Wien ist voller Dinge, die entweder keiner kennt oder keiner wirklich hinterfragt. Anders Harald Havas. Hellhörig und mit Adleraugen streift er durch die Stadt, stets auf der Suche nach außergewöhnlichen, skurrilen, witzigen und ungeahnten Besonderheiten. So klärt er uns im charmant-witzigen Plauderton endlich darüber auf, warum es keine U-Bahn-Linie »U 5« gibt, was es mit dem sogenannten »Vermählungsbrunnen« eigentlich auf sich hat und wo in Wien die älteste Toilette der Welt zu finden ist.

Genres: Nonfiction, German Literature

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 31, 2010

Reviews

[James Lawner · Rating 2 out of 5]

*2.5*

While I appreciate the idea behind this book, I still did not enjoy it as much due to the writing style and how this book was presented. The book went into a lot of detail describing things, but there weren't a lot of photos to showcase them so that I could see how those things looked like in real life. The writing in this was, like I said before, too descriptive and to the point that it felt long-winded and info-dumpy. I was expecting this to be a fun Alternative Guidebook where I could learn some interesting not-well known facts about Vienna, but instead I got a book that was more droning and dull than a school textbook!

[Anna Hintsyak · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bought the book on last day of my trip to Vienna. There are a lot of interesting insights on random and not-so-random things. I enjoyed reading it, though felt like a lot of images are missing. A lot of times had to google everything just to get an idea of what exactly the author is describing considering. I think if there would be more photos of places described that would make the whole reading process much more enjoyable.