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Danny Hane
Danny Hane is 44% done with The Collector
Even on the first couple of pages I could sense that this book has that magic “Oh wow, this is great and I have no idea why.” The narrative progresses in such a smooth, organic and psychologically convincing way. I’m getting into that territory where I forget to eat because I want to keep reading.
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The Collector

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is on page 90 of 190 of Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
Stella Maris is slowly advancing to become a personal favorite. My mind is getting into a really special metaphysical state. All the big questions I have are discussed in here: reality, the self, sanity, the subconscious, life, death. On rereading I could focus on so many more subtle nuances — e.g. the names Alice and Bob are the placeholders used in cryptography and physics to refer to sender and receiver.
May 24, 2026 03:15AM Add a comment
Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is 75% done with The Goldfinch
As my reading turned increasingly negative, I tried to approach the story purely for entertainment reasons, just to remain open.

I don’t even dislike the characters… I just don’t care about them, mainly because they feel like clichés. The whole book has a pseudo-deep smugness to it. A real audience pleaser.

Spoiler alert: This won’t be my favorite book.
May 16, 2026 10:27AM Add a comment
The Goldfinch

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is 37% done with The Goldfinch
It’s very apparent that Donna Tartt wanted to create a Harry Potter-type protagonist that you feel pity for. That didn’t worked out for me…I need a reason first to care about a character. I’m immersed in the book and it has a great, melodic language; however, I’m still not convinced that this is a story that needs to be told. In fact, it feels like a story I’ve heard many times before.
May 12, 2026 01:35PM Add a comment
The Goldfinch

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is on page 70 of 771 of The Goldfinch
Finished the first chapter about Dutch art and an explosion and I’m already surprised how underwhelmed I am with the storytelling. Branch after branch with filigreed descriptions. Only 700 pages to go, yay!
May 11, 2026 12:40AM Add a comment
The Goldfinch

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is 80% done with The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 14 was so good that I read it three times, then set the book aside for a while and had to start all over again. The migration of the family has an almost biblical quality – and rereading only made the story better. Once the family reaches California, though, the narrative loses some of its grip in the endless succession of camps and work.
May 11, 2026 12:32AM Add a comment
The Grapes of Wrath

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is on page 90 of Hitze
Some narrators are unsympathetic, disgusting, or just misguided. But this one plays in a league of her own. I don't know what went wrong with her, and I'm already at a point where I'm not sure I want to know. Third time googling the author's pictures and being like "But she looks so normal?!"
May 09, 2026 01:47AM Add a comment
Hitze

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is 15% done with The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck = Luigi
William Faulkner = Waluigi
Apr 26, 2026 02:58AM 3 comments
The Grapes of Wrath

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is on page 240 of 507 of Light in August
Faulkner's style is really hard to describe: It's unpredictable without being erratic /arbitrary. He doesn't seem to follow any pattern – the same is true for the narration. Only around page 100 do we get to know a protagonist, and I'm still not sure if this is the main plot strand or if this book even has one. Head is spinning. Certainly not a boring book.
Apr 19, 2026 06:50AM 5 comments
Light in August

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is on page 112 of 507 of Light in August
I'm completely in the dark about what direction this book could go. So far, quite a lot of tension. Can't really put my finger on the prose as well- it's neither bad nor good... a bit unwieldy?!
Apr 18, 2026 06:24AM Add a comment
Light in August

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is on page 200 of 370 of The Girl Next Door
Lying a bit sick in bed and my head not working all that well, I was really in the mood for some good ol’ conventional fucked up horror story. Some say it’s the most disturbing book they’ve ever read…*sipping ginger tea*… ok, I’m ready!
Apr 08, 2026 05:02AM Add a comment
The Girl Next Door

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is on page 160 of 306 of How Should a Person Be?
After 11 long pages of how great the dick of Israel is (her affair), she now raises the central question:

„I don’t know why you’re all reading books instead of letting Israel fuck you in the ass, spit on you, or slam you against the headboard—with every thrust, your skull smacks against the headboard.”

Now I need a reading pause and I‘m thinking to myself: Hm, maybe Israel should fuck me too.
Apr 01, 2026 07:56AM Add a comment
How Should a Person Be?

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is on page 90 of 306 of How Should a Person Be?
With every Sheila Heti novel, I fall in love with her voice all over again. It has the honesty and lightheartedness of a child who whispers a precious secret to you, like: 'When I grow up, I want to be a genius' …it just makes you laugh out loud.
Mar 31, 2026 08:05AM Add a comment
How Should a Person Be?

Danny Hane
Danny Hane added a status update
Ew, the Goodreads app has started showing me ads. Really bad timing, when left and right other reading apps are popping up that manage to handle such highly sophisticated and complex things as being able to reply to someone’s comment directly via the app.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Mar 29, 2026 03:09AM 7 comments

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is on page 200 of 352 of Die Anomalie
For about 140 pages I was completely lost… every chapter drops you into a new character’s life and you have no idea how they relate to the story.

Slowly the strings come together and now we’re deep in Bostrom’s simulation hypothesis.

It’s a strange mix of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Interstellar, Anéantir, and maybe Story of Your Life.

I’m hooked!
Mar 29, 2026 02:47AM Add a comment
Die Anomalie

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is 43% done with All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
This slowly develops into a wet dream for all horse girls: a forbidden romance, shy glances, secretly riding your stallion with her at sunrise into the boundless vastness of the Mexican landscape. I want to see some dead baby corpses hanging from the trees.
Mar 15, 2026 12:34AM Add a comment
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is 40% done with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
One of my greatest passions, besides literature, is to tinker in private with agricultural machinery. I am particularly fond of John Deere tractors. But lately old Yamaha machines from the 90s have caught my deeper interest. Just kidding… I have no idea why I read this book.
Mar 10, 2026 05:20AM Add a comment
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is on page 253 of 471 of Suttree
I am truly in awe of the virtuosity of language in this book! The range of emotions I have experienced so far is really broad: the book is fucked up, it's funny, it's skewed and gruesome and at the same time shows brief moments of real humanness.
Mar 06, 2026 01:08AM 5 comments
Suttree

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is on page 70 of 471 of Suttree
I fell asleep during a scene where someone was fucking melons. Waking up was very confusing; I had to reread the page about five times. But yes: he was, in fact, fucking melons in a field at night.
Mar 03, 2026 07:44AM Add a comment
Suttree

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is 65% done with Norwegian Wood
At first, I was deeply confused by this book. Not only does Naoko have an actual personality instead of being an empty shell, but she doesn’t even have big, round boobs? What is going on?!?

Fortunately, in the later part of the book, Murakami goes back to his roots and finally delves into the subject of the roundness of her boobies in greater detail.
Feb 25, 2026 05:50AM 1 comment
Norwegian Wood

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is on page 200 of 285 of Die Wand
I think I have slowly but surely hit a wall while reading
Feb 25, 2026 05:33AM Add a comment
Die Wand

Danny Hane
Danny Hane is on page 150 of 494 of Die Möglichkeit einer Insel
Marcel Reif Rainiki Stimme: "Wer ein solches Zeug schrrreibt... ein so ordinäääres Buch das vulgäääre ist ja unerrträääglich... ich werde ficken, ich habe gefickt, wir werden gefickt... die Welt ist eine Fickerei... das einzige Glück ist die Fickerei...Kinder, Kinder was ist
das für eine Prrrrrrrosa?!?!
Feb 17, 2026 08:56AM 4 comments
Die Möglichkeit einer Insel

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