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Wow. Gotta say, pretty much everyone in this book is a deeply unpleasant person.

I just laughed really hard at "It was a real glass enemy". I'm not sorry. It's a good pun.

I gotta say, that all these countries were completely prepared to go to war with each other over the most ridiculous reasons disturbs me more than I expected.

So the main character just refused to walk under a pink umbrella with his assistant because only gay man do that. So secure in his sexuality, that one.

"Denn um diese nachtschlafende Zeit zeigte die Stadt Zähne, da wurde es gefährlich. Da bekamen die Prostituierten Prügel. Da gingen die Kerle zuerst gemeinsam auf Sauftour und dann mit dem Messer aufeinander los. Da suchten die Banden die Konfrontation. Wurden die Brieftaschen leer geräumt." 50% des Unterhaltungswert von Adler-Olsen ist eben die plumpe Prosa. :D

Wow, I did know that Greer is considered transphobic, but I didn't expect to stumble upon evidence of this on the very first page ...

This is so fascinating!

I'd rather like to live in this book.

You really have to wonder if there were any unmarried men in 1950s London.

Oh, it is glorious.

Oh dear ... this is not very ... um ... academically written.

Psychopaths, the whole lot of them. Sadly, I can't help but have a little crush on Sulla, even though he's a terrible person.

What this book taught me: Senate meetings were better than any soap opera *eats popcorn*

Ehehehe, senators insulting each other

Oh God, this makes me want to read up on despots in the Orient so much. BUT I HAVE NO TIME