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Voorlopig ben ik gestrand op pagina 130.
Het is niet echt mijn ding.

The body of a young woman is found. Only after a few months they find out her identity. By then however, I couldn't care less...
Call it a classic as much as you want, it doesn't move me at all.

What story takes some 700 pages to tell and how do you keep it interesting?
I'm gonna leave it for a while.

How do you call someone who doesn't lie (too much) but leaves out enough of the truth to create an almost different story that doesn't do justice to what really happened because it doesn't fit within an ideological frame? A journalist.
Fallada ain't no journalist, but he's using the very same tactics nevertheless.

So I finished the first part/book of The Good Soldier Svejk and so far it's worth 5 solid stars. It's a hilarious book, written in a sober style but that doesn't make it any less classic.
Svejk is the ultimate anti hero who manages to crush even the toughest enemy with his dumb grin and barrage of insane anecdotes.