Critiques et Commentaires

okay, it is rather a draft than a real novel: the 80ies setting is more proclaimed than it is shown, the characters were thrown at you and the plot is held together by rush conveniences. but it is such a fun text to read, the dialogues especially and despite the cracks and holes you feel on every page the energy and wit of the main character.

well… when you have to wait in an empty flat, you might read it in just 3 hours

devastating as I thought it would be. times in the european parliament and bureaucracy with a semi.professional politician and common sense. it throw's a light on the realities of democracy in our countries.

(still not convinced about the biographical touch in the beginning, although i can understand, why it is placed there)

ich habe mehrmals 'Das Hohe Haus' von Willemsen gehört, ein beobachtender blick auf ein jahr bundestag, der im laufe dieser zeit fühlbar immer enttäuschter auf das 'gebaren' der politiker reagiert. ich erinnere mich, das dem buch teilw. ein zu naiver blick auf politik vorgeworfen wurde und das man sich ihrer unschönen realitäten nuneinmal stellen müsse. nun hier gleich ein sehr leidenschaftlicher einstieg, der genau das verheißt.

some are dated, some are nice some are funny, some are weird read for yourself is my advice and the odd pictures are a completely other story

Eckstein-Diener, behind the penname Sir Galahad, gives you a survey of the knowledge about history and forms of matriarchic societies of her time (that is a about 1930 ). interesting points : the language or style of Oswald Spengler, omnipresent in the whole book. it's an interesting thought for a study to follow the roots and branches of this kind of speaking and hot headed discussing throughout humanities the chapter about the spartans is kind of funny in a lewd way. it's all '300' in a fanfiction, but pretending to be science.

but be warned, it has the careless racism of it's time and doesn't shy cruelty in the name of traditions, which you have just to understand properly.

what's this about 'b' and 'f'? why is it called 'elben' but usually we say in german 'elfen'? looked up in the grimm, only to be more astonished: yes, there is the entry 'elben', but all of grimm's examples read 'elfen'. Can someone throw some light on the matter?

well, now: this is some kind of 'how would S. King write a Lovecraftian story', even with the obligated sex scene, which surprises you. it's not a bad book, i just don't really like this style. I get everything told, what appears vaguely at the edges of the field of view. and, to start a discussion about the 'true' genre of cosmic horror, it is not in the spirit, but uses expertly the staff and leitmotifs to write something about grieve and loss.

despite what i just said, it's fine and the old-man-narrator of the audiobook converts it into quite an enjoyable experience.

starts off in the pacing and tone of a novel of king, doesn't it? i hope, i can stand it

vielleicht nicht ganz so gut wie der erste band: die geschichte bekommt ein paar unnötige wendungen und zufälligkeiten verpasst. aber immer noch mit witzigen details in den totalen und mit einem schlussplädoyer für demkratische selbstverwaltung (nicht übertrieben)