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Le Guin - The wild gift

Ursula Le Guin is one of the great elders of fantasy literature, and their " Erdseezyklus " a while ago also filmed, is often (but, I think, wrong to ) compared to Lord of the Rings. Nevertheless - Earthsea is worth reading.

What is it now in "the wild gift"? The setting is a Fantasy Society, which resembles a medieval Scotland. In cities there are already printing, but in the Highlands live rival clans . The latter - here's the amazing aspect - have certain magical abilities, which are inherited - some can tame animals, cause disease or any other matter - into the mud - whether dead or alive.

The Story : the latter also has the gift of the young Clan Orrec . Only with Orrec even stirs in puberty if the gifts should show the latest, yet. Papa sludgy , son get it toward non-massive castration fears! But then he fry away by mistake a stupid dog and a hill and gets blindfolded, because without seeing his goal, he can not conjure up - and since he had a "wild transfer", he can not control them. Or did he end up wanting to mud and dog was Papa's fault? Who knows!

The problem with the book - that's it for now. Actually nothing happened. Orrec has depressed blindfolded and brooding to himself. The whole time I was hoping for the big bang at the end, but - nothing. My fear is already a second part ...

Even when I found Earthsea Le Guin always lengthy, but also compelling - but the "wild transfer" could not inspire me, unfortunately. And despite a love story in the book, the characters remain passionate as multiply and toast, I suppose, by cell division.

Although Le Guin linguistically much, much better - I would rather read then again a great MZB - tearjerker .

So unfortunately


** (two out of five)

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Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

This first novel by Jeanette Winterson has 25 years under his belt, but it shows him barely. The story is still very amused.

Jeanette, the young heroine of the book grows in England in an evangelical sect. Devils and demons lurk everywhere, but her stepmother is hoping that the child was chosen for the mission. Jeanette believes this also ignores that they cut their classmates - after she has a greater role in their sect and is a successful Bible Teacher. But eventually she realizes that a girl they "erettet" raises quite other than sisterly feelings in her ...

Very nice reading, which caricatured the religious milieu without malice, but with many funny little observations. The characters are also inclined to be without credibility.

In the last third - the coming-out of the girl and the unermeitlichen expulsion from the sect - it is a bit tough and dry, but that may have lain in mind that I read on the train at night and there was quite tired.

All in all

**** (four out of five)

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Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love

I admit that I approached with a completely false premise of this book. I had read in some newspaper articles about the author, Elizabeth Gilbert . The article was about, especially yoga, and I thought it was a serious autobiographical account of spiritual search for meaning through yoga.

As I read the book in a Simpsons saw sequence - Marge read it - dawned on me that there was something else. Sure, I felt as I heard it was filmed with Julia Roberts. Well, I read it anyway.

And it's not really bad . Gilbert has wit and a good pinch irony when she says, as goes to the great spiritual search for meaning - for the first time to Italy for la dolce vita , then to India in the Ashram and then to Indonesia, weil. .. alas, due to some medical man, but ultimately it comes as rather a charming Brazilian. A bit of local color, there are scattered here and there and a few seductive details about the country and its people. Towards the end it reads always tough ...

Whether I find the book good or bad depends on my perspective. I read it as a true testimony of a woman who claims made enlightenment experience to have and believe their wisdom (anywhere on Sub - Hape - Kerkeling level) Unters to have to bring people, I could pepper in the corner. Bah!

I read it but as (involuntary) documentation, to me an educated consumerist New - Age -American demonstrates that believes their divorce is the greatest conceivable crisis of the universe that likes to do for years nothing more than in their crates Psycho to dig for the Italy (Italien!) a foreign exotic land, the once ashram and back with Enlightenment guarantee booked and always happily reported that it could all end with everyone in a few minutes of real, deep friendship - it's interesting. It is a kind of caricature of the naive, well-meaning but totally unworldly American woman with spiritual ambitions.

therefore indecisive

*** (three out of five)

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Neal Stephenson - Anathem

If someone like complicated books and a little bit of
1) understand physics (not much - it's enough if you know what a parallel universe ) can recognize
2) Philosophical ideas (Plato's Cave / world of ideas, Occam's razor)

And also like scifi reading (spec-fic;)), which is anathema like.

If anybody to get without these conditions to the book, I put it to me then but remains rather difficult, especially if you read it in English.

I do not know how is the German translation, but I try to play what I mean:

you, reader, now have access to the conditions I here with my Grammatk device into lattice feed. The problem is that you are not the same situation as I process, so your assumptions about the "over- what " probably do not agree with it "-about what" I wants to write, so you, reader, take this sentence can not.

I can describe very bad.
I'm not a writer.
After a while one understands but Stephenson - like something a computer can "understand" if it uses only information but do not know what "meaning" behind it? As trade with one another alien civilization information if the legend is based "reality" is fundamentally different? What is "reality" at all? Just something that is constructed on a "computer" process in our mind from the sensory data? Distinguishes us something about a computer?

And precisely because of the built by Stephenson Language barrier is clear that words are insignificant once we understand what is meant.

The difficulty is therefore quite high, as one notices you. Unfortunately
suffered the voltage curve and flow of my reading a bit from the complexity, so I must deduct a point. What is probably because of me.

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Drugs are Nice by Lisa Crystal Carver and Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris

Drugs are Nice by Lisa Crystal Carver

There is no doubt that Lisa Crystal Carver has led to extraordinary life not, but necessarily extraordinary in a good way. She is an American performance artist and a very engaging writer and this book, Drugs Are Nice , Relate her often incredibly difficult path to what seems to be a relatively happy place today.

Due to an extremely complicated and ultimately highly corrosive relationship with her father, she made bad choices in relationships throughout her life. It seems like she was trying to live out Sylvia Plath’s line that “Every woman loves a fascist”. Indeed, she essentially admits to this. Then she meets up with Boyd Rice, the notorious and controversial American ‘noise’ musician who plays at being (or perhaps really is) a neo-Nazi. It is this abusive relationship that finally brings her to face up to the mistaken notions that she has held onto for so long and just what a pit of decline those notions have led her to. The bright spot of her relationship with Rice is the birth of their son Wolfgang. Although beset by tremendous physical and mental health difficulties, Wolfgang brings an important focus to his mother’s life and forces her to realise that there is more to life than art for art’s sake and living on the (sometimes very painful) edge.

A great read—I powered through it in a weekend.

***** (Five stars out of Five)

Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris

The Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris are hugely popular, as is anything even remotely related to vampires these days. These books tell the story of Sookie, an unassuming waitress in Louisiana, who encounters a wide variety of otherworldly creatures—vampires, werewolves, fairies—in her path through life. She is often right in the centre of any criminal activity that happens as a result of all these supernatural occurrences, largely due to her own powers as a telepath.

Dead as a Doornail is certainly an entertaining read—it would be ideal for a long plane flight—but perhaps I need to read more from the series. Although mostly well written, I found it to be a little bit formulaic and as the book went on, I increasingly saw Sookie in my mind’s eye as a Buffy style figure. And lo and behold, having just Googled the books, I discover “True Blood”, the tv series made from the books, Sookie casts as ... a pretty young woman with blonde hair!

Entertaining but not original.

*** (Three stars out of Five)

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The first pages of Clemens J. setting obese novel "The frequencies " fascinated me. I'm not a great fan of "language games to language games sake," but here I was beautiful, fresh pictures in the text. Later appeared interesting surreal elements - the father of a crack in the house desperate and losing his mind.

Unfortunately, the story unfolds within the boundaries of the participating and I totally foreign permanent strange people. I recently heard about such figures something like: ". In modern German contemporary novel, no one has a normal job" Again, the main character does not work correct - one as an actor is to bring life into a group therapy - and, therefore, deal almost exclusively with their logical Beziehungskram . That made me tired to Page 400 of 700 so much that I read on another book.

was also previously been waxed several times vividly, and I may be prudish, but even more detailed descriptions sperm (as, for instance streaks picks up when you jerks in a glass of water aspirin ...) of not less sympathetic characters in a novel I need.

therefore only subject to (maybe it is so exciting ... suddenly on page 500)

** (2 out of 5)