5.1 Receiver Amplifier

Paper 38/2008

Helge Timmerberg: Shiva Moon. a journey through India (2006)

My Rating:

Author (Publisher Info Rowohl Paperback)
Helge Timmerberg, in village of Itter (Hessen), traveled with seventeen for the first time to India and there decided to become a journalist. Since then, he wrote travel reports from around the world, including for \u0026lt;\u0026lt; Time >> , \u0026lt;\u0026lt; Stern >> , \u0026lt;\u0026lt; Time >> \u0026lt;\u0026lt; Merian >> and \u0026lt;\u0026lt; Playboy >>. As an author he published last \u0026lt;\u0026lt; The House of talking animals. A fable >>

To the author's books: In the Palace of glass swans. In a roundabout way to India (1995), Tiger yogis do not eat. Stories from the road (2001), Timmer's Travel ABC (2004), T always holds single-ABC, ABC Timmer's relationship (2007)

content (Publisher Info rororo)
The Ganges is India's current fate - holy river and the elixir of life. Helge Timmerberg has followed him, from the source in the Himalayas to the delta in the Indian Ocean. He roams Rishikesh, the city where the Beatles made the pilgrimage and where cars, alcohol and meat are forbidden to meet, sadhus, mendicants, and two incredibly beautiful spirit healers. He attended the six thousand years old, Varanasi, the holiest city of the Hindus and the metropolis of astrology - Madonna, it is said, can there regularly interpret the stars. His journey takes him to the slums of Calcutta, the \u0026lt;\u0026lt; house of dead >> and the most beautiful cafe in the world.

with great strength and fine humor Helge Timmerberg tells of a journey that changed his view of himself and the world of perpetual pilgrimage, and the loss of faith from hashish withdrawal and the quest for clarity: it is about Shiva Moon Moon the destruction, and it's about the love story between Timmerberg and India - the country he has visited again and again for more than three decades.

opinion
Who is Shiva Moon is a serious travelogue, and practical information and tips about India is expected to be disappointed because it Timmerberg offers very little. While it is indeed actually followed the Ganges from its source to the Delta, but he has only a few selected stations actually made halt. Although he describes his impressions, but it is much more to internal processes, the impact of what is seen on his mind, but having to give the readers a clear picture of these stages. He also provides that he has visited India many times, no "insider" information even though he knows many places, he still behaves like a tourist.

As some others have noted, it is less a book about India and the Ganges, as on mountain Timmer and his "inner Ganges" (Timmerberg): its relationship to the land, perplexity, drug escapades, women acquaintances, self-discovery. However, it is not a highly philosophical work and try to not do that to be. Instead, the whole is told with much wit, which takes the writer does not mince words, nothing is sacred, not even the course itself, the sight of the river from the airplane window, and the thought of the thousands and thousands of Indians, the daily the holy bathing places, wash their sins, neither elicit admiration, even awe, but just think: "Poor Ganges. Among us, he is merciless with industrial Wastewater shit full. (...) Adding to the organic industrial waste, the bottom line are 1.5 million coliforms per 100 ml of water while still flowing out (...), achzigtausend daily pilgrimage to Varanasi to bathe in the vitriol. I also belong to these poor fools? I think you know me now a little bit. "(P. 124)

If you think now that such a comment is only logical and right, and All spiritual drivel is overrated anyway, the rest of the book is also well-liked.

Goldfish Big Lump Head

Paper 34/2008

Wolf Haas: Come, Sweet Death (1998)

My Rating:

Author (Publisher Info rororo)
Wolf Haas was born in 1960 in Maria Alm. After his linguistic studies, he spent two years as university lecturer in Swansea (South Wales) Then he worked as an advertising copywriter in Vienna. With his debut novel \u0026lt;\u0026lt; resurrection of the dead >> he wrote something with which to \u0026lt;\u0026lt; in the top league of German crime writers >> ( Facts ). Several of his novels have been awarded the German Crime (...) price. Haas is a freelance writer in Vienna.

more "burner" novels: resurrection of the dead (1996), The Bone Man (1997), Silentium! ( 1999), Like Pets (2003), Eternal life (2003), ... can

content (blurb, rororo)
The ambulance drivers Hansi Munz not believe it, like a greedy couple sometimes overcomes front of the hospital over the other. But the Kissing with passion not fall to the ground, but because they have become the victim of a true art shot. The new colleagues at the cross boards, burn, this murder cold - he has hung the private investigator on the nail. But his boss is happy that he has an ex-sniffers in its ranks. In the fierce battle for number one in Vienna, he wants to rescue the evil machinations an advance of the competition once and for all put a stop ...

opinion
As a native of Vienna, I can actually do nothing more than the books by Wolf Haas to like. Haas writes exactly how to talk, which loosely means fun and informal, there are already some words omitted Something like:..

"red light of the now banned Bimbo is of course even more so in red across the intersection down. Because this is a bit of a protest from the rescue drivers have been. Against the legislature. Because you risk your life every day for others, that you may in time of the road scrapes before snatches the vulture, but do you think the legislature supports you? (...) Or that it allows you through the red cross? Forget it. "(P. 6-7)

Now you may ask, why the races Bimbo, by the way only a nickname of a rescue driver, so. Does he have to save just before someone said vultures? Fast. It must be timely come to the hospital to pick up a donor liver. This is an end justifies the means, one might think, there may miss a cat run over or a couple of mirrors are cleared away. Of course, only if this is a true donor liver is, and not the insider name for a loaf bread at the hospital's own hot dog stand. Weil: Small portion = donor liver, large Portin = donor heart. Got that? In this manner
it is asking, of course, there is a murder and agencies that are not particularly exciting, and since this is for me the first book by Haas is to me the investigators burner too little to grasp but as long as the abuse is running , but is actually all right.

Conclusion: Very funny and sympathetic, but not for those who place high value on either the written language, Vienna and Viennese do not like, take everything too seriously, or expect, especially an exciting thriller.

Can Shortbread Cookies Go Bad?

Paper 33/2008

Jasper Fforde: The Well Of Lost Plots (2003)

Dt. Title: The fountain of manuscripts My Rating:

Author
Jasper Fforde was born in 1961 in London, before he began his literary career, he worked in the film industry. He became famous for his novel series about Thursday Next, whose first book The Eyre Affair , after 76 rejections, was published in 2001 - with great success. Next e Thursday Next books: Lost in a Good Book (2002), The Well of Lost Plots (2003), Something Rotten (2004), First Among Sequels (2007);

Inhalt
Thursday Next is in trouble. Deep trouble ...

Pursued by a sinister multinational corparation and an evil genius with a penchant for clothes shopping and memory modification, literary detective Thursday Next is on the run.

Not an ideal situation considering she's pregnant by her husband who is presently suffering a non-existence problem.

Taking refuge in the Well of Lost Plots – the place where all fiction is created – Thursday ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heigths. But in Thursday's world, trouble is only ever a page away, and when a succession of Jurisfiction agents are killed, only one woman is up to the job of unmasking the villain responsible.

Will Thursday ever be able to enjoy the quiet life again, or is she about to lose the plot completely?

opinion
In this third novel in the series about the liter Artur agent Thursday Next, the reality (or the reality of the protagonist) is completely left outside, all the action takes place in books or in the "Fountain of the manuscripts" (Well of Lost Plots) from. This fact is the great strength of the book and also his weakness. The literary References and "inside jokes" are so close this time sown, that probably only those who really enjoy the book properly, are very well read. Besides the references to the English classics such as Wuthering Heights , Dickens, Shakespeare, Alice in Wonderland There , Greek mythology, there are numerous references to the English popular literature, science fiction and crime, as well as oral literature, such as nursery ryhmes that for the German readers are often not completely understand. But readers with interest and curiosity of literature can be put off by course not, but, on the contrary, much more pull in the spell.

Fforde also plays in this part again with all the means of the written Word of the "footnote phone" to a "mispeling Vyrus" everything is possible, and if you think the author has already exhausted all that he surprises his readers again.

addition to these games, which make the heart beat of every literature geeks higher, are also those readers on the costs that the story always chasing. Thursday is still catching up looking for a way back to her husband, another scion of the family Hades - by Vlad "the Impaler" as "unspeakably repellent called "-, is after them, they must make clear to murder to make the escaped Minotaur arrest, prevent the complete destruction of a manuscript to stop the strike of nursery ryhmes , Amor play, awarded a prize at the book world Awards .. . and that despite all allmorgenlicher nausea.

I myself, although I did not understand some references, are among the geeks, is Well Of Lost Plots clear to me now the best, funniest and most interesting book the Thursday Next series. Whether the Fforde with Volume 4, Something Rotten , nor can offer?

What Causes Dark Spots On Lcd Televisions

Paper 32/2008

Jim Butcher: Fool Moon (Book Two of The Dresden Files) (2001)

Dt. Title: Wolf Hunting My Rating:

About the Author Jim Butcher was born in 1971 in Missouri, and began, inspired by the novels of Tolkien and Lewis to write early fantasy, where he managed not to publish the books. Only with, the first book about the magician and investigator Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, which is written in 1996, and was published in 2000 succeeded his breakthrough. The cover to January 2008, already 10 novels and is a great success. The audiobooks are by actor James Marsters (aka Spike from the TV series) spoke, in 2007 TV series was launched (but was set apparently just after 12 episodes), and an adaptation as a graphic novel is already in .
planning
novels of the Dresden Files: (2000), (2001), (2001), (2002), (2003), (2004), (2005), (2006), White Night (2007), (2008) ;

content (Klappentext, Orbit)

Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations.

Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.

No Love Potions, Endless Purses,

or Other Entertainment.

Buisness has been slow lately for Harry Dresden. Okay, buisness has been dead. Not undead – just dead. You would think Chicago would have a little more action for the only professional wizard in the phone book.
But lately, Harry hasn't been able to dredge up any kind of work – magical or mundane.

Just when it looks like he can't afford his next meal, a murder comes along that requires his particular brand of supernational expertise. A brutally mutilated corpse. Strange-looking paw prints. A full moon.

Take three guesses. And the first two don't count ...

 

Meinung

has In this second case, Harry Dresden have their hands full. First he has to nibble at the consequences of his first case Storm Front, according to the solution of it on the one hand a connection with the underworld (meaning of human debris, not the magical underworld) is accused, on the other hand, his friendship with Lieutenant Karrin Murphy in the balance is that not only earned a bad feeling in the stomach but produces mainly stomach growling, Dresden, but to date, in addition to his own detective agency as a consultant for Special Investigations.

But these conflicts have to wait now for the first time since Chicago is plagued by a series of brutal murders, and all indications point to a werewolf as a perpetrator. An interesting investigation begins ...

Werewolf The phenomenon is explained very interesting and exciting, and thanks to Bob the skull Dresden and we know everything there is to know about these fluffy beasts. For example, is not the same werewolf werewolf, but to distinguish various species, such as loup-garou, lycanthrophes, Witches Wolves, werewolves, and also limitation of this transformation not wolves, but there are also "were bears, were tigers, were buffalo, ...";) is

Fool Moon more action a lot and bloodthirsty than the first volume of the Dresden Files, but retains the charm and wit of the narrator. Besides already known quirks and backgrounds of his life, readers get new insights into his work as a magician and his sometimes very dark past. The relationship between your individual figures are removed, thereby giving them some depth and makes a or other even more (un) sympathetic.

A more than worthy successor, and Volume 3, , in which it seems to be going to spirits calls already:)

Front Engine Sand Rail Plans

Paper 31/2008

Xaver Bayer: Today could be a happy day (2001)

My Rating:

Author (Publisher Info, continued fighting)
Xaver Bayer, born in 1977 in Vienna, where he lives. Studies in philosophy and Germanic. 2002 Hermann Lenz scholarship. 2003 saw the release of the novel The Alaskastraße .

content (Publisher Info, Suhrkamp)
He is in his early twenties. Nobody should say that the best time in life. The days run into tougher uniformity. But why he is a nothing more than to go to places that are currently in demand, to drift through the city and wait for the invitation to the next opening? Only the music opens up rooms, sometimes at least. Otherwise, the Days of ritual sequences characterized. The motto could be:>> Vienna, Vienna, you know me up, know me down \u0026lt;\u0026lt;(Falco).

Today is a happy day could be as the last hope for someone who a generation belongs, easier to bear for the>> war as a Monday morning \u0026lt;\u0026lt;.

opinion
The narrator describes the aimless then splashing of student life, In a grim-the-day living, indeed almost a vegetating away. sleep until the afternoon, skipping lectures, home parties, drugs, alcohol, superficial acquaintances. In short, straightforward sentences of the first-person narrator tells of his daily routine, almost apathetic. As will be described as he stands in the supermarket at the checkout and beer purchases, as he sits at home in the flat and bored, like a spider crawling on his arm as he goes to the movies, at parties, in sex shop, premises and whenever the risk is that finally something is happening, there is a section, we wake the next afternoon with the protagonist, and it starts all over again. As the saying goes? Same shit, different day.

Although the narrator is aware that he wasted his life so, in some bright moments of his superficiality The talks, and his stoned friends forever contrary, he would like to break out of this rut, but in the end, everything remains the same. Who does not?

year after year I plan to lie fallow this time the summer not to let him exploit best efforts, and every year I find myself again on the road, surprised by the visible breath that leaves my breath in the air, and the summer seems to have passed again without leaving a trace. Always there are only memories that that was what, to replace. (P. 23)

At least at the end of the book would be expect a change, an awakening, but it you wait in vain. In a way the book is a novel development without development, which, although it is intended, no doubt, acts a bit paralyzing.
So honestly? A must have read it. But somehow it's quite nice, and it comes in front of a pleasantly familiar, if not the thoughts of the narrator, then at least the stations on all through Vienna: Flex, Café Westend and Co. And if you let yourself go with the narrator almost 200 pages long, you stumble over even the odd sentence that value is to be read several times.