false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176660498m/642231.jpg 642231 30 598208 book 2005 Die Vermessung der Welt total:511|5:110|4:197|3:141|2:45|1:18| 511 1869 772 105 953336 3498035282 9783498035280 73 11 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179765136m/953336.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/953336.Die_Vermessung_der_Welt 4 3 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 06:30:18 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 06:46:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 642231 0375424466 9780375424465 251 66 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176660498m/642231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/642231.Measuring_the_World_A_Novel 5 2 false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 00:38:25 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 02:36:06 -0800 2009 i read it in one setting last nite, even stayed up late to finish it! it's that kind of book! you learn a lot about living 200 years ago, when there were no dentists, only sailboats and berlin a small town with mostly huts and ...more...]]> 953336 3498035282 9783498035280 73 11 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179765136m/953336.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/953336.Die_Vermessung_der_Welt 4 2 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 15 04:26:14 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 04:33:17 -0800 2008 642231 0375424466 9780375424465 251 66 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176660498m/642231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/642231.Measuring_the_World_A_Novel 4 2 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jul 26 06:44:22 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 02:05:48 -0800 2009 642231 0375424466 9780375424465 251 66 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176660498m/642231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/642231.Measuring_the_World_A_Novel 2 1 false Sun Oct 07 04:02:54 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 07:30:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 611749 1847240453 9781847240453 9 3 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176311352m/611749.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/611749.Measuring_the_World 3 0 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 12 05:43:36 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 05:48:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 642231 0375424466 9780375424465 251 66 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176660498m/642231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/642231.Measuring_the_World_A_Novel 5 0 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 02:10:30 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 02:10:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 642231 0375424466 9780375424465 251 66 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176660498m/642231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/642231.Measuring_the_World_A_Novel 5 0 false Fri Feb 27 04:27:19 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 00:09:29 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 04:27:19 -0800 2009
Experience for yourselves the caning of Gauß, son of a gardener...more...]]> 953336 3498035282 9783498035280 73 11 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179765136m/953336.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/953336.Die_Vermessung_der_Welt 4 0 false Sun Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 09:51:15 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 12:59:21 -0800 2009
There are many almost invisible subtleties about it that I noticed and certainly many more that I didn't - so from a literary point of view, I can appreciate why it is so highly praised. The language itself - the grammatical tense that K...more...]]> 642231 0375424466 9780375424465 251 66 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176660498m/642231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/642231.Measuring_the_World_A_Novel 1 1 false Thu Jul 05 16:47:33 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 16:49:45 -0700 2007
Trick question - they were equally soporific.

What in hell was the point of this book? if I hadn't been confined to an aeroplane,...more...]]> 642231 0375424466 9780375424465 251 66 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176660498m/642231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/642231.Measuring_the_World_A_Novel 4 1 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 06:42:13 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 06:46:21 -0700 2008 1526595 3499241005 9783499241000 100 11 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1526595.Die_Vermessung_der_Welt 1 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 20 00:57:44 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 07:04:23 -0800 2009
The novel is a fictionalized biography of Alexander Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss. It doesn't really have a plot per se, it chronic...more...]]> 953336 3498035282 9783498035280 73 11 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179765136m/953336.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/953336.Die_Vermessung_der_Welt 4 0 false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 06:28:09 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 05:27:43 -0700 2009 Wer wollte nicht schon immer mal wissen, wie zwei große Wissenschaftler gelebt, gedacht und gefühlt haben! Dass der Mathematiker und Astronom Gauß und der Entdecker Humboldt dabei als vers...more...]]> 642231 0375424466 9780375424465 251 66 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176660498m/642231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/642231.Measuring_the_World_A_Novel 0 0 false Sat Feb 14 11:00:25 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 11:00:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 642231 0375424466 9780375424465 251 66 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176660498m/642231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/642231.Measuring_the_World_A_Novel 3 0 false Tue Aug 11 12:01:33 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 05:53:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5431453 9781742011561 2 1 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225708848m/5431453.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5431453.Measuring_the_World 5 0 false Mon Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Oct 05 03:04:14 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 02:37:23 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 642231 0375424466 9780375424465 251 66 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176660498m/642231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/642231.Measuring_the_World_A_Novel 4 0 false Tue Jan 15 09:39:01 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 14:31:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 459477 0307277399 9780307277398 28 8 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189783561m/459477.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/459477.Measuring_the_World_A_Novel 5 0 false Fri Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 20 19:15:35 -0800 2007 Fri Jun 20 21:18:46 -0700 2008
Kehlman...more...]]> 2273354 184724114X 9781847241146 11 2 3.66 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2273354.Measuring_the_World 4 0 false Sun Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 08:32:49 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 25 06:52:56 -0700 2008 1
It's so interesting to see bits of Humboldt's "Personal Narrative" fictionalised in this and then in Aire Libre as well, and to see how differen...more...]]> 6867592 9789545295867 2 1 3.66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1252944026m/6867592.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6867592 3 0 false Mon Sep 14 09:01:19 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 21:49:04 -0700 2009 чудя с�...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=642231