false 8 267 197 true 5630672 read 5 true 5594550 currently-reading 65 true 5594538 to-read 111 false 5595705 non-dutch 38 false 7574390 to-get 37 false 5595714 non-fiction 36 false 5595703 dutch 32 false 5595711 philosophy 31 false 7217854 on-shelf-not-read 24 false 5595719 computing 21 false 5595709 japanese 18 false 5618817 blog 9 false 8501390 reference 5 false 5595712 poetry 4 false 7968671 art 3 false 5598251 food 2 false 5618970 comic <![CDATA[Arjen added 'Charlie Dancey's Encyclopaedia of Ball Juggling']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77936269 to: Charlie Dancey's Encyclopaedia of Ball Juggling (Paperback) by Charlie Dancey
bookshelves: non-dutch, non-fiction, reference
]]> <![CDATA[Arjen added 'The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78827220 The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies (Paperback) by Edward P. Comentale
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Arjen added 'American Psycho']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77936044 American Psycho (Paperback) by Bret Easton Ellis
bookshelves: currently-reading, non-dutch
]]> <![CDATA[Arjen added 'If This Is a Man, and The Truce']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77295267 to: If This Is a Man, and The Truce (Everyman's Library Classics, #222) by Primo Levi
bookshelves: non-dutch
Impressive recount of a Jewish prisoner's days in Auschwitz and his journey home. I liked the dry, observant style. The author does not show hate for his tortures, just describes the facts. The reader is the judge.

The passage which made the biggest impression on me is where Levi talks about the camp musicians, playing the same songs everyday when the slaves go out to and come back from work. Levi writes that even years later, hearing these innocent songs made the blood freeze in the bodies of the survivors.

To me that is a great example of the relativity of life. The song in itself is not evil, the composer is not evil, even the musicians playing the songs in the camp are not evil. But still all the lingering horrors of the camp will be connected to and unleashed by a simple, harmless melody. ]]> <![CDATA[Arjen recommended the book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity to Tjibbe]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book/recommendation/669155 Arjen recommended the book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity to Tjibbe
]]> <![CDATA[Arjen added 'Je hebt het niet van mij, een tragikomisch verslag van een jaar Vitesse']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77674167 Je hebt het niet van mij, een tragikomisch verslag van een jaar Vitesse by Marcel Van Roosmalen
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Arjen added 'Vogels kijken']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77627772 to: Vogels kijken (Paperback) by Bob den Uyl
bookshelves: to-get
]]> <![CDATA[Arjen added 'De dwaalweg']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77627742 to: De dwaalweg (Paperback) by Bob den Uyl
bookshelves: to-get
]]> <![CDATA[Arjen added 'Met een voet in het graf']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77627745 to: Met een voet in het graf (Paperback) by Bob den Uyl
bookshelves: to-get
]]> <![CDATA[Arjen added 'Het Boek van de Vijf Ringen']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77627360 Het Boek van de Vijf Ringen (Hardback) by Miyamoto Musashi
bookshelves: to-get, to-read
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