Die Prinzessin und der Horst: Lesung

by Tine Wittler

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Audio CD

First published June 1, 2002

Reviews

[Kathi · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars - but actually it deserves none. Wow this was really bad. I would never have stumbled upon this mess under normal circumstances, but this was one of the books that the people in the hotel left lying around for someone else to take (for free), and now I know why they gave it away (also, no one should pay actual money for this) If it didn't have such a cute cover art (the cover I mean isn't on Goodreads, but it was ADORABLE) and cutish-sounding blurb and if I hadn't been on summer holiday in need of a lovely beach read, I would never have read it (I'm saying that although we know full-well that I'm a sucker for chick-lit), but alas...things came together, fate played its fatal role and nobody's paying for my therapy after reading this. I just didn't want to listen to any warnings. In that regard, I'm probably not any better than the dumber-than-dumb protagonist. Because even though my Mum read it first and even though she said it was a bit Meh (basically a death sentence coming from my Mum) I STILL read it. Thinking that matter how "Meh" or bad it was going to be, nothing could be worse than the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness. And obviously it wasn't, because as I said, nothing could be. But oh, I still regret it! I regret it so much that I actually changed my 3 stars (2.5 rounded up) to 2 stars because I have very negative memories of it (and seem to be unable to give books the rating they deserve). Most of all, this book features a fucked-up friendship between two women. Now, I know that friendships between women are quite complicated (stereotypically - actually no friendship should be complicated at all) but if this friendship reminds you of one of your own...RUN AS FAR AS YOU CAN. That is not a friendship, that is...well, what's the saying "With friends like that you don't need enemies"? I kept thinking the entire time there had to be a mystery going on, some sort of "unreliable narrator" plot twist because why else would her friend constantly bitch in her parts about her friend (the book was narrated from the protagonist's view - Mona -, but her friend had her own short POV about Mona every now and then), claiming that she mixes up truths and pretends to be someone than she isn't, basically straight-out lying her way through life and not in the way we are all doing it). I was really excited for the plot twist. But it never came - this "friendship" was depicted like that for no fucking reason! But that's not even the worst of it. Because Mona's relationship with the main guy in the book was even more fucked-up! And yes, that is possible, even though after that toxic mess it doesn't seem like it. Just WHAT. THE. FUCK. At first I thought the romance was going to be something along the lines of "Gut gegen Nordwind", some sort of "online message novel" (is that a thing?), but the cute online chat relationship they had turned into an incredibly abusive relationship really fast. Please, if you ever encounter some guy like that, also RUN AS FAR AS YOU CAN. And farther. Just run away from any person this book reminds you of. At least running is healthy? To top it all off, for some reason this book is written like it was from the 90ies or early 2000s at the most, but it is actually from 2009. That is the real plot twist of this book! Like what the fuck is up with that? And all those annoying German words/references...I know it sounds super-racist, but as an Austrian with a different way of talking and writing, too much typical German (as in German-German) language in a book just gets annoying really fast. And the writing was just terrible. I can't even remember why I gave it 2.5 stars in the first place. What did it do to deserve more than one??? Or was positive Kathi at it again, pretending like it wasn't that bad after all?! But it absolutely was. If there was something positive in it, I've already forgotten it. The author was constantly trying to be funny, and it worked maybe 20% of the time, but the rest of the 80% were SO incredibly CRINGE!!! The whole novel was! Every person in this novel is either absolutely stupid or an awful person (or both) and I don't get why anyone would actually publish this. What a fucking waste of time. Delete this novel from every store in the world.

PS: It really pisses me off (and is a pet peeve of mine in general) that they kept calling the mentally abusive guy "Schizo" when they actually meant to call him something that alludes to his extreme split personality-disorder. Why are people simply not ABLE to google the definition of schizophrenia and see for themselves that it has NOTHING to do with split personalities. People just keep mixing it up for no reason whatsoever! Schizophrenics are people who suffer from psychosis; from delusions and hallucinations (visual and/or auditory). Split personalities have a dissociative identity disorder, they have two or even more separate personalities. Schizophrenia does NOT involve a split personality. Schizophrenic people always have the same personality (= are always the same person) and "just" suffer from delusions that they often can't distinguish from reality. THEY COULDN'T BE MORE DIFFERENT. All of this can be googled, read and understood in 10 seconds. #stopmixingupmentalillnesses2020 #finally

[Barbara · Rating 1 out of 5]

Also, ich gebe es gleich zu: dieses Buch gehört zu den Büchern, die ich nicht zu Ende gelesen habe. Ich mag nämlich keine Bücher, die so geschrieben sind, wie man spricht oder denkt. Außerdem war mir das Thema "um-Häuser-ziehen,-sich-besaufen-und-chat-Beziehungen-per-sms-und-email-führen" irgendwie gerade nicht so passend, auch wenn das Buch zugegeben witzig geschrieben ist.