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This is the seventh book in the "Brenner" series by Austrian writer Haas, but the first to appear in English. I generally hate it when series books are translated out of order, since it always leaves me with a nagging feeling that there's a whole lot of depth and backstory to the protagonist that I'm missing out on. That was especially the case with this book, which employs an unusually intrusive omniscient narrator who offers a snarky running commentary to the proceedings.
Brenner is an antidepr ...more
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I read this in English. The translation is wonderful because it's such quirky, inventive language full of half-sentences and surprising quasi-sequiturs. I was completely taken in by this story for its plot, yes, since it had me baffled, but more for the telling.
"But if you're saying, that's despicable, then I unfortunately have to tell you, this was still the nice part of the story."
"midnight spaghetti"
It's number 7 in a series, I guess, and I'm going to look for number 1 to see if I might devou ...more
