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Matt is 85% done with Die Blendung
A new character. A likable one. In this novel? No way. Where's the catch?
Apr 29, 2014 07:36AM Add a comment
Die Blendung

Matt
Matt is 83% done with Die Blendung
"A great show! Save your laugh, I say, or you'll laugh yourself to death."
Apr 28, 2014 10:41AM Add a comment
Die Blendung

Matt
Matt is 77% done with Die Blendung
"The road to the Helldwarf was paved with good fellow-beings."
Apr 27, 2014 09:24AM Add a comment
Die Blendung

Matt
Matt is 68% done with Die Blendung
"Death to the corpse! Death to the corpse! I understand it all too well. Humanity is fickle. In general I do not love it."
Apr 26, 2014 08:38AM Add a comment
Die Blendung

Matt
Matt is 63% done with Die Blendung
"This blood they found incredible. It was the first sign of life Kien had given."
Apr 25, 2014 01:10PM Add a comment
Die Blendung

Matt
Matt is 56% done with Die Blendung
Fischerle in English: "A woman who isn't a whore, there's no such thing!" Fischerle in Deutsch: "A Frau, was ka Hur is, gibt's nicht!" I like the original way better (but I disagree).
Apr 24, 2014 09:48AM Add a comment
Die Blendung

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Matt
Matt is 40% done with Die Blendung
Finally I got my German copy of "Die Blendung", and I'll read the rest of this book in the language it was published. It's a rather long work, far longer than expected.
Apr 22, 2014 06:43AM Add a comment
Die Blendung

Matt
Matt is 25% done with Die Blendung
"'Quite so!' he said softly, and nodded as he always did when he found reality bearing out the printed original."
Apr 15, 2014 09:28AM Add a comment
Die Blendung

Matt
Matt is 15% done with Die Blendung
"Even if it cost him two sentences, he would discover what she was after." Today I ordered the German original of this book. It'll be a first when I read the English translation in tandem with the original.
Apr 13, 2014 10:32AM Add a comment
Die Blendung

Matt
Matt is 8% done with Die Blendung
"But no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for:... (spoilers removed)..."
Apr 12, 2014 11:14AM Add a comment
Die Blendung

Matt
Matt is 6% done with Die Blendung
"He felt that to take leave of his books was blindness enough. Friends and pupils implored him to stay with them. He smiled wisely, thanked them, and in a few days starved himself to death."
Apr 10, 2014 11:03AM Add a comment
Die Blendung

Matt
Matt is starting Die Blendung
Oops. I think I'm reading the wrong book! Well, not the wrong book, but in the wrong language. I learned that the original (called DIE BLENDUNG) came out in German, so I should read that instead. But I also learned the translation was supervised by the author himself, so it's probably not that bad after all. Anyway, this is a first for me, picking the wrong book.
Apr 09, 2014 10:12AM Add a comment
Die Blendung

Matt
Matt is 80% done with Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet
"Es blutete nichts mehr. Eulenaugen und dieses Knirschen im Mund, ein Gespenst hockte im Lehm."
Apr 07, 2014 08:47AM Add a comment
Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet

Matt
Matt is 67% done with Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet
"Weiterreden, über etwas, das man nicht sagt. Im Gesicht sind Stirn und Mund ja auch, so weit es geht, auseinander."
Apr 06, 2014 08:41AM Add a comment
Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet

Matt
Matt is 50% done with Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet
"Der Schaffner schlägt sich an die Schläfe. Du Leichenhure, schreit er, such dir einen andern, ich bin doch nicht krepiert, und ein Haufen Scheiße bin ich auch nicht. Er scheucht die Fliege zu uns."
Apr 05, 2014 11:13AM Add a comment
Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet

Matt
Matt is 40% done with Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet
"Ein Mal die Beine strecken, dann geht die Welt auf. Noch einmal, dann geht sie zu. Von da bis dort ein Furz in der Laterne, das nennt sich dann gelebt. Es lohnt sich nicht, dafür die Schuhe anzuziehen."
Apr 04, 2014 09:37AM Add a comment
Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet

Matt
Matt is 25% done with Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet
"Jeder, der in die Jahre kommt, denkt an die Jahre zurück."
Apr 03, 2014 10:31AM Add a comment
Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet

Matt
Matt is 80% done with Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)
TERMINATION IN PROGRESS
Apr 01, 2014 08:09AM Add a comment
Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

Matt
Matt is 60% done with Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)
nerve-racking / perhaps a little too butcherly
Mar 30, 2014 10:50AM Add a comment
Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

Matt
Matt is 40% done with Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)
"Do you have a history of mental illness?" Oh oh. You know you're in trouble when a Doctor is asking you this.
Mar 29, 2014 09:53AM Add a comment
Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

Matt
Matt is 70% done with Snow Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
"He spent much of his time watching insects in their death agonies."
Mar 25, 2014 08:15AM Add a comment
Snow Country (Penguin Modern Classics)

Matt
Matt is 40% done with Snow Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
I'm listening to 三味線 (shamisen) music while the protagonist does the same.
"The notes went out crystalline into clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."
Mar 23, 2014 09:30AM Add a comment
Snow Country (Penguin Modern Classics)

Matt
Matt is 15% done with Snow Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
Finally I made up my mind to read a Japanese book, other than Murakami. "Indeed he was surprised at himself for being so little surprised."
Mar 22, 2014 07:49AM Add a comment
Snow Country (Penguin Modern Classics)

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