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"Die seltsamen Methoden des Dr. Irabu" ist so unkonventionell wie sein namensgebener Protagonist - der eigentlich gar kein Protagonist ist. Fünf in sich abgeschlossene Geschichten bringen ihre ganz eigenen Hauptcharaktere mit sich, die im Laufe der verschiedensten Neurosen Dr. Irabu begegnen, dessen mehr als eigene Methoden trotz aller Zweifel der Charaktere in ihn zum Ziel führen. "Die seltsamen Methoden des Dr. Irabu" besticht nicht nur durch lebensechte Charaktere mit Problemen, die zwar überspitzt gezeigt werden aber in ihrer Art jedem Menschen schon einmal begegnet sein dürfte, sondern auch durch fließenden, flott zu lesenden Schreibstil der ohne… Mehr dazu
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Connie Willis' Doomsday Book might well be one of the best books I ever read, if not the best one, although it surely isn't an easy book leaving you unaffected. Set in Willis' universe of the near future, in which a very plausible system of timetravelling is used by historians in order to research the past, the story develops in the there present and in 1348, the year the plague arrived in England. Fast paced and very well researched, the Doomsday Book doesn't only shine through it's brilliant plot, but especially also through it's characters. Willis creates a whole assortment of different characters, all with their own love- or hateable character traits, and all of them… Mehr dazu
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Recommended to me by a friend, I really hoped I'd like this book. I have to say however that this most likely will be a book I can't manage to finish. There is too much about it that bugs me, if it isn't downright annoying, stylistically as well as plotwise. The first thing that really put me off is "only" the way the author writes dialogue. No dialogue in this story seems to take place without the one character adressing his partner of conversation by his name in next to every sentence, and vice versa. "Well Reishi, don't you think..?" "Yes Bast, absolutely." "You're really sure Reishi?" "Yes Bast." "But Reishi..!" I rarely have as much trouble with… Mehr dazu
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