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Herr Rau

herr_rau@leselog.de

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Der Archipel GULAG I (German language, 2008)

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Herr Rau rated The history of England by a partial, prejudiced & ignorant historian: 3 stars

Jane Austen: The history of England by a partial, prejudiced & ignorant historian (1999)

The history of England by a partial, prejudiced & ignorant historian by Jane Austen

Herr Rau rated Jane Eyre: 5 stars

Herr Rau rated Three Impostors: 4 stars

Alcofribas Nasier: Three Impostors (Paperback, Kessinger Publishing)

Three Impostors by Alcofribas Nasier

Herr Rau rated The Three Impostors: 4 stars

Arthur Machen: The Three Impostors (Paperback, Aegypan)

The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen

Herr Rau rated Lovecraft Country: 4 stars

No cover — Matt Ruff: Lovecraft Country (2016, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

Herr Rau rated The servants: 3 stars

Michael Marshall Smith: The servants (2007, Eos)

The servants by Michael Marshall Smith

For young Mark, the world has turned as bleak and gray as the Brighton winter. Separated from his real father …

Herr Rau rated July, July: 3 stars

July, July by Tim O'Brien

At the thirtieth reunion of Minnesota's Darton Hall College class of 1969, ten old friends join their classmates for a …

Herr Rau rated Mr. Mee: 2 stars

Herr Rau rated Der Name der Rose: 5 stars

Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco

It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville’s investigation …

Herr Rau rated Der Name der Rose: 5 stars

Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco (dtv, 12258)

It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville’s investigation …

Herr Rau rated Head First Design Patterns: 4 stars

Bert Bates, Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Kathy Sierra: Head First Design Patterns (2004)

Head First Design Patterns by Bert Bates, Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, and 1 other

Herr Rau reviewed Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie: Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights (2015, Random House)

"From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding novel …

Review of 'Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Mhm. Rushdie has written three books that I like very much, and some I can't get warm with. This is one of the latter group. Too abstract for me (late in the book, the jinn are even called abstractions), I couldn't get interested in most characters.
The plot reminded me of DC Comics' 1990s crossover event "Bloodlines" (Rushie himself uses a lot of explicit comic book associations in this book, so this idea may be forgiven), which I didn't care for: Gruesome aliens attacking Earth on a grand scale, with new superheroes born through alien meddling. Plucky individuals and secret plans that I couldn't follow.