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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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Ken Bruen: The Guards (2004)
Rudolf Erich Raspe: The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Hardcover, Everyman's Library)
Paul Feval: Vampire City (Paperback, Hollywood Comics)

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reviewed Menschenjäger by Karl May (Gesammelte Werke, Bd.16,)

Karl May: Menschenjäger (Hardcover, German language, Karl-May-Verlag) 3 stars

Review of 'Menschenjäger' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

More than 30 years after the last time I read Karl May, fond memories of his North African/Middle Eastern stories made me pick up this book, which I hadn't read before.

It was pleasant enough, exotic, colourful, and obviously somewhat dated. More than once, I found it tiresomely repetitive: The main character making friends through his superior European skills; his stalking his foes and listening in on their conversations; an annoying comic relief sidekick who keeps foiling his master's perfect plans through his incompetence, again and again. Still, pleasant enough; I'm going to read the two follow-up books at some time.