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S Steinbeck, John"Cannery row"
"And perhaps that might be the way to write this book - to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves."
And the stpries did crawl in. Stories about the people that used to live in Monterrey, California, before the second world war. In the center of the stories is
'Doc' a biologist and a philantrop. One story is abot a party that Mack and the boys want to give to Doc. They catch some hundred frogs, trade them at the store of Lee
Chong and start a big celebration. Unfortunately some things develop in a direction that was not planned and when Doc arrives at the party he is not happy.
I have read the german translation of this book about ten times. This is the first time that I read to original english version (I bought the book in Monterrey, in the store that is
described as Lee Chongs store). As you can see from the 12 points, this book is very special to me. Inside the stories are the essentials of live: Love, friendship, death, joy, sorrow. And the
book is a statement that live is wonderful and precious thing.
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Williams, Tad "Otherland:
City of golden shadow (V1) - River of blue fire (V2) - Mountain of black glass (V3) - Sea of silver light (V4) "
Points: oooooooooo (9/10) - 4 books, read: May 2005 - August 2005
Some of the richest people of the 21st century own a huge virtual reality environment: The Otherland Network. It took several generations and an enormous budget to build it. Nevertheless
there are things happening in this simulation that were not planned and can not be controlled. On the other hand, children all over the world fall into a deep coma after beeing somewhere on the net. Is there
a connection between these kids and otherland? The young female african Renie and her friend !Xabbu, one of the last bushmen, start exploring the riddle. They don't know that
several other people are working on the same problem.
This is a story! It evolves over the four volumes and you have to read them all in a row. Actually there at least eight different stories that evolve parallel, cross and go into different directions. As some of these stories take place in real life, other in a
virtual reality and some of them hop from one to the other. At many times it reminded me at Tolkiens "Lord of the rings", despite this is a piece of science fiction and not fantasy. The
characters are very interesting and it is hard to put the book away. Just the end is a bit weird and this made nine instead of ten points. Nevertheless, this were more than 3000 pages that
I will not forget. Do not start reading when there is a work you have to finish soon! And there is a moto I adopted... confident, cocky, lazy, dead.
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