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“Thought had already written a review for this but merely tagged it I guess. The book is a tremendous feat of imagination and "liittle" oskar is a character who could walk into any book and take over. I wish I had someone to cling to my back and pop the boils on my neck. I also saw the film and loved it, though it cannot replace the book. Once seen, the scene in which nazis' triumph of the will becomes a lockstep dance is impossible to forget, and is right in line with the jaw dropping wry...”
“Günther Grass hat dafür den Nobelpreis gewonnen. Aber das ist ein paar Jahre her. Für heutige Ansprüche ist das Buch zu zusammenhangslos und unspannend geschrieben.Gut an dem Buch ist, dass man ein kleines Gefühl für die damalige Zeit (1900+- /veröffentlicht im Jahr 1959) bekommt und ab und zu ist es wirklich witzig.Ich habe es nicht weiter als den ersten Drittel gelesen, weil es mich nicht fesseln konnte.---It is the book Grass won the nobel prize for, but he wrote it...”
“Should Fu Manchu bang this drum?”
“I saw the film a couple of years ago, in German on the german tv and found it very good, I live in Switzerland and got a copy of the book from our local bookshop, also in German. I found the film good and the book as well.”
“The film made from this book is A W F U L. Read the book. Some of the chapters can stand by themselves as short stories or plays, it is so well written and characterized. I read this in Germany in 1963, and can remember how I felt when I read it to this day.”
“so if you wake up dead one morning, dont say i didnt warn you...”
“never knew before reading this that dark humor could take you where this book does. ”