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K.R.H

K.R.H

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To say I’m passionate about books would be something of an understatement! The stories don’t matter as long as the writing is good, and the journey’s worth while. I’m also a passionate cook, very health and eco-conscious, and write a blog about these topics among others. If you’re interested feel free to pay me a visit over at The Good Karma... more »
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  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    Thank you very much for your postcard from Galena. The town looks nearly a bit European and it seems they've been using the same sort of brick as in my hometown so I guess I might feel at home there, too. I found the postcard in my mailbox yesterday when all I was expecting was a list of my creditcard expenses from my bank, the usual holiday aftermath.

    Lucky for you there was a summer worth pining for, ours has only been taking place beyond the Alps.

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  • Gunter Nitsch

    Gunter Nitsch says

    Through some diabolical glitch at Shelfari I ended up with TWO accounts and could only sign in to the newly created one. So I've had to transfer all of my books and, more or less, start from scratch. In the process I've also lost all of my "friends" and "followers". I've tried to get Shelfari to correct the situation to no avail. They keep referring me to Amazon and the Amazon "help" people claim never to have heard of Shelfari. Hope you'll continue to "follow" me at my new location. Gunter

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  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    Well, I didn't read much the last weeks, the only still unread book I found on my shelf, was a hardback about the history of the people living in my Bundesland. It was given to me for free in a bookshop when I purchased another book many years ago. It was indeed funny with all those little stories and anecdotes about the people from Westfalia, though I don't see myself as a typical Westfalian.

    Since I'm still writing travel articles, I bought myself a copy of a travel-magazine just to learn about some interesting places myself. After the purchase I noticed that there was also an article about Vancouver and then it was the first one that I read. I was fascinated by Granville Island and Stanley Park. 200 km walks and 900 year old trees, that really sounds great. Gastown was also mentioned but most of the Vancouverites seem to prefer Yaletown because of its bars and restaurants. The magazine features a wonderful picture with the skyline and the mountains, a contrast that makes the town so extraordinary. Forbes Magazine voted Vancouver among the most beautiful towns in the world.

    Our beautiful spring is definetely over. It rains a lot these days, the temperature is often below 20°C and a stormy wind is blowing. It's not untypical for June in this area. Unfortunately the rain was pelting so hard on our roses that most of the beautiful blooms are gone. Right now a monsoon is coming down. The rain is drumming on the roof. It sounds as if one was sitting in a cardboard box.

    I hope your weather is better so you can go outside, taking your dog for a long walk or go for a jog.

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  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    You sent some postcards my way? I'll be on the watch, I'm sitting on the balcony very often these days when I don't have to work and so the postman won't escape my guard. Anyway, the dog of our neighbours would announce him loud and clear as he would announce everybody, friend, foe, thief, other dog. But since the weather is beautiful, sunny and warm now for months, everybody is outside. I can't remember when last we had such a spring.

    The rivers are thinning which is going to make transport a bit difficult because ships can't be loaded the way they used to be due to the lack of suffucient water in the rivers. You can see the banks of the Rhine in Düsseldorf quite clearly where they normally used to be under water since there's growing no grass and the pillars of the bridges are visible to a dregree not usual. But the people have fun, cafés, pubs, restaurants, they were all full from the old town to the Rhine and there was a Dutch party boat with music and dance. It seemed the people were warming up for the great event next weekend, when Lena is going to defend her title in the European Song Contest she won in Oslo last year. Now the party's in Düsseldorf since it is always arranged by the winning country.

    Sorry to hear about your misfortunes, but with the remote in one hand and a pile of good books in reach of the other, I think it was a problem you handled quite well. I had a lot of travel-articles to write when I came back from Montreux and I'm still editing some and writing the one or other new one. My new picture I took in Montreux directly at Lake Geneva with my cell phone. I'm going to send you some photos soon.

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  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    I bought a very interesting book in Lausanne. "Chillon a literary Guide" is a collection of poems, excerpts from novels and letters by writers who visited the most famous castle in Switzerland from the nineteenth century until now. Among them were such celebrated persons like Charles Dickens, Harriet Beacher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain and of course Lord Byron who started it all. He wrote "The Prisoner of Chillon", referring to Francois Bonivard who had been imprisoned there for six years until he was freed by the Bernese. Byron made the story more tragic as it historically was but with his poem he gave the castle eternal fame since it was the best possible advertisement at that time and many famous literary figures followed his path. The building is connected with a wooden, roofed bridge with the mainland and since it actually rests in Lake Geneva with mountains to the east and south it is an impressive sight from all possible angles. I couldn't find the book here so I put Byron's poem on my shelf since it is included in my book anyway.

    Another famous writer lived not far from Chillon, which can be considered to belong to Montreux since it lies in the suburb Veytaux. Vladimir Nabokov, thanks to Lolita, was able to stay for more than fifteen years in a suite of the Montreux Palace Hotel and now occupies a chair in a park before the luxury hotel from where he is overlooking the lake, accompanied by famous jazz musicians. Tourists are very interested in the statues.

    Your dog reminds me of a famous TV-series I used to watch as a small boy. It seems you two are enjoying spring. Our spring so far has more been like summer. Blue sky from here to Montreux. Yesterday came a bit of rain and it rained all night but it's going to be nice again tomorow.

    "Drop City" sounded interesting to me too when I read the blurb but then the book appears to be too thick a volume for the story to be told. So I can understand you're not hurrying to finish it. Made into a film it might catch my interest.

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  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    I would have liked to recommend "Hotel Angst" to you, but I don't think there exists a translation. Actually I became aware of the book on this site or at least remembered it. It's about the leading hotel of the world at the turn of the century before World War I. Adolf Angst buillt it and he intentionally kept his surname as the name for the hotel. All the Vip's of the time came to stay there, but at the beginning of the twenties it's fame diminished and finally it deteriorated. Now it's a ruin amidst a jungle of palm trees, olive trees and wilderness in the middle of Bordighera's most noble street. Standing before this ramshackle building with the name Angst still readable on the roof and at the entrance gate gives you a special feeling. I once stayed a hundred metres away from Villa Angst in a hotel overlooking the town and the sea. It was said that Princess Stephanie of Monaco planned to buy and renovate Villa Angst but she didn't. In the book the narrator is talking about the renovation plans of his father that somehow were designed only to exist as a dream. I hope the mild climate of the Italian Riviera will help save the ruin for future generations to be inspired to write perhaps some gothic novels.

    Films. Sometimes I wonder how quickly they appear on TV when it seems only a couple of months ago that I planned to watch them in the cinema. Actually years went by after I had made the decision and when I saw "No Country for Old Man" lately, this was again such a moment. Anyway, I liked the film. Clearly over the top but fascinating 'til the final scene.

    Just for clarification: The Feininger exhibit is in my home town. His Dixie Flagler photo has been advertised everywhere in town now for over two months and it was me who needed a reminder to visit the museum, the more so, because there's no admission fee. Sorry for the misunderstanding. But the book about his work is really interesting, maybe you can find it in your library.

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  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    When I was young, I was an elf, the prince of Alfheim that is and if you think that this sounds kind of pretentious, you're right 'cause sure it does. Assuming that by the end of the eighties many people played D&D and the like role playing games, I guess there were more princes of Alfheim than I could imagine and finally the whole thing became to pompous for me. After all it was only fantasy and when friends of mine began to meet at medieval markets in medieval clothes I called it a day. Surely we all try to flee from reality from time to time, that's what reading sometimes is all about, but do we really want to live in a book?

    The Mentalist was quite ok. I saw the one where the mentalist handed out candles to the audience, deliberately giving one with a special chemical treatment to the murderer which lit up automatically when he asked the soul of the victim to name his killer. The trick was explaned later but I forgot how it works. I like the main character 'though he sometimes appears to be a bit too handsome and narcissistic.

    Yesterday I found 'Tell-All' in a local bookshop and really it is vintage Hollywood. Sometimes it's difficult to follow the plot since reality and script are somehow interwoven and then the scenes are changing quite rapidly so one has to go back a few pages to make sure one really got it right. I really wonder what this creative and inventive mind (Palahniuk's) comes up with next. I don't know all the names he drops here, but quite a lot, and it's interesting how they are used to serve the plot.

    We have perfect spring here, too. The sky is so blue, it almost seems cosmic without a single cloud and yesterday the moon was bigger and brighter than normal and we watched it rolling across the sky. I don't know if it were the names of our streets around here (all bird's names) that attracted the birds or if they were named after the birds that have always lived here, but their singing is heralding the beautiful season.

    When you're really going to sleep in a volcano, you have to make a story out of it: Sleeping in a sleeping volcano. I would only sleep in a volcano when it's definetely dead and someone has planted a hotel in the crater. When it gets warm when the heating's off, it's time to check out.

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  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    Though I'll be bound for Montreux soon, the book I read last was about Ticino/ Tessin. Unfortunately I couldn't find it here so it's not on my shelf. It's all about the hikes Hermann Hesse did when he lived in Montagnola near Lugano. My friend bought the book in the Hermann Hesse museum last year just at the end of our trip, so we didn't try out the hikes. Nevertheless, many of the places described I know quite well by now, so it was an excellent read and there was a lot about the famous author in it I haven't heard so far. Remember the photo with Lugano and the lake and its mountains, and the snowcapped alps in the distance? That's only one of the locations.

    I'm definetely a cat lover but we don't have one of our own. The parents of my friend always used to have cats and the one who lives at their place now, is one of the cutest cats I know but she's also quite wild at times. Dewey was a library cat that arrived along with a couple of books in the night drop box on one of the coldest days in Spencer, Iowa. The kitten was almost frozen to death and after some procedures to make life return into the icy limbs of the little animal, the staff decided to keep the cat in the library. The book is all about the adventures of Dewey and his growing fame, and since this is a real story, non-fictional, and it's so near to where you live, I thought you might have heard about the cat.

    Vampires, witches and the like creatures remind me of my role playing game period, but that was long ago, and nearly forgotten are the books that accompanied it. 'Relaxing' books for me are mysteries, but I don't read them very often. When I don't want to concentrate too much on what I read, I prefer magazines. For the time being, I feel quite happy to stumble into my next book either rather accidentally or pick one of my reading list that is only in my head and changes constantly.

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  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    I'm a slow reader at the moment, perhaps you've noticed, but that doesn't say anything about the quality of the books I read. "Dewey" is a wonderful book, all autobiographical, happening in Iowa, not so far away from your place so I guess you've heard about the famous library cat. Since I'm a cat lover, I had to read it one day and it has been sitting on my friend's shelf for two years now.

    Three stars for "Tell-All" seems to be not so much, maybe it's not one of Palahniuks must-reads. I only read the first chapter at Amazon and it sounded not so bad. But, as you said, you're not so interested in the Hollywood of the thirtees and fourties and then Palahniuk looks at it from his perspective, Fitzgerald was really into it, and I liked his book about Hollywood very much.

    Do you like the new Peter Mayle novel? It's twenty-one years ago that I was in Bordeaux, my last visit to the airport of Marseille only two. Honestly I've never set foot into the town though I know Cassis and the Calanques and Bandol. We went through a tunnel under the harbour and the inner city that only took us back to the surface once so we could take a glimpse of a famous church and the next moment we were again in the dark. Maybe next time we'll have a closer look. Mayle's descriptions made me want to go to this area again.

    Daniel Brühl is teaching soccer to the Germans now. After having lived in England he returns to Germany in the year 1874 to teach English at a German grammar school. And soccer, much to the dismay of the headmaster and other people on staff. His name's Konrad Koch and he's said to have invented soccer in Germany. The film is called "Der Ganz Große Traum" but I haven't seen it yet.

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  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    I've found the DVD "Lila, Lila" in one of the bookshops here. It's about a man who happens to find a manuscript that makes him a popular author. So he embarks on a glamorous life with a beautiful woman. Sounds a bit like the Fitzgerald's life by the way, but then the real author of the manuscript, a hobo, emerges on the scene and things begin to get complicated. The DVD is in German only, so I think it won't be of much use for you. But then I've also found "Die Gräfin", where Brühl is starring with Julie Delpy, and this one is in German and English, but how can I find out whether you can play it or not? Anyway, the fact that there exists a dubbed version should qualify it for release in America. And since you have both versions on the same DVD you can switch from English to German and back. Maybe I should start collecting Daniel Brühl films so I will be prepared for your visit.

    Well, Stephen Clarke seems to have disappeared completely from our bookshops too. Even his latest book, really a tome, about the Brits annoying the French throughout history, I saw only once a year ago. Since there exists a really awkward cover of "Dial M for Merde" apart from the James Bond-like one we have in Europe, there must be an American edition.

    I think you can stomach "Sunset Park", it's only sometimes irritating for European readers to be told about pitching, infield and hell knows what other English expressions with obviously Chinese meanings one can make virtually nothing of. Baseball is extremely unpopular in Europe, there exists a childrens game called "Brennball" which is played without bats and everyone is soon growing very bored with in school, so nobody here understands how the Americans have managed to make it so complicate and are so exited about it. Anyway, Austers novel is worth reading, there are also many interesting female characters with no pitching-history.

    Again I've found an interesting German author and it seems there are more good writers over here than I thought. Daniel Kehlmanns book "Ruhm" really develops into a page-turner, a fascinating puzzle, a novel composed of nine stories and with every story you learn more about how all the characters are linked together. Maybe you can find it in your library.

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  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    I'm quite sure "Merde Actually" is a good book. My friend read many passages of it out to me or quoted from them when she was reading it a couple of years ago and it really was all fun, but I don't know when I'm going to take the time to read nearly 450 pages. I normally like to read books not much longer than 300 pages, so with all the other things I've got to do, it won't take me too long to finish them. Of course I did read longer ones in the past but not so often. Since it is divided in many chapters maybe it doesn't matter how long it takes me. I think I'm going to have a look at Clarke's book soon.

    "Sunset Park" is quite good so far, Auster's inventiveness is nearly unmatched and also I like again his changing of perspectives. From incestuous love in "Invisible" he now works his way to illegal love and seems to have fallen for it since two main characters of the novel seem to face, or have dealt with the same problem. All in all this book is much more American than his last, a bit too much baseball for European tastes and though he states, a man can only be a man when he's wounded somehow, it sounds more like a man is a man when he once was a good pitcher. The book is kind of a puzzle and very interesting to read.

    When we bought our DVD-player more than ten years ago it was true that we could only play European or Asian DVD's, but I don't know if this is still the case. With a little operation on the DVD-player this could have been altered back then, but nowadays when people get their films out of the web, why shouldn't they play them on their laptop for example?

    I didn't know you like Daniel Brühl so much. I've seen him starring in many films but I can't remember them all. Last year he had two films out that I have not seen so far. I saw him last in the second "Bourne"-movie, where he had only a very little part. "Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei" is definetely one of his best films. August Diehl is starring in "Nichts als Gespenster", short stories by Judith Hermann made into a film, and it worked very well. I really liked it.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    I have heard and read about the film you mentioned but can't remember any more what it is about or who is starring. It was in the cinema here but is running no longer, I checked about it in the KINO aktuell. In case there will be no English DVD version you can polish up your German and I'm going to send you the DVD as soon as it is released here.

    The exchanging of Christmas presents was a bit difficult this time because of all the snow and I didn't see so many people around Christmas. But I see you put some new books on your shelf. "Merde Actually" is also sitting on my friends shelf but I have not read it so far. I doubt very much that I'm going to spend as much time reading next year than I did this year. As long as there are travel articles to write, my time for reading is limited. I hope my email will reach you this year.


    I wish you a happy new year

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    I've seen "The Bell Jar" several times in different bookshops in Europe but I did never pick it up since I always thought about Sylvia Plath as a poet. She was the friend of the famous English poet Ted Hughes and apart from "The Bell Jar" she only published a volume of poems, some of which are really good. She killed herself with thirty, difficult to say if she had become the better novelist or poet, had she lived longer.

    Maybe you should try "Summerhouse Later" next, I really liked it, such a floating style and all the open endings. It's not easy to find really good books among contemporary german writers, but this one by Judith Hermann is a class of its own. I read the first one or two stories eleven years ago, I just don't know what took me so long to buy the book.

    Thank you for the parcel, it arrived yesterday. I think this will restore your faith in US Mail. I've been trying to get an email through to you for two days now, so when it finally makes it, you will find that some information is no longer relevant, but I keep trying.

    I hope your day in the mountains was a success. If you had as much snow as we have right now, I guess you would have ploughed ditches into the slopes.

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  • Gunter Nitsch

    Gunter Nitsch says

    Hi K.R.H.,
    Since you're planning to read my first book I thought you'd be interested to know that "STRETCH: Coming of Age in Post-War Germany", the sequel to "Weeds Like Us" has just been published! You can find details on my website:www.weedslikeus.com as well as on amazon.com and bn.com. Happy reading!

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  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    After long research, a thing I normally don't like as you know, I obviously managed to read the best of Palahniuk's novels as my first one. I know "Fight Club" and I have leafed through "Snuff", reading the essential bits until the only halfway surprising end, I found it funny in a way but no match with "Diary". It's simply a pageturner, dark, sinister, graphic and full of hidden humour. Palahniuk's writing technique here is just superb, the constant change of the perspectives, Misty in the first person, Misty in the third person, Misty the omnicient narrator and Misty the voice of her diary or Grace's? Brilliant. Quite my stuff. And then all that talk about art and pieces of work made for eternity. The namesdropping of great artists, the mystery in the disguise of a gothic novel, Palahniuk couldn't have composed this better. For me "Diary" is a masterpiece, just for the record.

    The weather here in Germany is frustration with fits of anger, meaning as cold as Siberia with snowfall having started in late November. I can't believe this is starting over right now, it's definetely not my season.

    Swine flu is affecting humans, swine plague only in so far that infected meat can have a negative effect on the consumer such as trichina. So swine plague is like cow madness an animal disease.

    I see you've changed your mind about "Eating Animals" quite drastically. Sometimes books need their time like good wine in order to develop all their potential.

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  • Laura C

    Laura C says

    I have not started digging into this book yet. I bought it in the Chicago airpot Barbara Bookstore Kiosk wow I was surprised to see her there!
    I remember when I was little I was there when she opened her first hippy bookstore in Old Town there is a pic of that originally house long sice torn down when you go to the campus location of the store still have a place in my heart for this store hope they do well in the Amazon "free shipping" market.
    I am on this reduction phase where I am trying got reduce/simplify life to focus on this that satisfy the most.
    Lately this has taken a bit of time looking at my finances thinking of doing things in better ways. Following thru on things I have wanted to do plus I am getting
    married this year so a lot of changes going on. This is why I left a lot of the internet profiles and deleted them. I was spending too much time online. I don't do the social networking thing. I don't believe in how facebook works and how everyone joins and keeps doing the same thing like sheep it scares me actually.
    I miss getting into my art and photography sorta got a bit meaningless I feel like the whole world is taking pics of flowers and calendars I want to express it in a new way.. trying to get into what is really meaningful and getting rid of what is not.

    I cannot be with my boy this Turkey day... he lives in Texas and it is hard we are trying to get together but you know firsthand how hard it is to be apart.
    Hugs... I am cooking today hope you and Matt have a great one!!
    L

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  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    I saw a woman picking up "Eating Animals" at the bookshop on Saturday but then she put it away again and made herself comfortable with a lot of Nick Hornby stuff, so although Safran Foer's book is kept on shelf here, the interest seems to be kind acknowledgement. His other books seem to be more successful since they're all translated into German.

    Palahniuk is hard to get, I wanted "Tell-All" which I saw at the bookshop only two weeks ago but it was gone. So I started to read "Pigmy", the only one I could get, but you're right, it's difficult to read and so I didn't buy it. I leafed through it and had to smile und chuckle at many scenes, maybe this book is especially hilarious to us Europeans seeing the Americans being portrayed that way, but then it wasn't always easy to get the joke on first reading. Maybe I'm going to give it a chance later. There weren't also any German editions of Palahniuks novels, so I had to read the first chapters offered by Amazon. Normally I like to get a bit more into a book before I decide to buy it that's why I seldom order books, but I decided in favour of "Diary" in the end and hope it will be good.

    Well, Maui doesn't sound bad to me, isn't it nice to have something interesting one could be looking forward to? Why not visit a place more than one or two times? It's when you're really knowing a place that you will love it the most. You're learning so much about it that way and I'm still astonished how I can pour out all these articles. I think there's nothing better you can do than traveling. The hotel on the French border on the Rhine made me a special offer for the winter and I'm thinking about going there in a few weeks. Depends on the weather as last year, but from there you can visit the Black Forrest, Les Voges and Basel in Switzerland.

    Going back to "Eating Animals", Germany is indeed a vegetarian friendly country and has even several vegan groups. I did know some people who were vegetarian or vegan and I'm not a great animal eater myself except for fish. I'm eating salami and bacon, ok, but I'm not the steak type, though I always eat it when offered by someone for lunch or dinner. I don't feel happy with the way animals are treated in Europe and of course it would be more natural to go hunting myself, but picture millions of people shooting rabbits for dinner, with all those friendly kills that might follow, our population would be rapidly declining. There are often casualties when the Swedish are opening their elk-season because they often go hunting rather drunk. Animal deseases also lead to a temporary rejection of meat especially in Germany, like cow madness and swine plague. The British even made fun of the Germans and their cow madness paranoia in the beginning of the nineties. I ate beef maybe four times in fifteen years so when it would be up to me, cows could give their milk and die from old age on a green meadow.

    Maybe you can tell me about your job in an email, 'cause when you say I'm probably not getting even close to it by guessing, I think I won't try to picture you working in a ...?

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  • Laura C

    Laura C says

    Hey you :) How is life? Happy Turkey Day? Your reading list is awesome hope life is going well. I texted Matt a bit ago and so glad to hear he will be done with school soon...well of course when you leave school life sorta gets @uck arse boring
    How are you???

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  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    Thank you, I'm in love again. Please keep this now. And thank you for the gentleman as well. I see it's toque season again but never mind, last week it rained almost perpetually over here and all the fields were flooded. It's interesting when you're on the highway and you see the lights of power stations reflected in lakes that have not been there before.

    It looks like you were at the library today but the only names that ring a bell are Jonathan Safran Foer and Chuck Palahniuk. I held "Eating Animals" in my hands last time I was at the bookshop but didn't quite know what to think about it. I saw the two Palahniuk interviews on his page here today and found them quite interesting, especially his idea about topics to write about, that a story told at a party that could have been told by a majority of other persons at the same party in a similar way, would be possibly the plot for a good novel. In other words, the more people share the same experiences with what you write about, the more readers you're likely to get. Then of course I've seen "Fight Club" which I liked very much. I think I wouldn't want to read "Snuff" but "Pigmy" doesn't sound so bad. He really looks more like a Ukranian than like an American. I can tell because we have many Ukranian und Russian people around here.

    Meanwhile, I guess, you've already found out that the new novel by Paul Auster is called "Sunset Park". I think it's worth reading but there are some books I would prefer at the moment (hardbacks are mostly very expensive).

    I hummed "Stand by Me" almost two days but had to concentrate on my travel writing again. I was writing faster than they were able to check the articles, so I'm slowing down a little bit now but apart from it being a job I enjoy, it's also the money I'm looking foward to earning because I'm planning to travel a lot next year again. What about your Vancouver plans for Christmas?

    I once got an article into our local newspaper but it was rather a funny bit that happend to me and they used to have a special place in the daily for such pieces.
    Your expose is of course on a much higher level and I hope they will publish it in your local newspaper.

    You really make me curious about your job, what are you doing exactly?

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  • Norbert P

    Norbert P says

    Yes, I have been busy lately with writing and I hope I will be in the future because the work is not bad though the payment could be better. Why are you writing about the American Dairy industry, has it to do with your new job? As far as I am concerned I don't like research very much, it slows down the process of writing immensly and I think this is, what you are facing at the moment. John Grisham wrote at the end of his latest novel that he doesn't like to get any more letters from his readers concerning his weak research habits because he wouldn't care. That reminded me on my review on his novel "The Broker", where I discovered some geographical errors.

    Grisham and Auster have their new books out in Germany now and I tried some chapters but I think I will wait until they're available in paperback. When I was at Montagnola/Lugano at the Hermann Hesse museum I thought I should read another book by him and "Der Steppenwolf" turned out to be a novel that seems to have been waiting for me for long. I loved it, it's one of those outstanding books one must have read. Perhaps the translation didn't quite get Hesse's beautiful voice, the singing flow of his sentences or else this work was a bit too psychedelic for your taste, but it's especially that trip-like character what I like about the book.

    So finally the Cadillacs, Buicks and Dodge Mercurys are vanishing from America's srteets? A rather slow demographic process, isn't it? A BMW 1er could be the alternative, it's very popular in Germany and we like it. But Golf is still the bestseller here.

    Thanks for the link you sent me the other day. I Like the video, it brought back a song to me I wasn't thinking about for years and yesterday I kept humming it the whole day. I also like the idea of having street musicians of all countries participate in one song. To at least three places of the video, Amsterdam, Pisa and Toulouse I have already been while traveling.

    Please be blond again soon.

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