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Erzählungen by Joachim Ringelnatz
Die Judenbuche by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell ... I was underwhelmed. And found the mental illness of the protagonist (he hears god's/some saints' voice) rather offputting. All in all the book reads like a novelisation of a movie. The characters remain flat and two dimensional, and the cast remains stereotypical.
The military adventures of Johnny Newcome, with an account of his campaign on the Peninsula and in Pall Mall and notes by an officer *smirk*
A History of the Peninsular War (January to September 1809) by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman
With particular attention to May... *grins* and yes, I have been reading and rereading this tome all year, while moving coloured sticky notes across a map of Portugal and Spain
Elfenlied by Bernhard Hennen
Die 500 Millionen der Begum by Jules Verne *the mind boggles*
some bits of non-fic...
Ein Husar namens Goethe by Theodor Goethe
Die Sprache des Windes by Scott Huler
Georgette Heyer's Regency World by Jennifer Kloester... the capter on Military in this book is soooo funny, very wrong, but funny.
The Last Dragonlord by Joanne Bertin ... braincandy
The Folklore of Discworld: Legends, myths and customs from the Discworld by Terry Pratchet and Jacqueline Simpson
This is an exellent, exellent reference book for the 'things that everyone knows' that crop up on the Discworld (and have strange parallels in different parts of the trouseres of space-time continuum, like, say, on Earth). Mirthfully the authors trace escaped particles of narrativum across the universes and observe their astonishing effects.
I have been looking for a book like this for years, and much regret buying some that were not co-authored by the man himself. It is charming to note the difference in writing styles of the authors and I caught myself grinning occasionally, thinking 'this is pure Pratchett'.
In 16 chapters different species, regions or character groups of the Discworld are examined and their folk-loric or legendary background traced back to it's roots and presented for easy reference. A lot of chapters are sub-divided; for example the Chapter 'Beasties' has the sub-chapters 'Dragons', 'Basilisk and Chimera', 'Sphinx', 'Phoenix', 'Salamander', 'Unicorn' and 'The Luggage'.
But it is easy to find specific persons or places or events using the magnificent Index, and the Bibliography is mouth-watering and very tempting.
I am very happy I found this.
Die Judenbuche by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell ... I was underwhelmed. And found the mental illness of the protagonist (he hears god's/some saints' voice) rather offputting. All in all the book reads like a novelisation of a movie. The characters remain flat and two dimensional, and the cast remains stereotypical.
The military adventures of Johnny Newcome, with an account of his campaign on the Peninsula and in Pall Mall and notes by an officer *smirk*
A History of the Peninsular War (January to September 1809) by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman
With particular attention to May... *grins* and yes, I have been reading and rereading this tome all year, while moving coloured sticky notes across a map of Portugal and Spain
Elfenlied by Bernhard Hennen
Die 500 Millionen der Begum by Jules Verne *the mind boggles*
some bits of non-fic...
Ein Husar namens Goethe by Theodor Goethe
Die Sprache des Windes by Scott Huler
Georgette Heyer's Regency World by Jennifer Kloester... the capter on Military in this book is soooo funny, very wrong, but funny.
The Last Dragonlord by Joanne Bertin ... braincandy
The Folklore of Discworld: Legends, myths and customs from the Discworld by Terry Pratchet and Jacqueline Simpson
This is an exellent, exellent reference book for the 'things that everyone knows' that crop up on the Discworld (and have strange parallels in different parts of the trouseres of space-time continuum, like, say, on Earth). Mirthfully the authors trace escaped particles of narrativum across the universes and observe their astonishing effects.
I have been looking for a book like this for years, and much regret buying some that were not co-authored by the man himself. It is charming to note the difference in writing styles of the authors and I caught myself grinning occasionally, thinking 'this is pure Pratchett'.
In 16 chapters different species, regions or character groups of the Discworld are examined and their folk-loric or legendary background traced back to it's roots and presented for easy reference. A lot of chapters are sub-divided; for example the Chapter 'Beasties' has the sub-chapters 'Dragons', 'Basilisk and Chimera', 'Sphinx', 'Phoenix', 'Salamander', 'Unicorn' and 'The Luggage'.
But it is easy to find specific persons or places or events using the magnificent Index, and the Bibliography is mouth-watering and very tempting.
I am very happy I found this.
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And I'm glad to hear the Folklore of Discworld proved to be good; I've been hemming and hawing as to whether to read that one for a while.
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And that is definitely a book you don't have to read in one sitting. Browse around in it, read this bit or that, look something else up... it has no narrative, it's really just a Discworld companion.
and I think Schwanzus Longus is even funnier! and Life of Brian is the one of the very few movies where the syn version is MORE FUNNY than the original!
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