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Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite
Is there such a thing as a good lie? Whenever this question comes up, I imagine that most people can agree that white lies are fine. Without them, we’d probably be perpetually annoyed with one another. But when the lies get bigger, it becomes harder and harder to say if a lie is justified—a “good” l...
Merle
Merle rated it 9 years ago
When he wrote this novella in 1974, Heinrich Boll was furious with the yellow press; anger radiates from the very disclaimer (which states that the newspaper in this book is totally not the Bild-Zeitung, but hey, if the shoe fits….). Nevertheless, this is one of those books that manages to tell its ...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 10 years ago
bookshelves: radio-4, autumn-2012, fradio, published-1974, nobel-laureate, shortstory-shortstories-novellas Recommended for: BBC radio listeners Read on October 19, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...BBC blurb: A brilliant exploration of the corrosive impact of tabloid journalism on o...
Maven Books
Maven Books rated it 10 years ago
A great collection of Heinrich Böll's work, though with so many stories and novellas, it's hard to comment on them here. His writing style is appealing, mostly clear and to the point, but with enough detail to paint a scene. The stories focusing on the war and just after seemed best to me; those t...
Elham
Elham rated it 11 years ago
Have you ever been in love? Have you ever lost somebody? did you feel the pain? If so, you chose the right book. The clown invites you to listen to his love story.This very well written story by Heinrich Boll, is an interior monologue by the Clown that lasts only three hour.
Emamemi
Emamemi rated it 11 years ago
The voice of this novel was something new to me: it is written in the form of a report, apparently reserved and unbiased, which presents the slow but effective process of Katharina Blum's public humiliation by police and press. It all begins with a murder (I'm not sure this may be considered a spoil...
SJane
SJane rated it 11 years ago
When Heinrich Böll won the Nobel Prize, this novel was singled out as his crowning achievement, even though writers win for a body of work rather than an individual book. The novel is a marvelous panoramic look at German society during and after WWII, conducted as a kind of investigation into the li...
Randolph "Dilda" Carter
Randolph "Dilda" Carter rated it 11 years ago
Boll's short scathing attack on how the media creates the news instead of, as it claims, just reporting it (I've refused to read "news" magazines for years because of just this fact). Since its 1974 the newspapers are the primary focus but you can transfer this to almost any "news" organization (th...
AC
AC rated it 12 years ago
A fine little novella, though not the masterpieces that Billiards, or especially Group Portrait are. Blum is a pale Leni...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 12 years ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nd826/15_Minute_Drama_The_Lost_Honour_of_Katharina_Blum_Episode_4/BBC blurb: A brilliant exploration of the corrosive impact of tabloid journalism on one young woman. The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum is dissects the power of the press and it's impact on indiv...
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