by Günter Grass
bookshelves: re-read, spring-2010, dodgy-narrator, wwii, published-1959, noir, nobel-laureate, magical-realism, satire, nazi-related, paper-read, fradio, radio-4x, spring-2015, re-visit-2015, film-only, incest-agameforallthefamily, play-dramatisation Read from January 01, 2008 to April 13, 2015, r...
The next time I go to the Onion Cellar I will surely lament my finishing of this book. Why? Because less than a day after I have finished it, I already miss it and I am too prideful to cry without the aid of an onion. Finishing this book felt like saying goodbye to an old friend, oh sure we say we ...
I swear I could hear that drum playing in my head at odd moments. Especially every time I tried to write this review. I think it was my own warning to pay proper homage to a brilliant book. It always amazes me how some authors can take some dark passages of a characters life and treat it with a humo...
What a tightrope act of a book this is. Sustaining the totally unreliable, possibly insane voice of Oskar through a book this long without stumbling or stretching our suspension of semi-belief is a hell of a task, and Grass totally nails it. I found this entertaining, funny, sad, weird and wholly li...
This is going to be the very, very short version as one would have to write pages to do justice to this book and I'm just not up to it. In a nutshell..Oskar is born with the understanding of an adult. He hears a conversation between his mother and her husband in which the husband says Oskar will gro...
Grotesque, and occasionally nauseating. And I mean that as a compliment.
I read The Tin Drum as part of my pet project to read (or have read) at least one book by each of the authors mentioned in the lyrics of The Divine Comedy song 'The Booklovers'. As such, I had no idea what to expect and will admit to being somewhat daunted by this weighty - almost 600 pages - tome, ...
Re-Read details:As Hitler rises to power, three-year-old Oskar decides he doesn't want to grow up. Stars Phil Daniels and Kenneth Cranham. Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 10:00am Thursday 27th May 2010blurb - Classic novel of the rise and fall of Hitler as seen through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator, O...
I'm still not sure I understood this book.
On summer 2002 I've had my first holiday paid with my own money made working in an estate agency. Destination Berlin. Yeah! Ja!Stefania a friend of a friend of mine had given me the keys of her house in Fredrichshain, the quarter where former medium hyerarchies of the communist DDR used to live. A q...
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