This was recommended to me by Kurt Tucholsky... and I have to say it is quite interesting and not as political as I thought it would be.

A really good book, short but through it's theme and characters a good summary of all things German, during and after the war.

All of the books by Günter Grass on my shelves are not really my books. They belong to Mr. Gecko who is a huge fan of the "Tin Drum" and Grass himself. My own relation ship to one of Germany's best known and noble prize honored authors is not all that great. I like some, some I couldn't stand and had to push through to finish them.

But if you have a lot of books at home, they need to be read, and so I decided a while a go to read one book of his every year. This year it's "Crab walk" or "Im Krebsgang" due to Leopard's review of it .

Don't trust professional reviews

Don't trust Book Blurbs

Don't trust the first page

and don't trust an author to represent evolution correctly, if it isn't written by a biologist.

Some books are just out there to make me angry.

Still nice cover ;)

I think a real misanthrope should not care what other people think about him... still in search of the meaning of this book. Rambling biology lessons can't be all, can they?