Nobody likes spoilers. Sometimes though it is a spoiler that leads to what I call a pearl of literature. It’s been a spoiler indeed – just a very, very small spoiler – that made me read a jewel of science fiction: Kameron Hurley’s “The Light Brigade”
There are many ways to choose a book. You can rely on recommendations from friends. You can follow a review. The best way is to visit a book store and rummage the books, read a few pages or let the cover art get you. Or maybe it’s some movie –…
George R. R. Martin teached me one thing: Nobody is save from death. I wasn’t sure if “A Song of Ice and Fire” stands single in this. Tad Williams proved the truth. Noone is immune against death. Neither mortal man, nor elves. But in contrast to Mr. Martin there’s hope…
Es ist eine Pentalogie. Vier Worte, die nach einem stilistisch schlechten Anfang anmuten, ich muss sie aber vorausschicken, denn ich könnte in Unkenntnis der folgenden vier Bände der Autorin an der einen oder anderen Stelle Unrecht tun. Was ich heute schreibe, ist eine Momentaufnahme. Alles mag sich ändern, lese ich…
Thanks to HBO I guess there’s nearly nobody out there, who hasn’t heard the name George Raymond Richard Martin. Since eight year “Game of Thrones” is running on TV and made the author famous beyond the borders of the fantasy genre and the literature. But there was a time before…
Good things need their time. This is true even for a good book. To really get the book and its story you should take enough time. It doesn’t matter, if it take three months to read that book. Additional reading English books doesn’t work as fluently as books in my…
As a great fan of comic books (especially of DC Comics) there has been one “must see” for me: Aquaman I believe, that there are too many comic book-based films in cinema around the last few years. I do not count Christopher Nolans Dark Knight trilogy. Based on comic books…
It’s done. Another year is over. Again. Time to look back at… No, it’s too common to look back. Everybody looks back at the past but the past is past. It’s over. That’s why it is called past. What was cannot be changed. But the future can probably be changed….