Both Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Outlaws of the Marsh are fantastic, the former particularly so if you have played games like rotk/dynasty warriors. The narrative consists of nine loosely connected stories about technology, celebrity and alienation. If you want to feel good about yourself for reading a classic but also want to read something that rules, Alexander Dumas doesn't miss (3 Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo, many others). Fame ( German: Ruhm) is a 2009 novel by the Austrian-German writer Daniel Kehlmann. A semi accessible exploration of how the mind works and what the self is. I have reread it a few times and think about it constantly. His handshake’s like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds. Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an indefatigable naturalist and geographer, the first to. In a brilliant, riotous tale full of macabre humour, Daniel Kehlmann lifts a jester legend from German folklore and puts him into the Thirty Years War. On the nonfiction side, there is this book on cognition called Godel, Escher, and Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstatler. by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Carol Brown Janeway. This has proven a fucking excellent decision, they are even better than I remember them being, and I now hold the opinion that Terry Pratchett deserves more praise and credit than he gets. About 6 months ago I decided to re-read my way through all 40ish Discworld books, which I hadn't read mostly in over 20 years (aside from newest ones, obvs).
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