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		<title>Review: El pintor de sombras / The Shadows Painter</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[El pintor de sombras / The Shadows Painter by Esteban Martin My rating: 3 of 5 stars English below… German: Ich habe “El Pintor de Sombras” mit großer Erwartungshaltung begonnen zu lesen. Als großer Fan von Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes Romanen sowie Jack the Ripper Geschichten aller Art, interessierte es mich natürlich sehr, wie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisinsane.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9502803&amp;post=1372&amp;subd=chrisinsane&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9726637" style="float:left;padding-right:20px;"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ApTfbg3dL._SX106_.jpg" border="0" alt="El pintor de sombras / The Shadows Painter" /></a><br />
      <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9726637">El pintor de sombras / The Shadows Painter</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3002894">Esteban Martin</a><br />
      My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/223552154">3 of 5 stars</a></p>
<p>      English below…<br />
German:<br />
Ich habe “El Pintor de Sombras” mit großer Erwartungshaltung begonnen zu lesen. Als großer Fan von Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes Romanen sowie Jack the Ripper Geschichten aller Art, interessierte es mich natürlich sehr, wie der Autor es schafft, die Ripper Geschichte in den Kontext des späten 19./frühen 20. Jahrhunderts in Barcelona zu versetzen und Picasso als reales Element einzufügen. Eins vorweg: Das Buch hat seine guten Momente, aber auch einige Enttäuschungen parat.</p>
<p>Ich muss zugeben, dass ich das Buch mit total falschen Erwartungen angegangen bin. Was ich erwartete, war ein Krimi mit einem Detektiv wie Holmes, der versucht Jack the Ripper zu finden und zu stoppen, welcher wiederum versucht, Pablo Picasso die Schuld in die Schuhe zu stecken. Diese Handlung kommt auch mehr oder weniger so im Buch vor – aber nur in der zweiten Hälfte. Bis Seite 119 stirbt niemand, was mir für einen Krimi sehr merkwürdig erschien. Natürlich hatte ich mich da geirrt. Im ersten Teil des Romans führt Martín die Charaktere Picasso, Barcelona und Picassos Kunst ein. Man kann Letztere Charaktere nennen, weil sie regelrecht lebendig werden im Roman. Picassos Kindheit und Jugend, mit seinen Freunden, seinen Ängsten und Gefühlen, seinem Kunsthandwerk und seiner Liebe werden vorgestellt. Dieser Teil ist für meinen Geschmack zu lang geraten, obwohl er sicherlich gut geschrieben ist und nicht ohne emotionale Spannung auskommt. Jedoch erwartet der Leser, dass etwas mehr passiert, als dass er nur über einen Jungen liest, der versucht seine eigene Art der Malerei zu finden, und dabei Leute trifft, wie Carmen, seine große Liebe, die ihn verlässt und als Prostituierte zurückkehrt, oder einen merkwürdigen Matrosen, der allen Angst einjagt. Das ist prinzipiell der Hauptinhalt der ersten Romanhälfte. An einem Punkt vergewaltigt Picasso seine Carmen, als er herausfindet, dass sie nun als Prostituierte arbeitet. Nach dieser Stelle habe ich für fünf Tage aufgehört den Roman zu lesen, da ich den Hauptcharakter in diesem Moment genauso hasste, wie das gesamte Buch, das mir bis zu diesem Punkt nichts Spannenderes geboten hat. Es mag sein, dass Liebhaber von Picassos Kunst oder Kunst allgemein die erste Romanhälfte mögen, weil es die Gründe für Picassos Stilwahl und die Welt der Kunst um diese Zeit in Europa darstellt. Natürlich kann man dieses Wissen von einem Autor erwarten, der selber aktiv in der Kunstszene ist. Selbst ich mochte diesen Teil stellenweise, aber meiner bescheidenen Meinung nach, ist er für einen Laien einfach zu lang geraten.</p>
<p>Wir kommen zur zweiten Hälfte – Auftritt: Sherlock Holmes – oder eher Steven Arrow, der im Roman die Person darstellt, auf die Doyle’s bekannter Detektiv beruht. Natürlich bringt er Watson mit, bzw. Sherrinford, wie er bei Martín heißt. Der Roman bekommt eine völlig neue Richtung. Arrow rückt immer mehr in das Zentrum des Geschehens und wird zum Protagonisten. Die meisten Kapitel dieser Hälfte werden von dem Ich-Erzähler Sherrinford wiedergegeben, wie dies Watson in den Sherlock Holmes Geschichten tut. Martín benutzt diese Erzählperspektive jedoch nicht konsequent, was manchmal etwas irritierend ist und irgendwie nicht zufriedenstellend. Was den Aufbau der Charaktere angeht, hat der Autor allerdings etwas geschafft, was Doyle nicht tat, und wahrscheinlich nie tun wollte. Er gab seinem Detektiv Gefühle, die ihn irrational handeln lassen. So verliebt sich Arrow zum Beispiel in Carmen und hat eine emotionale Hintergrundgeschichte, die allerdings nur angekratzt wird. Meistens aber verhält er sich genau wie Holmes, was ziemlich Spaß macht, zu lesen. </p>
<p>Auch wenn es sich nicht ein typischer Krimi zum Mitraten ist, so ist doch besonders der zweite Teil des Romans voller Spannung und typischer Sherlock Holmes Elemente, die der Autor ziemlich gut wiedergegeben hat. Wenn man nicht allzu viel mit Malerei anfangen kann, muss man zwar eine Weile warten, bis die Handlung einsetzt. Doch sie wird kommen und ist dabei nichts für Leute, die Albträume kriegen, wenn sie 0815 Krimis im TV anschauen.</p>
<p>English:<br />
I’ve started reading „El Pintor de Sombras“ with great excitement. As a big fan of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels as well as Jack the Ripper stories of all kinds, I was quite interested how the author would put the Ripper story in the context of late 19th/early 20th century Barcelona and add Picasso as another real element. Let me start by saying that the book has its great moments, but also its disappointments.</p>
<p>I must confess that I have tackled the book with completely false expectations. What I expected was a crime novel with a detective like Holmes, trying to find and stop Jack the Ripper who is trying to make Pablo Picasso the culprit. This plotline is indeed more or less depicted in the book – but only in the second half. Up to page 119 nobody dies, which struck me very weird because I assumed that the book was a crime novel. Of course, that’s where I was wrong. In the first part of the novel Martín introduces the characters of Picasso, of Barcelona and of Picasso’s art. You may call them all characters because they become very much alive in the novel. Picasso’s childhood and teenage years are depicted, with it his friends, his pains and feelings, his artwork, his love. This part, though well written and not without its emotional tension, was a little bit too long for my taste. The reader expects something more to happen, but only reads about a boy, trying to find his way to paint, meeting Carmen, the love of his life, who walks away from him but returns as a prostitute, as well as some strange sailor who scares everyone. That’s pretty much the gist of the first part of the novel. At one point Picasso rapes Carmen when he finds out that she has become a prostitute. I stopped reading for 5 days after reading that part because I hated the main character at that point as well as the novel, which up to now was giving me nothing else exciting. It may be that lovers of Picasso or of art in principle enjoy that part (before the rape), because it depicts a lot of reasons for Picasso’s style choice and the world of art in Europe at that time. Of course one can expect this knowledge from an author who is active in art himself. Even I enjoyed it at times, but in my humble opinion it was just too long for a layperson.</p>
<p>Coming to the second part &#8211; appearance: Sherlock Holmes, or rather Steven Arrow who in the novel is the person who Doyle’s famous detective is based on. Of course he comes along with Watson, or rather Sherrinford. The novel takes a new direction. Arrow is put more and more in the center of attention. Most of the chapters in the second part are told from the first person narrator Sherrinford just like Watson in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Martín is, however, not really consequent in using this point of view which is sometimes a little confusing and somehow unsatisfying. Regarding character establishment the author, however, succeeds in something Doyle never did, maybe never wanted to do: He gave his detective feelings that make him act irrational. He for example falls in love with Carmen and has a rich emotional background story, though it is only scratched on the surface. Most of the times, he nevertheless acts just like Holmes, which makes the second part fun to read. </p>
<p>Though not a very good book for “Whodunit?”, especially the second part is full of suspense and typical Sherlock Holmes elements that the author has established quite well. If you’re not that much into paintings, you might have to wait a little while before the action kicks in. But it will come and is not for people who have nightmares after watching a completely ordinary crime movie on TV.</p>
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		<title>Review: Talk Talk</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk Talk by T.C. Boyle My rating: 2 of 5 stars I usually like to read T.C. Boyle and Talk Talk certainly has its moments, especially concerning suspense and speed. What I didn&#8217;t like were on the one hand the characters, and on the other hand the plot. 1. The characters are not very likeable. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisinsane.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9502803&amp;post=1369&amp;subd=chrisinsane&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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      <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24723">Talk Talk</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1064072">T.C. Boyle</a><br />
      My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/199869423">2 of 5 stars</a></p>
<p>      I usually like to read T.C. Boyle and Talk Talk certainly has its moments, especially concerning suspense and speed. What I didn&#8217;t like were on the one hand the characters, and on the other hand the plot.</p>
<p>1. The characters are not very likeable. Dana is deaf and has the feeling that the whole world does not get her. She says she doesn&#8217;t care that people stare, but becomes aggressive when she cannot communicate right with other people. Granted, her character goes through some bad stuff during the novel. It still seems weird. Especially when you compare her to the bad guy, Peck Wilson, who gets similarly aggressive as her. While she lets it out verbally, mostly on her boyfriend Bridger, Wilson also uses violence. He is a very flat character, doesn&#8217;t care for other people and thinks he is in the right, no matter what he does. He doesn&#8217;t change and one can assume that he isn&#8217;t stopped either. Though there are people who he loves, as he claims, for example Natalia or his daughter Sukie, his rage and his bad attitude always come first. He tries to always play it cool as if he was Anton Chigurh from The Country of Old Men. Boyle could have given this character a little more on the way than just his rage, his selfishness and his great skills to cook. </p>
<p>2. The plot is often moved forward by coincidences. When Bridger and Dana try to find Wilson, they at least two times just stumble upon him, which does not satisfy me to be honest. The ending didn&#8217;t really satisfy me either, but I will not go into detail here, because I do not want to spoiler the novel.</p>
<p>All in all, it is a good read, but not nearly as good as other books by the same author.</p>
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		<title>Review: El alquimista</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[El alquimista by Paulo Coelho My rating: 1 of 5 stars I&#8217;ve read &#34;The Alchemist&#34; in Spanish and was surprised at first that the book was so easy to read. There is a deeper level beneath the story which is not exactly hard to find. This level can be summarized pretty fast: Live your dream [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisinsane.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9502803&amp;post=1350&amp;subd=chrisinsane&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6604736-el-alquimista" style="float:left;padding-right:20px;"><img alt="El alquimista" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1301397135m/6604736.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6604736-el-alquimista">El alquimista</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/566.Paulo_Coelho">Paulo Coelho</a><br />
My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/180552997">1 of 5 stars</a></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve read &quot;The Alchemist&quot; in Spanish and was surprised at first that the book was so easy to read. There is a deeper level beneath the story which is not exactly hard to find. </p>
<p>This level can be summarized pretty fast: Live your dream and it will become reality. For many people this message may sound plausible and it may enrich their lives. But I don&#8217;t really buy it. Protagonist Santiago tries to make his dream reality. He encounters predetermined situations that help him to reach his goal &#8211; even though they don&#8217;t appear to do that at the first look. As the old king he meets at the beginning of the book tells him, the whole universe conspires so that he can go his personal path of life. There are no coincidences, no chance, no luck &#8211; only god and the universe. As I&#8217;m not really religious I&#8217;m not satisfied with Coelho&#8217;s answers.</p>
<p>Coelho often refers to the bible. In fact, he&#8217;s written some kind of a parable himself. Transforming plumb into gold, i.e. dreams into reality, is of course also not easy in the book. Not everyone succeeds in doing so. Hence, Santiago encounters people who have not gone their personal path of life, either because they are too afraid or because they simply keep dreaming. However, the fact that Santiago, a boy who is very naive and not really clever, succeeds is supposed to show the reader that ultimately everyone can succeed in turning their dreams into reality. I do not have anything to say against that point. It&#8217;s the way Coelho shows the reader that I have a problem with. Indeed, one&#8217;s own initiative is important in the book, but the external forces act so strongly as it would never happen in real life.</p>
<p>Of course, one can have a different view on the matter. To me the book appears to be too easy and the story too constructed (maybe to get the message across better). Chance doesn&#8217;t exist because it doesn&#8217;t fit into Coelho&#8217;s view of the world. I don&#8217;t say that this is a bad thing. With him as a writer and me as a reader there is simply a clash of two very different views on the world and on religious faith.</p>
<p>Ich habe &quot;Der Alchimist&quot; auf Spanisch gelesen und war zunächst überrascht wie leicht das Buch geschrieben ist. Natürlich gibt es noch eine tiefere Ebene unter der Geschichte, welche allerdings unbedingt schwer zu finden ist.</p>
<p>Diese Ebene lässt sich eigentlich ganz schnell zusammenfassen: Lebe deinen Traum und er wird Wirklichkeit. Für viele Menschen mag diese Nachricht, die uns der Autor mit auf den Weg geben will, einleuchtend klingen und das Leben erleichtern. Ich allerdings kaufe ihm das so nicht ab. Der Hauptcharakter Santiago versucht seinen Traum Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen und stößt dabei immer wieder auf bereits vorbestimmte Situationen, die ihm dabei verhelfen, seinem Ziel näher zu kommen, auch wenn dies im ersten Moment nicht so aussieht. Das ganze Universum, so sagt ihm der weise König am Anfang des Buches, konspiriert, damit jemand, der seinen Lebensweg gehen will, ihn auch gehen kann. Es gibt keine Zufälle, kein Glück. Nur Gott und das Universum. Da ich weder gläubig bin, noch sonderlich spirituell, bin ich mit den Antworten von Coelho nicht zufrieden. </p>
<p>Coelho greift viele biblische Stellen auf, schreibt ja selbst eine Art Gleichnis. Blei in Gold verwandeln, also die Träume zur Wirklichkeit ist selbstredend auch im Buch nicht leicht und nicht jeder schafft es. So trifft Santiago auch auf Leute, die ihren Lebensweg nicht gehen, sei es aus Angst oder weil sie nur träumen statt zu leben. Dass es aber der naive Santiago schafft, der wahrlich weder von großer Intelligenz beschenkt wurde, soll dem Leser zeigen, dass es eigentlich jeder schaffen kann, seine Träume zu verwirklichen. Gegen diesen Punkt habe ich an sich nichts einzuwenden. Mir geht es da eher um den Weg, den Coelho aufzeichnet. Zwar schreibt auch er Eigeninitiative groß, aber die äußeren Kräfte wirken so stark, wie sie im wirklichen Leben niemals wirken würden. </p>
<p>Natürlich kann man da auch anderer Ansicht sein. Auf mich wirkte das Buch zu einfach und die Geschichte etwas zu konstruiert um die Botschaft rüberzubringen. Es lässt den Faktor Zufall aus, der nicht in Coelhos Weltbild vorkommt. Daher treffen mit ihm als Schreiber und mir als Leser leider zwei unterschiedliche Welt- und Glaubensansichten aufeinander, die sich gegenseitig ausschließen.</p>
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