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DE/EN*; lots of fanfiction, some books and sheet music.

Experimenting with Bookwyrm, to get away from Goodreads and a manually kept text file with things I read.

I mostly keep to the Goodreads rating scale (2 = it was okay, 3 = I liked it, 4 = I really liked it, 5 = top), where I also hand out a 2/3 for a 1/2 when my reason to dislike is more personal than caused by the book. Bad spelling tends to get a downgrade.

*) and bits of Latin, NL, ES, …

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Robin Hardy, Anthony Shaffer: The Wicker Man (Paperback, 2006, Three Rivers Press)

This book describes and expands upon the content of a film of the same name, …

Review of 'The Wicker Man' on 'Goodreads'

I’m a bit too squeamish for some of the things, but I liked that the pagans won over the christians for once. (This was incidentally the point with which this movie was recommended to me.)

The sudden turn before the end surely caught me by surprise.

Some of the filming… was probably done cheaply.

The English of these Scotsmen was very comprehensible even to foreigners (though I still used subtitles, I could have done without for the most part).

John Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come (Oxford English Texts) (1975, Oxford Univ Pr (Txt))

Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual …

Review of "Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come (Oxford English Texts)" on 'Goodreads'

URL: archiveofourown.org/works/24779923

This
is more of an “it’s okay” than a three-star one but it paid attention to so many (not much) little details I’m rounding up. Despite the romancey bits and the… sudden implosion of plot. It evoked a carpet of detail/feelings, this is weird.

Review of '\x98Der\x9c grosse Duden' on 'Goodreads'

No rating

In meinem Besitz befindet sich stattdessen der Mannheimer Duden („Der Große DUDEN“, Band 1: Rechtschreibung), 15. Auflage (1961) in Leinen gebunden. (Aber ich darf ja bei Gutles keine Editionen oder Bücher mehr hinzufügen… grml…)

reviewed Eric by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, Book 9)

Terry Pratchett: Eric (Paperback, 2000, Gollancz)

Eric, stylized as Faust Eric, is the ninth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett. It was …

Review of 'Eric' on 'Goodreads'

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I had already read this in German, decades ago, but this book will have the honour of being the first Pterry book I’m going to read in its native (and hopefully original) English.

Simon Jenkins: Celts (2022, Profile Books Limited)

Review of 'Celts' on 'Goodreads'

From “Under the Ancient Oaks”:

「A book to avoid

I love recommending books that I find helpful. I generally ignore books I don’t like, but occasionally I come across something that needs a warning on it. One such book is The Celts: A Sceptical History by Simon Jenkins.

Celtic scholar and author Danu Forest said “I don’t believe in being the Celtic Studies police but this really is toxic nonsense and poor scholarship that was only published due to its emergence from the Westminster bubble.”

This review https://nation.cymru/culture/review-the-celts-a-sceptical-history-by-simon-jenkins/ from Nation Cymru in Wales calls it “irresponsible” “lazy” and says “he makes elementary errors that could have been corrected by looking at Wikipedia. Overall, this is like reading an essay by a clever, ambitious but lazy and contrarian undergraduate, with far too high a regard for his own cleverness.”

Spend your money – and your reading time – elsewhere.」