books i've read this year...

[txorakeriak]

1. "Denn sie betrügt man nicht" - Elizabeth George
   
2. "Gott schütze dieses Haus" - Elizabeth George
   
3. "Auf Ehre und Gewissen" - Elizabeth George
   
4. "The Fellowship of the Ring" - J.R.R. Tolkien
   
5. "The Two Towers" - J.R.R. Tolkien
   
6. "Berts Megakatastrophen" - S. Olsson & A. Jacobsson
   
7. "Berts jungfräuliche Katastrophen" - S. Olsson & A. Jacobsson
   
8. "Inspektor Jury schläft außer Haus" - Martha Grimes
   
9. "Inspektor Jury spielt Domino" - Martha Grimes
   
10. "Blinder Eifer" - Martha Grimes
    
11. "Fremde Federn" - Martha Grimes
    
12. "The Battles of Hastings II" - Agatha Christie
    
13. "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" - Agatha Christie
    
14. "Murder on the Orient Express" - Agatha Christie
    
15. "And Then There Were None" - Agatha Christie
    
16. "Sad Cypress" - Agatha Christie
    
17. "Five Little Pigs" - Agatha Christie
    
18. "The Hollow" - Agatha Christie
    
19. "Die Kleptomanin" - Agatha Christie
    
20. "Auch Pünktlichkeit kann töten" - Agatha Christie
    
21. "Auf doppelter Spur" - Agatha Christie
    
22. "Curtain" - Agatha Christie
    
23. "Hercule Poirot Short Stories" - Agatha Christie
    
24. "Murder in Mesopotamia" - Agatha Christie
    
25. "Death on the Nile" - Agatha Christie
    
26. "Evil Under The Sun" - Agatha Christie
    
27. "Wiedersehen mit Mrs. Oliver" - Agatha Christie
    
28. "Sleeping Murder" - Agatha Christie
    
29. "16 Uhr 50 ab Paddington" - Agatha Christie
    
30. "Das Geheimnis der Goldmine" - Agatha Christie
    
31. "Mord im Pfarrhaus" - Agatha Christie
    
32. "Die Tote in der Bibliothek" - Agatha Christie
    
33. "Der Dienstagabend-Club" - Agatha Christie
    
34. "Miss Marples Fälle" - Agatha Christie
    
35. "Zeugin der Anklage" - Agatha Christie
    
36. "The Mouse Trap" - Agatha Christie
    
37. "A Caribbean Mystery" - Agatha Christie
    
38. "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" - Agatha Christie
    
39. "A Murder is Announced" - Agatha Christie
    
40. "The Moving Finger" - Agatha Christie
    
41. "Third Girl" - Agatha Christie
    
42. "Taken at the Flood" - Agatha Christie
    
43. "Cards on the Table" - Agatha Christie
    
44. "The Big Four" - Agatha Christie
    
45. "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" - Agatha Christie
    
46. "Nemesis" - Agatha Christie
    
47. "The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side" - Agatha Christie
    
48. "At Bertram's Hotel" - Agatha Christie
    
49. "Mrs. McGinty's Dead" - Agatha Christie
    
50. "After the Funeral" - Agatha Christie
    
51. "Elephants Can Remember"- Agatha Christie
    
52. "Hallowe'en Party" - Agatha Christie
    
53. "Appointment With Death" - Agatha Christie
    
54. "Death in the Clouds" - Agatha Christie
    
55. "Cat Among the Pigeons" - Agatha Christie
    
56. "They Do It With Mirrors" - Agatha Christie
    
57. "The Giver" - Lois Lowry
    
58. "The Colour of Magic" - Terry Pratchett
    
59. "The Light Fantastic" - Terry Pratchett
    
60. "Good Omens" - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
    
61. "Der eingebildete Kranke" - Molière
    
62. "Le Petit Prince" - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    
63. "Robinson Crusoe" - Daniel Defoe
    
64. "Kidnapped" - Robert Louis Stevenson
    
65. "The True Story of Horatio Hornblower" - C. Northcote Parkinson
    
66. "Funny Fanny" - Isolde Heyne
    
67. "Nelson in the Caribbean" - Joseph F. Callo
    
68. "The Mystery of the Blue Train" - Agatha Christie
    
69. "Nelson: Britannia's God of War" - Andrew Lambert
    
70. "Warum Männer nicht zuhören und Frauen schlecht einparken" - Allan & Barbara Pease
    
71. "Lucky Luke: Westwärts" - Morris
    
72. "44 Years With The Same Bird" - Brian Reade
    
73. "Withnail And I" - Bruce Robinson
    
74. "Equal Rites" - Terry Pratchett
    
75. "Mort" - Terry Pratchett

If you're looking for an absorbing, fascinating and funny book about Liverpool FC which is informative and even political at the same time, you should read Brian Reade's masterpiece "44 Years With The Same Bird" - and if you're a Liverpool fan, you won't regret it. It includes loads of anecdotes about the author's life as a Liverpool fan, some happy, some utterly hilarious, some incredibly sad. He doesn't leave out anything important; all the major stages of Liverpool's development from Everton's uprising rival to one of the Big Four are mentioned, the five Champions League wins as well as the tragedies of Heysel and Hillsborough (Reade attended both matches), and it has an ending so powerful that it almost made me cry. Honestly, the only thing I can actually criticise about this book is the fact that the publishers obviously didn't have a good editor in charge of this book because there are quite a few grammatical mistakes in it.

Unfortunately, the same applies to the publishers of "Withnail And I". And since I read the one after the other, I was soon incredibly frustrated. You know how picky I am with comma rules especially, and when I have to read two books in a row in which the writer/editor obviously threw a coin whenever he wanted to put a comma somewhere and then put one when the coin showed heads and left it out when it showed tails. I can't even reproach them of not knowing about their language's comma rules because sometimes they get them right! GAH. But I guess it tells something about the quality of the two books that I read them and even enjoyed them despite the comma annoyances. Of course, "Withnail And I" is nothing more than the script of the film, but it includes some pieces of dialogue that are not in the film, and it's just awesome to read.

When I found "Equal Rites" and "Mort" in the mail, I never would have thought I'd have finished them only a week later. I was busy as always, don't get me wrong, but somehow I couldn't put the books down. I understand now what you guys said about the first two "Discworld" books being Pratchett's worst. "Equal Rites" and "Mort" were a lot easier to read, and also funnier and wittier (or at least that's what I thought). Granny Weatherwax is one of the most awesome characters EVER (especially when she's interacting with Cutangle XD), and I also adore Death to... death (*LOL*), especially when he's working in that restaurant and putting bowls of milk on the floor for the cats. SO DAMN FUNNY. And Cutwell, because he shares my love for food. XD Ah, I could go on and on about how awesome this series is. Unfortunately I didn't order the next two books in time, so I have to read something else until they arrive.

I'm currently reading "Beste Reisegeschichten" by Ephraim Kishon, a hilarious satirical book about travelling. You can read a couple of stories, like for instance "A Gondola for Two" here (about the gondolas in Venice) or "Bullshit Artists" (about the bullfighting in Spain) and "The Champ Chump" (about trying to book a hotel room). If you have a couple of minutes to spare, you should read at least one of these. ;)