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Need a bedroom like this.

Yes, please 📚

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Kafka is such a fantastic writer

I know it is my father's first time on this Earth, too. And I know He had it worse when he was little.

But I was little too.

— Franz Kafka, from letters to his father

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“We shall meet in the place where there is no more darkness.”

— George Orwell

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"Erledigt in Paris und London" / "Down and Out in Paris and London" by George Orwell

A realistic book about poverty. Showing his own life in Paris and London, Orwell tells about working everyday 15 hours just to earn enough to survive. And, when no work is available, about hunger, sleeping on floors and selling the last clothes for some pennies. There is no hiding, just realism.

10/10

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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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"Lushins Verteidigung" / "The Defense" by Vladimir Nabokov

Even though the novel has an interesting theme - the rise and fall of a young chess player - it is written without suspense. There awaits no grand final. The language has it's strengths: chess and it's ways are well used to describe the psyche of Lushin, the main character. But I think Nabokov is not the kind of storyteller I enjoy.

05/10

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A dream of a bookstore

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a Library.” -Jorge Luis Borges ♡

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Entschuldigen Sie, was ist denn ihr lieblingsbuch?

Homo faber vom guten Max Frisch!

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A chess novel.