Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Lexicon |
| author | Max Barry |
| ISBN-10 | 1-444-76468-3 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-444-76468-0 |
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| date | 2015-Dec-23 |
Wil has been kidnapped at an airport by two guys. Together with one of the kidnappers, he is trying to survive. Who is trying to kill them and why, he does not really know or comprehend. Tom, his kidnapper and/or saviour is not really making much sense. Or maybe he is making sense, but it just is quite unbelievable...
The story is about an association of especially gifted people. People, who are able to influence others with words, who are able to make other people do their bidding by just making the propper sounds. The idea behind the story is quite fascinating and while it might not really be possible to command people by just using certain strange combinations of letters, using the right words certainly makes people more likely to do or not do something. Think about using "please", a trailing "or else..." or some phrase like "I bet you don't dare doing this." So, how far fetched is the idea really?
The story is told on two timelines. Most of the time it's fairly easy to see in which of the timelines a chapter is based, but there are occasions (few only) where it's not quite so obvious until later and I found that to be a bit disturbing. There certainly were a few words I didn't quite understand and when I looked some of them up, I had the impression that as a non-native English speaker, I'm probably not able to propperly appreciate the choice of words; I had no problem at all understanding the story, but I might have missed some fine details.
