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 | I Served the King of England |
| author | Bohumil Hrabal |
| ISBN-10 | 0-679-72786-8 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-679-72786-6 |
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| date | 2011-Aug-02 |
The story of Mr. Ditie, a young Czech who starts out as a simple busboy at the Golden Prague Hotel and has a dream of becoming rich and a hotel owner himself one day. Ditie loves his work and has a talent for it and he uses his chances to advance. But World War II has a huge influence on his life. Becoming rich and a hotel owner, is that really what life is all about?
At first the book, which is sprinkled with rather pornographic scenes, which surprised me for a book originally written in the early 19-hundreds, appears to lead to a good story with a climax, but somewhere in the middle this turns around completely. There is no more clear aim, or much aim at all and it becomes more of a reflective text. The expection building up in the reader in the first part is never fulfilled. And people who like thought provoking literature whould probably not guess the second part was to their liking when starting to read the first part.
