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About Me

Location

Stuttgart, Germany

Currently Reading

Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth by James M. Tabor

The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy

Stealing Faces by Michael Prescott

Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk

The Godfather. Mario Puzo by Mario Puzo

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You by Eli Pariser

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

Wir Ertrunkenen: Roman by Carsten Jensen

Weitlings Sommerfrische: Roman by Sten Nadolny

AUFBRECHEN!: Warum wir eine Exzellenzgesellschaft werden müssen by Gunter Dueck

Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt

Die Bücherdiebin: Roman by Markus Zusak

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D. T. Max

Das dreizehnte Kapitel by Martin Walser

Der Zauberberg, 15 Audio-CDs by Thomas Mann

Favorite Authors

John Banville, Samuel Beckett, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Harold Brodkey, Albert Camus, Elias Canetti, Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Bruce Chatwin, Joseph Conrad, E. E. Cummings, Don DeLillo, Charles Dickens, Philip K. Dick, E. L. Doctorow, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Greg Egan, Jeffrey Eugenides, Richard Feynman, Gustave Flaubert, Ford Madox Ford, Richard Ford, William Gaddis, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, A. L. Kennedy, Javier Marías, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami, Fernando Pessoa, Richard Powers, Annie Proulx, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, Jean-Paul Sartre, William Shakespeare, Baruch Spinoza, Dylan Thomas, J. R. R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, John Updike, David Foster Wallace, Oscar Wilde, Tobias Wolff, Richard Yates, Carl Zimmer

Favorite Lists

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Top Five Books of 2013

Local Favorites

Bookstores: Buchhandlung Wittwer Stuttgart, Wohlthat'sche Buchhandlung - Mainz

Other: Literaturhaus Stuttgart

Member Connections

Friends

DavidFosterWallace, downstreamer

Interesting Library

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Contacts

Terrybatslast