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Katharina: Erzählungen by Günter Eich

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fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75


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The World of Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

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funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Lighthearted and laughing-out-loud funny, really the book to cheer you up. 
The stories can be a bit schematic and repetitive, I recommend not reading more than one or two at a time. 

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Am Gletscher by Halldór Laxness

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adventurous challenging funny mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75


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Gedichte by Gottfried Benn

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dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0


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Das Eis-Schloss by Tarjei Vesaas

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emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0


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Dunkles Wasser by Charlotte Link

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sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0


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Les Fiancés de L'Hiver by Christelle Dabos

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0


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Murtagh - Eine dunkle Bedrohung by Christopher Paolini

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adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5


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No Past, No Present, No Future by Yulisa Amadu Pat Maddy

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

This is not a happy book, but (because) it is a real book. All the characters are flawed, they make mistakes and hurt each other and themselves. But in reading the "Brothers Three"'s story, you learn a lot, about people in general and about the complicated relations between Africa and Europe.
I can find little redeeming qualities in Ade, he is one of the worst characters I encountered (and I mean this as a compliment to the author). 
With Santigie I identified the most, the studious peacekeeper. In the end he, too, becomes horrendous
turning his frustration into violence against white women, when he is powerless to punish white men otherwise.
There is something said about the misogyny in the book in general and I'm having a hard time discerning what is just a depiction and what is actually the author's. 
Joe, the nicest of the three with the toughest fate to bear, is the only one of them who ends up in a loving and stable romantic relationship -
with a man. Which was very progressive for the time, but I can't help but feel like the men in this book just never see women as human enough to be actual companions. Also, Joe is clearly bisexual, and while I see that in the book itself, where there is so much prejudice about homosexual relations he is labelled as such, why do contemporary discussions do the same?

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