Jens's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:21:39 -0800 60 Jens's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Im Westen nichts Neues / Der Feind]]> 1827699 Im Westen nicht Neues folgen. Dieser Roman schildert aufs Eindringlichste die schauerlichen Erlebnisse des Soldaten Paul Bäumer an der Westfront des Ersten Weltkrieges, wo sich Deutsche und Alliierte in einem grausamen Grabenkrieg gegenüberstanden. Aber eigentlich sind Schauplatz und Zeit bedeutungslos, beherrschend ist das sinnlose Töten und die zu reinem Menschenmaterial degradierten Soldaten, die schon lange den Glauben an den "gerechten Krieg" aufgegeben haben. Hier ist kein Platz für klischeehaft mutige Helden, Verlierer sind sie letztlich alle, die da im Schlamm der Schützengräben liegen.

So mancher Leser wird nach diesem Roman seine Meinung zu Krieg und Militärdienst geändert haben. Wer heute noch glaubt, Krieg könne eine heldenhafte Sache sein, der kennt das Buch wahrscheinlich nicht und sollte einmal einen Blick hinein werfen. Danach ist er entweder eines besseren belehrt oder scheinbar schon völlig abgestumpft. --Joachim Hohwieler]]> 294 Erich Maria Remarque 3462036475 Jens 5 4.39 Im Westen nichts Neues / Der Feind
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]]> Neuromancer (Sprawl #1) 22328 wrong people…]]> 271 William Gibson Jens 5 3.87 1984 Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
author: William Gibson
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]]> <![CDATA[Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen]]> 360470 137 Franz Kafka 3596200199 Jens 4 3.86 1912 Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen
author: Franz Kafka
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average rating: 3.86
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rating: 4
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]]> Wir haben Raketen geangelt 22118798 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Es gibt diesen Moment, in dem das eigene Universum zerbricht und weit und breit kein neues in Sicht ist: Eine junge Frau sitzt mittellos und nahezu dehydriert vor einer Tankstelle im Death Valley. Als plötzlich ein Indianer vor ihr steht und ihr das Leben retten will, glaubt sie zu phantasieren. Doch das Universum setzt sich nach seinen eigenen Regeln wieder zusammen. Schon bald teilen sich die beiden einen Doppelwhopper, gehen gemeinsam ins Casino und stranden schließlich in einem dieser schäbigen Motels, die es eigentlich nur im Film gibt. Karen Köhlers Erzählungen sind getragen von einer fröhlichen Melancholie und einer dramatischen Leichtigkeit. Ihre Figuren sind wahre Meisterinnen im Überleben.]]> 240 Karen Köhler 3446246029 Jens 4 4.00 2014 Wir haben Raketen geangelt
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]]> Of Mice and Men 890 “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”

They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.

While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.

A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.]]> 107 John Steinbeck 0142000671 Jens 5 3.89 1937 Of Mice and Men
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]]> Herr der Fliegen 1097216 282 William Golding 3596214629 Jens 5 3.54 1954 Herr der Fliegen
author: William Golding
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]]> <![CDATA[The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)]]> 18512 here.

The Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures as the quest continues. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and took part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg. Merry and Pippin, captured by Orcs, escaped into Fangorn Forest and there encountered the Ents. Gandalf returned, miraculously, and defeated the evil wizard, Saruman. Meanwhile, Sam and Frodo progressed towards Mordor to destroy the Ring, accompanied by SmEagol--Gollum, still obsessed by his 'precious'. After a battle with the giant spider, Shelob, Sam left his master for dead; but Frodo is still alive--in the hands of the Orcs. And all the time the armies of the Dark Lord are massing. J.R.R. Tolkien's great work of imaginative fiction has been labeled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely, epic and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail.]]> 404 J.R.R. Tolkien Jens 4 4.54 1955 The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
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]]> Frankenstein 18490 'Now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart ...'

Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.

Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story, as well as her 1831 introduction and Percy Bysshe Shelley's preface to the first edition. This revised edition includes as appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 and 1831 together with 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'.


9780141439471
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780141439471 ]]> 273 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Jens 5 3.77 1818 Frankenstein
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]]> <![CDATA[Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)]]> 9969571 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.

But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.]]> 480 Ernest Cline 030788743X Jens 3 4.21 2011 Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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]]> Never Let Me Go 6334
And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed – even comforted – by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham's nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood – and about their lives now.]]> 288 Kazuo Ishiguro 1400078776 Jens 5 3.85 2005 Never Let Me Go
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]]> The Time Machine 2493
So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H.G. Wells’s successful career and earned him his reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave explorer to face a future burdened with our greatest hopes...and our darkest fears. A pull of the Time Machine’s lever propels him to the age of a slowly dying Earth.  There he discovers two bizarre races—the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks—who not only symbolize the duality of human nature, but offer a terrifying portrait of the men of tomorrow as well.  Published in 1895, this masterpiece of invention captivated readers on the threshold of a new century. Thanks to Wells’s expert storytelling and provocative insight, The Time Machine will continue to enthrall readers for generations to come.

 ]]> 118 H.G. Wells Jens 5 3.90 1895 The Time Machine
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]]> <![CDATA[2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)]]> 70535 297 Arthur C. Clarke Jens 4 4.17 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
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]]> The Stand 149267
And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail - and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.]]> 1152 Stephen King Jens 4 4.35 1978 The Stand
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]]> Animal Farm 7613 Librarian's note: This an alternate cover for: 9780452284241

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire of a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.

When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.]]> 129 George Orwell Jens 4 3.90 1945 Animal Farm
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]]> The Martian Chronicles 76778
The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those few that survived found no welcome on Mars. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up.

But more rockets arrived from Earth, and more, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. People brought their old prejudices with them – and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame.

Contents:
Rocket Summer
Ylla
The Summer Night
The Earth Men
The Taxpayer
The Third Expedition
-And the Moon Be Still As Bright
The Settlers
The Green Morning
The Locusts
Night Meeting
The Shore
Interim
The Musicians
Way in the Middle of the Air
The Naming of Names
Usher II
The Old Ones
The Martian
The Luggage Store
The Off Season
The Watchers
The Silent Towns
The Long Years
There Will Come Soft Rains
The Million Year Picnic]]> 182 Ray Bradbury 0553278223 Jens 4 4.16 1950 The Martian Chronicles
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]]> Slaughterhouse-Five 4981 Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. Just as Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.”

Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing — the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit — that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it.

Fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut's portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.]]> 275 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Jens 3 4.11 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five
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average rating: 4.11
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)]]> 2767052
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.]]> 374 Suzanne Collins 0439023483 Jens 3 4.35 2008 The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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]]> Foundation (Foundation, #1) 29579 The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.]]> 244 Isaac Asimov 0553803719 Jens 4 4.18 1951 Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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average rating: 4.18
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]]> <![CDATA[The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)]]> 216363 I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war—and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.

This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.]]> 259 Philip K. Dick 0679740678 Jens 4 3.63 1962 The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
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]]> <![CDATA[Blade Runner, or Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?]]> 894352 BLADE RUNNER. Originally published in 1968, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? remains a masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future.]]> 216 Philip K. Dick 0345301293 Jens 4 3.88 1968 Blade Runner, or Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
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]]> Dune (Dune, #1) 234225 Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the "spice" melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...

When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul's family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.]]> 604 Frank Herbert 0340839937 Jens 5 4.21 1965 Dune (Dune, #1)
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> <![CDATA[The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)]]> 46654 Foundation begins a new chapter in the story of man's future. As the Old Empire crumbles into barbarism throughout the million worlds of the galaxy, Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists must create a new entity, the Foundation-dedicated to art, science, and technology-as the beginning of a new empire.

Foundation and Empire describes the mighty struggle for power amid the chaos of the stars in which man stands at the threshold of a new enlightened life which could easily be destroyed by the old forces of barbarism.

Second Foundation follows the Seldon Plan after the First Empire's defeat and describes its greatest threat-a dangerous mutant strain gone wild, which produces a mind capable of bending men's wills, directing their thoughts, reshaping their desires, and destroying the universe.

This adaptation for BBC Radio 4 was first broadcast in 1973 with a cast which included Lee Montague, Maurice Denham, John Justin, Angela Plesence, Wolfe Morris, Julian Glover and Prunella Scales.]]> 679 Isaac Asimov 0380508567 Jens 4 4.42 1953 The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)
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]]> Sternstunden der Menschheit 24077908 'Sternstunden der Menschheit' ist eine Sammlung von historischen Begebenheiten, die den Verlauf der Weltgeschichte maßgeblich verändert haben. Diese historischen Momente sind von Zweig in einer erzählerischen Form verfasst ...
Für RUTHeBooks Klassiker lassen wir alte und schon lange vergriffene Werke als eBooks wieder auferstehen. Wir möchten Ihnen diese Bücher nahe bringen, Sie in eine andere Welt entführen. Manchmal geht das einher mit einer für unsere Ohren seltsam klingenden Sprache oder einer anderen Sicht auf die Dinge, so wie das eben zum Zeitpunkt des Verfassens vor 100 oder mehr Jahren ""normal"" war. Mit einer gehörigen Portion Neugier und einem gewissen Entdeckergeist werden Sie beim Stöbern in unseren RUTHeBooks Klassikern wunderbare Kleinode entdecken. Tauchen Sie mit uns ein in die spannende Welt vergangener Zeiten!]]> 240 Stefan Zweig Jens 5 4.35 1927 Sternstunden der Menschheit
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]]> Schachnovelle 1016722 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9783596215225

»Das Unwahrscheinliche hatte sich ereignet, der Weltmeister, der Champion zahlloser Turniere hatte die Fahne gestrichen vor einem Unbekannten, einem Manne, der zwanzig oder fünfundzwanzig Jahre kein Schachbrett angerührt. Unser Freund, der Anonymus, der Ignotus, hatte den stärksten Schachspieler der Erde in offenem Kampfe besiegt!«

Das Erstaunen ist groß, als der unscheinbare Dr. B., österreichischer Emigrant auf einem Passagierdampfer von New York nach Buenos Aires, eher zufällig gegen den amtierenden Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic antritt und seinen mechanisch routinierten Gegner mit verspielter Leichtigkeit besiegt. Doch das Schachspiel fördert Erinnerungen an den Terror seiner Inhaftierung im Nationalsozialismus zutage und reißt eine seelische Wunde wieder auf, die erneut Dr. B.s geistige Gesundheit bedroht.]]> 112 Stefan Zweig Jens 5 4.22 1942 Schachnovelle
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]]> The Hotel New Hampshire 11768 520 John Irving 0552992097 Jens 4 3.93 1981 The Hotel New Hampshire
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]]> Fahrenheit 451 17470674
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.

The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity.

Bradbury’s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

--back cover]]> 227 Ray Bradbury 0007491565 Jens 5 4.01 1963 Fahrenheit 451
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]]> <![CDATA[On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft]]> 10569 (back cover)]]> 320 Stephen King 0743455967 Jens 5 4.33 2000 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway]]> 4625 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR

In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.]]> 650 Ernest Hemingway 0684843323 Jens 5 4.30 1987 The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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]]> The Sun Also Rises 3876 The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.]]> 189 Ernest Hemingway Jens 5 3.80 1926 The Sun Also Rises
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]]> The Old Man and the Sea 2165 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the most enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novel confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.]]> 96 Ernest Hemingway 0684830493 Jens 4 3.82 1952 The Old Man and the Sea
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]]> Brief an den Vater 998006
Text aus Reclams Universal-Bibliothek mit Seitenzählung der gedruckten Ausgabe.
Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende
Franz Kafka wurde am 3. Juli 1883 als Sohn eines jüdischen Kaufmanns in Prag geboren. Von 1901 bis 1906 studierte er zunächst kurze Zeit Germanistik, dann Jura. Nach der Promotion zum Dr. jur. absolvierte er eine einjährige "Rechtspraxis", trat dann 1907 in die "Assicurazioni Generali" ein und ging 1908 als Jurist zur "Arbeiter-Unfall-Versicherungs-Anstalt", wo er bis zu seiner Pensionierung im Jahre 1922 blieb. Ende 1917 erlitt Franz Kafka einen Blutsturz, es war der Beginn einer Tuberkulose, an der er einige Jahre später, am 3. Juni 1924, starb.]]> 128 Franz Kafka 315009674X Jens 5 4.07 1919 Brief an den Vater
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]]> Amerika 22911 Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures.

Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vast landscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the "golden land." Here is a startlingly modern, fantastic and visionary tale of America "as a place no one has yet seen, in a historical period that can't be identified," writes E. L. Doctorow in his new foreword. "Kafka made his novel from his own mind's mythic elements," Doctorow explains, "and the research data that caught his eye were bent like rays in a field of gravity."]]> 336 Franz Kafka 0805210644 Jens 4 3.77 1927 Amerika
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name: Jens
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1927
rating: 4
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]]> The World of Tiers 3280592 823 Philip José Farmer 0739416642 Jens 5 4.24 1983 The World of Tiers
author: Philip José Farmer
name: Jens
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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]]> Galápagos 9593 Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America’s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry—and all that is worth saving.]]> 324 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 0385333870 Jens 4 3.88 1985 Galápagos
author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
name: Jens
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1985
rating: 4
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]]> Brave New World 5129 Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist.]]> 288 Aldous Huxley 0060929871 Jens 4 3.99 1932 Brave New World
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name: Jens
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1932
rating: 4
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]]> 1984 5470 328 George Orwell Jens 5 4.15 1949 1984
author: George Orwell
name: Jens
average rating: 4.15
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rating: 5
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]]> Misery 10614

Librarian's Note: Alternate Cover Editions #1, #2, #3]]> 370 Stephen King 0450417395 Jens 5 4.22 1987 Misery
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name: Jens
average rating: 4.22
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]]> Drachenläufer 834698 386 Khaled Hosseini Jens 5 4.54 2003 Drachenläufer
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]]> Irre. Roman. 277963 330 Rainald Goetz 3518377248 Jens 5 3.87 1983 Irre. Roman.
author: Rainald Goetz
name: Jens
average rating: 3.87
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]]> The Brothers Lionheart 19312
The two main characters are two brothers; the older Jonatan and the younger Karl. The two brothers' surname was originally Lion, but they are generally known as Lionheart. Karl's nickname is Skorpan (Rusky) since Jonatan likes these typical Swedish toasts or crusts.

In Nangijala, a land in "the campfires and storytelling days", the brothers experience adventures. Together with a resistance group they lead the struggle against the evil Tengil, who rules with the aid of the fearsome fire-breathing dragon, Katla.]]> 231 Astrid Lindgren 1930900244 Jens 5 4.34 1973 The Brothers Lionheart
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name: Jens
average rating: 4.34
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]]> Momo 68811 304 Michael Ende Jens 5 4.36 1973 Momo
author: Michael Ende
name: Jens
average rating: 4.36
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]]> The Glass Bead Game 16634 The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature.

Set in the twenty-third century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game).]]> 558 Hermann Hesse 0312278497 Jens 5 4.11 1943 The Glass Bead Game
author: Hermann Hesse
name: Jens
average rating: 4.11
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]]> Siddhartha 52036 152 Hermann Hesse Jens 5 4.08 1922 Siddhartha
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name: Jens
average rating: 4.08
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]]> Leviathan 456 New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) opens Leviathan with the tearing of a bomb explosion and the death of one Benjamin Sachs. Ben’s one-time best friend, Peter Aaron, begins to retrospectively investigate the transformation that led Ben from his enviable stable life, to one of a recluse. Both were once intelligent, yet struggling novelists until Ben’s near-death experience falling from a fire escape triggers a tumble in which he becomes withdrawn and disturbed, living alone and building bombs in a far-off cabin. That is, until he mysteriously disappears, leaving behind only a manuscript titled Leviathan, pages rustling in the wind.]]> 275 Paul Auster 0140178139 Jens 5 3.99 1992 Leviathan
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name: Jens
average rating: 3.99
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]]> Moon Palace 447
Beginning during the summer that men first walked on the moon, and moving backward and forward in time to span three generations, Moon Palace is propelled by coincidence and memory, and illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit. Here is the most entertaining and moving novel yet from an author well known for his breathtaking imagination.]]> 320 Paul Auster 0140115854 Jens 5 4.00 1989 Moon Palace
author: Paul Auster
name: Jens
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1989
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)]]> 431 The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels – from the author of 4 3 2 1: A Novel

The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster’s work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature.” Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this uniquely stylized triology of detective novels begins with City of Glass, in which Quinn, a mystery writer, receives an ominous phone call in the middle of the night. He’s drawn into the streets of New York, onto an elusive case that’s more puzzling and more deeply-layered than anything he might have written himself. In Ghosts, Blue, a mentee of Brown, is hired by White to spy on Black from a window on Orange Street. Once Blue starts stalking Black, he finds his subject on a similar mission, as well. In The Locked Room, Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and nothing but a cache of novels, plays, and poems.

This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition includes an introduction from author and professor Luc Sante, as well as a pulp novel-inspired cover from Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist of Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers.]]> 308 Paul Auster 0143039830 Jens 5 3.92 1987 The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
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]]> Idoru (Bridge, #2) 22325 308 William Gibson 0425190455 Jens 5 3.84 1996 Idoru (Bridge, #2)
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]]> What I Loved 125502 370 Siri Hustvedt Jens 5 4.11 2002 What I Loved
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name: Jens
average rating: 4.11
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]]> <![CDATA[Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption]]> 39664
Această ediție specială, cu nuvela Închisoarea îngerilor extrasă din volumul Anotimpuri diferite, marchează aniversarea a treizeci de ani de la nominalizarea peliculei la premiul Oscar pentru cel mai bun film.

O poveste captivantă despre o condamnare nedreaptă și o evadare neobișnuită, Închisoarea îngerilor este o operă clasică semnată Stephen King. Plină de suspans, mister și emoție, populată cu personaje memorabile, cartea îl urmărește pe Andy Dufresne, un deținut cu o voință puternică, în căutarea răzbunării și a libertății. Publicată inițial în 1982, alături de Cadavrul, Un elev capabil și Metoda respirației, în volumul Anotimpuri diferite (Armada, 2021), nuvela a fost ecranizată în 1994. Cu Morgan Freeman și Tim Robbins în rolurile principale, producția a primit șapte nominalizări la premiile Oscar, inclusiv la categoria „Cel mai bun film“, devenind una dintre cele mai apreciate și iubite pelicule din istoria cinematografiei.

„Hipnotizantă.“
The New York Times Book Review

„La fel de captivantă precum romanele sale clasice, proza scurtă a lui King este absolut fascinantă.“
USA Today

„Captivantă, irezistibilă... o adevărată încântare.“
Los Angeles Herald Examiner

„Închisoarea îngerilor apare în premieră ca ediție specială de sine stătătoare, desprinsă din celebrul volum Anotimpuri diferite. O poveste extraordinară despre destin, supraviețuire și speranță, care merită descoperită și redescoperită. Stephen King reușește să ofere o lecție profundă despre libertate, demnitate și puterea neclintită a speranței.“
Marian Coman]]> 181 Stephen King 0896214400 Jens 5 4.49 1982 Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
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]]> The Peripheral (Jackpot #1) 20821159 William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times–bestselling Zero History.

Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do—a job Flynne didn't know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. Little buglike things turn up. He's supposed to get in their way, edge them back. That's all there is to it. He's offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. What she sees, though, isn't what Burton told her to expect. It might be a game, but it might also be murder.]]> 485 William Gibson 0399158448 Jens 0 to-read 3.90 2014 The Peripheral (Jackpot #1)
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> Die Neuromancer Trilogie 14773 Neuromancer erzählt die Geschichte des ehemaligen Cyber-Cowboys Case, der sich ausgebrannt auf den finsteren Straßen von Tokio herumschlägt. Der geheimnisvolle Armitage nimmt ihn in seine Dienste und stellt ihm die schöne und gefährliche Molly an die Seite. Seiner Rückkehr in den Cyberspace steht nichts mehr im Wege.

Eine gewisse atmosphärische und stilistische Verwandschaft zu Raymond Chandler kann Gibson nicht verleugnen, und John Shirleys Stadt geht los hat ihn erklärtermaßen sehr beindruckt. Doch die glitzernden Wohntürme von Neo-Tokio und das Eintauchen in virtuelle Welten sind ganz seiner Phantasie entsprungen. Autoren wie Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash) oder Jeff Noon (Pollen) wären ohne ihn nicht denkbar, von einer ganzen Horde drittklassiger Cyberpunk-Epigonen ganz zu schweigen.

John Womack schreibt in seinem Vorwort, er könne "die Wirkung dieser Veröffentlichung auf die Science Fiction-Leser wohl nur mit der Wirkung des plötzlich elektrisch verstärkt spielenden Bob Dylan auf seine Hörerschaft vergleichen". Die schön ausgestattete Neuausgabe der ganzen Neuromancer-Trilogie in einem Band in der von Peter Robert sorgfältig überarbeiteten Übersetzung bietet eine hervorragende Gelegenheit, dieses Meisterwerk zu entdecken -- oder wiederzulesen. Mit den beiden in diesem Buch mitenthaltenen Folgebänden Biochips und Mona Lisa Overdrive bewies Gibson, dass sein Debüt keineswegs eine Eintagsfliege war. --Felix Darwin

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]]> Fatherland 56842
The naked body of an old man floats in a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler’s 75th birthday. A terrible conspiracy is starting to unravel…

What if Hitler had won?

Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb.

As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth -- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.]]> 380 Robert Harris 0061006629 Jens 5 4.02 1992 Fatherland
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]]> Prey 83763
It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.

Every attempt to destroy it has failed.

And we are the prey.]]> 507 Michael Crichton 0061015725 Jens 3 3.79 2002 Prey
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average rating: 3.79
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rating: 3
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]]> Timeline 7669 489 Michael Crichton 0099244721 Jens 3 3.87 1999 Timeline
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name: Jens
average rating: 3.87
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]]> The Circle (The Circle, #1) 18302455 alternate cover for ISBN 9780385351393

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency.

As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO.

Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public.

What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.]]> 493 Dave Eggers Jens 5 3.41 2013 The Circle (The Circle, #1)
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name: Jens
average rating: 3.41
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