Timeblog.net

A man loses his leg in an accident. Suddenly, his life turns dark, he can’t see any more purpose. He falls in love with his caretaker. This sets the stage for Elizabeth Costello, who is suddenly there. Where she comes from and why, we’ll never know. She is accepted, she is there to boss the […]

As a child, Imre Kertesz himself spent a year in Auschwitz. In this book, he describes the life in concentration camps as seen from the eyes of a 14 year old boy who gets deported to Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is a fantastic book, the way the young boy copes with his life. He […]

Neil Peart ist the best drummer in the world.
Now that needed its own paragraph But he is, and he is the drummer of RUSH, a band that has not released a single album that was not really good, yet gently changed the way the play a number of times. I saw them live last […]

Simon is just a kitchen boy in a large castle. In most fantasy novels, he would grow into a radiant hero and be crowned in triumph. In this fantasy epic, the Dragonbone Throne saga by Tad Williams, he also will become a hero and a king, but he will also stay the boy that stumbles […]

I have some new CDs, Twelfth Gate, Shatter Messiah and the new Mastodon. The first two will be shortly covered in a combined review, but the Mastodon will get it’s own review some time next week or next weekend, as it is truly remarkable and noteworthy. Until then, look at their MySpace page and […]

I just finished reading “Ken Grimwood - Replay”, which I read in between Tad Williams and Neal Stepehnson, which I will have to write epic posts about some later time when I have finished their multi-book cycles…
Replay is a rather quick read, and as far as I know the first book to build on the […]