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Nebuchi Kander

nebuchi@wyrms.de

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finished reading The Divine by Boaz Lavie

Boaz Lavie: The Divine (2015)

Mark's out of the military, these days, with his boring, safe civilian job doing explosives …

Mediocre writing from Lavie accompanied by some of the Hanuka brother's best work to date.

reviewed Akira, Vol. 1 by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira, #1)

Katsuhiro Otomo: Akira, Vol. 1 (Paperback, 2000, Dark Horse Comics)

Like an excellent action movie

while i did enjoy it, i was also quite glad that it was over. it's a beautifully drawn masterpiece that i found to be completely void of meaning. perhaps others will understand it in a deeper sense then i did, but for me it was a pretty hollow reading.

reviewed Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead (Hardcover, 2019, Rverhead Books)

With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga …

A clever parable for our times

The back of the book said it's a thriller but even thought the narrative revolves around a murder mystery, what was really captivating about this tale is the main character. There is nothing truly like her: A vegetarian old lady, a weirdo that never ceases to surprise the reader by exposing new, strange, sides to her. It with the force of this magnetic leading persona that Tokarczuk - like Yuki Urushibara, Monica Bryne and a few other writers of our times - succeeds in discussing one of the main issues of our time - namely, man's relation to nature and the harm he inflicts on it. It is done in a tone that is just the right amount of preachy and somber, but is also humorous and light at times. Brilliant piece.