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Ich hab es nun auch endlich angehört und ich muss sagen, dass ich jetzt nur noch gaaanz viele solcher Hörbücher auf meinem Ipod haben möchte! Mit den zwei unterschiedlichen und wirklich sehr angenehmen Stimmen wurde die Geschichte noch etwas lebendiger und ich konnte in Bahn und zu Fuß immer mitfiebern. Das Ende war nur viel zu schnell und kurz und so freue ich mich auf "Alle sieben Wellen". Ein Stern Abzug dafür, dass es meiner Meinung nach manchmal etwas zu kitschig/geschwollen war, aber sowas braucht man auch mal ;)

David Thorne's online correspondence is a dangerously funny cocktail for the mind. Mixed with equal parts wit, sarcasm and insult, David serves up his email bombs with the innocent air of 12-year-old trying to cover up something naughty he has just done. I have never laughed out loud so many times while reading a book. In the comfort of my own home. At a cafe. In my hairdresser's chair. To my boyfriend's annoyance, I subjected him to many public readings from the book, taking breaks from my maniacal laughter only to check and make sure he was ROFLMFAO too. There were parts where I cringed in discomfort. He is mean. Very mean. Often righteously so, but still. Sometimes you really do feel for these people with no grasp of grammar, spelling, or common sense. They also seem to have a real problem understanding sarcasm, and usually don't get the joke until two or three emails in (which is usually when things are getting very nasty and you have to fight your dual impulses to laugh at or pity the fool). Perhaps the funniest narratives in the book are about his coworkers and friends. I have a feeling that these cursed souls, having known him for years, are used to his tomfoolery and have come to terms with it. I am honestly surprised he still retains his job after some of the things he has written (his most poisonously barbed diatribes are about his boss, Thomas). You should go read this book. It will make you laugh crazily. It will make you recoil in shame. It will amaze you that an otherwise average man in Adelaide, Austraila has the balls to go there and say that in an email, without apology, and then publish the correspondence publicly on the interwebs. So go. Read. Enjoy.

28.12.11 - decided today i was going to re-read all his books and what do I find in the charity shop - this very book so i reckon this will be the first I re-read.

No excerpt for this one. It doesn't deserve one. Clearly, I did not like this book enthusiastically as the rest of the crazed teenage girls (and oddly enough of the twilight moms) who frolicked over this book. I will grace you with a summary. Isabella (Bella) Swan moves in with her father in Forks, Washington, when her mother gets married. Forks is a gloomy place, raining most days, and very few sunny ones. What a perfect place for creatures of the night to spur up and grow, right? She becomes obsessed with Edward Cullen and what he truly is. This books is in the view point of Bella, and she is, with the most respect, a little whiny. As an average girl with nothing but an infatuation with a boy who also happens to be a vampire. To me, it's simply just another romance novel, not truly my cup of tea. The story built up trying to be some sort of epic romantic adventure but biffed to an anticlimactic end. I can't say everything is all bad about it, because I did end up finishing the book. When I read it, I thought it was... okay. Kind of an insult to deadly vampires that kill and drain people of their life force with humans actually having a fighting chance against them. That was my main problem. People, humans, have no chance against fighting the vampires in this book. Lame. We're supposed to be have a fighting chance. And they don't. (And vamps don't sparkle, just saying.) Overall, the book really needed some major literary improvement and some better story development. Cheesy romance doesn't make a good story. And popularity doesn't make it a good book.