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Challenge: 50 Books discussion
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Cloudedleopard's 50/2012 - 29 letters, 21 different things
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1. Denmark: Jussi Adler-Olsen: Erbarmen (Mercy)Hard to say, even though I loooove Sweden and Swedish literature, I have to admit that Adler-Olsen did a great job and really fits into the Scandinavian suspense
2. W: Bernd Leix: Waldstadtit's only regionally interesting, not for the mass-market
3. Z: Wolfgang Kemmer et al.: Zeter und Mordio!
4. Isreal: Zvi Jagendorf: Die fabelhaften Strudelbakers (Wolfy and the Strudelbakers)
5. G: Charles Dickens: Great Expectationsclassic! Though, some more sticking to the central theme wouldn't have been too bad. I liked the original ending as first proposed by Dickens, not the Hollywood-ish revision.
6. F: Audrey Niffenegger: Die Frau des Zeitreisenden (The Time Traveler's Wife)sweet but not cheesy, that's how even I can stand the category romance
7. England: Piers Paul Read: Alive. The Story of the Andes Survivorsunagitated, to the point in every aspect, and simply, sadly, truly the story of the survivors
8. T: Kim Edwards: Die Tochter des Fotografen (The Memory Keeper's Daughter)It was irritating, depressing and touching. It shows quite plainly how the dream of a perfect family might fail because of one lie.
9. M: William Shakespeare: Macbetha classic, still I like other plays by Shakespeare much more
10. V: John William Polidori: The VampyreFor me it was a must-read... until I read it. It's boring and absolutely not what I expected of this story
11. France: Anna Gavalda: Zusammen ist man weniger allein (Hunting and Gathering)I really liked it because of the strange characters. I didn't like the end though... It's too cheesy, too foreseeable.
12. USA: Henry Miller: Das Lächeln am Fuße der Leiter (The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder)It's funny and sad at the same time. I read the edition illustrated by Joan Miró and the pictures just fitted perfectly into the story.
13. L: Sabine Anders: Liebesbriefe großer Frauen
14. C: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
15. Spain: Félix J. Palma: Die Landkarte der Zeit (El mapa del tiempo)Didn't like it. Too many references, but with a bad plot. Too many obviously stolen topics...
16. E: Carolyn Jessop: EscapeHard to read what that woman had been through. Sometimes a bit too niggling about things she could have changed but didn't in time. But overall shocking.
17. Mexico: Laura Esquivel: Bittersüße Schokolade (Como agua para chocolate)
18. John Updike: Garp und wie er die Welt sah (The World according to Garp)
19. Germany/England: Claudia Hunt: What's for tea?
20. H. Stefan Bonner: Heilige Scheiße
21. Switzerland: Anne Gold: Tod auf der Fähre
22. S: Anne Gold: Spiel mit dem Tod
23. Italy: Umberto Eco: Das Foucaultsche Pendel (Il pendolo di Foucault)
24. England: John Niven: Kill your friends
25. R: Anne Gold: Requiem für einen Rockstar
26. Japan: Haruki Murakami: Kafka am Strand (Kafka on the Shore)
27. V: Chris Ewan: Vendetta in Las Vegas (The Good Thief's Guide to Vegas)
28. Turkey: Orhan Pamuk: Istanbul
29. Tommy Jaud: Vollidiot
30. Rolf Dobelli: Die Kunst des klaren Denkens
31. Romania: Domnica Radulescu: Zug nach Triest (Train to Trieste
32. Norway: Klaus Hagerup & Nils Nordberg: Letzter Akt
33. A: Anne Gold: Das Auge des Sehers
34. Nick Hornby: 31 Songs
35. B: Andreas Eschbach: Eine Billion Dollar
36. U: Ivana Jeissing: Unsichtbar (Invisible)
37. J: Luca di Fulvio: Der Junge, der Träume schenkte
38. Peru: Mario Vargas Llosa: Das böse Mädchen (The bad girl)
39. L: Sabine Anders: Liebesbriefe großer Männer
40. Netherlands: Cees Noteboom: Eine Karte so groß wie der Kontinent - Reisen in Europa
41. Czech Republic: Milan Kundera: Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins (The unbearable lightness of being)
42. P: Marcel Proust: Proust für Boshafte
43. O: William Boyd: Ordinary Thunderstorms
44. D: Claudia Piñeiro: Die Donnerstagswitwen (Thursday Night Widows)
45. Y: Charles McCormac: You'll die in Singapore
46. N: Paul M Stuart: Nihonsense
47. Ö: Justus Richter: Öffentliche Mülleimer dürfen nicht sexuell belästigt werden
48. Q: Sue Grafton: Q is for Quarry
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3 - Piers Paul Read: Alive. The Story of the Andes Survivors England
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I finished 50 books counting in 50 Shades of Grey which I read but don't want to put in my list
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