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Those endless afternoons where you struggled to remember the third person singular present indicative of volo (vult) may be a long time ago. But, if you have the vaguest memory of the ablative absolute, the locative and the gerund, you mastery of Latin will spring back to life with Amo, amas, amat...and all that. In his trip through the world's most influential language, Harry Mount uncorks its magic, drawing on Latin lovers from Kingsley Amis to John Cleese, from Evelyn Waugh to Donna Tart. Read this book and you will know Latin. Know Latin and - mirabile dictu - you will know Wilfred Owen's misery, Catullus's aching heart and the comedy of a thousand bachelor schoolmasters. [via]
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Eight stories in which we encounter 'the hair-raising adventures and idiotic situations of the Pleydell family' (Punch). Along with John Buchan and 'Sapper', Yates dominated the adventure book market of the inter-war years, and Berry is regarded as one of British comic writing's finest creations, including Tom Sharpe amongst his fans. Read these and weep (with laughter). [via]
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"One of the funniest books about any game". - Sunday Express
This best-selling classic, now updated for the Coarse Rugby player of the 1990s, includes all of the truly fine points of the game. [via]
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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. [via]
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This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance its tired ghost. The family -- which refuses to believe in him -- is in Wilde's way a commentary on the British nobility of the day -- and on the Americans, too. The tale, like many of Wilde's, is rich with allusion, but ends as sentimental romance. . . . [via]
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El señor Wonka ha cedido a Charlie su gigantesca y fabulosa fábrica de chocolate. Acompañado por su familia, Charlie se monta en un gran ascensor de cristal que sube y sube hasta entrar en órbita. Al llegar al espacio, se encuentran con personajes monstruosos y viven maravillosas aventuras. [via]
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This single volume brings together "The Henry Root Letters" and "The Further Letters of Henry Root". It consists of real correspondence between an apparently wealthy and eccentric retired fish-merchant, and many public figures to whom he wrote, requesting support for bizarre right-wing proposals. [via]
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It's All Geek to Me!
Release your inner nerd with Dork Covenant, the first collection of the hilarious, critically acclaimed fan-favorite Dork Tower comic book! From dragon-filled dungeons to star treks, from comic book conventions to internet naughtiness, Dork Tower is the comic that put the "cult" back into sub-culture! So join Matt, Igor, Ken, Gilly the Perky Goth and Carson the Muskrat in their uproariously dorky adventures! [via]
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Book in Spanish [via]
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For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who's forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series catapults into action when the young wizard "accidentally" causes the Dursleys' dreadful visitor Aunt Marge to inflate like a monstrous balloon and drift up to the ceiling. Fearing punishment from Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon (and from officials at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who strictly forbid students to cast spells in the nonmagic world of Muggles), Harry lunges out into the darkness with his heavy trunk and his owl Hedwig.
As it turns out, Harry isn't punished at all for his errant wizardry. Instead he is mysteriously rescued from his Muggle neighborhood and whisked off in a triple-decker, violently purple bus to spend the remaining weeks of summer in a friendly inn called the Leaky Cauldron. What Harry has to face as he begins his third year at Hogwarts explains why the officials let him off easily. It seems that Sirius Black--an escaped convict from the prison of Azkaban--is on the loose. Not only that, but he's after Harry Potter. But why? And why do the Dementors, the guards hired to protect him, chill Harry's very heart when others are unaffected? Once again, Rowling has created a mystery that will have children and adults cheering, not to mention standing in line for her next book. Fortunately, there are four more in the works. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths. [via]
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First produced in 1673 and Moliere's final play, The Hypochondriac is a scathingly funny lampoon on both hypochondria and the 'quack' medical profession. Argan is a perfectly healthy, wealthy gentleman, convinced that he is seriously ill. So obsessed is he with medicinal tinkerings and tonics that he is blind to the goings on in his own household. However, his most efficacious cure will not appear in a bottle or a bedpan, but in his sharp-tongued servant, who has a cunning plan to reveal the truth and open her master's eyes. Adapted by Roger McGough for the stage in 2009. [via]
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When magic touches an old peachtree, strange things start happening. A giant peach grows as large as a house, and when James crawls inside, the adventure begins. Lane Smith has created wonderful new illustrations based on the characters in the new full-length movie from Disney. [via]
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It's the end of high school, and everyone is looking toward the future--especially Soichiro Arima. He's got it going on: good grades, great body, and all the popularity! However, there is much more to Soichiro than meets the eye. This model--student is plagued by inner demons, which force him to look at Yukino in a whole new light. Will he end his relationship with his one true love? [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lo Es: Una Memoria'
The Spanish edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller, TIS is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes, and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a straying priest, then by the Democratic party, then by the United States Army, then by New York University-- which admitted him on a trial basis, though he had no high school diploma-- Frank had the same vulnerable but invincible spirit at nineteen that he had at eight, and still has today. And TIS is a tale of survival as vivid, harrowing, and often hilarious as ANGELA'S ASHES. Yet again, it is through the power of storytelling that Frank finds a life for himself. TIS blesses readers with another chapter of McCourt's story, but as it closes, they will want still more. [via]
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Erlend Loe's cult novel Naïve. Super, about a 25-year old who is unable to find any meaning in his life, was a huge success in his native Norway, and a bestseller throughout Europe--and it isn't difficult to see why.
The narrator has given up on doing his Masters and gone to stay at his brother's house. His brother is away on business and needs his mail redirecting via fax. Aside from that there is nothing to do. So he makes lists, worries about time, befriends a small boy who lives next door, worries about his good friend and his bad friend and tries to understand what being, and being here and now, means. In mostly very short, sometimes elliptical, wry but never ironic chapters Loe works at his character's fear of the meaningless and works meaning into the slightest of material. There is a lovely moment toward the end of the novel when the narrator's brother picks up and plays with the child's toy he has previously berated the narrator for holding on to. Sometimes, we feel, imputing meaning to the simpler things may well be the only route to understanding the more complex ones.
The novel is reminiscent of "60s" writer Richard Brautigan at his best, has the knowing artlessness of Douglas Coupland and shares a love of lists with Nick Hornby but Loe has bagfuls of his own unique charm. This is a beautifully unaffected, funny book, refreshingly free of cynicism, which manages to raise serious existential questions while retaining throughout the lightest of touches and the quirkiest of observations.--Mark Thwaite [via]
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Bill Maher is on the forefront of the new wave of comedians who have begun to influence and shape political debate through their comedy. He is best known not just for being funny, but for advocating truth over sensitivity and taking on the political establishment. Maher first came to national attention as the host of the hit ABC-TV program Politically Incorrect, where he offered a combustible mixture of irreverence and acerbic humor that helped him to garner a loyal following, as well as a reputation for being a controversial bad boy.
Bill Maher's popular new HBO television show, Real Time, has put Maher more front and center than ever before. Particularly one regular segment on the show, entitled "New Rules," has been a hit with his ever-growing legion of fans. It is the part of the show during which Maher takes serious aim, bringing all of his intelligence, incisiveness, wit, and his signature exasperation to bear on topics ranging from cell phones ("I don't need my cell phone to take pictures or access the Internet. I just need it to make a phone call. From everywhere! Not just the places it likes!") to fast food ("No McDonald's in hospitals. I'm not kidding!) to the conservative agenda ("Stop claiming it's an agenda. It's not an agenda. It's a random collection of laws that your corporate donors paid you to pass.")
His new book, the first since his bestselling When You Ride Alone You Ride with bin Laden, brings these brilliantly conceived riffs and rants to the written page. Appropriately titled New Rules, the book will collect some of the best of the rules derived from previously written material and will also contain substantial new material, including some longer form "editorials"--of course with a twist and bite that only Bill Maher can deliver.
In New Rules: Polite Musings of a Timid Observer, Bill Maher skewers celebrity, pop culture, and politics in his classic acerbic style. With a new season of Real Time with Bill Maher and an upcoming HBO Special (his sixth), Bill Maher: I'm Swiss, on deck, Maher also found the time to host Amazon.com's 10th Anniversary Concert at Seattle's Benaroya Hall. Amazon.com caught up with Maher upon his return to Los Angeles to talk about the book, the comic's night-table reading habits, the Internet, and what's wrong with the media.
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Once More* With Footnotes is a book by Terry Pratchett, published by NESFA Press in 2004 when he was the Guest of Honor for Noreascon Four, the 62nd World Science Fiction Convention. It contains a mixture of short stories, articles, introductions to other books, and speeches, including his first published short story, "The Hades Business". The initial run is a limited edition hardback, consisting of 2,500 copies. The title is a reference to the phrase "once more, with feeling" and to Pratchett's frequent use of footnotes in his Discworld series, along with the brief author commentary at the start of each piece; the book itself actually contains very few footnotes. One of NESFA's working titles for the book was "Oh Bugger, by Wossname". [via]
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YOU ARE IN ERROR. NO ONE IS SCREAMING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. The Computer is happy. The Computer is crazy. The Computer will help you become happy. This will drive you crazy. Being a citizen of Alpha Complex is fun. The Computer says so, and The Computer is your friend. Many traitors threaten Alpha Complex. Many happy citizens live in Alpha Complex. Most happy citizens are crazy. Which are more dangerous traitors or happy citizens? Rooting out traitors will make you happy. The Computer tells you so. If you are not happy, The Computer will use you as reactor shielding. Being a Troubleshooter is fun. The Computer tells you so. Do you doubt The Computer, citizen? Troubleshooters get shot at, stabbed, mangled, incinerated, poisoned, stapled, blown to bits and accidentally executed. This is so much fun many Troubleshooters go crazy. You work with many Troubleshooters. They all carry lasers. Aren t you glad you have a laser too? Won t this be fun? Stay alert! Trust no one! Keep your laser handy! When PARANOIA was first published almost 20 years ago, amid fears of nuclear war and job loss to those newfangled desktop PCs, it was instantly popular for its vision of a high-tech, post-holocaust, totalitarian future ruled by a deranged Computer. It won attention too for turning the basic paradigm of RPGs players cooperate on its head, making all players secret traitors who can only advance by uncovering treason. Happily, today those fears are obsolete. Instead, we have spam, viruses, trojans, malware, distributed denial of service attacks, the RIAA, cyberwarfare, identify theft, terrorists, the Patriot Act, terrifying new diseases, the threat of environmental catastrophe, the grey goo scenario, and weapons of mass destruction. [via]
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Verily, the heroes of Penny Arcade return in the second volume of valiant chivalric deeds of brave heroism, heroic gallantry and gallant bravery! Forsooth! Sir Gabe and Sir Tycho return in Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings! Collecting all the Penny Arcade strips posted online from 2001 and 2002, Volume 2 includes creator commentary, a sketchbook section and an introduction from somebody sort of famous! If you haven't heard of Penny Arcade, the most poplular online comic ever, it might not be too late to salvage whatever reputation you have and get in on the fun all the cool people have been having. We won't tell anyone. [via]
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Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly", she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!Soon, however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr Willoughby, a new neighbour. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behaviour begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. misfortunes and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber, Amazon.com [via]
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From the depths of the outback comes a wildly anarchic, in-your-face heroine for a new age of madness...Tank Girl! Join everybody's favourite beer-swilling, chain-smoking, kangaroo-worrying lunatic as she blasts her way through a dazzling array of bizarre adventures, including bounty hunting, delivering colostomy bags to the Australian president, appearing on Dame Edna, a short-lived career in the bloody and vicious world of kangaroo boxing...and many more outrageous and mind-warping thrills! [via]
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"TV Go Home" is Britain's most infamous comedy magazine - a cult spoof of both television and TV listings magazines such as the "Radio Times". Its humour attracts over 150,000 readers a month - an audience that is constantly growing. This book is that website - multiplied by eight and presented in a handy, portable paper-and-inkward edition. Based on Britain's most popular comedy website, "TV Go Home" is a spoof listings magazine that does for the Radio Times what The Onion did for newspapers. Savage, satirical, surreal, and frequently incredibly stupid, this book should make you laugh out loud. [via]
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This work covers such subjects as insomnia, phobias, manias, governments and animals. It includes two-letter and vowelless words, archaic words and words on sex and marriage. The final chapters look at wordplay, including chronograms, lipograms, pangrams and palindromes. [via]
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Harry Potter no es un chico común, extraña el colegio en el verano. Pero su colegio es un colegio de magia y Harry es un mago. Este es el tercer episodio de la serie de novelas que ha causado un impacto mundial. [via]
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Te presento a Kate Reddy, brillante gestora de fondos y madre de dos hijos. Sabe trabajar con nueve divisas diferentes en cinco husos horarios a la vez. Se levanta y se ducha, viste a los niños y les prepara el desayuno, y todo en media hora. Siempre tiene una apretada agenda de reuniones y viajes pero no deja de pensar en la lista para el súper, la fiesta de cumpleaños de los niños, el disfraz para el colegio... Y encima pretende tener una vida propia: comer con amigas, ir de tiendas, hablar con su marido y... ¡¡¡sexo!!! Para colmo de males, Kate necesita hacerlo todo muy bien; no, más que bien. Ha de ser la mejor, y la mejor en todo. Ah, y tampoco quiero olvidarme de aquella niñera mandona e impertinente que tiene, ni del jefe obsesionado con sus tetas, los suegros criticones, carcas... En fin, una locura total. De verdad, no sé cómo se lo monta. Léetelo. Te enganchará. (¿No eres tú un poco como Kate?). [via]
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Les titres de ce lot sont : Harry Potter et le prisonnier d'Azkaban Harry Potter et la chambre des Secrets Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers Harry Potter et la Coupe De Feu [via]
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Ses parents ayant été (eh oui) dévorés par un rhinocéros, le pauvre petit James se retrouve chez ses tantes, deux horribles mégères qui lui font mener une vie infernale. Mais un curieux personnage fait un jour un étrange cadeau à James : un sac rempli de petites choses vertes magiques. James fait tomber le sac... et c'est le début d'un grand voyage...
L'étonnante épopée du courageux petit James fourmille de détails savoureux, d'anecdotes merveilleuses. On a peur avec James, on se réjouit avec lui, et on s'amuse beaucoup en suivant les péripéties de ce beau voyage dans l'imaginaire. Rien n'y manque : suspense, rebondissements, personnages fabuleux (des insectes géants deviennent les amis de James) et, bien sûr, gloire du héros à la fin.
Ce livre, à faire figurer en bonne place au rayon des grands classiques de la littérature jeunesse, est devenu au cinéma un splendide film d'animation réalisé par Henry Selick, sous le titre de James et la pêche géante. --Pascale Wester [via]
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Die deutsche Sprache liegt uns offensichtlich fast allen am Herzen, wie man an der ebenso endlosen wie hitzigen Debatte über die Rechtschreibreform erkennen kann. Einerseits. Andererseits ist leider ein oft unbedachter und liebloser Umgang mit ihr zu beklagen. Die Sprache kann sich ja nicht wehren, nicht einmal gegen schlimmste Vergewaltigungen -- man denke nur an den brutalstmöglichen Sprachschrott unserer Politiker. So etwas wie eine Sprachpolizei bräuchte man, die freundlich aber bestimmt auf Vergehen hinweist und Bußgelder verhängt. Freundliche Hinweise bekommt man auch im Zwiebelfisch, der Sprachkolumne, die Bastian Sick seit über einem Jahr wöchentlich für Spiegel-Online schreibt. Kaum zu glauben, dass man über Phänomene wie Fugen-s, unregelmäßige Verben oder sich epidemisch ausbreitende Suffixe so unterhaltsame Texte schreiben kann. Bastian Sick ist Entertainer und Oberlehrer in einer Person, wobei er letzteren vor allem in tabellarischen Zusammenfassungen am Ende seiner Kolumnen auslebt. Dabei ist das doch wohl der Idealfall eines Sachbuchs: wo man lachen und schmunzeln und gleichzeitig jede Menge lernen kann. Zum Beispiel, wo das Eszett seinen Namen herhat und warum die Deutschen als einzige diesen wunderlichen Buchstaben benutzen. Oder wie man eingebürgerte Fremdwörter konjugiert -- warum es zwar ich recycle heißt, aber nicht du recyclest. Und auf die verzwickte Frage, ob gedownloadet oder downgeloadet richtig ist -- wer hätte sich das noch nie überlegt --, weiß Sick die verblüffend einfache Antwort: Weder noch, es heißt heruntergeladen. Und wieso der Zwiebelfisch ausgerechnet Zwiebelfisch heißt, erfährt man naturgemäß auch. Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod bietet 47-mal charmante Aha- und Haha-Erlebnisse und ist jedem Sprach-User heißestens zu empfehlen. --Christian Stahl [via]
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Das Foto auf der Rückseite zeigt einen wie ein Honigkuchenpferd grinsenden Autor. Kein Wunder. Wurden von Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod doch schon eine Million Exemplare verkauft. Bastian Sick präsentiert nun eine zweite Auswahl seiner so erfolgreichen Zwiebelfisch-Kolumnen, die der ersten in nichts nachsteht. Und man gönnt ihm diese ostentative Fröhlichkeit auch deshalb, weil der Leser bei der Lektüre auch selbst reichlich Gelegenheit zum Schmunzeln und Lachen bekommt. Zum Beispiel über die hier versammelten "Katastrophen mit Apostrophen" oder dialektale Besonderheiten wie etwa die rheinische Verlaufsform: "Dat Chantal ist sich die Haare am Föhnen". Oder die zunehmende Begeisterung auf öffentlichen Schildern für Anführungszeichen. Da kann der Schuss leicht nach hinten losgehen, wenn etwa eine Fluglinie verlautbart: Wir wünschen Ihnen einen "guten Flug". Und natürlich freut man sich auch, wenn Oberlehrer Sick, solchen Sprachverhunzern auf die Füße tritt. Etwa der ärgerlich falsche Gebrauch der Vorsilbe Ex: Wie oft hat man nicht von in der Ex-DDR geborenen Menschen lesen müssen.
Folge 2 der Kolumnensammlung bietet sogar noch mehr Abwechslung: Eingestreut sind diesmal Fragen von Lesern, die Sick auf kurzweilige Art beantwortet. Zum Beispiel ob neben der Torschlusspanik auch die immer wieder gehörte "Torschusspanik" sprichwörtlich ist. Wie man "doof" steigert oder ob der Ausdruck "etwas türken" mit den Türken zu tun hat und deshalb als diskriminierend abzulehnen sei. Mit der Sprachkultur in E-Mails beschäftigt sich sogar ein längerer Text, und am Ende des Buches wartet ein kleiner Deutschtest: "60 Fragen aus dem Fundus der Irrungen und Verwirrungen unseres Sprachalltags". Für wahre Zwiebelfisch-Fans fast ein Kinderspiel.
Ich habe in Bastian Sicks unterhaltsamer Deutschklasse auch wieder einiges gelernt. Zum Beispiel, dass das vielbenutzte "ausgepowert" eigentlich aus dem Französischen (von "pauvre") stammt. Und endlich hat mir jemand erklärt, was die Abkürzung "lol" bedeutet, die zu viele E-Mails verunziert. "Laugh out loud" -- andererseits eine gute Empfehlung an alle Leser dieses Buches. --Christian Stahl [via]
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Dass es für ein Buch einen Erstverkaufstag gibt, ist nichts Neues, doch dass sogar eine Erstverkaufsstunde festgelegt wird, das hat es noch nicht gegeben. Als in England der dritte Band der beliebten Harry-Potter-Reihe erschien, wurde, um ein kollektives Schwänzen der Schüler zu vermeiden, bestimmt, dieses Buch nicht vor 16.30 Uhr zu veräußern. Trotzdem war nach wenigen Stunden die erste Auflage restlos ausverkauft.
Joanne Rowling knüpft auch in Deutschland mit ihrem neuen Band an ihren bisherigen Erfolg an. Harry ist mittlerweile im dritten Jahr auf der Zauberschule. Er ist so froh wie nie, als die Schule endlich wieder beginnt, denn wieder musste er seine Ferien bei den schrecklichen Dursleys verbringen. Und dann kommt auch noch die fürchterliche Tante Magda zu Besuch. Einfach grässlich. Aus Versehen lässt er sie mit einem kleinen Schwebezauber an die Decke abheben. Eigentlich bricht er damit eine Regel der Zauberer. Aber Harry droht kein Schulverweis, denn das Zauberministerium schützt ihn, da man vermutet, der gefürchtete Verbrecher Sirius Black -- aus dem gut bewachten Gefängnis Askaban entkommen -- ist hinter Harry her.
Harry rätselt, was Black mit ihm zu schaffen hat. Bei einem nächtlichen Gespräch erfährt er, dass dieser am Tod seiner Eltern beteiligt war.
Joanne Rowling lässt ihre Fantasie Purzelbäume schlagen und als erwachsener Leser kann man sich nur wünschen, immer so jung zu bleiben, dass einem dieses Buch Freude bereitet. --Manuela Haselberger
Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban gibt es als Normalausgabe und als Ausgabe für Erwachsene. Die beiden Ausgaben unterscheiden sich in der Umschlaggestaltung, sind aber textlich identisch. [via]
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Zähne zeigen, monumental im Ausmaß und intim im Ansatz, ist ein ehrgeiziger Roman. Seine Themen drehen sich um Herkunft, Religion, Geschlechterbeziehungen, Hautfarbe, gesellschaftliche Stellung und Geschichte, aber Zadie Smith ist mit einem Witz und einem Einfallsreichtum gesegnet, die diese gewichtigen Ideen mühelos leicht erscheinen lassen.
Die Handlung führt uns nach Jamaika, die Türkei, Bangladesch und Indien und bringt uns schließlich in einen schäbigen Vorort von North London, in dem die zwei merkwürdigen Helden dieses Buches zu Hause sind: Archie Jones, der es mit der Wahrheit nicht so genau nimmt, und Samad Iqbal, der im hohen Maße dem Alkohol zuspricht. Sie begegneten sich erstmals im Zweiten Weltkrieg als Mitglieder eines vom Pech verfolgten Bataillons und sind seitdem unzertrennlich. Archie heiratet die schöne Clara mit den vorstehenden Zähnen, die sich auf der Flucht vor ihrer Mutter befindet, einer Zeugin Jehovas, und mit der er eine Tochter hat, Irie. Samad heiratet die pampige Alsana, die ihm zwei stramme Jungs schenkt -- Zwillinge: "Kinder mit Vor- und Zunamen, die sich auf direktem Kollisionskurs befinden; Namen, hinter denen sich Massenexodus, überfüllte Boote und Flugzeuge, unfreundliche Ankünfte und ärztliche Untersuchungen verbergen."
Große Fragen verlangen nach kühn gezeichneten Charakteren. Zadie Smiths Helden sind nicht heroisch; sie sind einfach echt: warmherzig, komisch, fehlgeleitet und absolut vertraut. Wenn man ihre Unterhaltungen liest, kommt man sich vor, als würde man sie heimlich belauschen. In einer ganz einfachen Szene unterhalten sich Alsana und Clara im Park über ihre Schwangerschaften: "Eine Frau muss ihre privaten Dinge haben -- ein Ehemann sollte sich nicht in die körperlichen Angelegenheiten einmischen, in den Intimbereich einer Frau."
Samad ist verärgert über seine Söhne: "Sie sind beide vom Weg abgekommen; so weit weg von dem, was ich für sie geplant hatte. Es gibt wohl keinen Zweifel, dass sie beide irgendwann weiße Frauen heiraten werden, die Sheila heißen, und mich früh unter die Erde bringen." Hier spiegeln sich "die Ängste des Einwanderers -- Identitätsverlust, Auflösung" -- deutlich wider, die Samad mehr als alles andere geprägt haben.
Die Lektüre von Zähne zeigen ist eine wahre Freude. In diesem Buch wimmelt es vor Leben und Überschwänglichkeit, und doch besitzt es genug Schläue und despektierliche Seriosität, um ihm eine gewisse Bissigkeit zu geben. --Eithne Farry [via]
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