A French author has written a new book - of course, the complete literature scene in Germany and France, every feuilleton, has to speak and write about it, every intellectual person has to read the book. Really?
I've never read one of his books, know what I know about them and him, had never the impulse to get more profound knowledge regarding him or his work, have the impression that he's and totally overrated author. Well, he delivers the scandals a certain "establishment" needs, but do I have to be interested in them? I will write about arts, but not the arts some think that everybody has to write about, but about the works of art I love. As said, I'm totally biased and corrupt.
I read "Fiasko" (Fiasco) by Stanislaw Lem currently, but have some problems therewith, with his "wordy" style. In my youth I loved what was call "technical SF", but it seems as my mind has changed. "Solaris" prior to that, I think that I will try the "Sterntagebücher" (The Star Diaries) next. Some weeks ago I thought that it could be interesting to read some of Stanislaw Lem's book. A few I knew so far, of course some movie adaptions, but by far not all.
I owned a lot of books during my lifetime so far, born in 1965. I still own the complete work of four authors. Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane and James Joyce.