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These pages briefly discuss a certain number of books I read in the last few years or just yesterday. Possibly this will inspire you to read or reread some of them, or give them as presents. Unless it just makes you renounce purchasing certain books... In fact I am realizing that these pages should rather be named "Reading Experiences" because they will also talk of books I did not really like. I think it is important not to suppress unpleasant experiences. But do always have your own experience since I may be wrong or your predilections may be different from mine... To offer you a better orientation, I disposed the books in a little villa that you can visit using the following map. |
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The Villa of Our Library |
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Ground Floor |
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First Floor |
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Second Floor |
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And so to say behind the villa, there is a Political Note.
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CAUTION, OPEN BUILDING SITE! USE THE PROTECTIVE HELMET! |
Dear English-speaking friends, please excuse me for the enormous delay of the library's English interface! The user interface of every language demands hard work - and I cannot do all things at once... You will find many more books using the German, French, or Italian interface. If you have problems of comprehension or particular interests, please tell me! Obviously I will do more (and faster) efforts for the sort of topics people are really interested in. |
Ground Floor
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D O C U M E N T A T I O N |
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Room A001 Grammars, linguistic guides & courses (German) |
Atrium Introduction to the structure of the library (French, German) |
Room C001 Environment & health (German) |
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Room A002 Single-language dictionaries & encyclopaedias (German) |
Meeting Room |
Room C002 Information Technology (German) |
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Room A003 |
Room B003 |
Room C003 Kitchen & Cellar (German) |
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Room A004 Letter Templates (German) |
Room B004 |
Room C004 Science (German) |
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Room A005 |
Room B005 |
Room C005 Secondary Literature (German) |
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Room A006 Turns of phrase & Proverbs (German) |
Room B006 Tourism & Geography (German) |
Room C006 Editorial Problems (German) |
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Room A007 Setting Up Business (German) |
Room B007 [currently unoccupied] |
Room C007 |
First Floor
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F I C T I O N |
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Room A101 |
Room B101 Danish Literature |
Room C101 German Literature German Dialectal Literature |
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Room A102 Finnish Literature (German) |
Room B102 |
Room C102 |
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Room A103 French-Caribbean Literature |
Room B103 |
Room C103 Icelandic Literature |
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Room A104 |
Room B104 Norwegian Literature |
Room C104 |
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Room A105 |
Room B105 |
Room C105 Swedish Literature |
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Room A106 Spanish Literature |
Room B106 |
Room C106 |
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Room A107 Czech Literature |
Room B107 Turkish Literature |
Room C107 Humorists, Cabaret Artists, and Satirists |
Second Floor
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A R G U M E N T A T I O N |
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Room A201 Ecology |
Room B201 |
Room C201 Politics |
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Room A202 |
Room B202 Economy |
Room C202 [currently unoccupied] |
Political Note
Writing my observations concerning certain books I have realized that many books should only be read by people having favorable ideas, or even sympathy, for the people described or for the author's origins, without closing their eyes on the more or less important weaknesses of the same people.
We must get accustomed to the idea that our sympathy or even love for another people (as well as for our own people) cannot always be without dark clouds and that we should remain well-disposed towards it - even if this does not please its current ennemies.
More than ever, mankind will not have a chance of creating or maintaining a decent life for the majority of ourselves (unfortunately will there always be a lot of poor people nevertheless...) if we do not succeed in maintaining a human contact with everybody – and this will not be possible in a climate of hate and collective recrimination.
Hans-Rudolf Hower, 2012
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