Review: Threepenny Novel
Nutzerbericht - Daniel - GoodreadsBrecht's novel reminded me of Dickens with its Victorian London setting, but unlike Dickens there is no sentimentality and not one of the characters could really be described as 'good', just smarter ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Threepenny Novel
Nutzerbericht - Christos - GoodreadsNotes: * plot is very complex and plausible, however business is not that interesting * smart =/= good writing * whole book reads like one big sarcasm/satire, not very subtle * unrelentingly bleak, evil triumphs (ok) * absence of any likeable characters (not ok) Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Threepenny Novel
Nutzerbericht - Philip Lane - GoodreadsWhat a surprising book. First of all I was expecting a German setting as the author is German but it is set in London. Then to find myself reading about Mac the knife after having loved the song for ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Threepenny Novel
Nutzerbericht - Jerome Baladad - GoodreadsIn my deliberate reading [which I started over a year ago:] of this wonderfully written and at times confusing adaptation/translation from its originally written-in-German of a fiction work (as I ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
