I’m sure you’ll finish the book very quickly. Eschbach has a narrative style that will mesmerize you 
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Horror story?
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That book appears in this video:
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So, have you found it to be interesting?
He would NEVER eat such abomination as PinEaPpLe pizza!
Bach was a man of culture!!!
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In his time he was an innovator, though, and a trendsetter, so he could well have been the man to invent the pineapple pizza, if he had not been so incredibly busy creating a bit of Music…
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Never he would do such a horrible thing, he had taste and class!
P.S. Pineapple pizza sounds like mumble rap 
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Like all 1800s texts is has a dense venacular and I can’t connect all the dots, so digesting chunks at a time, thank you. It’s still on my desktop.
Interestingly, when I was stationed at HQMC in 79, my first order of business was to find a place to get high 
. Fortunately Arlington Cemetery was right next door. I used to sit on a particular bench, in a more secluded part of the cemetery, and the bench faced some mans headstone. It read some quote, and then said he discovered the north pole, or something to that effect. Funny how I remember that…
The language takes some getting used to, indeed, but i thought the story very interesting.
I tried to look it up and found several sources:
A comprehensive list of all explorers:
https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Notable-Graves/Explorers
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Yea. That s the guy. Now that I see it again I remember that globe shaped monument also. That s the Navy Annex in the background. Cool seeing it, but it doesn t look like a good place to get high anymore.
I’ve given myself a bit of a challenge: this is a facsimile of a book published in 1598.
People were trying to find a northerly sea route from Western Europe to China, as they expected that route to be shorter and so less costly and time consuming than the only route known in that time, which was around Cape of good hope. This book is about three of the first attempts made, going north of Norway, and getting stuck in ice fields and bad weather.
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Just started reading. Strange, fantastic, surreal.
In German: DIe Wächterinnen von New York
https://www.lovelybooks.de/autor/N.K.-Jemisin/Die-Wächterinnen-von-New-York-3468540672-w/
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It looks like you often read in German;) How was your Eschbach book?
I used to read a lot of German books when I was younger, anything I could get my hands on by Kafka mostly.
After 35 years or so of not speaking or reading German, I found my German was getting rusty and that it was time to train the German language muscles again. (I’m also looking into opportunities to speak German, but that’s a bit more complicated where I live.)
Eines Menschen Flügel by Eschbach was rather disappointing for me, I’m afraid. Characters too stereotypical for my liking. I got as far as halfway through. Still, it got my German flowing again, so it was worth my while.
Remarque is truly a remarkable author.
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Oh yes, that’s a typical Eschbach telling style. I don’t know the book, but I will get it anyway
Maybe you should give one more story a chance to read it : Die Haarteppichknüpfer. A nice little science-ficition Story.