#032-034

[jassanja]

Der Augensammler (Sebastian Fitzek) - 448 pages

I really love that you know that those thrillers really are full of twists and surprises you don't see coming.
And the end of this story really puts goosebumps on your skin.

10/10


Jennifer Goverment (Max Barry) - (audio) 9 hours 09 minutes

I loved the concept of this story, but I was dissapointed by the execution. The characters never really grew on me

5/10


Unter deutschen Betten (Justyna Polanska) - 224 pages

If you're a maid and a used condom makes it into the top 10 of weird things to be found under a bed, than you either got the wrong job are are too easy to scandalize.
Also, I would have prefered some more real weird or disgusting or scandalous stories rather then the book be filled with the boring autobiography of the writer

6/10

2011:
Books: 034
Cover to back: 029
Not read to end: 5
Non fiction: 014
Audio Books: 9
Rereads: 0
Pages: 5 374 pages
Audio time: 32 hours 24 minutes

Comments

something similar to the last one

[archersangel]

hotel babylon by anonymous & imogen edwards-jones

From Publishers Weekly
The anonymous author, who now manages an unnamed five-star hotel, has spent the past 15 years working in London's top lodgings. With British journalist Edwards-Jones, the author compresses these years into a 24-hour period (divided into one chapter for every hour) and places the events at a fictitious Hotel Babylon (to protect the guilty who may include the author). The result is an irreverent exposé of the often unimaginable debauchery and dishonesty of the luxury hotel industry. The insider's perspective affords honest assessments of the guests, workers and the hotel itself, revealing that "the scams are endless.... The suppliers do the hotel, the staff do the hotel and the hotel tries to do everyone." The man who can afford a £250 -per-night room but refuses to pay his 850-quid worth of calls to porn lines is despicable, but so is the hotel when it appends corkage fees for bottles never opened to unknowing wedding parties. In addition to including details of the rich and famous (Margaret Thatcher was "a great whiskey drinker"; Madonna complained "about the color of the curtains in her room"), the book shares odd "day-in-the-life of a front-desk receptionist" anecdotes (e.g., a naked lady singing in the lobby, a false fire alarm and the natural death of an old woman who lived at the hotel).

Re: something similar to the last one

[jassanja]

I've already read this (as well as Fashion Babylon and Pop Babylon)
Those are great and funny books