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Berlin, 1923. A defeated capital of a devastated nation. A city roiling with revolution and economic unrest. And stalked by a savage murderer.
Dubbed 'Alpine Joe" by the police, he is killing the lower-class denizens of the Wedding District-whores, pimps, the elderly, the homeless. Equally adept with a gun or a knife, Alpine Joe is terrorizing the city with his vicious one-man crime spree.
The man selected to stop him is Inspector Ernst Lohmann, a dedicated and humane policeman still fighting his own demons from the memories of the trenches of the Great War.
The Berlin Murder Squad is the story of these two men and the story of a new age in history, populated with new criminals, new ideologies-and new monsters.
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Rick Bryan
reviewed The Berlin Murder Squad: A Novel of 1923 on November 02, 2014
The Berlin Murder Squad: A Novel of 1923
This book is a gem. Something that any reader will hold close to their heart. The essays are translated from the original French work by the educator Daniel Pennac. The book is full of amazing quotes. Some of my favorites:
Time to read is always time stolen. Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living.
By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living.
I particularly loved Part 3 - "The Gift of Reading" where he describes a classroom of high school students - the stereotypes of "the loner", "the prep", "the goth", etc. and how when the teacher [him] decides to read aloud to them for the entire class. It is his experiment to get them hooked. He chooses Süskind's _Perfume_ with its lively descriptions, and the teens, all of them, instantly become hooked.
The last few essays are also great, where he discusses the "Rights of the Reader" (the book is named after this series of essays). He outlines 10 Rights that each reader inherently possesses. He goes on to write short essays about all of them:
1) The right not to read.
2) The right to skip.
3) The right not to finish a book.
4) The right to read it again.
5) The right to read anything.
6) The right to mistake a book for real life.
7) The right to read anywhere.
8) The right to dip in.
9) The right to read aloud.
10) The right to be quiet.
A perfect book for a literature class - or a continuing education course. I highly recommend it.
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