I loathed Aleph, found it horrendous, so someone gave this to me as a joke. But I actually kind of enjoyed it. It is sometimes a bit whimsical and sentimental, but it's a lovely little story about followint your dreams and trying to live close to your passion etc.

November 27, 2023

This was very good. Funny, crazy. Kind of like Kerouac's On the Road. Frantic dialogues with lots of popculture references that make more sense in the time it was written.

November 27, 2023
December 20, 2022

Awesome graphic novel.
Witty and original it combines Video Games style points and explanation of people. Very funny

December 30, 2010

This book took me by surprise. What a lovely profound and unpretentious take on making art and music as a spiritual undertaking. Redemption for the selves and the other. Loved it.

May 22, 2023
November 27, 2023

This was fun. Exactly the sort of fun you'd expect from a Star Wars book about a casino. Perhaps a little better than I anticipated.

May 27, 2022

Perhaps it was me, but I did not engage with story in the slightest.

January 5, 2022

Hierdie boek was ‘n wonderlike introspektiewe soektog in die hart van die taal en kultuur van die Afrikaner. Wat maak dat ‘n mens in Suid-Afrika wil bly, waar vind ons ons oorsprong en wat gaan ons vashou vir die toekoms.

October 28, 2022

It was very funny and moving. But also weird and incestueus. So

November 15, 2022

Not sure what I was expecting. But I heard that Agatha Christie's detectives were really good. And I felt that the plot sprang out of nowhere. Not something I think makes a good detective.

March 11, 2022

Mooi inkijkje in het Keven van een chronisch zieke

May 14, 2022
May 14, 2022

Beautiful ink drawings of a boat journey. Story sort of revolves around storms and meeting people. However interesting and fascinating the journey must have been, it doesn't really transfer well into this story.

You do learn a lot about boats though.

February 21, 2018
October 2, 2017
January 31, 2018
February 4, 2018

Great little book about a cyclist who can't sleep the moment for his big race

May 29, 2018

This book was marvelous, fantastic and legendary characters, great build up. Wonderful storytelling.

I should read this again in English (they didn't have it at the local library in English). Perhaps it will gain 5 stars then.

June 10, 2018

Wonderful prosaic and poetic phrases that twist and turn about. Uncommon use of punctuation, which reminded me of Jose Saramago. I gave it two stars, because the story itself was sort of stupid. And also incest. That never works for me in a story.

June 1, 2018

A gruesome story. With the setting and the topic of mutilation and revenge and it being set in the arid lands of Namibia I imagined a Charlize Theron from Mad Max rampaging on the German forces. It was horrid but splendid.

August 8, 2018
September 5, 2018

Een bizar boek wat met verve en een soort manische drift geschreven lijkt. Ogenschijnlijk zonder samenhang en ratelend van associatie naar associatie.

Wel gaaf en vermakelijk. Benali is een erudiete geest en dit boek maakt weer eens duidelijk wat gegoochel met woorden teweeg kan brengen

January 21, 2019

This felt a bit like a Coen Brothers story set in Soweto. I really enjoyed the slang, the pace and the setting. That together with the inevitability of a cluster fuck looming over the protagonist Bafana's head made this worthwhile.

January 10, 2020