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Hallo, Mister Gott, Hier Spricht Anna by Fynn

crml's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

annamcueva's review against another edition

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emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

borumi's review against another edition

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5.0

As I read this book I kept having this image of Anna as not a little girl of five, but a tiny version of Socrates deeply emerged in a Platonic dialogue or Jesus enlightening both his ignorant enemies and followers in one of his allegorical parables.

Although the prose is relatively simple and somewhat coarse in some parts of the book and Anna's explanations are rough and terse even to the point of being abtruse, it just goes to show you that not all beauty is created by skilled and stylish techniques of trained artists and not all truth lies in fanciful and coherent arguments. Just as Jesus lied in the manger and Buddah among the ragged, sometimes the most beautiful poetry and the deepest, truest philosophy is 'in the middle' of a field of wildflowers, a child's indecipherable scribble or the silent smile of the common prostitute. In fact, this book eventually goes to demonstrate that when you're 'full' inside, you don't need to fret about what's outside or peripheral, you can concentrate on what's 'in the middle' and being 'what I am' and Mister God.

This book, of course, is not for everyone. I wouldn't recommend it to people who don't want to be turned 'inside out' and keep being confined inside the box they built around themselves. I also don't think this is a book for people who think that math is just math and physics is just physics. It is for those who vaguely suspect that 2 and 2 might not always be four and are on a lifetime search for not only answers but also for questions that landed somewhere and answers that all questions are headed for. It is also for those who long for many others that sing in the same chord yet are often confounded by the different names of the chord. It is for those who wish to be step across the borders of knowledge and senses, but be liberated with imagination, wit and compassion.

thesarahstory's review against another edition

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4.0

Anna ist wirklich ein unglaublich tolles, kleines Mädchen und so viel schlauer als die meisten Erwachsene es je sein könnten. Es war ein Highlight, dieser Maus beim Leben und Entdecken zuzuschauen und Fynn, ihren Ziehvater zu verfolgen.
Schade ist - was man von Anfang an weiß, dass Anna nicht alt wird und das sie nur ganze zwei Jahre, glaube ich, bei Fynn lebt. Sie stirbt also sehr jung.
Es ist kein allzu trauriges Buch, da man von vornherein das Ende kennt, allerdings musste ich mir dennoch am Schluss ein Tränchen verkneifen, da es wirklich ein 'schönes' Ende war. Toll beschrieben und mit einer wunderbaren Anekdote, die zum Buch passt. Wundervoll!
Die kleine Anna stellt unglaublich viele Fragen und stellt damit das Weltbild von Fynn und ihrer Umgebung gehörig auf den Kopf. Sie ist mit Mister Gott sehr verbunden und sieht in allem etwas Wunderbares. Sie entdeckt die Welt mit Kinderaugen, aber eben auch mit Augen, die viel tiefer als diese blicken. Sie sieht mehr, als jeder andere sieht und vielleicht auch mehr als man selbst je gesehen hat. Von der kleinen Anna kann jeder noch etwas lernen und auch, wenn man mit Gott und dem Christentum so gar nichts am Hut hat, wie ich beinah, dann kann man dieses Buch trotzdem lieben! Ich habe es getan und werde Anna und ihre vielen Fragen und Theorien und ihre eigene Philosophie in schönster Erinnerung behalten. Ein Buch, das man verschenken sollte, selbst lesen und stark verinnerlichen sollte. (: Ein schönes Vergnügen mit wenigen Seiten aber umso mehr Inhalt. Ob er auch nachhaltig ist, kann ich jetzt natürlich nicht beantworten, aber für den Moment war es schön und ich habe durch Anna wieder eine kindliche Lebensfreude gespürt und das tat meinem Herz sehr gut! Es war so schön ihr durch die Welt zu folgen und aus ihren Augen zu sehen. Zudem mochte ich auch Fynn sehr gerne, der die Geschichte erzählt. Bitte lest es!!
Und lasst es von dem Gott nicht zu sehr abschrecken, eigentlich spielt die Welt und wie sie läuft, sehr viel mehr eine Rolle als die Religion. Die auch, aber in einer sehr angenehmen und schönen Form. Und das sagt jemand, der damit nicht viel zu tun hat. (: Wagt euch. Es lohnt sich.

PS: Fynn und Anna haben wirklich gelebt. Fynn hieß eigentlich anders und war ein Mathematiker aus Irland.

madison_k's review against another edition

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challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

annalancaster22's review against another edition

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challenging reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

Loved the story and characters but in my opinion, the writing is really bad, it makes it hard to get through. That's why I'd rate it 3.5 stars.

readingthethings's review against another edition

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2.0

˳✧༚˚ This one didn’t do it for me at all. It felt contrived. I couldn’t ever buy into the premise that a tiny little girl is instructing a math and physics student on religion, math, & physics. The whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth — especially the ending. I found some of the insights the girl offers interesting but the delivery tedious and strange. Most of her remarks went over my head because in cases of math and physics, I am very visual. I need charts! ;-)

A lot of people enjoy this book and find it totally up front and uplifting, so it’s likely just me. I’d have preferred an essay by the author conveying his ideas straightforwardly. I felt annoyed by the childlike delivery, as though he was speaking down. That’s why it felt contrived. That may have been his only way to get his ideas across to the reading public, so more power to him, but it didn’t work for me. And my, if that girl was actually real, my apologies. She just didn’t seem at all real or natural to me. She felt like a vehicle for the author’s ideas, and the delivery of those ideas through a child destined for tragedy (that’s no spoiler — it’s on the first page) felt like emotional manipulation as well as condescension.

Read it for yourself however! I may be totally wrong & skeptical, & as I’ve said, the popular opinion seems to be that this book is inspiring and should be accepted at face value. ˳✧༚˚

orla_gavin's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

samyisreading's review against another edition

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2.5

Viele der Gedanken waren sehr faszinierend. 
Anderes war jedoch irgendwie obsolet. Der Plot war auch eher... /nicht/.

saj_81's review against another edition

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5.0

I am so glad that I happened to find this book at the library. It's full of strange, silly and addictive philosophical conversations that could succesfully keep me awake at night if I let them. A masterpiece, I would call it.