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A review by ingo_lembcke
Black*Out by Andreas Eschbach
As this is a German writer and that is my native language I am reading this in German.
I have read a few of his books already and like his stile, but after a slow start this strays in the fantastical, making me wonder.
This is the first part of a trilogy, which I did not realize until now.
I was waiting for it get cheaper and bought it for Eur 5,49, when it was much more expensive when I previously checked the price, and just checked it: Eur 10,49 again. As it was published 2010, this is surprising for me, I got accustomed to paying below Eur 9,- for most books which have been published more than 6 months ago. In Germany we heave a price-binding policy which binds all shops for German-language books to the same price, so if there is a promotion or other kind of low price, all shops are required to match it, making it easy to buy a book at Amazon, no looking around other shops hoping DRM-removal does still work and Calibre can then convert EPub to Mobi/AZW. Kobo has some books with their own version of EPUB, which is said to not convert or DeDRM. But enough ranting about OT themes.
I have read a few of his books already and like his stile, but after a slow start this strays in the fantastical, making me wonder.
This is the first part of a trilogy, which I did not realize until now.
I was waiting for it get cheaper and bought it for Eur 5,49, when it was much more expensive when I previously checked the price, and just checked it: Eur 10,49 again. As it was published 2010, this is surprising for me, I got accustomed to paying below Eur 9,- for most books which have been published more than 6 months ago. In Germany we heave a price-binding policy which binds all shops for German-language books to the same price, so if there is a promotion or other kind of low price, all shops are required to match it, making it easy to buy a book at Amazon, no looking around other shops hoping DRM-removal does still work and Calibre can then convert EPub to Mobi/AZW. Kobo has some books with their own version of EPUB, which is said to not convert or DeDRM. But enough ranting about OT themes.