Requiem (Amor-Trilogie) (German Edition)
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This may tint my review. I did like the description of post-war Berlin, it seems rather authentic and makes a really special setting for the story. And the pitch of a German ex chief superintendent working in the post-war confusion is really interesting! Alas, to me, that's it. The characters are rather banal, the women are all obnoxious, and the main charakter is a Los Angeles private eye from the early 60ies lost in the wrong plot.
I was convinced that this book was written in the 50ies by some American too far away to be bothered: I would have excused the triteness and the sexism as being testament to those times. But no, the author is a contemporary Scotsman, and apparently he even got awards for his books. I feel that the book is the equivalent of an early James Bond movie: I understand why people could like them and consider them being pop culture, but I just think they're antiquated and bloody stupid.
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Why or why not? I'll leave these to people that like old James Bond movies. What do you think the narrator could have done better? Now there's maybe a reason why I couldn't hook up with the book: He must have been chosen with care, and I imagine the reasons: And those are exactly the reasons I don't like it. I'm not 5 years old, I don't need a narrator to do voices! When I first heard his impression of a Russian soldier, I was simply irritated, when it came to the lead's wife, I had to laugh out loud, it was ridiculous.
A German Requiem
I still give 4 stars for the performance, because after all the narrator did deliver what I guess he was asked for. Was A German Requiem worth the listening time? I don't know if I will finish it. I'll try since I paid. If anyone can recommend good narrators? This could have been a good listen but for the fact that the narrator who was supposed to be German had an American accnet which reminds one of the Micky Spillane radio series.
Yet the narrator showed that he was quite capable of sounding like German accented English.
This spoiled it for me. Kerr transposes the classic Noir gumshoe to Nazi Germany adeptly. Superbly read, as usual, by Jeff Harding. Having listened to A German Requiem and thoroughly enjoying it I couldn't help noting Mr Kerr's homage to Chandler et al bits of McBain, Elroy as well being fully displayed in the way the novel worked as I listened to it. Also there was a feel of The Third Man as well as getting a plug in the actual story and I loved the way his first person structure depicted the desperate immediate post-war atmosphere of the defeated Germany and Austria through the eyes of Gunter.
In the end I was rooting for this poor battered hero as he triumphed over his adversaries while at the same time achieving an almost cathartic closure to his past indiscretions. I wonder if there is or will be a sequel to this very accomplished novel. Another excellent thriller set in post WW2 Berlin.
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It is read and performed very well. Last of the original trilogy and doesnt disappoint.
I do love the pictures he paints of the time and how cheap life could be. Although sometimes boardering on the improbable, it is a very enjoyable book that is very well read. Its historical context sounds very plausible and definitely adds a lot to the book.
Set in a postwar Vienna occupied by the 4 powers, Bernie is caught up between the Russians, the Americans, the Germans and the vagiaries of the Viennese. No-one is quite what they seem and no-one can be trusted. Great narration and plenty of interesting historical detail, not to mention the usual twists and turns in the plot. Even a nod to The Third Man as a "British film" is being made amongst the ruins. Another great book from Philip Kerr. Anyone interested in this period of history will be impressed by his knowledge of detail and the way it was written.
The narrator is ideal for telling what is, ostensibly, a story of gangsters. Definitely recommended and I will now start another! Good story full of historical facts. I like the Bernie Gunther stories Narration was good and diction excellent. I am a women and native German speaker. What really bugs me is a man trying to read with a women voice - sorry but it really doesn?
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But, and this is a big but, apart of this the reader is good and I really liked the story. Please, and I adress this to all male reader, do not try to imitate womens voices - it just doesn't work. A German Requiem By: Philip Kerr Narrated by: Bernie Gunther , Book 3 Length: Give as a gift. People who bought this also bought Portrait of a Spy By: Daniel Silva Narrated by: A Gentleman in Moscow By: Amor Towles Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith Length: Robert Harris Narrated by: