German book recommendation

[Froody129]

I'm looking for a non-complicated/verbose German book to improve my language. I'm currently learning with a tutor but that's going slowly and it's a crap ton of rules that are boring to learn.

 

My first language is Afrikaans so I can actually read and understand most German things just fine, I just want to improve my "feel" for speaking it as well as vocabulary. 

 

- I read most anything except lame romance novels

 

- Something available on Kindle would be awesome

 

 

[I-r0k]

Ready player one. Sci-fi book. On Spotify....

[Supportsneedlove]

German book? We all know who to pick there. The grimm brothers.

[Froody129]

19 minutes ago, Supportsneedlove said:

German book? We all know who to pick there. The grimm brothers.

I'm actually reading the city mouse and field mouse thing with the tutor, but is that honestly a gripping and appealing story to you?

 

27 minutes ago, I-r0k said:

Ready player one. Sci-fi book. On Spotify....

Awesome book, but I've listened to it in English 

[I-r0k]

3 minutes ago, Froody129 said:

I'm actually reading the city mouse and field mouse thing with the tutor, but is that honestly a gripping and appealing story to you?

 

Awesome book, but I've listened to it in English 

Cool. I’m glad you like it. If you have any questions about the book/movie you can ask me.

 

[Froody129]

7 minutes ago, I-r0k said:

Cool. I’m glad you like it. If you have any questions about the book/movie you can ask me.

 

Just saw your username, I like it.  

[Agonizel]

I don't know if it's on Kindle, but "Nichts was im Leben wichtig ist" is really interesting book. It talks about a bunch of kids trying to convince one other kid that life has signification. And it gets a bit messy

 

But it's not the best book, but I tought it was interesting analyzing its flaws n stuff. More like meta-reading

[Froody129]

3 minutes ago, Beer_Nontitju said:

I don't know if it's on Kindle, but "Nichts was im Leben wichtig ist" is really interesting book. It talks about a bunch of kids trying to convince one other kid that life has signification. And it gets a bit messy

Couldn't find it, and I doubt local bookstores would have it in stock. Thanks for the recommendation though .

 

would you perhaps know if Mein Kampf is worth reading? 

[Agonizel]

8 minutes ago, Froody129 said:

Mein Kampf

No, it's full of flaws. There are more enlightening books.

Homo Faber is a good one. It's the story of an engineer that perceives humans as production machines and life as a series of statistics, but then discovers how random life actually is and how complex humans are.

 

[Froody129]

1 minute ago, Beer_Nontitju said:

No, it's full of flaws. There are more enlightening books.

Homo Faber is a good one. It's the story of an engineer that perceives humans as production machines and life as a series of statistics, but then discovers how random life actually is and how complex humans are.

 

Cool, thanks .

 

That sounds exactly like my kind of book and is on Kindle! Thanks for you help

[Supportsneedlove]

1 hour ago, Froody129 said:

I'm actually reading the city mouse and field mouse thing with the tutor, but is that honestly a gripping and appealing story to you?

 

I liked Twilight, what can i say? i have a "bad" taste in books.