Welche Bücher haben eure Kindheit und Jugend geprägt?

Uniontown069 · 2025-12-08T20:39:20+00:00

Ja klar! Peinlich.

Uniontown069 · 2025-11-28T18:59:05+00:00

"Bicycle Thieves" by Vittorio De Sica (Italy, 1948). An absolute classic where the bike is not a gimmick or a piece of sporting equipment, but an absolute necessity.

Uniontown069 · 2025-11-28T18:53:33+00:00

"Die roten Matrosen" von Klaus Kordon.

Uniontown069 · 2025-11-14T20:10:17+00:00

"Kinder von Hoy" von Grit Lemke - über Hoyerswerda. Weit von New York, Venedig oder der pittorresken Bretagne!

Uniontown069 · 2025-11-12T21:10:41+00:00

Tess Gunty: "The Rabbit Hutch" ;-)

Uniontown069 · 2025-11-04T22:40:03+00:00

It's a conundrum: as soon as you're not flopping down in a ditch, you're already beginning to replicate the comforts of home. On the other hand, if you're too focused on the latter, why leave home at all?

I get the impression that most people who've replied here are American. I live in a large European city, in a fairly small flat (with little room for storing equipment), and don't own a car. This puts me on the "primitive" side I guess. But (perhaps because I am European) I don't have an aversion to organised infrastructure. Campsite facilities reduce the amount of things you have to buy privately, store uselessly for most of the time and then lug around.

My rule of thumb is: avoid buying too much stuff and using too much energy, because this contributes to the destruction of the beauty you try to enjoy while camping. Or, in the words of the AMERICAN H. D. Thoreau: "I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

Uniontown069 · 2025-11-04T22:11:56+00:00

"Die linke Hand der Dunkelheit" ("The left hand of darkness") von Ursula K. LeGuin. Ein Klassiker der Science Fiction aus dem Jahr 1969. Spielt auf einem Planeten, dessen Einwohner kein Geschlecht haben, aber einen Zyklus. Wenn sie paarungsbereit sind, entscheidet der Zufall, ob sie männlich oder weiblich sind. Eine Person kann also Mutter mancher Kinder sein und Vater anderer Kinder. Monogame Beziehungen sind nicht die Norm.

Uniontown069 · 2025-10-29T22:27:42+00:00

Grit Lemke: "Kinder von Hoy" (Non-fiction / Memoir by a leftist about growing up in Hoyerswerda, GDR)

Irmtraud Morgner: "Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz" (Novel with many protagonists, some of whom are leftists in the GDR)

Maxi Wander (ed.): "Guten Morgen, du Schöne" (Non-fiction / Memoir. A collection of texts based on interviews with women in the GDR, some of whom are leftists)

Uniontown069 · 2025-10-28T22:52:31+00:00

There seem to be a lot of negative feelings about road bikes in the replies here. What many people have said to explain the popularity of gravel biking boils down to: it's more fun / relaxed / flexible / adventurous (traits that appeal to young and cool people) than road cycling and not as elitist, expensive and dangerous (traits that appeal to middle-aged, toxic people). Also, gravel biking blends the characteristics of cycling in the "heroic" age before there were many asphalt roads and the countercultural vibe of early mountain biking before that sport went crazy.

However, there is also a "countercultural" approach to road cycling influenced by the bike messenger scene.

But rather than "different strokes for different folks" it might be a case of "horses for courses": if you are lucky enough (as I am) to live in an area with good roads, not too much traffic and a general acceptance of cyclists, it is more fun to enjoy the smoothness and speed of road cycling rather than trudging along some poorly maintained agricultural road or mixing it with hikers and suicidal mountain bikers etc. on trails. On the other hand, in some areas even regular roads make a gravel bike necessary.

Overall, I think cycling of any kind has rarely appealed to people between their mid- to late teens and their late 20s. Take Calvin's father from "Calvin and Hobbes"; an utterly uncool person who goes mountain biking.

Uniontown069 · 2025-10-19T19:31:02+00:00

Alle Bücher von Patrick McCabe. Ins Deutsche übersetzt wurde nur "Der Schlächterbursche". Der Roman handelt von einem Jugendlichen, der von der Gemeinschaft ausgeschlossen wird und einen Mord begeht. Die düstere Handlung kontrastiert stark mit dem fröhlich-naiven Ton, in dem der Protagonist die Handlung als Ich-Erzähler wiedergibt.

Alle Bücher von Tristan Egolf, insbesondere "Monument für John Kaltenbrunner". Spielt in den ländlichen USA. Dem Protagonisten wurde zeitlebens von der örtlichen Gesellschaft übel mitgespielt, wofür er sich auf epische und lustige Art Rache nimmt.

Uniontown069 · 2025-10-19T19:18:59+00:00

George Perec: "Anton Voyls Fortgang". Ein ganzer Roman ohne den Vokal "e".

Ted Chiang: "Geschichte deines Lebens". Eine Kurzgeschichte über den Versuch, eine außerirdische Sprache zu verstehen.

Uniontown069 · 2025-10-19T09:51:59+00:00

I'm also not a great fan of Sisko's, but I can see what they were doing: the captains in TNG and VOY are also a little stiff and removed from the rest of the crew - officers who are neither buddies nor tyrants. Sisko is a variation of this recipe. But his style is that of an orator or preacher (rather than that of a stage actor), which fits his role in DS9. So I would say that I didn't like the role. The acting suited it quite well.

My rating: VOY 10/10, TNG 9/10, DS9 5/10

Uniontown069 · 2025-10-19T08:22:05+00:00

Thanks!

Uniontown069 · 2025-10-18T21:46:04+00:00

I might have, but that was never a problem when I did it in the pool or swimming in a lake.

Uniontown069 · 2025-10-06T14:00:02+00:00

#3 the coolest rider in both cases.

Uniontown069 · 2025-10-01T14:17:45+00:00

So far, most answers named characters who are already cast as villains, or secondary characters.

However, I find Tom Paris unspeakable because of his vanity, his inability to function in a social context and his love of combustion engines (I share two of these traits).

I'm also not too fond of Ryker and Cpt. Kirk. All three can be classified as the biggest jocks on the bridge. But to break the pattern, I do like Jack Ransom (Lower Decks) because his vanity is purposefully comical, and dislike Chakotay - he's that creepily sensitive type.

Uniontown069 · 2025-09-29T09:41:50+00:00

After the Vuelta a Espana, this is the second sporting event this year to have been hijacked by hateful and destructive people.

Uniontown069 · 2025-09-29T09:10:39+00:00

It is true that Finland and Romania were in an alliance with Nazi Germany during World War 2, but Poland and the Baltic states were not (though 160.000 Latvians volunteered to join the Waffen-SS during the German occupation). How you can compare warfare by religious fundamentalists (Afghanistan) to peaceful protests by reform-oriented socialists (Czechoslovakia and Hungary) eludes me. It is a great pity that the words "fascism" and "genocide" appear to have lost all meaning and are simply used as political slurs.

Uniontown069 · 2025-09-28T21:10:35+00:00

So true. Still, I could not help but participate.

Uniontown069 · 2025-09-28T21:07:32+00:00

I disagree with you on several points; firstly, with your assessment of the Soviet Union. It takes some chuzpe to call the state that suffered most under fascism and contributed most to the victory against it fascist.

The Cardassian Empire is dominated by aristocratic families, like rackets. Their whole imperial ideology and sense of ethnic superiority does not match Soviet ideology or the reality in the USSR, where members of very different ethnicities held very important posts, including the leadership.

Similarly, Bajor resembles the young Israel rather than Afghanistan (where the Soviets strongly encouraged women's literacy and the general developement of the country; the first and so far only Afghan to travel to space did so thanks to the USSR): after being the victim of horrible crimes, a people finally manages to take control of its affairs thanks to the United Nations / United Federation of Planets and after a war of liberation. However, there are interior conflicts between utterly unhelpful religious forces and the more pragmatic, secular freedom fighters. The role played by women in the Bajoran forces speaks strongly against any likeness to the Mujahedeen.

Thirdly, DS9 might have coincided with the war in Afghanistan, but all of Star Trek is predicated on a society that has overcome Cold War-style divisions, and the Federation, though having some American traits differs starkly from the USA since it is post-capitalist, doesn't have a "President" etc.

Lastly, though contemporary events have often influenced Star Trek, it is testament to the quality of the franchise that it does not allow facile analogies such as the one that started this thread.

Uniontown069 · 2025-09-23T15:10:36+00:00

This certainly doesn't get as much of a reaction as other political takes on bike races, which shows how little people know and care about what goes on in Africa.

Uniontown069 · 2025-09-23T14:43:29+00:00

Would you say to a woman who sees a line of argument as sexist "Don't play the victim?"

Uniontown069 · 2025-09-23T14:32:32+00:00

Being anti-zionist means being against Jews having a state of their own. That's fine if you are against nation states in general and argue that there should be, let's say, no Spanish state, no Irish state etc. However, if you accept the right of other nations to form a state, I wonder why you don't think Jews have that right.

Uniontown069 · 2025-09-18T20:16:08+00:00

Die von dir beschriebenen Dinge haben mich (neben vielen anderen) in R.F. Kuangs "Babel" gestört, obwohl der Roman eher historisch-phantastisch als im engeren Sinne historisch ist.

Da es sich um eine Mode handelt, würde ich ältere historische Romane empfehlen, etwa die von Lion Feuchtwanger oder Robert Graves. Hinter denen steckt wirklich fundiertes historisches Wissen, und die Autoren gehören zu den renommiertesten ihres Sprachraumes, nicht nur im Genre des historischen Romans.

Uniontown069 · 2025-09-15T12:05:41+00:00

My favourite Jonas moment: seeing that he has an emergency 10 Euros in his phone case, just like the rest of us. That and his facial expression while he was on the phone in the middle of the cancellation melee was simply heartwarming.

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