My favorite books, authors and comics
Reading was one of my first passions. And it still is one of my dearest hobbies. It all began when I was about four years old. I was with my my mother at the hairdresser and saw this comic book. I wanted to understand what was written in the speech bubbles and that was when an why I learned to read.
My favorite genre is the Phantastic, mainly science fiction. I read all the classics written by Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, A.E. van Vogt, Philip K. Dick, Edward E. Smith, ... And I still like them more than most actual authors. I also like Robert E. Howard's Conan stories a lot.
However, I also love the crime novels by Agatha Christie (as a matter of fact Hercule Poirot is my fav detective) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
As a fan of TV series and movies I also like the novelization of my fav shows and movies, i.e. I love the Star Trek novels, the Doctor Who Novels and so on.
my favorite books (top 3)
It's fun, it's sf, it's Douglas Adams. I can't say how often I read the Hitchhiker, but I can tell it's big fun every time.
I watched the BBC TV series first - and I was thrilled. Then I noticed it was a book originally and read it - and it was even better!
So, I am an fan of the books and the tv show, but I was really disppointed by the movie.
His name is Curd Seay, he is a Terran and since eight years he's a watchman on a galactic transmitter station. An old robot and a dog are the only companions of his solitude. But one day, things happen that change Curd Seay's monotonous life critical. A group of defectors appears on Curd's station, and the guard must risk everything to thwart the plans of the station squatters. Because these plans provide to unleash a war between the star nations.
William "WiVo" Voltz, the author of this book, is one of my favorite writers. He worked since his debut novel in 1962 with the science fiction series Perry Rhodan and by his later long-standing activity as head writer of the series one of the people who have most strongly influenced Perry Rhodan.
This book is a typical "WiVo". It contains sympathetic charachters, a good story, cosmic mythology and the belief in good.
Hercule Poirot investigates the mysterious murder of a passenger on the Orient Express - and everyone is suspicious ...
Hercule Poirot is my favorite detective in literature and to me the solution of tis case was his master piece
Books are like movies, once you have read them, ist's over and yo have to say good bye to the characters. That's why I like TV series more than movies and that's why I like continued novel series more than books.
Perry Rhodan is the world's greatest science fiction series.
The first issue I read was No. 313 and I since than I am a fan. And still the M 87 cyclus is on of my favorite ones.
John Sinclair is a chief inspector at Scotland Yard and in a special department active which deals with supernatural phenomena, he fights ghosts, demons and all kind of evils. As it was with Perry Rhodan, after I read one issue, I became a fan.
my favorite comics
I am a great fan of Donald Duck and the Duck clan. Especially the stories by Carl Barks are unbelievable good. They are real classics: Like the plays of Shakespeare they work today as good as they worked when they were written.
I also like very much the Duck stories by Don Rosa, who's stories were ery often built on that by Carl Barks.
Vicar, Romano Scarpa, Wiliam Van Horn also wrote great Duck stories.
Sadly, the modern Duck comics, the actual ones, aren't as good as the classics. In fact, to me they are mostly just comics, that uses the Duck charcaters, but the characters are interchangeable, the stories would work equally well with other cartoon characters. They are just mass produced, routinely written and drawn.
Spider-Man is the other favorite comic of mine. It's different from most other superhero comics, because it not just shows the hero fighting the evil ones week by week, but also gives a look into the private life of Peter Parker. It's kind of a mixture of an sperher coic and a soap opera.
I like the stories from the 1960s and 1970s most, althogh threr were some great story lines in later years, i.e. the Clone Saga in the mid 1990s.
However, I stopped reading Spider-Man comics after the quasi reboot "A Brand New Day".
