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Why this Web Site? |
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| Since I have struggled through my first English-language crime novel at the age of 16 (it was an Agatha Christie novel - what else?), I have never stopped reading thrillers for pleasure. As a non-native speaker of English, I chose the first few thrillers just to improve my English comprehension. But soon I became hooked and today, 40 years later, I may have devoured several hundred of these crime novels. | |
| Of course, I am just a bloody amateur. I don't know anything about literary theory or style. Most often I just randomly chose the books, waiting for a plane or in a crowded train station. They helped me to survive dreadful hotel rooms and endless transatlantic flights. What you will find on this web site is just a hotchpotch collection of books I find interesting. Some of them are great literature, others just fast page turners. Those books, which I liked most, are marked with stars. A few of the books I have actually read twice - not because they were so great, but because they were so conventional that I wasn't aware I had already read them. | |
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Who I am |
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Claudia Heilig-Staindl Neulinggasse 16/19 1030 Vienna, Austria claudia.heilig@chello.at |
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Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008 by Claudia Heilig-Staindl. All Rights Reserved. |
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