50, NG23, M45, E49, / WG27, F5, MF0, D1, Frz0, NA0, B4, C1

Lawrence Block, Me Tanner, You Jane (Evan Tanner
Book 7)

Im vorletzten Band der Serie - dem letzten vor der langen Pause - geht Block wirklich in die Vollen, da bleibt Tanner nichts erspart: lebendig begraben zu werden ist da noch das harmloseste. Die Abenteuer im tiefsten Afrika unter kannibalistischen Rebellen mit einer wahnsinnigen Missionarstochter als Anführerin sind wirklich nichts für schwache Nerven. Und sind trotzdem pure Lesensfreude.
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But the human body contends throughout life with the task of fitting itself into and through impossibly narrow apertures. But for this propensity, we would none of us be born. Or, come to think of it, conceived.
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It sounds, I suppose, like a joke, but it was a joke I had given off laughing over long ago, and old jokes tend to become new truths. I had always wondered why sooner or later everyone packed it in and went to the suburbs. Everyone did this because sooner or later everyone realized that it was the only sensible thing to do. Sooner or later everyone realized that one had to put points on one's compass and chart the course of one's life. If it had taken me rather more time than usual, well, that might even be all to the good; it would give me things to look back fondly on in old age.

(Lawrence Block, Me Tanner, You Jane, 1970)