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Piz Chüern | 16.07.2017

Pass da Casnil | 15.07.2017

Rautispitz and Wiggis | 8.07.2017

Another birthday on Piz Languard | 24.06.2017

Lagh da Val Viola | 17.06.2017

Lavin to Fuorcla Zadrell to Guarda | 10.06.2017

4 wonderful days in Engadin | 29.05.2017

Dielsdorf - Regensberg - Lägern - Baden | 21.05.2017

Balsthal to Waldenburg | 23.04.2017

Halloween in CA | 19.11.2016

Drüsberg | 25.09.2016

Double birthday hike mini-vacation | 15.09.2016

Augstenberg | 28.08.2016

Schilt, Heustock, Gufelstock | 27.08.2016

Chamanna Boval | 07.08.2016

Piz Mezzaun | 06.08.2016

daduke in Canada! | 23.07.2016

Chur to Lenzerheide | 09.07.2016

Casaccia to Soglio | 07.05.2016

Ospizio Bernina to Poschiavo | 06.05.2016

Champfèr - Pass Suvretta - Bever | 05.05.2016

No 7 | 29.04.2016

No 6 | 20.04.2016

Fifth tour this year | 10.04.2016

Chamanna d'Es-cha | 01.01.2016

found some! | 30.12.2015

where da snow at??? | 29.12.2015

Linux on a Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 | 28.12.2015

With some tweaks Fedora 23 runs rather well on this nice little machine!

Prime Tower peeking through Zurich sunrise fog | 19.12.2015

This year's CA trip | 04.12.2015

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current read

Hugh Howey - The Hurricane: Just started

past reads

John Grisham - A time to kill: My first Grisham

Hugh Howey - Half way home: Nice

Douglas Richards - Mind's Eye: Another cool scifi story

William Forstchen - One Second After: Frighteningly realistic EMP catastrophe

Christopher Nuttall - Ark Royal: Nice space saga

David Wong - John Dies at the End: This is one strange book.

Hugh Howey - Dust: Nice ending of the trilogy.

Jonas Jonasson - The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared: pretty funny indeed

Hugh Howey - Shift: probably the weakest of the 3 parts

W. Bernard Carlson - Tesla: if you know one thing or two about physics, you'll be disappointed

G. Michael Hopf - The End: scaringly realistic

Evan Currie - Homeworld: 3 of Odyssey One

Evan Currie - The Heart of Matter: 2 and

Evan Currie - Into the Black: Part 1,

Richard Phillips - Wormhole: 3 of the Rho Agenda - not too bad

Richard Phillips - Immune: 2 and

Richard Phillips - The Second Ship: Part 1,

Douglas E. Richards - Amped: better

Douglas E. Richards - Wired: good

Matthew Mather - CyberStorm: very good end-of-the-world story

Dan Brown - Inferno: just WOW

Kevin Mitnick - The Art of Deception: too much bla bla

Jenny Lawson - Let's pretend this never happened: quite funny at times

Nick Sand - System of Fear: not too bad

Sara King - Forging Zero: meh

Blake Crouch - Abandon: nice

Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time: now (with a PhD in physics) I understand it better than 15 years ago

Roger Hobbs - Ghost Man: solid crime book

Brandon Sanderson - Legion: nice little story

Nate Silver - The Signal and the Noise: too much bla bla

Rick Mofina - I Angels Fall: Nothing to write home about

Elliott Kay - Poor Man's Fight: Not bad

Stephen King - The Stand (extended edition): I like his newer stuff better

Steven Konkoly - Black Flagged: pretty gory

Andy Weir - The Martian: what a page-turner!

Irving Belateche: H2O: not bad

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five: eh??

Neal Stephenson - Zodiac: Well done

Neal Stephenson - Snowcrash: Very good

Hugh Howey - Wool: spur of the moment purchase - I liked it a lot

Bill Bryson - Notes from a Big Country: dead-on and very funny

Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon: it IS a good book

Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything: immensely interesting

Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age: Now reading his older stuff

Michael Larsen - Im Zeichen der Schlange: This author is a smart ass

Stephen King - 11/22/63: Very good

Clifford Stoll - The Cuckoo's Egg: Fascinating

Ernst Peter Fischer - Schrödingers Katze auf dem Mandelbrotbaum: Interesting read even for a physicist

Kevin Mitnick - Ghost in the Wires: Amazing what social hacking can do.

Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs: Evil genius

Neal Stephenson - Reamde: Great fun.

Simon Beckett - Leichenblässe: Good too.

Daniel Goleman - Primal Leadership: Mainly common sense stuff

Simon Beckett - Verwesung: Creepy.

Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest: Finishing off the trilogy

Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Played with Fire: OK they're good.

Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Join the hype

M. Scott Peck - People of the Lie: Naja.

Jo Nesbø - Rotkehlchen: Suspense.

Peter F. Hamilton - The Evolutionary Void: Finishing off the trilogy

Andreas Altmann - Im Land der Freien: Quite condescending at times

Tony Vigorito - Just a couple of days: weird.

Gianrico Carofiglio - In freiem Fall: I enjoyed it a lot.

Michael Frye - Digital Landscape Photography: Bringing Ansel's magic into the 21st century.

M. Scott Peck - The Road Less Traveled: Sometimes trivial, but often insightful.

Italo Calvino - Der Baron auf den Bäumen: This, I'm sorry to say, is crap.

Christopher Hitchens - God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything: Unfortunately he's right.

Salman Rushdie - Shalimar The Clown: Very good book.

Stephen King - Under the dome: Wow!

David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest: Put on hold - needs more contiguous time to read.

Friedrich Christian Delius - Die Frau, für die ich den Computer erfand: Nice Konrad Zuse story.

Peter F. Hamilton - Fallen Dragon: Pretty darn good.

Pascal Mercier - Der Klavierstimmer: I absolutely loved his Nachtzug nach Lissabon.

Leon de Winter - Das Recht auf Rückkehr: Compelling storytelling.

Simon Becket - Die Chemie des Todes: As thrilling as the other one.

Huston Smith - Why Religion Matters: Stalled for the moment. Too many words for too little content.

Neal Stephenson - Interface: Honestly? The weakest Stephenson I've read so far.

Peter F. Hamilton - The Temporal Void: Part II of the trilogy.

Peter F. Hamilton - The Dreaming Void: Best SciFi writer I know.

John Steinbeck - Cannery Row: Great as always.

Philip Roth - Exit Ghost: Probably I just cannot fathom his brilliance.

Philip Ball - Critical Mass: A mighty work indeed.

Dan Brown - Deception Point: A lot better than I thought.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Schatten des Windes: A truly wonderful book.

Simon Beckett - Kalte Asche: What a page-turner.

Neal Stephenson - Anathem: Great.

Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep: Very funny.

Michael Theurillat - Eistod: Set in Zurich.

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves: Plain creepy.

Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: Very insightful.

Douglas Coupland - JPod: Haha.

Henry Hill - Gangsters and Goodfellas: Can this be true?

Philip Roth - The Plot Against America: Not bad, but Nobel prize candidate?

Howard Bloom - The Lucifer Principle: Amazing.

Neal Stephenson - Cobweb: Enthralling.

Alain de Botton - The Art of Travel: Great train/plane literature.

Cormac McCarthy - The Road: Saddest book I've ever read.

Tom Robbins - Another Roadside Attraction: Tom's my hero.