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| Posted on 2006-10-13 17:20:39 |
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A turkish writer: Tezer Özlü...
If there is somebody from Deutschland, they will know her.
She is awesome. |
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| Posted on 2006-10-13 22:39:26 |
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a collection of short stories by Kate Atkinson entitled "not the end of the world"..... i'm halfway through and so far i like it v.much... |
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| Posted on 2006-10-16 21:48:48 |
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| themagicstick |
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Andreas Steinhoefel, Centre of the World. I believe that's the English for the German title Mitte der Welt.
Love it very much. This will be the first book I'm going to read again. |
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| Posted on 2006-10-20 19:20:49 |
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I'm reading "Dom Casmurro" - Machado de Assis... Machado is a big author in Brazil, this book tell the story of Bentinho, he believe that his wife, Capitu,cheated on him with your best friend.... is a good story !!! 
bye, bye  |
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| Posted on 2006-10-22 12:23:39 |
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I´m reading hanif kureishi again. this time "intimacy" it´s cool. haven´t read that many pages yet, but this is better than "the body and seven other stories". |
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| Posted on 2006-10-24 18:53:47 |
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Prisoners of Hate - Beck (The guy who proposed cognitive therapy, not the singer) |
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| Posted on 2006-10-24 20:05:40 |
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i think i'm about to start reading three or four books at the same time. i'm reading doctor glas by hjalmar söderberg, then i found i very cool book about child education today, and i got at least four books about animal behaviour that i wanna read... |
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| Posted on 2006-10-25 12:45:55 |
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| i think i'm about to start reading three or four books at the same time. |
Exactly! 
First I read "The man of property" from John Galswarthy (this is the first part,I have to find another two) (I looove those old,all about character-gallery,kinda like Dostojevski,but of course,not even close)
now,"Unutrašnja strana vetra" from Milorad Pavić  love this man! (ok,his imagination,he's around 80 years old..)
And,I took two more books form library But,one by one,don't like to mix experiences  |
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| Posted on 2006-10-30 12:35:29 |
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Em nome do sanque by Eugênio Giovenardi. |
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| Posted on 2006-10-30 18:07:22 |
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"Au Bohneur Des Ogres",by Daniel Pennac
I don't know..Humour and imagination (both not of my kind),but..definitely not boring.. I was surprised it was written in 1985 (!),it's so "modern" --> besides other things (which is not my 'thing'),swearing.. |
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| Posted on 2006-11-03 13:53:36 |
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Just out of interest do any of you bilingual people read books in your non-native language? |
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| Posted on 2006-11-03 16:08:07 |
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I do. I read books in finnish, swedish and english. and sometimes something easy, like childrens books, in german. it´s an easy way to keep the language fresh in your mind... |
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| Posted on 2006-11-03 17:19:59 |
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Hum..I know only English.. (but here,we joke,like,we can understand all languages from former Jugoslavia,so.. )
When I read books that I choose,they are in Serbian (translated,if foreign),but for faculty I had to read a couple of books,and many "short stories".. (yes,all in English..)
And I do read their magazines regularly..  |
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| Posted on 2006-11-06 15:34:17 |
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By the way, I`m really dying without reading. Without good reading. Our family library is huge but I want to read not all books. Detectives? Oh, I`m already full of them. Narsejak, Sheldon, Japriso, Christie, Chase…I`m tired from blood and violence in novels. Fantasy? Oh, no, it`s not mine. Fiction? Well, maybe. But I`ve already read almost all books of Azimov, Silverberg, Bradbury, Lem. No, don`t want. Frankly speaking, I adore the gothic and horrors. King, Stocker, Rivendj and others…
When I was 15 I found one beautiful book in our home library. It`s called “Italian poetry: Dante and Petrarca”. Then I read that bok for the first time. When I knew about such heavenly, innocent love I was really impressed with this botomless sense…I couldn`t stop srying when I read about Dante and Beatrice, Petrarca and Laura…I was amazed of their strong soul and wonderful poetry! Such devoted love can be met only one time of the whole life. I adore their poetry, especially Petrarca. But, unfortunately, later I read that he never met Laura in life, except in their rare dates in the church. And more, F. Petrarca had his own children from different women which he didn`t love at all. It`s so sadly…
Sometimes I reread “The picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde. Fantastic and so tragic novel…So big passions! Did you read it? Wonderful…This book reaps my soul…Besides that, this great writer was Libra and his life was full of fashionable parties, interesting meetings and by the end…there was a prison. What a pity…I respect his esthetical views.Oh, poor Oscar Wilde! He was very gifted, his sparkling talent can`t be compared with his…young “friends”. His creation is quite opposite to his habits and orientation…I adore him, he was genious. |
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| Posted on 2006-11-06 15:37:45 |
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French.
My natural language is with hands. |
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| Posted on 2006-11-06 20:14:00 |
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^you use sign language? |
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| Posted on 2006-11-06 20:18:32 |
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Like most of us :)
This is a simple language : take something when you need to it, be nice, be rude... |
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| Posted on 2006-11-08 01:24:56 |
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I'm not sure about this book.. I will tell the name when I finish it.. but it's unusual of me to read something like this.. |
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| Posted on 2006-11-08 14:10:52 |
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okay, books i read over the past two weeks:
one by midas dekkers. dont know the english title, it was about how children are not little humans, but totally different, compared to how larvas (is that the right word?) turn into butterflies. it was interesting, but too much of biology for me.
second one i recomment, it was "lost in music" by giles smith, a british guy born in the sixties, writing about his various encounters with pop music, how he tried to become a famous musician but failed. funnily written, very nice.
now i am reading a book by egon erwin kisch, a journalist that used to travel all around the world during the 20s, i read his travel documentaries...good stuff, he has a fast way of writing, it almost like you are travelling with him, hurrying from one place to another, but yet trying to focus on the important details on the way |
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| Posted on 2006-11-14 00:20:28 |
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Aristarque de Samos - we have just book from him, but a Latin title is something horrible for me when it has more than one letter, so I can not write it :(
Archimède - Arenaria (Latin title, just one word :) )
One book is a fake, or Archimède was lying about Aristarque.
Archimède didn't introduce lies in his other works, so we can reject this second possibility.
Or Aristarque stole the girlfriend/woman of Archimède, so Archimède was very angry against him. |
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| Posted on 2006-11-14 01:07:02 |
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Sorry, Aristarque book has a Greek title, it was translated directly from Greek.
Archimède in Arenaria :
- everybody knows that it is easier to observe the sun at noon. So why does he not do it ?
- he gives a range for the visible diameter of the sun : between 1/200 and 1/164 of a "right angle". This is a good range.
Then he computes something very quickly with the upper limit. And the same calculation with the lower limit takes two (horrible and difficult to read) pages.
Conclusion : Archimède was drunk when he wrote about the lower limit. |
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| Posted on 2006-11-14 01:24:48 |
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Ah yes, it is an English forum.
Archimedes text is called "The Sand Reckoner" (Greek: ψαμμιτης).
Aristarque text, you just need to look for his only (remaining) book.
Archimedes in Arenaria :
Here now is what I assume about the subject of sand: if one has a quantity of sand whose volume does not exceed that of a poppy--seed
Poppy can be used as drugs ? That explains the strange words of Archimedes... |
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| Posted on 2006-11-19 21:13:44 |
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johanna sinisalo - ennen päivänlaskua ei voi (translated as Not before sundown and as Troll — A Love Story for the American market)
it´s about a man who finds a troll. but it´s like very serious literature, so it´s fun to read how something as fictional (actually I do think that trolls exist, but the socielty and as a part of it arts have not come to terms with it so people are trying to live like they don´t exist.) as trolls can be the subject of a "serious" novel. |
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| Posted on 2006-11-20 03:23:14 |
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Poemas dos becos de Góias e estórias mais by Cora Coralina
(poetry) |
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| Posted on 2006-11-20 12:41:04 |
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i'm stuck with a book about the art of making movies. i like it, but it's soo long. and i have something great waiting for me: a hildegard knef biography |
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