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Posted: **Sat Jun 10, 2006 11:16 pm**

Dixie wrote:
illusion wrote:I am reading now "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte. It's a gripping story with lots of passion in it...
I read it last year :) Have you read Jane Eyre?

Not yet. Have you? If so, would you recommend it?

Posted: **Sun Jun 11, 2006 10:27 am**

Yes Tora, Jane Eyre's author is Charlotte Brontë. It was a compulsory reading in college

We made a very deep analysis of the novel and all the symbolism in it. I wonder, though, why Wuthering Heights wasn't compulsory since it's another great classic of English Literature.

Yes Illusion I would recommend it, although I read it so many years ago I think I should try to read it again and draw my own conclusions - you know, when you read something for obligation, you don't read it as passionately as if you read it for your own pleasure.

Posted: **Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:06 am**

Yes Dixie - compulsory reading kills passion and damages pleasure - at school compulsary reading is a part of education, the only book I did this way was War and Piece after Leo Tolstoy

Posted: **Mon Jun 12, 2006 2:33 am**

It's my aunt's favorite book. She's read it five times in Vietnamese, and I've read it twice (in Vietnamese and English just to see the differences). It's in the same group of the best classic books such as Frankenstein, Around the World in Eighty Days, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, the Grimm Brothers' tales, Ugly Duckling, and Scarlet Letter for me.

Posted: **Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:30 am**

[i]Da Vinci Code[/i]

I read this 2 weeks ago. It is interesting for me. And now, I am trying to read [i]Historian.[/i]

Posted: **Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:53 am**

Oh God, I've heard it's one of the best books ever. I haven't tried to read it yet since the title sounds a bit boring to me. Tell me what you think of it when you're done, will you?

Posted: **Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:12 am**

I'm reading The Historian, too. It's really amazing. I'm in the middle of the story now.

Masayuki, there's a thread on this forum about this book, in case you'd like to discuss a little about it :D

Posted: **Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:42 pm**

Hey,
I've just finished Deception Point by Dan Brown, which - I have to say - was really great.
Now I'm reading The Ultimative Hitchhikers Guide by Douglas Adams.

Posted: **Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:48 pm**

Snapdragon wrote:Hey,
I've just finished Deception Point by Dan Brown, which - I have to say - was really great.

I didn't like it as much as the other three.

Posted: **Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:56 pm**

I've read the other 3 books to and I've to say that they are all different, but all quite good.
I didn't like Angels and Demons that much, but I think thats because I read it after the da vinci code - where the Illuminati are shown from quite a different point of view.[/quote]

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:46 pm**

I've read "The call of the wild" by Jack London and "David Copperfield" by Ch.Dickens.Very good!
To Lennye Tran: I'm Vietnamese too! Nice to meet you!

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:24 pm**

echip wrote:I've read "The call of the wild" by Jack London and "David Copperfield" by Ch.Dickens.Very good!
To Lennye Tran: I'm Vietnamese too! Nice to meet you!

Nice to meet you. Did you read those books in Vietnamese?

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:12 pm**

Oh..i am ashamed myself! The last book i read was Mansfield Park by Jane Austen..and my bookcase is full with books! but it has been nearly 2 months since i read my last book!
By the way..those mythology books are too interesting,aren't they?

Posted: **Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:26 am**

Mine are:
Jackdaws by Ken Folet,
The Other Side of The Story by Marian Keyes,
The Real Desperate Housewifes by Asma Nadia and friends,
Badman Bidin by Asma Nadia and friends too.

Posted: **Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:35 pm**

swallow the frog
:D

Posted: **Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:58 am**

The Secret Supper, by Javier Sierra. Really worth it!

Posted: **Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:44 pm**

The Chronicles of Narnia!!! I'm completely enchanted by Lewis' style and imagery. I've not yet finished all seven books, but by now I've really seen Narnia, felt Aslan's golden mane and his warm breath in my face. In all the adventures I've participated! I fought together with the Ancient Kings and Queens, I rode together with Shasta and Aravis "to Narnia and the North" and sailed to the World's End on board of the Dawn Treader. Thank God, there are such books to allow as all to travel to the Neverlands of our imagination.

Posted: **Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:25 pm**

Patente de Corso after Arturo Perez-Reverte! it's a collection of his most striking articles in spanish El Semanal news-paper. they all are short but so nice

Posted: **Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:56 pm**

Tora wrote:Patente de Corso after Arturo Perez-Reverte! it's a collection of his most striking articles in spanish El Semanal news-paper. they all are short but so nice

I didn't know Perez-Reverte was so well-known outside Spain! In any case I thought his fame would come the moment the movie Alatriste was released...

Posted: **Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:02 pm**

Dixie wrote:
Tora wrote:Patente de Corso after Arturo Perez-Reverte! it's a collection of his most striking articles in spanish El Semanal news-paper. they all are short but so nice
I didn't know Perez-Reverte was so well-known outside Spain! In any case I thought his fame would come the moment the movie Alatriste was released...

he has his own book-shelf in my favourite bookshop and his own place in my heart

Posted: **Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:09 pm**

Tora wrote: he has his own book-shelf in my favourite bookshop and his own place in my heart

Really?

I remember I had a Spanish teacher in high school who was his biggest fan... I discovered him thanks to that teacher... but still... I like his articles for their content, not the language used... It's quite vulgar to me...

Posted: **Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:16 pm**

Dixie wrote:
Tora wrote: he has his own book-shelf in my favourite bookshop and his own place in my heart
Really? I remember I had a Spanish teacher in high school who was his biggest fan... I discovered him thanks to that teacher... but still... I like his articles for their content, not the language used... It's quite vulgar to me...

thank god the translator was enough kind to avoid some rudeness if it was possible. the articles are great. It turned out that our countries has so much common. also his novelas are really witty. I fell in love with them. I do much apperciate the translator as there were hundreds of foot-notes in the book as the articles are specific and I need an explanation so many times...

by the way in Catalon is "j" pronounced in some other way than anywhere in Spain?? like "g" (an english one I mean) :?

Posted: **Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:21 pm**

Tora wrote: by the way in Catalon is "j" pronounced in some other way than anywhere in Spain?? like "g" :?

The Spanish sound "j" does not exist in Catalan. As well as the Catalan "g" sound, which is similar to the English one (i.e. Joseph) does not exist in Spanish.

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:49 am**

'If only it were true' by Marc Levy. It's really great! A fiction romance between a man and a woman's soul or ghost, I may say.

_Arale_

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:53 am**

Arale wrote:'If only it were true' by Marc Levy. It's really great! A fiction romance between a man and a woman's soul or ghost, I may say.

_Arale_

Oh, that might be the novel in which the movie Just Like Heaven was inspired, right?

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:21 am**

Dixie wrote:
Arale wrote:'If only it were true' by Marc Levy. It's really great! A fiction romance between a man and a woman's soul or ghost, I may say.

_Arale_
Oh, that might be the novel in which the movie Just Like Heaven was inspired, right?

Exactly! I haven't seen the movie yet. Did you read or watch it?

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:01 am**

Arale wrote: Exactly! I haven't seen the movie yet. Did you read or watch it?

I have seen it twice... Really, really sweet story.

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:25 am**

I read this book called "Eureka Street" by an Irish writer Robert McLiam Wilson. It's a story about a couple of friends and their lives that takes place in Belfast. I must say I did enjoy it a lot :)

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:32 pm**

I read " SITUBIALAMOCBA KA GANHAN FUDILMIONALED "

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:04 pm**

Everything is illuminated after Jonathan Safran Foer - I liked it a lot - have anybody heard about it?

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:21 pm**

My Ismael by Daniel Quinn
Easy to read, difficult to understand

Posted: **Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:25 pm**

I just started reading Patrick Süskind's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer .

Posted: **Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:01 pm**

Dixie wrote:
Arale wrote: Exactly! I haven't seen the movie yet. Did you read or watch it?
I have seen it twice... Really, really sweet story.

I have recently seen that movie too :) It was really cute :)

Posted: **Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:07 pm**

illusion wrote:
Dixie wrote:
Arale wrote: Exactly! I haven't seen the movie yet. Did you read or watch it?
I have seen it twice... Really, really sweet story.
I have recently seen that movie too :) It was really cute :)

Are there any differences between the novel and the movie?

Posted: **Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:29 pm**

illusion wrote:
Dixie wrote:
Arale wrote: Exactly! I haven't seen the movie yet. Did you read or watch it?
I have seen it twice... Really, really sweet story.
I have recently seen that movie too :) It was really cute :)

Lucky you! I have read it either and want to watch the movie - but it starts only on 14th of sept!

Posted: **Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:59 pm**

Tora wrote: Lucky you! I have read it either and want to watch the movie - but it starts only on 14th of sept!

But... that movie was released like months ago! I downloaded it the day after watching it and now I've got it on dvd...

Posted: **Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:12 am**

Dixie wrote:
Tora wrote: Lucky you! I have read it either and want to watch the movie - but it starts only on 14th of sept!
But... that movie was released like months ago! I downloaded it the day after watching it and now I've got it on dvd...

it is not rare here that movies are realeased times after it was done in europe and US :? such as life...

Posted: **Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:42 am**

I've read "Never let me go" by Kazuo Ishiguro, it's easy to read and seams to be a very nice story at the beginning, but it turns out to be kind of very "disturbing" and psycho...

Now I'm reading "Little women" by Louisa May Alcott, I needed something comforting after this last book I've read*lol*. It's really a nice book, even for grown-up girls like me:) I enjoy it very much.

Posted: **Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:02 am**

Rach wrote:I've read "Never let me go" by Kazuo Ishiguro, it's easy to read and seams to be a very nice story at the beginning, but it turns out to be kind of very "disturbing" and psycho...

I've read that book also. I thought I wouldn't find anyone at EC reading this book.

Posted: **Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:07 am**

LennyeTran wrote: I've read that book also. I thought I wouldn't find anyone at EC reading this book.

Why not? :) How did you find it?

Posted: **Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:13 am**

Rach wrote:
LennyeTran wrote: I've read that book also. I thought I wouldn't find anyone at EC reading this book.
Why not? :) How did you find it?

The book was in its best time, but it's pretty old. That's why I didn't think I would find a member who has read this book here.

I find his writing pretty dry and unattractive. Although it was good, but I didn't feel like checking out all his books afterwards, which I usually do to any writer's work I like.

Posted: **Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:24 am**

Pretty old? Are you sure we are talking about the same book? It was first published in 2005, that's not what I would consider as a pretty old book

Posted: **Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:31 am**

Rach wrote:Pretty old? Are you sure we are talking about the same book? It was first published in 2005, that's not what I would consider as a pretty old book

Well, what I mean is that most of his international bestseller books are old, and it doesn't seem like many people I know know him.

Posted: **Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:56 am**

Tora wrote:
Dixie wrote:
Tora wrote: Lucky you! I have read it either and want to watch the movie - but it starts only on 14th of sept!
But... that movie was released like months ago! I downloaded it the day after watching it and now I've got it on dvd...
it is not rare here that movies are realeased times after it was done in europe and US :? such as life...

yeah exactly, that's why me and my friends downlaod movies so we can watch them before they're realesed in my country...

Posted: **Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:17 am**

Rach wrote: Now I'm reading "Little women" by Louisa May Alcott, I needed something comforting after this last book I've read*lol*. It's really a nice book, even for grown-up girls like me:) I enjoy it very much.

I love it. I've read it more than ten times and I would never get tired of that story, those characters... I grew up with Little Women and I still love them :P

Posted: **Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:26 pm**

Yeah, it's such a lovely book :) I can't wait to read "Little boys" and "Jo's boys" too :)

Posted: **Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:38 pm**

LennyeTran wrote:Well, what I mean is that most of his international bestseller books are old, and it doesn't seem like many people I know know him.

Yes, "Never let me go" is not mainstream, certainly not a book to read just for relaxing*lol*. But I found his writting style very, very interesting, the way he describes characters in this book is amazing. Perhaps I will try "The remains of the day" too, after a while.

Posted: **Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:19 pm**

Rach wrote:Yeah, it's such a lovely book :) I can't wait to read "Little boys" and "Jo's boys" too :)

I've got those, too :D

Posted: **Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:56 am**

Dixie wrote:I've got those, too :D

Are they as lovely as the first one? :D

Posted: **Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:39 am**

Rach wrote:
Are they as lovely as the first one? :D

Yes, I've read them all so many times... They are a part of my life already :D

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