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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:33 pm
by iwantmore
Eragon ( although I have read it 6 times )

Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:40 pm
by LinaLu
luckygirl9 wrote:I love reading books&magazines,and the recent book I've finished should be ......the Davinci code!Well if you had read,maybe you would think it fantastic and I just got such feelings.But I haven't got enough time to confirm lots of facts mentioned in it. :?:
I read this book, i also think that it is very good. I´m about to read "Digital Fortress" which is by Dan Brown as well. Does anybody read any other books by Dan Brown or the book Digital Fortress?

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:42 am
by Dixie
LinaLu wrote: I read this book, i also think that it is very good. I´m about to read "Digital Fortress" which is by Dan Brown as well. Does anybody read any other books by Dan Brown or the book Digital Fortress?
I've got his four novels, and I loved them all, except Deception Point.

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:11 pm
by sweets
hi
to me as a one who love reading i finish a book evry two weeks the last book which i finish it today is form russian liter. it called the crime and punishmen it a really good one. i advice every one to read it
cheers to all

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:16 pm
by Dixie
I'm reading some of Shakespeare's plays lately. The last two I've read are Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing. Right now I'm reading As You Like It 8)

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:08 am
by Cypress
sweets wrote:hi
to me as a one who love reading i finish a book evry two weeks the last book which i finish it today is form russian liter. it called the crime and punishmen it a really good one. i advice every one to read it
cheers to all
Oh, I love that book. I’ve read it both in Russian and in English. It is way easier to read it in English than in Russian. The reason is that Dostoevsky often used such long sentence structures, but when translated, most of those long sentences were broken into two or three short ones.
I think the book is great. The characters are so vivid. And so much suffering. I believe it’s one of those books that truly enrich one’s soul.

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:19 pm
by MissLT
Reading The Stolen Child and The Thirteenth Tale.

Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:19 am
by Ksju
Prepairing to read Mary Stewart "The Merlin" trilogy. Maybe anybody read it before..?

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:43 am
by ASG
my last story I'v read was "the man in the iron mask"

it was very great story, but believe me the movie was very worse.

I advise you to read it.

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:11 am
by cuongviet
I have just finished a novel named " Nothing last forever" of Sidney Seldom - a very famous writer. It is so interesting that everybody should read. Besides, It is easy to read too, not uses too much complicated English. :roll:

Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:48 am
by TearHere
I have finished The memoirs of a geisha. I learned some things from the book which helped me with my report about Japan , its culture and customs. Nice read, you have to be open minded and not judgemental of the culture of other countries. Its like actually going there and seeing real geisha. :)

Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:07 am
by Dixie
TearHere wrote:I have finished The memoirs of a geisha. I learned some things from the book which helped me with my report about Japan , its culture and customs. Nice read, you have to be open minded and not judgemental of the culture of other countries. Its like actually going there and seeing real geisha. :)
I loved the book. It made me interested in that world, too.

Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:23 pm
by imad
I have just finished a french book called:"Histoires de pouvoir" but before it I read Dracula, and this one it's a english book.

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:13 pm
by Dixie
Rasheed wrote:I have finished "Moll Flanders" by daniel defoe.
It's good..
Another classic 8)

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:56 pm
by daveng
The book I am reading now is called "Dead Eric gets Virus" , which is talking about a student who is a Hacker and he changes a lot after having an accident.

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:23 pm
by JainaSolo
Rasheed wrote:I read "Gelgamish" story, it's an ancient Iraqian poem…
They found it in "Naynawa", it's wrote on small stone boards.
Gelgamish is that king which looked for Eternal life,
It's like legend of Ashtar and Adonis.
Some poets said that it's the first poem in the history.
I studied a part of it at school and I found it quite interesting, but I've never found enough free time to read it!
The last book I've read is Harry Potter 3...I had already read it almost 10 times, but I love it so much that I never get bored by it although I know the plot by heart :? :roll:

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:30 am
by illusion
Right now I am reading this really fascinating book called "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova. I remember how once Dixie told us about it and ever since that moment I wanted to lay my finger on it and after such a huuuuuge while I finally managed. :D:D:D

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:01 am
by Tora
illusion wrote:Right now I am reading this really fascinating book called "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova. I remember how once Dixie told us about it and ever since that moment I wanted to lay my finger on it and after such a huuuuuge while I finally managed. :D:D:D
Glad to know she has inspired not only me! :lol: Illusion, I bet you'll like the book at least at the beginning. I couldn't put it down last summer until I read it from cover to cover :roll:

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:01 am
by Dixie
I'm about to finish Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. I can't believe I've waited so long to read it. I love that book... Really brilliant. I think it deserves a whole thread. Shall we?

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:58 pm
by Nu
I'm keen on fairy-tails )
So the last one was Alice's adventures in Wonderland ) some incredible stuff )

Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:44 pm
by MissLT
MAUS by Art Spiegelman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:59 pm
by shokin
The last one was :

le journal d'Anne Frank (Anne Frank's diary)

Now I am reading : Unternehmen Barbarossa Der Marsch nach Russland (Project Barbarossa The walk to Russia)

Shokin

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:30 pm
by Cypress
I just finished reading Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. What a long and complex book :!: :!: :!: The first part was pretty much straight forward, but the second one was perplex and confusing. But that is what makes this book so great. Now I really want to watch the movie.
So if someone has nothing to do and feels like reading twelve hundred pages of satire on knighthood, go for it :)

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:20 pm
by Dixie
Cypress wrote:I just finished reading Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. What a long and complex book :!: :!: :!: The first part was pretty much straight forward, but the second one was perplex and confusing. But that is what makes this book so great. Now I really want to watch the movie.
So if someone has nothing to do and feels like reading twelve hundred pages of satire on knighthood, go for it :)
You have read it? Wow I admire you... Most people in Spain haven't read it. They think it's too long and boring. Only the brave read it till the end :lol:

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:43 pm
by Tora
It's more than classical but that's right - too long. Servantes is on the first place in my list of long books I need to read, second one is "Gargantua and Pantagruel" by Rable :? ¿spelled wrong?

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:53 pm
by Vega
I read Russian X-Files recently. My friend advised to me to read Murakami "Norweign Wood", currently I'm reading it. He told that it's interesting book.

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:48 am
by Tora
starting Moby Dick... this is book is my great expectations! Killing two birds with one stone - bought the origin version. Hope I can manage it :roll:

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:15 pm
by Dixie
I should read Moby Dick too since it's a classic of American literature and I've studied its characteristics and main topics :oops: OMG there are so many books I should read.

Well I just finished Teacher Man by Frank McCourt, I had been looking for this book for months, and finally found it in San Francisco.

Now I'm reading a book I bought in London entitled This book will save your life. Not very good but it will be useful for informal vocabulary.

Re: What is the latest book you have read recently?

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:22 pm
by imad
The latest book I have read is in french "l'ame du monde" it means "world's soul", it's a book of science fiction.

Re: What is the latest book you have read recently?

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:05 pm
by Oriani
imad wrote:The latest book I have read is in french "l'ame du monde" it means "world's soul", it's a book of science fiction.
Yes, it is so good.

I'm glad that Cypress read Don Quijote de la Mancha. That's brilliant...

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:07 pm
by Oriani
Dixie wrote:
Now I'm reading a book I bought in London entitled This book will save your life. Not very good but it will be useful for informal vocabulary.
It looks interesting because of that kind of vocabulary!

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:32 am
by Tora
Oriani wrote:
Dixie wrote:
Now I'm reading a book I bought in London entitled This book will save your life. Not very good but it will be useful for informal vocabulary.
It looks interesting because of that kind of vocabulary!
well I may say that a very numerous quantity of informal american vocabulary (taboo even) I obtained reading James Ellroy :wink:

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 1:30 pm
by Oriani
Yes, and it is important to get those espressions also, even If they're informal.. you know! Reading is such the clue to get meaningful knowledge :wink:

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:03 am
by MissLT
LennyeTran wrote:MAUS by Art Spiegelman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus
Have the books online as pictures. If anyone wants to see them (members of EC only!), tell me your email and I'll let you view my photo album. I can't have it public since my album is in the red flag zone of the "X-rated accounts". :roll:

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:20 am
by Vega
LennyeTran wrote:
LennyeTran wrote:MAUS by Art Spiegelman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus
Have the books online as pictures. If anyone wants to see them (members of EC only!), tell me your email and I'll let you view my photo album. I can't have it public since my album is in the red flag zone of the "X-rated accounts". :roll:
Hi :P I want to view it. Here is my e-mail: my-email-box@mail.ru


:D :)

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:20 pm
by MissLT
Yahoo accounts only.

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:34 pm
by Vega
LennyeTran wrote:Yahoo accounts only.

Yahoo? :( Why only yahoo :roll: What should I do? :(

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:15 pm
by MissLT
I don't know how to invite the non-yahoo accounts to view it yet. Right now, I only know how to do it with yahoo members. Sorry!

Hello

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:15 pm
by laetetia
Hi, i'm new here, and come for do friends and the same time to do a homework of the English class.
I'm a book lover, i am read very much.
I like all the fantasy tales, the books for childrens, whit dragons, and princess, whid lords and villians.
The lastest book was "The alquimist" by Pablo Cohelo, at the same time "Adan and Eva's book of live".
Now i'm read "10 negritos" by Agatha Christie.

Re: Hello

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:36 pm
by Cypress
laetetia wrote:Hi, i'm new here, and come for do friends and the same time to do a homework of the English class.
Hello, laetetia! Welcome to EC. We´ll do our best to help you improve your Enlgish! :)
laetetia wrote: Now i'm read "10 negritos" by Agatha Christie.
This is one of my favorite by Agatha Christie. It is also known as And Then There Were None or Ten Little Indians (I guess the original name wouldn´t be ethically correct now). I love Agatha Christie a lot. Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot are awesome.

Re: Hello

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:11 am
by laetetia
Cypress wrote:
laetetia wrote:Hi, i'm new here, and come for do friends and the same time to do a homework of the English class.
Hello, laetetia! Welcome to EC. We´ll do our best to help you improve your Enlgish! :)
laetetia wrote: Now i'm read "10 negritos" by Agatha Christie.
This is one of my favorite by Agatha Christie. It is also known as And Then There Were None or Ten Little Indians (I guess the original name wouldn´t be ethically correct now). I love Agatha Christie a lot. Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot are awesome.
Thank you for answer me...I did not know the English title, thank you for the new information...Like my mother say's "all the days I can learn something new"
For me the best book which never read is "Maria" by Jorge Isaacs, is a romantic novel, beautiful book...

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:44 am
by Vega
LennyeTran wrote:Yahoo accounts only.

terra_incognita_*******.com

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:53 am
by nien
Latest book I read is Ahmadinejad, David di Tengah Angkara Goliath Dunia.
Or in english Ahmadinejad, David amongst World's Goliath Tyranny. It's non-fiction.
Very good book; inspiring, motivating.

I am now reading a book by Hernowo, Indonesian writer, titled Mengikat Makna Sehari-hari dengan Membaca dan Menulis.
Or in English To bind Meanings in daily life by Reading and Writing.

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:57 pm
by heart
DiVinci Code #

Dan Brown 8)

intersting :)

Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:56 pm
by feanor
the latest book that i've read is Blood Work by Michael Connely. It was a very good thriller..

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:34 pm
by Cypress
When laetetia said that she was reading a book by Agatha Christie, I had a great temptation to read something by this author myself. So on my last visit to the closest public library, I grabbed Miss Marple Complete Short Stories. Enjoyed the book a lot.
All the murders were so awful and cold-blooded (and I usually don’t like reading about killings and violence), but I wasn’t so much horrified by the murders themselves as I was impressed by the wittiness of Miss Marple solving them.

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:22 pm
by laetetia
Cypress wrote:When laetetia said that she was reading a book by Agatha Christie, I had a great temptation to read something by this author myself. So on my last visit to the closest public library, I grabbed Miss Marple Complete Short Stories. Enjoyed the book a lot.
All the murders were so awful and cold-blooded (and I usually don’t like reading about killings and violence), but I wasn’t so much horrified by the murders themselves as I was impressed by the wittiness of Miss Marple solving them.
Thanks for that, I glade you thing that about Agatha, she was a grate writer :D

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 4:20 pm
by Tora
Still with Melville
40 chapters are covered, not easy-going and I lack spare time.
And I must say it is a very nice sample - every 10 pages I write out a quotation - full of wisdom.
For everyone who's hesitating wether to read or not (and for those who studied it from the vocabulary point of view :wink: ) I advise to pick it up!

And the book I was reading in subway and university - Le Carre - Smiley's people - a very good author writing about spies...

Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 3:45 am
by ngphuongtu
I've just read "The White Fang" by Jack London, in Vietnamese translation. It was about the wolf'physical and mental development as well as his desire for living. Jack London's style of writing is flexible, imaginative and descriptive. His works are really touching, significant and have humanitarian value.

Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 8:39 am
by Miss. Ladybird
Tales From the Arabian Nights edited by Andrew Lang.