Not yet. Have you? If so, would you recommend it?Dixie wrote:I read it last year :) Have you read Jane Eyre?illusion wrote:I am reading now "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte. It's a gripping story with lots of passion in it...
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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.
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.
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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.
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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?
By the way..those mythology books are too interesting,aren't they?
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The book I'vr read recently
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.
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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...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
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he has his own book-shelf in my favourite bookshop and his own place in my heartDixie wrote: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...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
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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...Tora wrote: he has his own book-shelf in my favourite bookshop and his own place in my heart
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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...Dixie wrote: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...Tora wrote: he has his own book-shelf in my favourite bookshop and his own place in my heart
by the way in Catalon is "j" pronounced in some other way than anywhere in Spain?? like "g" (an english one I mean) :?
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Exactly! I haven't seen the movie yet. Did you read or watch it?Dixie wrote:Oh, that might be the novel in which the movie Just Like Heaven was inspired, right?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.
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Lucky you! I have read it either and want to watch the movie - but it starts only on 14th of sept!illusion wrote:I have recently seen that movie too :) It was really cute :)Dixie wrote:I have seen it twice... Really, really sweet story.Arale wrote: Exactly! I haven't seen the movie yet. Did you read or watch it?
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it is not rare here that movies are realeased times after it was done in europe and US :? such as life...Dixie wrote:But... that movie was released like months ago! I downloaded it the day after watching it and now I've got it on dvd...Tora wrote: Lucky you! I have read it either and want to watch the movie - but it starts only on 14th of sept!
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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.
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.
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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.Rach wrote:Why not? :) How did you find it?LennyeTran wrote: I've read that book also. I thought I wouldn't find anyone at EC reading this book.
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.
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yeah exactly, that's why me and my friends downlaod movies so we can watch them before they're realesed in my country...Tora wrote:it is not rare here that movies are realeased times after it was done in europe and US :? such as life...Dixie wrote:But... that movie was released like months ago! I downloaded it the day after watching it and now I've got it on dvd...Tora wrote: Lucky you! I have read it either and want to watch the movie - but it starts only on 14th of sept!
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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 :PRach 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.
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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.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.