Sorry, can't help you with that. I took that class a while ago, and I always sell my textbooks the next day after the finals.LennyeTran wrote: Textbook? What book is that? I'm curious.
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Hmmm, somehow I though Ksju was a male. I don't know where I got that idea fromTora wrote:Well. Miss Prosecutor! The language is not so poor...Ksju wrote: Liked them a lot or strongly disliked… Hmmm… (Maybe people who is not so exacting to literature – like it, those who prefer good, real literature dislike it…)
For me indeed it’s not so interesting to discuss it. Just to make clear myself…
I’m not really against this book! Of course you may read it of you have a free evening. I spent one – and not so bad…
I’m just talking that we should clearly understand what kind of literature it is. And if there wouldn’t spend so big money on promotion of the book and you wouldn’t see it on every corner I just simple forget about the book on the next day! Like every other book of the kind, any other street detective…
(By the way I must confess I received a little pleasure reading the book - if we still consider it as literature – there’re no characters, no normal idea, and language is very poor. From this point of view it’s really uninteresting.)
Resemble average middling Hollywood action, just running, firing and explosions and nothing more. But it’s better to watch smth like this than read I think.
Just only hope the movie will be a little bit better. (anyway as there will be Jan Reno)
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then let Ksju tell us! i was sure she is SHECypress wrote:Hmmm, somehow I though Ksju was a male. I don't know where I got that idea fromTora wrote:Well. Miss Prosecutor! The language is not so poor...Ksju wrote: Liked them a lot or strongly disliked… Hmmm… (Maybe people who is not so exacting to literature – like it, those who prefer good, real literature dislike it…)
For me indeed it’s not so interesting to discuss it. Just to make clear myself…
I’m not really against this book! Of course you may read it of you have a free evening. I spent one – and not so bad…
I’m just talking that we should clearly understand what kind of literature it is. And if there wouldn’t spend so big money on promotion of the book and you wouldn’t see it on every corner I just simple forget about the book on the next day! Like every other book of the kind, any other street detective…
(By the way I must confess I received a little pleasure reading the book - if we still consider it as literature – there’re no characters, no normal idea, and language is very poor. From this point of view it’s really uninteresting.)
Resemble average middling Hollywood action, just running, firing and explosions and nothing more. But it’s better to watch smth like this than read I think.
Just only hope the movie will be a little bit better. (anyway as there will be Jan Reno)
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Miss Prosecutor..! Uuummm… I like it! (May I use it now as my second name??? Please…)Tora wrote:Well. Miss Prosecutor! The language is not so poor as you want it to be, english version is just amazing, i must say russian translation is poor! that's a big difference!Ksju wrote:Cypress wrote: So far, all the people I talked to about Dan Brown’s books either liked them a lot or strongly disliked them. I think it might be a good idea to read at least one of them, so I can actually have my own opinion.
:)
Liked them a lot or strongly disliked… Hmmm… (Maybe people who is not so exacting to literature – like it, those who prefer good, real literature dislike it…)
For me indeed it’s not so interesting to discuss it. Just to make clear myself…
I’m not really against this book! Of course you may read it of you have a free evening. I spent one – and not so bad…
I’m just talking that we should clearly understand what kind of literature it is. And if there wouldn’t spend so big money on promotion of the book and you wouldn’t see it on every corner I just simple forget about the book on the next day! Like every other book of the kind, any other street detective…
(By the way I must confess I received a little pleasure reading the book - if we still consider it as literature – there’re no characters, no normal idea, and language is very poor. From this point of view it’s really uninteresting.)
Resemble average middling Hollywood action, just running, firing and explosions and nothing more. But it’s better to watch smth like this than read I think.
Just only hope the movie will be a little bit better. (anyway as there will be Jan Reno)
And about good-bad litarature... every one considers it from his own point of view... Sure there is no need to talk about Dostoevski, wether he is talented or not... it goes without saying!
talking about modern literature (excluding beloved russian detectives of course...) not every new releasing books is worth paying attention on it, but Dan Brown is among those writers that i would like to read (if i have a spare evening ). I don't care if he has stolen the plot! the book i read by him i liked... and nothing more...
by the way... here is another one crazy-on-Jan-Reno...
Please don’t involve me in all this… !!! (But I’ve had some smiles reading Tora’s note)
Just… I know about translation, but still… I prefer bigger masters.
And I’m not talking about bad-good books if you still think so! And modern literature too…
Just usually real literature (like one of kinds of art) exists and just literature for the masses, popular literature. This poplit may be good and qualitative too but it always be a books for an evening and nothing more. One, two nice evenings – if book is a little bit qualitative and talented – but then in a week you simply forget this book. That’s all!
P.S. By the way Tora, as you may understand me, Don’t you think that maybe Akunin’s series about Fandorin as the same kind of literature is more artistic and better?
I’m not really crazy-on-Jan-Reno (interesting term)…
But he is smth special it’s true and a Frenchman too…
Thank you.
Miss Prosecutor.
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i decided not to use quote as it would be toooo long to read!
sure you may! I have no lisence yet.
I read akunin and i don't like it pretty much! just one evening! i wonder how the authors write in a manner when you are not fascinated but still can't help reading... though you see it is not big writter... the same goes to akunin!
Please, Ksju, don't make me be involved in any kind of misconception between! I see that i'm not speaking properly about my tastes but keep judging others... forgive me if i said something wrong or ... i don't know...
The fact is Jan Reno is spanish! amazing! it doubles my admiration!!! 8)
sure you may! I have no lisence yet.
I read akunin and i don't like it pretty much! just one evening! i wonder how the authors write in a manner when you are not fascinated but still can't help reading... though you see it is not big writter... the same goes to akunin!
Please, Ksju, don't make me be involved in any kind of misconception between! I see that i'm not speaking properly about my tastes but keep judging others... forgive me if i said something wrong or ... i don't know...
The fact is Jan Reno is spanish! amazing! it doubles my admiration!!! 8)
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Indeed, I absolutely didn’t try to involve smb in smth! :? (And one of the reasons is my language is not good enough …) And of course I have no any offences on you or smb else. I as you just try to make clear my thoughts on a topic…Tora wrote: I read akunin and i don't like it pretty much! just one evening! i wonder how the authors write in a manner when you are not fascinated but still can't help reading... though you see it is not big writter... the same goes to akunin!
Please, Ksju, don't make me be involved in any kind of misconception between! I see that i'm not speaking properly about my tastes but keep judging others... forgive me if i said something wrong or ... i don't know...
The fact is Jan Reno is spanish! amazing! it doubles my admiration!!! 8)
Jan Reno… Spanish… (no matter indeed… still… veryveryvery cute)
But I read that he was born in Morocco (not Spain and not France). But it’s really no matter!
And you call me “another one crazy-on-Jan-Reno”… You see I’m too ill-informed to be another…
And, yes, as for Akunin, I’m not his fan. Just I think his works are more good-made from artistic positions.
Miss Prosecutor.
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I liked the beginning, but when it came to the end I was really disappointed. To me he was trying to put everything in for a rush end or a cheesy, Hollywood end.Ksju wrote: :)
Liked them a lot or strongly disliked… Hmmm… (Maybe people who is not so exacting to literature – like it, those who prefer good, real literature dislike it…)
For me indeed it’s not so interesting to discuss it. Just to make clear myself…
I’m not really against this book! Of course you may read it of you have a free evening. I spent one – and not so bad…
I’m just talking that we should clearly understand what kind of literature it is. And if there wouldn’t spend so big money on promotion of the book and you wouldn’t see it on every corner I just simple forget about the book on the next day! Like every other book of the kind, any other street detective…
(By the way I must confess I received a little pleasure reading the book - if we still consider it as literature – there’re no characters, no normal idea, and language is very poor. From this point of view it’s really uninteresting.)
Resemble average middling Hollywood action, just running, firing and explosions and nothing more. But it’s better to watch smth like this than read I think.
Just only hope the movie will be a little bit better. (anyway as there will be Jan Reno)
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5 books
Hi everybody
re-entered and visited the club after a bit long while, and I found this thread which I would like to reply to.
As I write I try to list in my mind the five books I would recommend, or better, I was impressed through.
1 - The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
2 - La Nausée (Jean Paul Sartre)
3 - The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
4 - Animal Farm (George Orwell)
5 - America, Der Prozess, Das Schloss (Franz Kafka) *
* sorry but I can't separate any part of Kafkas trilogy, and it fascinated me too much.. I had to list the whole of it.. :?
A big ciao
Andrea :)
re-entered and visited the club after a bit long while, and I found this thread which I would like to reply to.
As I write I try to list in my mind the five books I would recommend, or better, I was impressed through.
1 - The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
2 - La Nausée (Jean Paul Sartre)
3 - The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
4 - Animal Farm (George Orwell)
5 - America, Der Prozess, Das Schloss (Franz Kafka) *
* sorry but I can't separate any part of Kafkas trilogy, and it fascinated me too much.. I had to list the whole of it.. :?
A big ciao
Andrea :)
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Hello Dixie. Although I have never read the book with title "The lake of dead languages" as you mentioned, it really makes me so curious. Sound good title, could you tell me a short summary about its content, please?Dixie wrote:1.- The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
2.- Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
3.- Digital Fortress, Dan Brown
4.- The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
5.- The Lake of Dead Languages, Carol Goodman
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Thanks so much. :)
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well, i personally like Antione de Saint Exupery's book, The little prince... i like it very much and yet everytime i read it i feel it's worth reading again...
yana, i hope you'll like that book in case you decide to read it... it's not a long story but it's nice...
freinds, let me know your opinions about it... :)
yana, i hope you'll like that book in case you decide to read it... it's not a long story but it's nice...
freinds, let me know your opinions about it... :)
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I like reading books very much,but i don't know some famous books wrriten in English.Can you introduce some books to me?
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Recommended books
Oh dear!
My list of books to recommend is endless like The Ednless Story by Michael Ende :D , but as my favourites are fantasy books, here are some of my gratest loves:
1. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
2. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
3. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
4. Inkheart by the german author Cornelia Funke, an enchanting triology for all those who love books, the next is Inkspell and the third one is yet to be published
5. Thoe's journey by Catherine Clement, don't know, if the title is written correctly, because I've read it only in German and Polish. It's a bokk about all the main religion's of the world
Okay, that's all for today
My list of books to recommend is endless like The Ednless Story by Michael Ende :D , but as my favourites are fantasy books, here are some of my gratest loves:
1. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
2. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
3. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
4. Inkheart by the german author Cornelia Funke, an enchanting triology for all those who love books, the next is Inkspell and the third one is yet to be published
5. Thoe's journey by Catherine Clement, don't know, if the title is written correctly, because I've read it only in German and Polish. It's a bokk about all the main religion's of the world
Okay, that's all for today
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Anyone can recommend notable book from stephen king ?
Hi everyone . I have read some stephen king's novel and impress his language I want to read another novel from king , but someone said " Many novel from king is impress me and many novel from him is tedious ".
Anyone can recommend stephen's king book for me or help me to choose book from this list ?
1 Cujo
2 Christine
3 Rose madder
4 Heart in Atlantis
5 Skelton crew
Thank every recommendation .
Anyone can recommend stephen's king book for me or help me to choose book from this list ?
1 Cujo
2 Christine
3 Rose madder
4 Heart in Atlantis
5 Skelton crew
Thank every recommendation .
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Hi,
I've been reading some mysteries and have almost finished hose books.
Has anybody joined in this forum read recently a interesting book? If you have, I want to know and read it!! I like mystery which contain a bit of joke or humor and criticism.
Now I'm readig "Jack Frost detective series" in English and some of Japanese comic
I've been reading some mysteries and have almost finished hose books.
Has anybody joined in this forum read recently a interesting book? If you have, I want to know and read it!! I like mystery which contain a bit of joke or humor and criticism.
Now I'm readig "Jack Frost detective series" in English and some of Japanese comic
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Re: Recommendation
I don't read a lot of that type of books. But I already finish Diez negritos, of Agatha Christie, and it's a grate book...Shimami wrote:Hi,
I've been reading some mysteries and have almost finished hose books.
Has anybody joined in this forum read recently a interesting book? If you have, I want to know and read it!! I like mystery which contain a bit of joke or humor and criticism.
Now I'm readig "Jack Frost detective series" in English and some of Japanese comic
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Hi, laetetia.
I'm very happy I've got a reply from you. As soon as I recived your reply, I searched What conutry is Costa Rica. It's very different from Japan.
I've also read some misteries by Agatha Cristie in Japanese but not in other languages.
In other hand, I'm interested in Spanish and not regulatory I'm studying Spanish by watching on TV and listening music.
If you know, I want to read some nursery books in Spanish.
Noriko
I'm very happy I've got a reply from you. As soon as I recived your reply, I searched What conutry is Costa Rica. It's very different from Japan.
I've also read some misteries by Agatha Cristie in Japanese but not in other languages.
In other hand, I'm interested in Spanish and not regulatory I'm studying Spanish by watching on TV and listening music.
If you know, I want to read some nursery books in Spanish.
Noriko
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Well, sorry for answer until now. I had big problems with my computer.Shimami wrote:Hi, laetetia.
I'm very happy I've got a reply from you. As soon as I recived your reply, I searched What conutry is Costa Rica. It's very different from Japan.
I've also read some misteries by Agatha Cristie in Japanese but not in other languages.
In other hand, I'm interested in Spanish and not regulatory I'm studying Spanish by watching on TV and listening music.
If you know, I want to read some nursery books in Spanish.
Noriko
But maybe you can try to read some little tales for kids. There you can learn vocabulary and at the same time you don't be very confuse. Or that I think so.
For me Japan is a gratefuly country, I am really in love of your country, by your history and traditions, every is wonderful there!
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Hi, laetia.
I've afraid my reply had been hard to understand or
there had been some inapropriate things in my reply.
By the way I'm studying Espanol somtimes, only two words I've learned are vamos and ora... and most difficult in studying Espanol is the completely change in one word, for example "yo soy..." and "tu eles..."
Sorry for I wrote long mail unconcered with this forum.
I'm searching some book written espanol in the nearest book store.
I'm going to home. Buenos noches
I've afraid my reply had been hard to understand or
there had been some inapropriate things in my reply.
By the way I'm studying Espanol somtimes, only two words I've learned are vamos and ora... and most difficult in studying Espanol is the completely change in one word, for example "yo soy..." and "tu eles..."
Sorry for I wrote long mail unconcered with this forum.
I'm searching some book written espanol in the nearest book store.
I'm going to home. Buenos noches
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Shimami wrote:Hi, laetia.
I've afraid my reply had been hard to understand or
there had been some inapropriate things in my reply.
By the way I'm studying Espanol somtimes, only two words I've learned are vamos and ora... and most difficult in studying Espanol is the completely change in one word, for example "yo soy..." and "tu eles..."
Sorry for I wrote long mail unconcered with this forum.
I'm searching some book written espanol in the nearest book store.
I'm going to home. Buenos noches
Can I fix some mistakes?
You most to write: "hora" not "ora", "tu eres" not "tu eles" and finally "Buenas noches" not "buenos noches"
However, it is ok. I know for the foreign people the Spanish (Español) are very difficult, because we have a lot of words, verbs, adjectives whit the same meaning, and different pronunciation or things like that...
But if you like I can help you, and you can help to me whit my Japanese :)
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Hi, laetetia.
Thank you for correcting my spelling.
I didn't check the spell and I remembered "h" was not pronunced in Espanol when you corrected.
In this summer I'm going to visit to Brazil and the language in Brazil is Portoghese. My friend, who teach Espanol in university in Japan, tell me Espanol and Portoghese are very similar and if they can talk Espanol, they can communicate easily.
Is it true?
By the way, I want to know that Japanese commic or anime are popoular in your country like Europe or America. If you like it, I could give you some information of them.
Thank you for correcting my spelling.
I didn't check the spell and I remembered "h" was not pronunced in Espanol when you corrected.
In this summer I'm going to visit to Brazil and the language in Brazil is Portoghese. My friend, who teach Espanol in university in Japan, tell me Espanol and Portoghese are very similar and if they can talk Espanol, they can communicate easily.
Is it true?
By the way, I want to know that Japanese commic or anime are popoular in your country like Europe or America. If you like it, I could give you some information of them.
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Any funny book recommand
Hello, everybody, I am a Hong Konger. nice to meet you all. I hope that I can read a book which funny and easy to read. Because my English is not very good.
I am a Form7 student in hong kong. And finish the a-level examination.
Anybody have some good book for me?
I am a Form7 student in hong kong. And finish the a-level examination.
Anybody have some good book for me?
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The best short story that you've read
Hi guys,Its a long time i've not been here.any way...
I just wanna ask you something.
What is the best short story that you've read up to now? You can mention more than one.
please note the name of the author too.
Thanks beforehand
I just wanna ask you something.
What is the best short story that you've read up to now? You can mention more than one.
please note the name of the author too.
Thanks beforehand