Books

[LaganLove]

So I will start a new thread ... wohooo... and because I love reading and also joined the AFF-Book club I just thought "Hey, why not start a book thread in the forum!?" So here I go...

I guess I should start with books that I've already read, right? So my favourits are...
in English:
- Nick Hornby "A Long Way Down"
- Michael Cunningham "The Hours"
- Jane Austen "Persuasion"
- Virigina Woolf "Mrs Dalloway" & "The Voyage Out"
- Katie MacAlister "You Slay Me"
- Karen Joy Fowler "The Jane Austen Book Club"

in German (although some are foreign authors, I just love their translations):
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Von der Liebe und anderen Dämonen" & "100 Jahre Einsamkeit"
- Albert Camus "Der Glückliche Tod"
- Birgit Vanderbeke - "Gut Genug"
- Uwe Timm "Die Entdeckung der Currywurst"
- Bernhard Schlink "Der Vorleser"

Right now I'm reading a few books, for studies I'm reading Ingeborg Bachmann "Malina" for comparison with Virginia Woolfs "Orlando" ... but in my (spare) free time I'm reading Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" because Alison just recommened it in the book club and was sooo excited about it... I ... just don't know... maybe I have to read a little bit more of the book... it's huge. I was shoked when I got it! My edition has 703 pages but the font is like size 6 or even smaller. I actually thought about buying a little magnifying glass for it because it's so hard reading it continiously - at night Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images.

[Robert]

I have to admit that I didn't read books in the last time. Out of your favorites, I only read "Der Vorleser" at school, and I didn't like it. But that's a problem with most books we had to read, it's somehow different from reading a book in your spare time.

A book I liked and remember is "The wave" by Morton Rhue, just another book we read at school (well, we read the German translation). Oh, and I read a lot of the "Winnetou" books by Karl May when I visited my grand parents in the holidays. Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images.

[LaganLove]

We never read "Der Vorleser" in school, but I had to read it for a seminar at university and I never liked books that I had to read there until this book. I bought it, just read a little bit while driving come (with the tram of course - don't read and drive Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images. ) and I missed my stop-station. It's so beautiful written ... full of little details and little secrets that will be revealed (or not) just from time to time... and ... it's just wonderful. I think I wouldn't have like it in my school-time, like I never liked Goethe's "Faust" but... reading it again just last year... I have to admit, I liked it... I liked the very sense and sensibility (ha ha) in it and the truth... the honest truth of everybody's life.
I really just love reading... I'm always having a book with me, everytime ... I had one with me at the AFF concert in Dresden and Mannheim, though I didn't had the time to read then, but... I was prepared. I'm reading two or three books a month. I'm a bad sleeper, so I just need something to relax and get my mind into... better than watching bullshit on TV Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images.
I'm still 'fighting' with "The Fountainhead"...

[LaganLove]

Oooh and I'm reading another book ... "I Live Here" by Mia Kirshner and some other authors / novelists / graphic-designers ... it's heart-breaking, but so clearly written and honest... and ... damn, I can't find the right words in English, but Mia Kirshner had the 'balls' to go to these places and just give the forgotten ones the chance to have a voice again... she is so passionate about this project, you just have to admire her!

I also can recommend "Notes from My Travels" by Angelina Jolie, it's also very honest and profound!

[Emzilinie]

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Right now I'm reading a book called 'One Day' by David Nicholls and it's..how can I put it..quaint. It's a bit trashy in a way - something I will be lending my mother. But it's nice and light hearted and a good way to switch off from my dissertation reading.

My two favourite books ever are:
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.

They are so different from each other which is quite funny but they are both pretty...kinda grand books.

I'm also trawling my way through the epics that are the Anne Rice 'Vampire Chronicles' - Just started 'The Vampire Lestat' and it's kinda heart breaking!

For uni this year I read a book called 'Daughters of Decadence' which had a short story in there called 'The Yellow Wallpaper' - I'd advise anyone who believes in feminism to read that story (I'll find it online and post a link) it's quite an empowering tale.

I could go on and on about books I swear!
So I'll end here and if more discussion arises I will be there! Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images.

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This is a link for an online version of The Yellow Wallpaper

It's split into sections, but it's the right story!

Enjoy.

http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/pub...lYell.html

[LaganLove]

Well, well, well... I haven't been online for ages now... I feel terrible Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images.

But I was excited to see that Emily and I share the same interest in Virginia Woolf and femismn - did you read "A Room of One's Own"? I read it twice for my Master-piece *hihi* ... and really got into the femismn theories of the 18th and 19th century.

At the moment I'm reading two books:
James Frey - Bright Shiny Morning
L. Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

BTW: I never really finished Any Rand's "The Fountainhead" ... it was just too much information and so little time for me... I guess, when I'm back home, I'm gonna start again and just be patient with the story...

[LaganLove]

Thanks for the recommendation... when I saw the name "Christopher Moore" in your post... I was kinda "Mhm, sounds familiar" ... and I've been looking through my book shelf (which is nearly fallen apart *sigh*) and ... there it was "Blood Sucking Fiends". It was quite funny too, so I guess I'm gonna buy "A Dirty Job".

Can anyone say something about the Charlaine Harris books? I saw that she has 2 main stories, one is the True Blood aka Sookie Stakehouse story and then Lily Basterd... or something... in a fictional town called Shakespeare... I have finished the Lincoln Rhyme stories by Jeffrey Deaver ... and I wanted to read something funny instead now. And I read a German translation of a Kathy Reichs "Dr. Tempe Brennan" (Bones) stuff... and it was ... bad. I love the TV show, but the book I read, argh... so could it be just the translation or the original writing?