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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #440 on: December 27, 2010, 02:55:21 pm »
Finished it about week ago or so... now reading stuff for school - I will need to do a seminary work on it and present it in front of the other students.

It's Yiddish Civilisation by Paul Kriwaczek:

Czech version looks like this: :)
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #441 on: December 28, 2010, 06:16:18 pm »
Seems like an interesting reading, Kris. The covers look beautiful, too!

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #442 on: December 28, 2010, 06:19:33 pm »
I'm sorry... but...

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #443 on: December 28, 2010, 08:32:54 pm »
What do You find funny about it?  :blink:
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #444 on: December 28, 2010, 08:34:20 pm »
You arrived too late... A weird wizard made some changes with words, and instead of saying "A", it appeared "B". Unluckily, Notessomes made the wizard stop a few time before you joining us today  :fish:

PS. I that post, it appeared

"Life long and prosper

Mr. Spock"

instead the "Cheers, Markus".

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #445 on: December 31, 2010, 06:44:40 am »
Borrow some books from school library just now :whistle:
Fromm Erich Escape from Freedom
I became interested in Fromm's thought from the course Marxism in the World. Yesterday I finished its exams but I still want to some books on it.
Faust
want to read it again :bow:
Fang Bi (Mao Dun) Norse mythology ABC
A surprise when I searched for Faust. I didn't know this writer had edited such a book. It seem to be a great one to review these story. :wOOt:
Stefan Zweig Chess
I like Zweig so no more explaination :biggrin:

For the winter holiday I could keep these until March, I am selecting my holiday storage :lol3:
Some books I have still not find, I will go there again after my finals finished :btfly:<<<let me try this :lol:
Tlön, Lemuria, צִיּוֹן, Lisboa, Stockholm, Лю́берцы, Venezia.

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #446 on: January 17, 2011, 07:41:46 pm »
Currently reading Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhyss for English, and The Modern Middle East by Mehran Kamrava for History.
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #447 on: January 17, 2011, 09:19:07 pm »
Currently re-reading "La ciudad y los perros (title that was horrible translated to English as The time of the Hero :disgust: )" by the last Nobel Prize laureate, Mario Vargas Llosa
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #448 on: May 27, 2011, 08:12:04 pm »
But then again, who does.

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #449 on: May 28, 2011, 09:26:51 am »
Looks like fun, Kris! do you enjoy it?

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #450 on: May 28, 2011, 09:39:07 am »
Yes - I am reading quite slowly cause it is in English but I like it. It is from that author who wrote the novel Chocolate - later there was based a movie on it with Johny Depp and Juliet Binoche :)
I like Chocolate novel a lot so when I saw this while working at the bookshop I bought it - got to it only now though. But I already found out there's Czech translation so I want to buy it too ... cause some words I really do not understand - seem to me as some slang only and cannot find anywhere what does it mean.

I can send You the book later to read it :) I think it's going to be awesome :)
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #451 on: May 28, 2011, 10:24:39 am »
Oh, slang in original books! That's really a challenge - hard to understand but highly interesting once you've got the hang of it. Yeah, comparing to the translation helps. Sometimes it's enough to read the unknown words out loud - when it's just dialect this will help you to understand. But when it's really you don't have a chance unless you've found some really good online dictionary.

Wow, what an offer! Yeah, sure, I'd love to borrow it. I can just take it home in August. :)

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #452 on: May 28, 2011, 10:31:25 am »


Prague's Cementery, from Umberto Eco. No, it has nothing to do with the fact I'm going to Prague  :lol3:
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #453 on: May 28, 2011, 10:48:12 am »
:roll:

How do You like it? So far I have never read anything by Eco... but they say it's good tough quite a lot complicated by the way he writes.
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #454 on: May 28, 2011, 10:58:30 am »
I've just started reading it, I can't give an opinion yet. But I've already read some Eco books (The name of the Rose, Baudolino, The Focault Pendulum), and I like him  :innocent:
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #455 on: June 03, 2011, 09:27:53 pm »
I finished the book Runemarks. It's actually very sad to me somehow....

But there are certainly a things to remember. :)
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #456 on: June 11, 2011, 12:05:39 pm »
Markus, have You got the book? I sent it on Monday.
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #457 on: June 14, 2011, 08:15:22 pm »
Indeed, Kris, that package was from you! :wOOt:  :wub:

There was a package in the mail that arrived last Thursday but I wasn't at home. Due to Pentecost, today ways my first chance to fetch it. Thank you so much! It would have been very kind if I could have taken it back home from Prague, but you've even sent it to me.

Thank you very much. I'm really looking forward to reading it - at a first glance it looks very interesting indeed.

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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #458 on: June 16, 2011, 05:53:01 pm »
I'm glad it arrived fine :)
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Re: Now reading...
« Reply #459 on: June 19, 2011, 10:37:13 pm »
I've just started reading it, I can't give an opinion yet. But I've already read some Eco books (The name of the Rose, Baudolino, The Focault Pendulum), and I like him  :innocent:
I also like Eco. Even can say he's one of my fave writers.
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