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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6430 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 41 of 77 04 February 2009 at 2:34pm | IP Logged | ||
I haven't read anything by Rushdie or any of the other 4, but I'd be willing to give any of them a try. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6461 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 42 of 77 04 February 2009 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am sorry to hear you can't join in yet! Maybe you want to suggest a book for Russian or Ukrainian?
Personally it doesn't bother me to read books that don't match my beliefs; I sometimes even find it particularly interesting. I enjoyed "Atlas Shrugged" a lot for example. I have to strongly disagree with the economic policy it's suggesting; but it really helped me understand where some people and some ideas are coming from (in the USA it was voted the 2nd most influential book after the Bible), things that I was utterly unable to understand before. I second your suggestion of "A People's History of the United States" for a non-fiction book - I have started to read it and it's really interesting. I'm going to look into the other ones as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TheElvenLord Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6071 days ago 915 posts - 927 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Cornish, English* Studies: Spanish, French, German Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 43 of 77 04 February 2009 at 4:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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For those more advanced in English and are interested in Aviation - I reccommend "Pooley's Air Pilot Manuals Volumes 1 - 7" - They are very good. But even I (native) need to learn words from there :D
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| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5784 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi | Message 44 of 77 05 February 2009 at 3:35am | IP Logged | ||
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For Russian, I suggest Борис Акунин "Азазель", for detective stories lovers.
http://lib.ru/RUSS_DETEKTIW/BAKUNIN/azazel.txt 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6669 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 45 of 77 05 February 2009 at 4:10am | IP Logged | ||
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Hehe, no offense, but I'd have to de-recommend Akunin. I have only read one book, "The Snow Queen" was the translated name but it may have been that one, and I found it to be such crap that I actually threw away the book once I finished. And I'm a book collector :O
But I don't think I'd have the time to participate in the Russian book circle anyway since I read so slowly, so no need to mind me :) As for Rushdie, I've read 1,5 of his books, and he sure can write, but in my opinion, you can easily dislike his (fictional) style. His books also seem to be quite "heavy". It took me very long to finish "Shame", but it was an amazing story. There's definitely a lot of discussion material in his books though, so he's probably a very interesting choice! Finally, I second The God Delusion, we have it at home and it would be a good occasion to actually get around to reading it ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6885 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 47 of 77 05 February 2009 at 1:48pm | IP Logged | ||
Not surprising, considering a discussion we had here a while back where it turned out that even an everyday household word such as "aileron" was unknown to many native speakers :o). I am not familiar with Pooley's Air Pilot Manuals, but I do have a copy of Pooley's Flight Guide, United Kingdom and Ireland of 1986 right here in my hand. Popham airfield on page 205 is interesting: located 6 nm SW of Basingstoke. Landing fee 1 pound (would you believe it) and parking 50 p per night. Runway 08/26 914m grass. All single-engined light aircraft welcome at pilot's own risk. A low pass to clear grazing sheep from landing area is approved. etc. :oD I am not sure of the literary value of this but the nice maps are a bonus. Apart from that, I am not bothered either, to read material that is against my beliefs, provided it is interesting otherwise. If anything non-fiction was chosen I'd give it a pass in all likelihood, I find non-fiction boring normally, but then I might skip a month here and there anyway. Edited by Hencke on 05 February 2009 at 3:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6307 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 48 of 77 06 February 2009 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I might even recommend God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens either in addition to (might be considered overkill) or instead of the God Delusion, mainly because I find it to be a lot more eloquent and writing is really quite stunning. I think it would be of great help to those wanting to improve their English vocabularly. But The God Delusion is definitely a good choice in any case. Edited by ChristopherB on 06 February 2009 at 7:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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