|
 |
What’s everyone reading? | ||
 Language Learning Forum : Books, Literature & Reading |  | |
| aegi Diglot Newbie Korea, South Joined 5988 days ago 33 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English*, Korean | Message 25 of 177 20 September 2009 at 1:22pm | IP Logged |
|
I've just 60 pages left of 東아시아의 戰爭과 平和 1 by 李三星, to be followed by vol. 2 - and vol. 3 when it's released.
After that, perhaps: 朱子學과 陽明學 by 島田虔次 (Kenji Shimada) or 太極解義 by 朱熹. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Gatsby Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6165 days ago 57 posts - 129 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Dutch | Message 26 of 177 26 September 2009 at 8:34am | IP Logged |
|
Guillaume Musso's 'Et Après...' (French)
1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5907 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 27 of 177 26 September 2009 at 10:07am | IP Logged |
|
Reading Harry Potter in French now... midway first chapter of Harry Potter et l'école des
Sorciers... after that 6 more books to go ^_^ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5989 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 28 of 177 26 September 2009 at 7:27pm | IP Logged |
|
I'm halfway through "Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban" (german), but i just found "Der Kleine Hobbit" by Tolkien at a bookstore yesterday, so I've read a little bit of that too. Since most of my German reading experience has been Harry Potter, it's so refreshing to see the completely different writing style in this Tolkien translation.
Next on my list after that is Der Schwarm by Frank Schätzing. I've already read the English translation, so i'm looking forward to reading the original. Apparently the movie is currently in production, to be released in 2011. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6319 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 29 of 177 25 October 2009 at 5:27am | IP Logged |
|
Almost finished reading "Der Vorleser" by Bernhard Schlink. It's a pretty good read, consistently interesting but quite short. Should finish it in the next couple of days (I'm a super slow reader...).
1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6771 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 30 of 177 25 October 2009 at 6:52am | IP Logged |
|
I'm reading the mystery novel 小豆色のテーブル by Jiro Akagawa. It's the tenth book in the series.
1 person has voted this message useful | |
| maaku Senior Member United States Joined 5577 days ago 359 posts - 562 votes Speaks: English* | Message 31 of 177 25 October 2009 at 7:09am | IP Logged |
|
I'm reading "Der Vorleser" as well.. it's my first major novel in German, so the going is
tough. I am captivated by the story and the writing, however. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| pohaku Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5654 days ago 192 posts - 367 votes Speaks: English*, Persian Studies: Arabic (classical), French, German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 32 of 177 25 October 2009 at 7:58am | IP Logged |
|
I just read the short story "Merkwuerdige Nachricht von einem andern Stern," by Hermann Hesse, which means I'm about halfway through a book of his collected tales called Die Maerchen (Suhrkamp, 1975). The story, written in 1915, was a simple, powerful anti-war fairy tale about a young man who is flown by a bird from his own peaceful kingdom to a violent place resembling our own planet. After returning home and making his report, he isn't clear whether or not he merely dreamed the entire episode, so odd it seems to him and his people.
1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
