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| flabbergasted Triglot Groupie Latvia Joined 6142 days ago 75 posts - 97 votes  Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Latvian Studies: Arabic (classical), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin, Serbo-Croatian, Catalan, Persian | Message 1 of 1 12 July 2013 at 12:15pm | IP Logged |
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I consider myself somewhere between intermediate and upper-intermediate as far as
reading in German is concerned, and have consistently come up against the problem of finding a good unadapted book to read. I tried reading fairy tales, and children's literature, but despite the relatively simple language I didn't enjoy the content that much. I would love to read such writers as Thomas Mann, Peter Weiss and Uwe Johnson, but they're still too difficult for me. Recently I've made a discovery for myself. This is not a book originally written in German, but it seems to me to be the perfect reading material for the level I am at present. This is "Sinuhe der Ägypter" by Mika Waltari. The book is 800 pages long, very interesting, intelligent, but not too complicated for a learner. If anyone has problems similar to mine, I recommend checking it out. For all I know, it might be that bridge that might eventually lead to more complex high-brow literature in German. Here is the link http://www.amazon.de/Sinuhe-%C3%84gypter-Historischer-Mika- Waltari/dp/3404158113/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373623 550&sr=1- 1&keywords=waltari+sinuhe 9 persons have voted this message useful |
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