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jacana54 (X) 
Uruguai
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| I just made a note of several titles ... | Aug 21, 2008 |
Hi,
This is most enjoyable but practically impossible:
In Spanish:
Un viejo que leía novelas de amor, Luis Sepúlveda
El general en su laberinto, G. García Márquez
In English:
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (read it in high school and several times after that)
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
In translation:
País de nieve, Yasunari Kawabata
Text books:
"Cours de Langue et Civ... See more Hi,
This is most enjoyable but practically impossible:
In Spanish:
Un viejo que leía novelas de amor, Luis Sepúlveda
El general en su laberinto, G. García Márquez
In English:
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (read it in high school and several times after that)
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
In translation:
País de nieve, Yasunari Kawabata
Text books:
"Cours de Langue et Civilisation Françaises", Mauger, Hachette
These books (printed in 1955!), together with family stories and conversations, made me nostalgic for a country I had never visited. When I finally made it to Paris, it felt like home... pretty good for textbooks!
Lucía ▲ Collapse
| | | | | More books ... | Aug 21, 2008 |
1. My favourite book when I was 19 years old
The golden notebook by Doris Lessing
2. My favourite book when I was in my twenties
The bone people by Keri Hulme
3. Favourite Dutch book
Het geheim by Anna Enquist
4. Favourite Spanish book
Nada by Carmen Laforet
There are so many more books I enjoyed, so it is difficult to mention just a few, let alone just one ...
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Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson.
El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
El hombre mediocre, by José Ingenieros
What a difficult post for people who love books and reading!
| | | | Débora D'Eramo
Argentina
Local time: 12:25
Membro (2005)
inglês para espanhol
CRIADOR(A) DO TÓPICO | It is certainly a tough choice... | Aug 21, 2008 |
Although my all-time favorite is Alice, I enjoyed many others, such as The Aleph by JL Borges, The Lord of the Rings, all the tales by EA Poe, and so on.
As an only child, I had plenty of time to entertain myself reading, and I remember spending the siesta time with An old fashioned girl, a lesser known book by LM Alcott. I also loved Treasure Island, all the Sissi series, all the Vernes books but specially 20,000 leagues under the sea, Gulliver's trav... See more Although my all-time favorite is Alice, I enjoyed many others, such as The Aleph by JL Borges, The Lord of the Rings, all the tales by EA Poe, and so on.
As an only child, I had plenty of time to entertain myself reading, and I remember spending the siesta time with An old fashioned girl, a lesser known book by LM Alcott. I also loved Treasure Island, all the Sissi series, all the Vernes books but specially 20,000 leagues under the sea, Gulliver's travels and so many others.
Like the Arab proverb says: A book is like a garden you can take in your pocket. ▲ Collapse
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| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Aug 21, 2008 |
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
and . . .
Pudumaippithan Kathaikal (Complete collection of short stories by Pudumaippithan) (Tamil)
| | | | Stephen Gobin
Reino Unido
Local time: 17:25
alemão para inglês
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| English, German, French - my working langauges | Aug 21, 2008 |
English: "Paradise Lost" - John Milton
German: "Mein Leben" - Marcel Reich-Ranicki
French: "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu" - Marcel Proust
| | | | | 1984 by George Orwell | Aug 21, 2008 |
A prophecy that is becoming true.
Also:
"El coronel no tiene quen le escriba" (No One Writes to the Colonel) and "Crónica de una muerte anunciada" (Chronicle of a Death Foretold) by Gabriel García Márquez.
"In the Penal Colony" by Franz Kafka.
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(as a child)
Harold and the Purple Crayon (by Crockett Johnson)
The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
A Wrinkle in Time/A Wind in the Door/A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Madeleine L'Engle)
(as a student)
Diary of Anne Frank
Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Light in August (Wm Faulkner)
Claudine à l'école (Colette - racy stuff!)
Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
(now)
Short stories - because I can finish them
<... See more (as a child)
Harold and the Purple Crayon (by Crockett Johnson)
The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
A Wrinkle in Time/A Wind in the Door/A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Madeleine L'Engle)
(as a student)
Diary of Anne Frank
Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Light in August (Wm Faulkner)
Claudine à l'école (Colette - racy stuff!)
Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
(now)
Short stories - because I can finish them
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Williamson
Reino Unido
Local time: 17:25
flamengo para inglês
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In Spanish: Crónica de una muerte anunciada, 100 años de soledad.
In English: Sherlock Holmes
In French : Les misérables.
In German:
Im Westen nichts neues.
Die Abenteur des braven Soldaten Schweijk.
Die verlohrene Ehe der Katharina Blum.
In Dutch : Turks fruit van Jan Wolkers.
In Flemish : Mira of de Teleurgang van de Waterhoek.
[Edited at 2008-08-21 17:09]
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Espanha
Local time: 18:25
português para inglês
| | at least three... | Aug 21, 2008 |
1) Master and Marguerite, by Bulgakov, because nothing made me escape reality as the surrealistic events of the novel, presented as fantastic and absolutely normal and logical at the same time
2) The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles, for its in-depth psychological analysis of the characters, especially of women
3) La Storia, by Elsa Morante, for the infinite sadness and pathos ( available in English too)
| | | | Seamus Moran
Irlanda
Local time: 17:25
alemão para inglês
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| So many but one sticks out fondly | Aug 21, 2008 |
"The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguoro was my most enjoyable read.
Other books that took my breath away (and keeping the list short):
"Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce
"Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie
"Hamlet" by W. Shakespeare
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| Just to add a few more.... | Aug 22, 2008 |
It's so hard to choose just the one book... so here are a few suggestions!!
As a child I loved the Children of the New Forest - Frederick Marryat.
I'm also a fan of Moonstone by Wilkie Collins and in French, Le Rouge et Le Noir by Stendhal.
I also particularly like Mozambican poet Jose Craveirinha's collection of poems entitled Maria, dedicated to his wife - this collection contrasts greatly with the independence/civil war poetry... it's very moving.
... See more It's so hard to choose just the one book... so here are a few suggestions!!
As a child I loved the Children of the New Forest - Frederick Marryat.
I'm also a fan of Moonstone by Wilkie Collins and in French, Le Rouge et Le Noir by Stendhal.
I also particularly like Mozambican poet Jose Craveirinha's collection of poems entitled Maria, dedicated to his wife - this collection contrasts greatly with the independence/civil war poetry... it's very moving.
That's enough for now! ▲ Collapse
| | | | Yaotl Altan
México
Local time: 10:25
Membro (2006)
inglês para espanhol
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| Orwell's 1984 | Aug 22, 2008 |
RNAtranslator wrote:
A prophecy that is becoming true.
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How could I forget those books?
"Animal farm", too.
| | | | Eva Straus
Eslovênia
Local time: 18:25
Membro (2007)
inglês para esloveno
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SITE LOCALIZER | Couldn't pick one | Aug 22, 2008 |
... so I selected three:
1. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. A trilogy in five parts
3. Sadako Will Leben (The Day of the Bomb) by Karl Bruckner.
It's about Sadako Sasaki from Hiroshima; I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet.
Thank you for this thread, Débora! I'm making a list for my next tr... See more ... so I selected three:
1. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. A trilogy in five parts
3. Sadako Will Leben (The Day of the Bomb) by Karl Bruckner.
It's about Sadako Sasaki from Hiroshima; I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet.
Thank you for this thread, Débora! I'm making a list for my next trip to the library. ▲ Collapse
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