| Pages in topic: [1 2 3 4] > | Off topic: What is your favorite book ever? Thread poster: Débora D'Eramo
|
|---|
Débora D'Eramo 
Argentina
Local time: 04:52
Member (2005)
English to Spanish
Mine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
There: I said it.
What about you?
| | | | | For some reason I like | Aug 20, 2008 |
Neil Gaiman's NEVERWHERE
| | | | NecdetB
Türkiye
Local time: 11:52
German to Turkish
+ ...
| | Love Medicine | Aug 20, 2008 |
by Louise Erdrich.
I love all the books in the trilogy, but can't seem to get the chapter about Saint Marie out of my head.
| | |
|
|
|
Gosh, tough choice!
After long pondering, I think I would say that my favorite book EVER is "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. This book earned Steinbeck both the Pulitzer Prize and (a couple of decades later) the Nobel Prize for Literature, and it's absolutely wonderful!
I'm biased though, because Steinbeck is one of my very favorite authors EVER!
[Edited at 2008-08-20 22:47]
| | | | Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:52
Russian to English
+ ...
In memoriam | Too many kinds of books, impressions they produce... | Aug 20, 2008 |
I think you can only really answer this by giving favorites in different categories.
As a book apparently intended for children but with much in it that can be appreciated by adults, I agree with Alice in Wonderland (and Alice Through the Looking Glass). I think the Harry Potter books come high up in this category too.
As an emotionally moving war story, All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen Nichts Neues) by Erich Maria Remarque.
As a romantic novel, P... See more I think you can only really answer this by giving favorites in different categories.
As a book apparently intended for children but with much in it that can be appreciated by adults, I agree with Alice in Wonderland (and Alice Through the Looking Glass). I think the Harry Potter books come high up in this category too.
As an emotionally moving war story, All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen Nichts Neues) by Erich Maria Remarque.
As a romantic novel, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
I could go on, but I've already used up three times my quota...
I also agree that Grapes of Wrath is a splendid novel.
[Edited at 2008-08-20 22:46] ▲ Collapse
| | | | | the one and only | Aug 20, 2008 |
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Dangerous Liaisons
Masterpiece. I love the style.
| | | | Zhoudan
Local time: 16:52
English to Chinese
+ ...
| Pride and Prejudice | Aug 20, 2008 |
I even translated it!
| | |
|
|
|
| If I had to choose | Aug 21, 2008 |
If I absolutely had to choose, I think it would be El túnel by Ernesto Sábato. I've read it many times and it actually gets better with time. But I have a lot of favorite books: War and Peace, El Quijote, The Earsers by Alain Robbe-Grillet is a new favorite of mine.
Now, my most beloved book is without a doubt a very old, very worn, very annotated and very read copy of Complete Poems by Javier Heraud that I got in a book fair for less than 2 dollars. I've had it with me since I wa... See more If I absolutely had to choose, I think it would be El túnel by Ernesto Sábato. I've read it many times and it actually gets better with time. But I have a lot of favorite books: War and Peace, El Quijote, The Earsers by Alain Robbe-Grillet is a new favorite of mine.
Now, my most beloved book is without a doubt a very old, very worn, very annotated and very read copy of Complete Poems by Javier Heraud that I got in a book fair for less than 2 dollars. I've had it with me since I was 10, and if my house is set on fire or blown away by a tornado, it would be the first thing I'd keep safe.
[Edited at 2008-08-21 07:40] ▲ Collapse
| | | | texjax DDS PhD
Local time: 04:52
Member (2006)
English to Italian
+ ...
| One of my absolute favourite books | Aug 21, 2008 |
Se questo è un uomo by Primo Levi
If this is a man
| | | |
Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) by... who else if not the greatest, Gabriel García Márquez.
And, Sinuhe the Egyptian, by Mika Waltari (before reading all books by Gabo).
[Edited at 2008-08-21 02:01]
| | | | jokerman
Germany
Local time: 10:52
Member (2008)
English to German
+ ...
| dante alighieri's 'divine comedy ' | Aug 21, 2008 |
of course.
too bad i can't read the original italian version.
[Bearbeitet am 2008-08-21 02:30]
[Bearbeitet am 2008-08-21 02:31]
| | |
|
|
|
mediamatrix (X)
Local time: 04:52
Spanish to English
+ ...
| Primers for the Age of Plenty | Aug 21, 2008 |
Science for the Citizen, by Lancelot Hogben, first published by George Allen & Unwin in 1938.
Described by the author as 'A self-educator based on the social background of scientific discovery', it was the book that encouraged me to take up engineering as a profession - at least a decade before I quit full-time education.
The other works in the triology, dubbed by t... See more Science for the Citizen, by Lancelot Hogben, first published by George Allen & Unwin in 1938.
Described by the author as 'A self-educator based on the social background of scientific discovery', it was the book that encouraged me to take up engineering as a profession - at least a decade before I quit full-time education.
The other works in the triology, dubbed by the author himself as "Primers for the Age of Plenty", are:
Mathematics for the Millions (same author and publisher, 1936)
and
A Loom of Language (Frederick Bodmer, ed. Lancelot Hogben, same publisher, 1943)
I recommend the latter as a primer for anyone here with an interest in comparative linguistics.
Actually there were four works in this 'trilogy'. The last one - mentioned as 'forthcoming' in 'The Loom of Language' but missing from the collection I inherited from my father - was History for Home Students, by Henry Hamilton, ed. Lancelot Hogben. Bearing in mind the state of Europe in that period I'm not sure whether it was ever published - if anyone has a copy, please contact me!
MediaMatrix
PS. OOps! - nearly forgot! It's maybe not quite appropriate for a word-oriented community like Proz.com because it's a 'picture book'. Nonetheless it has pride of place in my library: The Human Figure in Motion, by Eadweard Muybridge, dubbed "An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Muscular Actions", commenced in 1872, completed in 1885 and my copy was published by public suscription, by Chapman & Hall, London, in 1901. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Elías Sauza
Mexico
Local time: 02:52
Member (2002)
English to Spanish
+ ...
| If I have to pick one | Aug 21, 2008 |
Jane Eyre
| | | | Yaotl Altan
Mexico
Local time: 02:52
Member (2006)
English to Spanish
+ ...
| Not only one | Aug 21, 2008 |
"The common good"
Noam Chomsky
"Deterring democracy"
Noam Chomsky
Any book written by Charles Bukowski.
Any book written by Ernesto Cardenal.
| | | | | Pages in topic: [1 2 3 4] > | To report site rules violations or get help, contact a site moderator: You can also contact site staff by submitting a support request » What is your favorite book ever? | Trados Studio 2022 Freelance | The leading translation software used by over 270,000 translators.
Designed with your feedback in mind, Trados Studio 2022 delivers an unrivalled, powerful desktop
and cloud solution, empowering you to work in the most efficient and cost-effective way.
More info » |
| | CafeTran Espresso | You've never met a CAT tool this clever!
Translate faster & easier, using a sophisticated CAT tool built by a translator / developer.
Accept jobs from clients who use Trados, MemoQ, Wordfast & major CAT tools.
Download and start using CafeTran Espresso -- for free
Buy now! » |
|
| | | | X Sign in to your ProZ.com account... | | | | | |
Login to reply/comment 
