As i love reading so much, i thought of a book thread! I just wonder, what are you reading just now, who are your favourite authors, what kind of books do you like to read...

As for me, i prefer novels to poems and im absolutely into Czech authors Bohumil Hrabal and Milan Kundera. Yesterday i read Kundera's "Unbearable lightness of being". Its wonderful! I enjoyed it very much!

I also loved "Der Vorleser" by Bernhard Schlink, it was such an exciting reading and at some parts i was really shocked by the cruelness of the story...

I have also read Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Bench, which has some fantastic elements as well, so i had the feeling I'm reading a fairy tale for adults! It's a thick book but it's absolutely worth of reading!

Lord of the Rings by Tolkien is also my favourite and i love sci-fi, too (although it's hard to find really good sci-fi books, most of them are just about making war in the space...).

Well, i think it's enough for the first time, but i will share my reading impressions here, if you want me to!

I love to read very much.I've said one of my favs writers on another thread.Now i read Goethe-i do not know right now how can i translate the name of the book ,but i think u know Werther story?!

well to be quite honest. the last book i read was harry potter and the order of the phoenix. . i hope the fifth movie is gonna be just as good as the book. Mostly i read about fashion for school : fashion history, 20th century fashion. but it's also a lot of fun to read it. specially about all the fantastic dressed they used to wear.

Great topic!
My faves: Pillars of the Earth!, Memoires of a Geisha, Harry Potter, The Physician, The Perfume, The Alchemist, Illuminati

Memoirs of a geisha is also one of my favs. I also like the Harry Potter series, cant wait for the final book in the summer and Phillip Pullman and his Dark Materials trilogy.

titi, i can never remember what books i liked when someone asks. i think i should make a post it with titles and writers!!!
you mentioned haruki murakami. i read 3 books by him , not the one you said you read. the one i liked out of the three was called ( at least in romanian ) " dance, dance, dance ". it is actually the second part of a story, but i did not like the first part and actually you don't have to read the first one to understand the second.
but i did liked the title of the book you mentioned, because i like kafka. i've only read " the trial " and " the castel ". i have no ideea if i understood them but i certanly enjoyed reading them.
it happenes to me quite often to read books that make me feel like there is something more to them then what i understand but still i enjoy them. i think the crazyest book i've read was one by boris vian " the foam of day " ( i don't know if the translation is right).
i am a huge fan of harry potter also and can't wait for the last book. i totally loved the previous one.
let me know titi, what you want from this thread. if you want as i remember a book i read and liked i can write the title here.
ok, i remembered another book that is kind of " foucault's pendulum". and i totally loved " the last unicorn" by peter beagle.
my admiration to adelina, i was never able to read goethe.
now, i'll stop

Thanks for response, ladies
Actually i planned to buy "Dance, dance, dance", too, but i wasnt sure because i didnt read the first part and i was afraid i wouldnt understand it! Now i think I will buy it soon, as you said it is not necessary to have read the first part!
Oh, Kafka on the Bench has some connection with the real Kafka, oh yes!
As for him (I mean Franz Kafka) I also liked "The trial" and i also like his short stories!

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it happenes to me quite often to read books that make me feel like there is something more to them then what i understand but still i enjoy them.

Same here, sometimes! Actually i really enjoy those books in which i feel this "mystery"...

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let me know titi, what you want from this thread. if you want as i remember a book i read and liked i can write the title here.

Thats what i exactly want, so i would know what to buy next, lol!

Somebody mentioned Harry Potter, ive also read all the books and liked them a lot (although they cant be compared with Lord of the Rings, which is a masterpiece, in my opinion), and i really wonder what the end of the book will be!!!

I've been studying literature for 2,5 years, and the best book I have read since that time was 'The History of Tom Jones, the foundling' by Henry Fielding.

And I enjoyed 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' by Choderlos de Laclos.

Right now I'm reading 'Memoirs of a Geisha' by Golden and for the first time in my life I think about picking up Japanese as a third language.

And I was impressed by 'A Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

i've read " a hundred years of solitude " and i must say i did not understand the point of it and did not like it. so i went and read why it is such a popular book . i am just as confused after reading the explanation. i did not see the history of latin america or the history of the world in there. oh, well, maybe that's way marquez has a nobel and i don't. but i did enjoyed quite a lot some other books by him such as " about love and other deamons ".
irina

Well, as for Hundred Years of Solitude, i have never thought of that book as of the history of the world or Latin America... I have never noticed such a point in it... But i loved it so much, i simply enjoyed the way it is written.

I love reading but I wasn't reading a lot lately I hope I will be better this year

I loved Harry Potter too, Gemma it's going to be published in the summer??????? is so -> I can't wait
besides I love Shakespeare when I was a little kid I used to read James Oliver Curwood's books about animals from the north and I like Stephen King ('The great march' really impressed me...)

For the romance readers among us, I would suggest "The Bronze Horseman" by Paullina Simons. The characters are so engaging that they stay in your mind long after the book is finished. However, I must warn you to buy the largest box of tissues that you can find because much of it is quite sad. It's a great read!

Mary C.

Reading :super: ..ah :love-love: such a lovely &priceless activity for me :cuti: ! Thank you Titi,for opening this thread! :kissvn8.gif:
Well,lately I don`t read as much as usual ,Ican`t choose among the books I`ve read .It`s a hobby I had since a little kid.I love many kind of books,mystery,romance,scientific etc.I used to read a lot!
I adore many authors like Dostogievsky (sorry for the spelling ),I like Tolstoi,Jane Austen,Emily and Charlotte Bronde and so on...! :love-love:
A book that is always in my heart is 'Weathering Heights' by Emily Bronde and o course 'Anna Karenina'-Tolstoi. :36_3_15:

The same with me. When I was reading One Hundred Years I simply loved the way the book is written. I feel something like that when I watch Bergman's films.

leni, thanks to my school, I never liked Tolstoy I was made to read 'War and Peace' when I was 14 and 'Prestuplenie i Nakazanie' ('Crime and Punishment' or whatever it's called in English) at 15, and I still think that it's was too early for me.

I just remembered how I cried over 'Moomoo' by Turgenev.

I love to read, but unfortunately the last book I read and didn't need for school was 6 months ago...
My favourite writers are the Russians: Dostoievski( I just adore everything he wrote) , Gogol's "Dead Souls", Pasternak's "Dr Zhivago", Tolstoi's "War and peace" ( although I have to admit that the chapters that described the war and Napoleon's army would make me sleep... )
Kafka's "America" and "The trial" were also very chalenging.
Thackeray's "Vanity Fair",Oscar Wilde: "The picture of Dorian Grey",Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris"
The books of my childhood were the ones written by Jules Verne and Karl May( did you read "Winnetou"?)
Hm..what else...can't remember right now....
There are also a lot of Romanian books I enjoyed, but I suppose it makes no sense writing about it here.
But I think each one of us could post some poetry from their own countries, what do you think?
And I also wanted to ask if any of you have read James Joyce's "Ulysses"...It seems absolutely impossible to me... ::
Adelina, I also read "The sorrows of young Werther" last year and I loved it :super: