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d.mimøsa
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Joined: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:34 am Posts: 5559 Location: Baltic coast, DE
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Yep, very promising so far! I read "Stiller" and "Graf Öderland" last year which were excellent, too. Switzerland has been conquering me lately. 
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Sun Apr 01, 2012 10:48 pm |
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Merchant of Doom
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Joined: Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:39 pm Posts: 10249 Location: UK
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I only read it in Italian, though, because my German is not good enough!
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d.mimøsa
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Joined: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:34 am Posts: 5559 Location: Baltic coast, DE
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Yes, books like these can be tough to read in the original language if you're not too familiar with it. But there's no language which is worse than English when it comes to literature as far as I'm concerned... I could read literary texts in Swedish and Danish after having learned Norwegian (!) for a short while without having to look up every second word, but English vocabulary is just so incredibly disorganised and complicated that I still can hardly read anything fluently without stumbling over weird expressions again and again. And I already have quite a large vocabulary I daresay.
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Mon Apr 02, 2012 12:52 pm |
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baphomet
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Joined: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:46 am Posts: 14283 Location: Belgium
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I've read Fünf Freunde in German, I have all the series; und ich muss sagen, ich habe das sehr gern gelesen! Long Live Enid Blyton!!!
currently reading 'Noddy and the red car'. I control. Not a word escapes me.
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Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:57 pm |
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d.mimøsa
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Joined: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:34 am Posts: 5559 Location: Baltic coast, DE
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Haha, Fünf Freunde rules, I swallowed these books as a kid and even listened to some cassettes (until I virtually knew them by heart). It's been eternities since I last had my hands on one of them, though.
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Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:16 pm |
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Merchant of Doom
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Joined: Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:39 pm Posts: 10249 Location: UK
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Noddy? Oh dear... 
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Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:41 pm |
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baphomet
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Joined: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:46 am Posts: 14283 Location: Belgium
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nah, Ehrlich, Ich würde diese fünf verfluchte Freunde sehr gern erwürgen!
Some books I've read during these last months: Carlos Ruis Zafon/ l'ombre du vent Serge Latouche/ Le pari de la décroissance Abdelwahab Meddeb/ la maladie de l'Islam Dan Simmons/ le cycle d'Hypérion
You'll have to manage to translate that.
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Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:38 am |
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baphomet
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Joined: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:46 am Posts: 14283 Location: Belgium
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I've just finished James Herbert/ The mystery of Crickley Hall.
And while trying to find a place on my shelves to put it back there, I stumbled on a book I really loved to read, I recommend it, it's the only book of Ken Grimwood: Replay. Awesome story!
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Wed May 30, 2012 3:40 pm |
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Merchant of Doom
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Joined: Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:39 pm Posts: 10249 Location: UK
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Nothing! 
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Wed May 30, 2012 3:48 pm |
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baphomet
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Joined: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:46 am Posts: 14283 Location: Belgium
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What again?
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Wed May 30, 2012 3:52 pm |
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Merchant of Doom
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Joined: Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:39 pm Posts: 10249 Location: UK
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http://www.janneteller.dk/?English:Bibliography:Nothing It's very good indeed, despite being aimed at adolescents...
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Wed May 30, 2012 4:08 pm |
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baphomet
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Joined: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:46 am Posts: 14283 Location: Belgium
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ok.. I thought for a moment that you said something bad about me and then, showing some welcome sign of remorse, that you decided to edit your post... but hey, I'm a bit psycho.
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Wed May 30, 2012 8:01 pm |
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Merchant of Doom
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Joined: Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:39 pm Posts: 10249 Location: UK
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yes, you are.... you should know my "sense of humour" by now...  It was a bit of a wordplay and, to be honest, a bit silly, since I didn't really expect anybody to get the "Intet" thing... but, hey, you never know... 
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Wed May 30, 2012 11:25 pm |
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baphomet
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Joined: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:46 am Posts: 14283 Location: Belgium
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Italian humour mixed to English humour should produce something explosively hilarious. I guess you've missed some classes. Belgian humour reigns supreme! 
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Thu May 31, 2012 7:24 am |
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Merchant of Doom
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shut up! 
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Thu May 31, 2012 10:26 am |
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d.mimøsa
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Joined: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:34 am Posts: 5559 Location: Baltic coast, DE
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You guys oughta go see a shrink! 
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Thu May 31, 2012 1:15 pm |
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dredd
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Joined: Fri Apr 13, 2012 3:05 pm Posts: 14 Location: Australia
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yeah, Replay is an awsome novel. A great work of imagination. Best book I've read in years
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Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:17 pm |
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d.mimøsa
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Joined: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:34 am Posts: 5559 Location: Baltic coast, DE
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Max Frisch: "Die chinesische Mauer. Eine Farce" Marie Hermanson: "Det finns ett hål i verkligheten" Howard Phillips Lovecraft: "The Silver Key" (I love this story and have to re-read it every now and then)
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Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:20 pm |
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baphomet
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Joined: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:46 am Posts: 14283 Location: Belgium
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I'm reading a book about the Thirty Years' War. Fascinating how things can mess up.
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Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:21 pm |
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Akratic Ascetic
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Joined: Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:24 pm Posts: 18 Location: London, UK
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Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann.
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