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Re:Litherature Lover
Mario ,i like reading books ,all of them !
Have you ever read book in Vietnamese ? i have some books in E ,and very much in Vietnamese . I speacially love literature China , English and American .My writer i like best is Jack London .And you ? What kind of book you like ?
I'm very glad to change or talk about books .
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Daisy
February 5, 2005
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Books with me
I like reading books , speacially literature books .When i was a child , i like reading , all of books .
Most of all book i've read in Vietnamese (because i'm a Vietnamese ^_^ ) but i like books written by American or English (as Jack London , Jules Verne ,Mark Taiwn ...) .I like reading tenology books ,too .It helps me to reduce stress , and i know more about the life although i'm only my home . I know about Euro , French , English ...about the poor life in 15, 16 century .Sometimes i 'm very merry but sometimes i cried . I was crying in a night when Remy was sold for strange person ...I can't live without books .
When i start learning English , i read books in English ,i like "Alice in wonderland " ,"Peter Pan " and "Oliver Twist " ... but i can't really understand all because my English isn't very well .Sometimes i wrote my feeling and critical about books in Vietnamese ,but i really want to exchange about them with foreign friend one day .
I very glad to exchange language with everybody about English and Vietnamese ,speacially about books .
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Daisy
February 4, 2005
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Latest: August 23, 2024
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Re:Re:I love Louise Labé!
Early French feminist, would anyone object if I said that ? Labe had a very liberal father for the times that were in it who believed that women should have the right to access education. Labe's poetry from what I have been able to read is much concerned with love but quite analytical and observational. I enjoy it too, but the French is slightly archaic, stemming as it does from the 16th century. Hope this helps, but I am no expert !
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S M.
January 25, 2005
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French Literature!
Hi i have been studying French for 6 years now, I am 16 years old and i would like someone to recommend any simple french literature for me to read, can be any genre,
any recommendations from any nationality appreciated :) thankyou Fiona
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Fiona
January 11, 2005
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Latest: February 16, 2005
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Re:What about Dostoevsky?
Well Claire, I have to say that I totally agree with you. Dostoievski is a great writer. He can place subjects like no one else. He his the kind fo writer that makes you think.
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Jota
January 10, 2005
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Latest: January 10, 2005
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Books
I like to read the last books that I read were The Da Vinci Code and Azul de Ruben Dario.
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Adriana L.
December 30, 2004
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Re:Re:Re:Re:Re 6: Discussion of Tolstoy and Tolkien books
The New Year is approaching fast. I have been reading The CHimes by Dickens. Its a relatively forgotten short piece of writing by the great storyteller, but truly marvellous too. I always associated Dickens with ghosts at Christmas, his work is crammed with ghosts and spirits and goblins. Its seasonal to read these stories and Dickens' true humanism is never old or wanting for wear. Have you read any John Stuart 'Mills' ? His work on Logic was my first taste. I was facinated by concomitant variations. His work on Liberty also. Mills was a Londoner as Dickens, they were moralists on their own terms. The thing about Dickens, is the warmth which he is able to communicate. There is so much that can be truly learned in Dickens. It beats the dry scientific empiric lot everytime. On page '984' of a popular edition of Mills a connection can be made with him. Before I wander off agian on a tangent, the purpose of writing a quick message was basically to say the New Year is here and greetings. Hot, hot puddings and joyous mails for the new year.
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S M.
December 28, 2004
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Latest: December 28, 2004
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Re:Re:Re:Re 6: Discussion of Tolstoy and Tolkien books
I hit another glitch it seems in the posting of my last message. Ulysses, I find, is one of the greats, and highly popular for a book that is (as you say) hardly read. Even if I enjoy it, I find parts too tedious to read or incomprehensible. Finnegan's Wake should be avoided at all costs, it is very much for appreciating at a distance, or else digging and delving in words up to the elbows. There is no middle ground with Finnegan's Wake. Joyce of course was tied into the modernistic trends of his time in the area of literature. Similiar experimental, reflective veins can be seen in the likes of Pound and Eliot. The great thing about Ulysses is the extensive characterisation of plot, with the internal monologues whispering away. The universality of it all is a treat. What Joyce esentially does is mirrior the reality of one man's life thorugh a single day, refreacting it through a myriad of imitated and invented styles, confining it to a parochial setting, and yet despite these apparent obstacles he achieves in making an everyman character that is recognisable everywhere. I have few quoibles about Joyce as a self-promoter, he excelled at it, and perhaps in some small way that was even necessary. Bloom of course is the archtypal newsman and advertiser ! The content of the book, particularly the sexual explictity, for the time it was written in was very audacious. Self-publicity was perhaps necessary, I think, to fight the Ulysses onslaught. What he Ulysses is a massive thing, we could discuss it for hours and still return to opinions that differ madly, but sometimes when I think about it I find that I can have two or even three different feeligns about the same issue. The ability of the book to leave you entirely on uncertain ground, as to purpose, plot, conclusions, significane, readability and many other questions, is staggering. The achievement is in the book I feel, unquestionably a great, but not sure if I would bring it on a train journey. It's the type of thing you really need to be stationary to read.
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S M.
December 17, 2004
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Latest: December 28, 2004
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What about Dostoevsky?
I' a girl from Russia. I think Dostoevsky is a perfect writer.
Who thinks the same, let's discuss.
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Claire K.
December 14, 2004
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Latest: January 10, 2005
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Re:Re 6: Discussion of Tolstoy and Tolkien books
It seems my last post did not make it onto the board. Maybe a technical glitch. Apologies for late reply. I forget what I had said but as you can imagine it was full of wonderful elucidation. I think if I remember well that I had moved on to discussing Ulysses. Another long book. Have you read it ?
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S M.
December 7, 2004
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Latest: December 28, 2004
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