Last book you've read

[DeepAndDark]

^ Galya. I read "The Catcher In The Rye" some months ago and that's a very good one. Of course can't take it literally because it needs to be explored deeply. Great you read that nice piece!

I liked the style of narration very much. I was afraid I wouldn't understand it in English, so I read it in Russian, but I think after some time I might try to find the original. One more thing, many books are mentioned in the "Catcher.." I'd like to read those.

And a month before I re-read "Silence of the Lambs" by .. Now I'm certain that I prefer the movie over the book. However, I like clever heroines, so Clarice isn't that bad after all.

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And a month before I re-read "Silence of the Lambs" by .. Now I'm certain that I prefer the movie over the book. However, I like clever heroines, so Clarice isn't that bad after all.

I haven't read that book yet, just watched the movie but too long ago to remember
Still venturing through "The Secret Garden" and now half through it. Sometimes changes in style do a good thing. Now I feel the urge to re-read "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier (ok Gabi, this is the millionth time I've mentioned this book ) but it's an amazing read, and also a heart-breaking movie featuring Colin Firth and Scarlet Johansson.

[DeepAndDark]

Now I feel the urge to re-read "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier (ok Gabi, this is the millionth time I've mentioned this book ) but it's an amazing read, and also a heart-breaking movie featuring Colin Firth and Scarlet Johansson.

Now I have to ask you, if you by any chance have it in .txt or .doc or .pdf? I'd love to read it.

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Now I feel the urge to re-read "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier (ok Gabi, this is the millionth time I've mentioned this book ) but it's an amazing read, and also a heart-breaking movie featuring Colin Firth and Scarlet Johansson.

Now I have to ask you, if you by any chance have it in .txt or .doc or .pdf? I'd love to read it.

Actually I just have that book in Vietnamese, but send me a PM with your email address and I'll attach for you the .pdf file, English

[Gabi6912]

Galya, I also used to read the Salinger novel just about 20 years ago, but it is a very good one, and I agree with you completely: it might be a novel at school for teenagers.
I really would reformize the whole educating of literature at schools.
They have to read novels, dramas, poems, which they haven't been mature enough yet.
No wonder that they hate reading.

All my books are in doc, txt, and pdf, just big parts of them are in hungarian, but have english stuff too, so I will check my list, and will be my pleasure to send you anything Galya.

Bdw: I have many english exercisebooks, workbooks, and studentbooks also in txt if you wish.

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That's so nice, Gabi!
Almost all of my books are in English and again, mostly novels in physical copies. I can't explain but a physical one always has a greater appeal to me.

[DeepAndDark]

Now I feel the urge to re-read "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier (ok Gabi, this is the millionth time I've mentioned this book ) but it's an amazing read, and also a heart-breaking movie featuring Colin Firth and Scarlet Johansson.

Now I have to ask you, if you by any chance have it in .txt or .doc or .pdf? I'd love to read it.

Actually I just have that book in Vietnamese, but send me a PM with your email address and I'll attach for you the .pdf file, English

Good. Only in English please!

..I really would reformize the whole educating of literature at schools.
They have to read novels, dramas, poems, which they haven't been mature enough yet.
No wonder that they hate reading.

On the other hand, if nobody made us read classics at school, we'd have hardly ever read them at all. At least girls at my Uni say that they haven't read any serious books since they left school..

All my books are in doc, txt, and pdf, just big parts of them are in hungarian, but have english stuff too, so I will check my list, and will be my pleasure to send you anything Galya.

Oh, that would be fantastic.
See, from sharing our opinions of books we come to illegal turnover of intellectual property.
Some of my books I got in quite a tiring way - by copying text from pages of online libraries. I will post a list of my posessions too.

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Done with "The Secret Garden" (a heart warming one, I must say) and now have just begun with "Vanity Fair" - Willian Makepeace Thackeray. I can predict this one's gonna be amusing, as I've just leafed through 18 pages but got some laughs

[DeepAndDark]

..and now have just begun with "Vanity Fair" - Willian Makepeace Thackeray. I can predict this one's gonna be amusing, as I've just leafed through 18 pages but got some laughs

I started reading it a while ago.. Quite amusing in the beginning, but as the story goes on, it somehow lost its attraction for me. So I'm stuck on Chapter 28 In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries..
Can't say that about Dikkens, although there are enough descriptions of family and personal lives of unimportant at first sight people. Probably its these descriptions that enable him to recreate the atmosphere of 19th century London, and more than that, the society, people.. When reading, I see that world insted of lines. Some of the time it is a dirty filthy world of back streets of London, but sometime it is the warmth and safety of the Bleak House or a fascinating view of hills sparkling thousands of jewls after a heavy rain.

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I'm just currently reading chapter XI - Arcadian Simplicity and so far it's pretty good. I enjoy reading such witty satirical observations

[Gabi6912]

I like Dickens, agreeing with your observation about his describtions Galya.
When I was a teeny, I used to cry of David Copperfield, and enjoyed Twist Oliver, too.

Ok now, I am reading: Marley, and me by an american journalist.
The book is a real story about Marley, who was their labradorian dog with his wife.
The story is full of love, and good humor.
I am a doggie fan, and always enjoy books, and movies about relationships of people, and dogs.

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The book is a real story about Marley, who was their labradorian dog with his wife.

That reminds me of the movie "Marley And Me" featuring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston

[Gabi6912]

The book is a real story about Marley, who was their labradorian dog with his wife.

That reminds me of the movie "Marley And Me" featuring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston

Yes dear, it might be that, the movie-adabtation of the book, just I forgot the name of the writer, he is John ....... x y. sorry, really don't remember his name, but will check it.

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he is John ....... x y. sorry, really don't remember his name

He's John Grogan

I've just placed an order on 2 new books: David Copperfield and The Woman In White, hopefully I'll get them in the next few days. Sooooooo excited! And it's been a pleasure to read "Vanity Fair"

[Gabi6912]

Finished Grogan's book last night, it was really a funny, nice story.
I don't know exactly what I am starting to read.
I have plenty of books,I'll choose one spontanously.

[DeepAndDark]

And it's been a pleasure to read "Vanity Fair"

Already finished? I am a fast reader, but you beat all records.
I'm still reading Bleak House.. Nowhere near the middle.

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And it's been a pleasure to read "Vanity Fair"

Already finished? I am a fast reader, but you beat all records.
I'm still reading Bleak House.. Nowhere near the middle.

Oh no Galya, please notice I used present perfect tense
I'm just halfway through the book, and it's quite a pain to hold such a thick book filled (literally) with words on every single page, but I must go on, as it's very interesting. I predict that maybe it'll be finished in a fortnight, but hopefully sooner

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Finished "Vanity Fair" last night (so ok Galya, I'm still a fast reader, and it took me just 5 days instead of a fortnight )
Have just begun with "The Woman In White" - Wilkie Collins.
Actually I read the Oxford's shortened versions some years back and it was agreeably interesting.

[Gabi6912]

Huhh girls, haha, I won't admit what I am reading, because I trawelled to the hard bestsellers, but as the old sayn: You have to get to know the enemy as well to make a fair judgement about them.
Ookay, have allready overcome a primitive lovestory, and a kinda crimmestory by Sandra Brown, allthough I overjumped many pages of the lovestory.
After getting to know the caracters, and see the main line of the situation, I went to the end, and read the last sentences.
Okay, I normally read the crimme, it was, hmmm, not bad, not good.

Now I am in a novel by Daniel Steele.
If the end of the story is that I guess, I will go down bridge (the gymn-exercise).

[DeepAndDark]

Huhh girls, haha, I won't admit what I am reading, because I trawelled to the hard bestsellers, but as the old sayn: You have to get to know the enemy as well to make a fair judgement about them.

That's why I proudly confess that I recently read the last two parts of Harry Potter. I haven't read them when they were first out, but I decided that some knowledge of popular culture won't do any harm. So.. Would you recommend me to add some knowledge of the Twilight saga? Or is it better just to watch the screenings?

And I'm still reading the Bleak House.. One quarter left. The events are changing one another so quickly now. I can guess how it ends, but still it doesn't loose its attractions.

Finished "Vanity Fair" last night (so ok Galya, I'm still a fast reader, and it took me just 5 days instead of a fortnight )

No way! You must have been reading at night! How do you manage to find time to read?