Green_Shoe

Bums . Yeaaaahhhh... those bums. But the plot besides those bums is also very exciting. I can't wait to see the last episode of the second season. I am absolutely addicted. I find them all attractive and I like Bill's hair. But, ok, Eric with long hair was better. In any case, it's not about hair, come on!

Katrina1968, you are the hero of the day to me. 5 times! Oh my god. I mean, I like classics but me and Tolstoy... we are definetly not made for each other. I am able to read his works but this self-violation is very far from enjoying what you read. I've managed A. K. but I couldn't get over the third part of 'War and peace', so I've never finished it. My Tolstoy experience happened some years ago. Maybe I should try again...

I've already ordered 'Das Nibelungenlied: Song of the Nibelungs' by B. Raffel. Let's see if it helps.

Oh, don't worry, it wasn't serious. At least for me, my car and my book. Wow, people are really creative choosing strange places to read.

Hello Gyre! I'm fine, and you? Thank you for helping me. I completely forgot about Amazon but they have enough to make me happy. A couple of days and I'm an expert in Nibelung story Thanks again, Green_Shoe.

Hehe, a tree. I used to read on a tree, too. Unfortunately, there is no proper tree available at the moment, so I can forget about it. Some time ago I had a car accident on a highway and, as I was waiting for the police, I was sitting on the roof of my car reading a book. Don't want to repeat that, though.

Shame on me! I don't know much about Nibelung epos but I need to because my professor likes giving examples from this story. Hearing the name 10 times a day makes me crazy. Help! I need to read something about it but I can't find anything serious except Wagner's opera. There must be a book out there! Do you have any ideas?

Oh no! Don't thell me they are making a Dorian Gray movie! 'The Golden Compass' is a winner in my personal worst screen adaptation top 5.

I am a talented journalist Gideon Spilett. Together with my friends I am fighting the nature on a deserted island, Lincoln Island. At the moment we are looking for the pirates that are trying to destroy all that we have here. I hope we survive this fight and come back home one day. P.S. Actually, I am sure we will, because I've read this book twice. But it's a secret .

I love reading in the park next to my place (when the weather is readers' friendly, of course). I like reading in bed as well, especially when it is cold outside but I am safe and sound at home with my teddy-bears . Actually, I can read anywhere if I want to. But I absolutely hate reading in libraries. I fall asleep in five minutes after opening the book. I can't stand reading in public transport because I always feel sick then. That's a pity.

Hello Ruth! Thank you , so do I. I love good books and nice shoes. I didn't know that Sympathy for the Devil had been inspired by 'The Master and Margarita'. I hope you are going to like this book too. Maybe it would inspire you too . Freewheeling Andy, I don't think that Margarita's action was a parallel in idea of the Soviet people following the communist leadership. The whole book is so anti-communistic that it is almost impossible that Bulgakov connected such a parallel to one of the main characters. Religious... Margarita doesn't seem to be religious. Although, it's all so complicated.

I apologize if such a thread already exists here - I haven't found it. This work is one of the greatest Russian novels of the 20th century. Actually, not only Russian. It is really worth reading. For anti-communismus ideas Bulgakov's book was forbidden for years. But nevertheless, people had secret handmade copies hidden in the depths of their bookshelves and 'The Master and Margarita' was never forgotten. In my opinion, there is no other fiction that contains so much of realism. Okay, there are witches, sabbath, the ball of all the black souls but still the author shows so many possible episodes of soviet routine, bureaucratism, fanaticism and rules in a very satirical way. Even the Devil, who is visiting Moscow at that time, is curious about what people made to themselves and to each other. This book has also a book in it. Besides the 'Moscow story' there is also a story of Pontius Pilate, Yeshua and his crucifiction. These two story lines become one in the end. All that I've written here is not a review or something like that. I have a question for those who read this book. The image of Margarita is a topic of many researches but I still haven't found an answer to the following question: Why the hell is she giving her life for such a looser like Master. He gave up after his misfortune, he wouldn't try to fight the system. But she... she is the greatest woman ever... Why?

My mother also tried this book but she couldn't get through the first chapter. No idea why, she is always a tolerant reader. She still can't understand why I was so crazy about it.

"The Curious Incindent of the Dog in the Night-time" is an amazing book. Normally, I am so sceptical about authors I've never heard about and I'm not a fan of modern Literature at all but this one is really cool. A friend of mine tried to blurb this book but I kept on ignoring it till I heard the title. I find it so attractive . But I haven

I'm also trying to avoid translations if I am able to. I study Latin and I can read, for example, Ovid. It is extremely difficult to translate his works. If you translate everything literally - sometimes your text makes no sense. If you try to make a poetical translation, it does make sense but it is a little bit far from the original. This drives me crazy. I can completely understand why Nabokov wanted to translate his own works only himself...

I agree with RickyR. Our world is different today. Old books can be compared to many old movies where everything is just static and everything happens so slowly. But it still doesn't make some of the classical novels more interesting to a modern reader. Most of these books tell us about some ritch young ladies that had generally nothing to do so they made a mountain out of a molehill. Somebody is able to handle it, somebody finds it extremely boring. In any case - it's a matter of taste.