LittleW

I never read the book thief and a friend told me it is too much fantasy, but, seeing all these posts here, maybe I should give it a try.

I downloaded some English classics on my Kindle and I found, that the greatest advantage for me was the additional download of the Oxford Dictionary. It makes things a whole lot easier when there are so many "archaic" words in the text. Just mark the word and get the definition. Instead of flipping through the printed dictionary only to see that the word isn't listed there.

Usually I don't cry from books, but a Christmas story from Marko Leino made me cry. It is written so sad, that even when telling about happy times it is very melancholic. I would give the English title, but I couldn't find it at Amazon. Not sure, if it has been translated at all.

I also have a small netbook, because it doesn't consume so much space in my flat. It doesn't need a separate desk. I keep it where I used it last or, sometimes, put it on a shelf, so there isn't much point in showing a picture.

Thanks for that info. It would have been my next step today, after looking through that section and considering it worth a try.

I think most of the free Kindle books are either classics or new author. The last could be to give them a chance or to look if they have one. But I should warn you. It's an addiction to load down new Kindle books. No matter that your TBR is impossible high within a few days.

Nice to see, that I'm not the only one who roam the free eBook section on Amazon. And, reading your posts, I saw that the UK version seems far more interesting. I began thinking about registering there as well. Just for freebies, to avoid money changing fees.

I'd rather do Karate, if I was you. It's more similiar to Taekwondo and NOT olympic. In Judo you don't kick or hit.

That's a good challenge. I know something like that from another book forum, where you plan on reading a certain number of books in a year. But that doesn't say if you take your TBR or not.

It depends. Sometimes two or three novels at a time, sometimes only one. And add one book if I read a non-fiction as well.

I'm reading four books at once at the moment and I don't know yet, which one will be the first to be finished. My bet goes for Moby Dick, I'm the furthest through this one.

I started the first book of the Eragon series yesterday. I found it very good written, he's almost painting pictures with his words, so I was really amazed when I read that Paolini was only 15 when he wrote it!

I started to read Moby Dick in English. I'm a bit struggling with some of the long sentences and I have to look up many words, which are about ships or whales and, mostly, archaic. But, as I'm reading the Kindle version, it did automatically download the Oxford Dictionary. And that makes it really easy! Just mark the word and you have an istant explanation!

A question to all King-fans here: In a review I read on amazon it is mentioned, that one of the characters is doing something about a desaster in 1958, one of the other King-books. But it didn't say, which. Should I read that book first? And, if so, which one is it?

No, but there has been a part, where I felt, that you talked before, everything concerning that book has been moved.

THAT one doesn't sound like it is meant to be scary, does it?

Ah,that's why the first two or three posts in that thread sound is if there is something missing.

I've only just seen that book yesterday and I will wait for the paperback to be published. As a German aged 30 I haven't any personal string to the Kennedy assasination. Which doesn't mean that the Germans haven't at all, the older generation loves him for a speech he gave in Berlin, but I'm more than 20 years too young to say, that for me it is more than history. But I think, that book will be interresting to me in two ways: First for a closer feeling to Kennedy and his murder. Second for the theme of changing history. But, as I said, I will wait for the paperback, as the hardcover is very heavy when you are used to hold the book while reading.

It is not about humans, who travel back in time, but I can recommend this one: Richard Dawkins - The Ancestor's Tale It's my long-time-read, really sophisticated, but I enjoy it.

I can also recommend them. I have never been a great fan of the book, but they were quite good. And I will always connect a very special moment with those books. It were the first English books were I detected that I can understand the humour between the words.

I think, you put that in the wrong order, Vinay. The book you refuse to die before you read it as the second last? Shouldn't that be the last one?

Are all of his books supernatural? I have some of him on my wishlist and I thought, they are historical fiction.

Welcome to the forum, Talbot. Does that mean, you will make mistakes, or will you forgive yourself??? No matter, I'm sure, I mix the words up myself. But isn't that a great advantage of the Internet, that you can try to write in any language you'd like to? Where do you come from?

Yes, that's what I thought about, told in better and more appropriate words than I ever could.

It wasn't the oldest tree, paun. Muggle misunderstood the news at first. But even so, that tree was very old. I saw a giant tree once and since there were so many "normal" trees around it, I couldn't even see a single one of its branches. They were to high above the other trees.