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    I present you my webcomic. :)

    in General Chat

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    If I could suggest one improvement it would just be to double check some of the dialogue. In the one where Nana is writing a novel, for example, Marty asks 'why don't you have a labor work as everybody?' I had to read that a couple of times before I realised he was asking why she didn't go out to work like other people. I don't think it's clear what 'a labor work' is when you first read it. In the same one the line 'you must start today, you're getting out of time' just feels slightly off because I think most people would expect it to say 'you're running out of time' which is a more common saying. 

    Thanks!! I'll double check the dialogue. I'm really glad you liked it. In Mexico the comic is not very popular but I think it's because we use another kind of humor than the usual mexican jokes. Well, again, thanks a lot for the comments. :)

    I present you my webcomic. :)

    in General Chat

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    Hey there! I just wanted to tell you about a webcomic I'm making with my wife. I'm not a good drawer but I try to improve everyday and my wife makes the dialogues. :)

     

    We're from Mexico and to our friends... well, they have another type of humor, so they don't like it so much and I think the comic hasn't reached the correct audience yet... 

     

    Anyway, I wanted to present NanaNyme to you and have some opinions about it... (It would mean a lot to us.  :blush2: )

     

    http://www.facebook.com/NanaNyme

     

    http://www.nananyme.tumblr.com

    a book on serial killers

    in Non Fiction

    Posted

    The only one who comes into my mind is Dexter Morgan, but it's a fictional character. But you can try it, the books are written by Jeff Lindsay. The first one is "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" I hope you like it as much as I do. :)

    What if I want to start with philosophy?

    in Non Fiction

    Posted

    Thank you so much, Chrissy

    I've heard of Sophie's world, but I didn't think it was considered as a first book in philosophy haha. Now I'm feeling lucky since I have this book in Spanish at home. :) After that book, do you know how to continue reading philosophy?  Maybe I should read it first and then ask hehe. :)

     

    Andrea, I'l try read them for sure, thank you so much. :) 

    What if I want to start with philosophy?

    in Non Fiction

    Posted

    Hi!! I don't know if there's someone who has started this topic, please feel free to move this on its correct place if there is one. Thank you.

     

    Recently I've decided to start reading Philosophy but I've found that I can't understad Platón or Sócrates, a friend of mine told me that I need to start with history of philosophy but I don't know which book I must pick up first. 

     

    Is there a way to start reading Philosophy?

     

     

    How the Steel was tempered - Nikolai Ostrovski

    in Non Fiction

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    Some weeks ago I finished reading this book, and I'd like to recommend it to the forum.

     

    I'm so bad making reviews. So I add one I found in Amazon:

     

    "How the Steel Was Tempered is Nikolai Ostrovsky's epic semi-autobiographical novel, the only book he ever completed before his life was cut tragically short by illness at the age of 32 in 1936. Ostrovsky was a teenage soldier in the Red Army during the Civil War, before continuing his work in the Communist Youth League (Komsomol) and frequently appeared in Soviet magazines and on radio.

    Through its hero, Pavel Korchagin who begins the story as a boy slaving in the kitchens of a railway station restaurant in wartorn Tsarist Ukraine, the book follows not just Korchagin's developing life but also the development of socialism from the ashes of the First World War, through the triumph of the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution to the launch of the Soviet Union's planned economy at the end of the 1920s."

     

    I loved this book since its first pages, this is one of the books that inspires self-improvement. :) Has anybody read it?

    Looking for a book for my teacher of English.

    in Book Search and Reading Recommendations

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    Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, especially if there is a bit of a crush thing going on there!

     

    Also (and probably my choice) A 100 Years of Solitude by the same author is also a wonderful book - Tip, if you chose this, make sure the book has a family tree at the start, its set over 5 generations with the same recurring family names used. I'd have been lost without it!

    Those books are really good :), but I'm afraid that she has already read those. :) Anyway, thank you so much. :)

    Looking for a book for my teacher of English.

    in Book Search and Reading Recommendations

    Posted

    I enjoy giving books to my most loved people, one of them is my current teacher of English. :) I asked her if she wanted a book in Spanish but she said it was ok to buy her a book in English, so I was thinking of these books;

     

    The Analyst - John Katzenbach**

    My Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold*

    The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe**

     

    * Read

    ** Not read

     

    What do you think about these books, which one would you give to a teacher of yours?

     

    If you have any other recommendation (please!!) I surely would be very grateful to you.

    Hello everybody! :)

    in Introductions

    Posted

    Welcome to the forum, Roy! Enjoy!

     

    Thank you so much. You're the first person here that I see has a Borges' quote, he's really good, :) But I prefer read him in Spanish, also I have to say, Borges is one of the most difficult authors I've read. . :)

    Martial Arts

    in Sport

    Posted

    I did taekwondo for 5 years, I was really happy with that, and then Mexico won gold medal in it on the last Olympic games, since then taekwondo is being so crowded and in my school were nearly 100 white belts, it was so annoying, because I like that feeling that you're doing something that NOT EVERYBODY does, so I left it.

     

    Now after two years, I'm still feeling that I need to kick or to hit someone haha, I'm considering practicing another martial art, I've been thinking of Judo, I'm not sure yet.

    First read of 2012?

    in General Book Discussions

    Posted

    I'm reading now Interview with the vampire, to be honest I haven't read for about 1 week because right now I'm obsessed watching Dexter hehe, I have already know which book to read afther this one, Lewis Carrol's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the looking glass.

     

    The next book after that has to be Ana Karenina by Tolstoy, I have a duty to read it because I met a girl who said she love Leon Tolstoy, then I said her that I found Ana Karenina boring and I left the book after 69 pages, :P. The next day I felt like a stupid... So I have to read it in order to feel a reason to find it boring or interesting.

    Stephen King

    in Horror / Fantasy / SF

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    Hi Julie,

    Sorry I didn't see your reply :S

     

    I like Stephen King, :), really it's just that I'm not used with a lot of informal expressions.

     

    I can only say that I loved reading 'It' and Pennywise is the reason I don't like clowns. :S.

     

    Now I'd like to read it again but in English. ^_^

     

    Now that you mention his usually wearing, I have a photo of him and he's using jeans and a T-shirt, yeah, you're right. I haven't seen him wearing another kind of clothes. :)

    Stephen King

    in Horror / Fantasy / SF

    Posted

    Hi Julie,

     

    No, I haven't seen him interviewed, I'll look for a video right now :).

     

    Do you have a favourite book from him?

    I do, It's 'It' :), it took me about one year to have it in English, that book is so rare in Mexico.

    Stephen King

    in Horror / Fantasy / SF

    Posted

    I like Stephen King, but I find it a bit difficult to read because he uses a lot of informal expressions and a lot of phrasal verbs, which I don't know the meaning of many of them. :P

     

    I read 'It' and 'Cell' but in Spanish when I was younger. :)

    Lending or borrowing books.

    in General Book Discussions

    Posted · Edited by Michelle
    merged with existing thread

    Don't you feel like you wanna cry because that person hasn't returned your book or had hurt your book so badly? and you're so angry that you feel like you're in that moment a serial killer chasing people who has one of your books?

     

    Sometimes I don't want to lend them, for example, a friend of mine who is Studying English has two of my books, Perfume and The Silence of the Lambs, and it has already been a year since she has my books!! Every time I ask her about them she says she hasn't read them yet... She's on my bad persons list now :Tantrum:

     

    So I was wondering, do you have some books a friend of yours has in his/her possession?

    What kind of people you rely enough to lend him/her a book?

    Have you lost a book in that way?

    Do you feel you want to kill the responsible who stole any of your books?

     

    In my case, I haven't found a person who takes care enough of books, so I think I won't lend one of mine to anyone. Yes, I have lost some books :'(, that's the reason why I'm watching Dexter every night, to learn how a serial killer works in order to get my books back. :mad:

    How many languages do you know?

    in General Chat

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    Spanish is my first language, :) But I find it really difficult (Just try to read Jorge Luis Borges or Julio Cortázar in its original version and you'll see what I mean, not to mention Miguel de Cervantes :P) I try to write with the minimum number of grammatical mistakes in Spanish, but it's really tough and when I'm talking with some friends it's embarrassing to detect a lot of mistakes, something like "Hay voy" (I'm coming), the correct one is "Ahí voy".

     

    I've been studying English for about 3 years (emmm... two years?)... Honestly I don't remember haha, but I felt in love immediately and I really enjoy talking with English people.

    Unfortunately, I cannot find grammar mistakes in English :P, I need more experience haha.

     

     

    I started French and I can say just a few number of sentences, but as I'm a Spanish native Speaker I find it a little bit easier than English, specially the pronunciation, isn't that weird?

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