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The last book you read
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:25 pm
by puce
Pi?ge pour Cendrillon by S?bastien Japrisot, Trap for Cinderella in the English edition. It's an unpudownable book, once you begin it, you have to finish it.
Synopsis: "A beach house at a French resort is gutted by fire. Trapped inside are two women - one rich and the other poor. Only one of them survives, burnt beyond recognition and in a state of total amnesia. Who is she, the heiress or her penniless friend? A killer, or an intended victim?"
I think I have the answer to the question, but I'm not sure. If some frenchies have read it, PM me your answer.
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:37 pm
by *
the last book i read was by turns hilarious and quite dark - 'the thought gang' by tabor fischer. set (mostly) on the french riveria, it is the unlikely story of how to philosophically pursue a life of crime when you're not all there (literally and metaphorically). fischer uses a style reminiscent of douglas adams without actually copying it. i'm not big into novel reading, but this is very cool!
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:48 pm
by kuhn
I feel so un-cultural.
I only read academic litterature.
I pray for the day I've read my last curriculum text book. One day I too shall be free.
Books
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:08 pm
by whatis
1. The Perfumed Garden of the Cheikh Nefzaoui By Cheikh Nefzaoui (A Manual of Arabian Erotology)
(it's hilarious)
2. Belgarath the Sorcerer by David and Leigh Eddings (an old childhood favourite was the Belgariad)
3. The Annotated text of Lolita by Vladimir Nabordov (sp?)
it's gonna be Chinese New Year soon. It's considered impolite to read a book during this time of the year. (the word for book "shu" sounds like "lose" and implies "losing money" "shu qian)
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:04 pm
by Spookrijder
Vladimir Nabokov?
I'm reading "Max Havelaar" by Multatuli aka Edouard Douwes Dekker, a book published in Dutch in 1860. That book seems like having a similar importance as "Uncle Tom's" something for it underlines the very avant-garde notion at that time of fair trade. The story turns around coffee plantation in Java and the exploitation of people there who were then. Java was a colony of the Netherlands. I'm very surprised by the modernity of the style and the narration (there are two different narrators), that book is very humourous at time, surely through the very colourful personality of the main character Max Havelaar. A discovery!
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:52 pm
by paulr
I've read
Arthur Japin - Een Schitterend Gebrek
- recently..
It's in dutch..
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:05 am
by kuhn
paulr wrote:I've read
Arthur Japin - Een Schitterend Gebrek
- recently..
It's in dutch..
What does the title mean:
A dirty/nasty break-in/act?
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:40 pm
by paul-pgss
Same here Kuhn. You are not alone.
Currently I'm only reading book on economy, the Dutch and European law and communicationsprocesses.
Last book I read was Harry Potter 5.
Oh and a dutch book called "Het Meesterstuk" by Anna Enquist.
And Multatuli?
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:50 pm
by Spookrijder
[what]
No Dutch guys here around has something to tell about "Max Havelaar" by Multatuli, or was it just a boring mandatory reading at school then 
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:04 am
by whatis
i read about him in my history textbooks re: colonial history of Indonesia. the very memory of my o'levels makes me shudder [:xx]
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:08 pm
by paulr
kuhn wrote:paulr wrote:I've read
Arthur Japin - Een Schitterend Gebrek
- recently..
It's in dutch..
What does the title mean:
A dirty/nasty break-in/act?
uhmm I guess "a marvelous shortcoming" [crazy]
Re: And Multatuli?
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:09 pm
by paulr
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:57 pm
by kuhn
paulr wrote:kuhn wrote:paulr wrote:I've read
Arthur Japin - Een Schitterend Gebrek
- recently..
It's in dutch..
What does the title mean:
A dirty/nasty break-in/act?
uhmm I guess "a marvelous shortcoming" [crazy]
I read -almost- fluently!
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:24 am
by paulr
hahahah.. yeah.. ALMOST .. [crazy] [crazy]
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:55 am
by Elforel
Well, one of the great things that came with my meeting my wife, was to seriously get back to my love for reading...
So, good books I read recently:
-On the Road-Kerouak: I guess there's non need to introduce that one, i was probably the last guy to read it here, but anyway, the 2 first third are really cool and spreading a cool energy. A really envigorating reading.
-Le G?ne du Chabaa-Azouz Begag: I don't know how much it has been translated, talks about the youth of an Algerian kid in France and it is a wonderful writing about youth-very realistic but never lacking humour or positivity.
Well, that's not much of a review, eh? [bday] [:xx] [:o]
At least it can keep the tread alive!
