¿Quién es su autor favorito?

[Fazor]

No leía O'Henry, pero su bolillo es delicioso!

[CrOtALiTo]

Thank you for your advice.

[Elaina]

No leía O'Henry, pero su bolillo es delicioso!

Bolillo = small french roll (pan blanco)
(mmm I love this bread)

There used to be a candy called O'Henry....

¿Pero Bolillo O'Henry? No sé lo que es.

[Jessica]

There's this book I read a long time ago and it had pictures and they were...mysterious...I forgot what the book was called...but I remember one of the sentences:

"The leaves fell to the ground, but there was no wind."

something like that and I liked the book. It wasn't really a story. It was by an author who disappeared.

[Fazor]

Bolillo = small french roll (pan blanco)
(mmm I love this bread)

There used to be a candy called O'Henry....

¿Pero Bolillo O'Henry? No sé lo que es.

Hmm. The two dictionaries I consulted (and the search feature here) said a bolillo was a candy bar, and bolillo (de?) pan was a small roll

[Zwarte Piet]

Me gusta Las novelas de Dan Brown. Angels and Demons es fantástico.

[sosia]

I don't like much Dan Brown.
"Da Vinci Code" it's easy to read, and with minor quizzes in every chapter makes it interesting.
But the background it's completely irreal. He uses History as Chewing-gum, schretching it to impossible levels.
Saludos :D

[Tomisimo]

Hmm. The two dictionaries I consulted (and the search feature here) said a bolillo was a candy bar, and bolillo (de?) pan was a small roll
In México, bolillo only refers to a type of large roll. But in other areas, it can refer to specific types of candy as well.

[Fazor]

Creo que 'Angels and Demons' era estreno antes de 'Da Vinci Code'. No leía 'Angels and Demons' porqué alguien dijome (?) está muy similar a 'Da Vinci Code'. Me gusta 'Da Vinci Code' pero no creo está sensacional. Está mediocre solamente.

In México, bolillo only refers to a type of large roll. But in other areas, it can refer to specific types of candy as well.

¿Qué es una palabra mejor para 'candy bar'?

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@Fazor: Dulce, caramelo.

[Tomisimo]

¿Qué es una palabra mejor para 'candy bar'?

@Fazor: Dulce, caramelo.
It seems wrong to us gringos, but as far as I know there is no specific word for "candy bar". Use what Angelica said. In some cases you can use "barra de chocolate", but that's not specifically "candy bar" either.

[Vikingo]

(...) porqué alguien dijome (?) está muy similar a (...)

Yo diría: porque alguien me dijo que era..

Espero que no te moleste la corrección ;).

Uno de los autores hispanohablantes que me gustan es Juan Bosch, ha escrito unos cuentos (muy cortos) que te hace pensar, como éste (http://www.ciudadseva.com/textos/cuentos/esp/bosch/mujer.htm) y éste (http://www.ciudadseva.com/textos/cuentos/esp/bosch/mancha.htm).

Saludos :)

[Jessica]

By the way, I just finished reading Brisingr, the third book by Christopher Paolini. I finally got hold of it! I can't wait for the 4th and final book.

[laepelba]

Helloooooooooo?????????? Malila? I was expecting to see you post your favorite author(s)... I am really very interested in finding out who they are!! Come on ... spill it. :)

Anyway - I certainly DO LOVE the Harry Potter books ... have read them all and have listened to them on recorded books. And I also love John Grishom and Michael Crighton (especially his environmental novels).

But my absolute favorite two mystery novelists are Jonathan Kellerman and Tony Hillerman (who died recently).

I also like the following religious authors: C.S. Lewis, Elisabeth Elliot, Corrie ten Boom and Catherine Marshall. I'm sure there are more ... but these are the four life-changers.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@Lou Ann: Do you know the French expression "embarrass de richesse"? (When you have too much of something good and you don't know where to start) ;)

Ok... Some of my favourite are:
· Ray Bradbury (The October Country, The Martian Chronicles): I don't like his being labeled as a science-fiction author... he's rather a fantasy writer to me.
· Isaac Asimov (Buy Jupiter; I, Robot; Foundation collection): His stricness in engineering is fantastic.
· Philip K. Dick (Solar Lottery; Deus Irae; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said): irregular writer, but when he develops a brilliant idea, he's almost prophetic.
· Jorge Luis Borges (Ficciones, Inquisiciones): To my mind, the best writer in Spanish ever. He has a great rhethoric, amazing expertise in languages, an extraordinary feeling for moods and atmospheres...
· Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Las Aventuras del Capitán Alatriste, El Club Dumas): He's a lot more than a best-seller. He always makes an erudite treaty of language and the topics he deals with, without ever becoming boring. He's also very visual... like watching a good movie, full of detail and emotion.
· Ernesto Sábato (Sobre Héroes y Tumbas, El Túnel): Hard to read, but very accurate when it comes to his describing strange sides of human nature.

[laepelba]

Thanks, Malila! I figured it was something like that. :)

Have you read "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov? I LOVE that one!!

Is there a Spanish author that you think I could handle ... maybe short stories or something? The Harry Potter isn't going so well because it's such a familiar story that I'm not motivated to weed through the words that I don't know in Spanish......

By the way, David - I meant to say that of course, we could ALL read more O'Henry short stories!! The Gift of the Magi is an amazing creation!!

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@Lou Ann: "The Last Question"... hmm... The one where men ask Multivac how to reverse entropy?... Superb! :)

About books in Spanish: I started reading in other languages with editions of classic books (like Aesop fables, Andersen's tales, Goethe's Faust, Russian short stories, etc.,) addressed to a younger public; please notice, not exactly children versions, but the ones with simplified language and stories, so they can be understood by teenagers and young adults. It doesn't matter if they were originally in other languages... the idea is you start feeling Spanish in longer sentences. :)

[laepelba]

@Lou Ann: "The Last Question"... hmm... The one where men ask Multivac how to reverse entropy?... Superb! :)

About books in Spanish: I started reading in other languages with editions of classic books (like Aesop fables, Andersen's tales, Goethe's Faust, Russian short stories, etc.,) addressed to a younger public; please notice, not exactly children versions, but the ones with simplified language and stories, so they can be understood by teenagers and young adults. It doesn't matter if they were originally in other languages... the idea is you start feeling Spanish in longer sentences. :)

Thanks for the suggestions, Malila. I'm going to have to look into some of those options. I'm sure they'll be fun AND interesting! I'm already working with Spanish comic strips and learning quite a bit whilst laughing! :)

[Fazor]

· Ray Bradbury (The October Country, The Martian Chronicles): I don't like his being labeled as a science-fiction author... he's rather a fantasy writer to me.

I agree. Some of his best short stories are neither sci-fi or fantasy; rather beautiful windows into Ray's world. His writing can be so vivid (without being overly analytical) that you feel like you're really there.

Granted a lot of his stuff is sci-fi, or fantasy. But there's plenty that are neither. His gift is that all his stories are so magical that none of it feels like fiction.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Very right, Fazor. Most of his stories have a huge poetic value and his style is invariably captivating. :)