Books

[irmamar]

Irma - are you taking a class? Sounds like a very good study skill!!

I have to read a few short books and learn vocabulary. I guess that the vocabulary they want will be a not very common one, so I note down the words I don't know and the context. As I have around 150 words, I don't remember all of them, so when I write one which is repeated, the spreadsheet fulls the field and I know that it's not necessary look for it again :). When I finish my reading, I'll try to make my own sentences with them, but they are so much... :sad:

I don't know why but I don't like Animal Farm. I prefer 1984 by the same author.

I agree. I liked 1984 a lot when I read it, many years ago. Maybe I should read it again ;)

[CrOtALiTo]

Irmamar.

There's a movie about the war's Spain, I tell you this because the other day, just I watched it in the TV, and the story that relate there in the movie, it's very interesting and the actors are amazing, it like there's a books that speak about the same than the movie.

I don't know if you know something about the movie's name.

[irmamar]

There are a lot of films about Spanish Civil War. Tell me something about it. Was it Spanish or not? Do you know the cast or the director? :thinking: The tittle (a good clue)? ;)

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes it was Spain movie.

[irmamar]

Here you can see a few films about the war. Maybe the picture gives you a clue :)

http://listas.20minutos.es/?do=show&id=37201

[María José]

Another good contemporary book I'd like to recommend is White Teeth by Zadie Smith.
From Wikipedia:
It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends - the Bangladeshi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh) Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jones, and their families in London. The book won multiple honors, including the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize) for fiction, the 2000 Whitbread Book Award (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Book_Awards) in category best first novel,[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Teeth#cite_note-0) the Guardian First Book Award (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_First_Book_Award), the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Writers_Prize), and the Betty Trask Award (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Trask_Award). Time Magazine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Magazine) included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Teeth#cite_note-1):thumbsup::):star:

[CrOtALiTo]

Here you can see a few films about the war. Maybe the picture gives you a clue :)

http://listas.20minutos.es/?do=show&id=37201

You've seen the movie El pianista. It's above the word, I don't remember if the wars is French or from England, but really it was good the story.

[Jessica]

jchen are you able to read "Tao Te Ching"? or is it a very old Chinese?
I have read many versions of it in Spanish and each one is like reading another book almost.
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If i have to recommend someone to read books in Spanish, I'll go with Cortazar, he is very good and approachable for intermediate++ levels.
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Has someone read Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's novels? (french)
Tomorrow I'm going to buy some classic novels in English in order to practice. Charles Dickens is good for that?


Tao Te Ching....? I'm not sure if I heard of it, I need to ask my mom. :p

[María José]

Ookami,
Charles Dickens is a great pleasure, but if you are still unsure about your English it might be better to start by reading contemporary authors. Just a suggestion.

[ookami]

Ookami,
Charles Dickens is a great pleasure, but if you are still unsure about your English it might be better to start by reading contemporary authors. Just a suggestion.

Oh I see, thanks. Any very good contemporary author?

[María José]

There are lots. There is a very nice book called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon that my students really enjoyed.Marian Keyes' Last Chance Saloon is quite long but also very enjoyable. Ha Jin's Waiting is one of my favourite books. I also like Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah...

[laepelba]

Oh I see, thanks. Any very good contemporary author?

Or try reading from the Bestsellers list: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/bestseller/bestpapertradefiction.html?_r=1&ref=bestseller

I really liked (although was broken hearted over) The Kite Runner (the book is much better than the movie...) I also really liked The Shack and My Sister's Keeper!

[ookami]

Muchas gracias a ambas. Voy a buscar información sobre los libros mencionados.

Soy muy conservador con los libros nuevos porque uno nunca sabe su nivel, en cambio con los clásicos al menos se puede asegurar que mal escritos -en su mayoría- no están. (con 'clásicos' a lo último que me refiero es a los best sellers, casi antónimo)

Andube intentando leer en ingles a Lovecraft y veo que me falta muchisimo vocabulario para poder disfrutarlo y no recurrir todo el tiempo al diccionario (la gramática la entiendo casi siempre). Algo similar me pasa con Poe, aunque me resulta mucho más facil.

Entonces, en cuanto a libros de cuentos: ¿qué recomiendan?

Stevenson me gusta mucho como escribe, solo he leído de él poesías en ingles. Estuve hojeando algunos libros en su lengua y entiendo casi todo más allá del vocabulario, creo que probaré con él.

http://books.google.com.ar/books?id=pLApMCSNIakC&dq=stevenson+dr+jekyll+and+mr+hyde&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=WPi7sZPT4T&sig=9D3-BK1GfbmXk9xundUoRK8cde0&hl=es&ei=pf-SSrLmBOD7tgf2jIDPBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false

¡Ese tipo de libros para aprender sirve muchisimo!, al final de cada página ponen el vocabulario así no recurris al diccionario todo el tiempo, muy bueno.

Gracias nuevamente y disculpen que escriba en español, si quieren que lo traduzca cuando regrese solo pidanlo.

[CrOtALiTo]

You've tried sometimes with the Harry potter's book, in that book often to be a book with a great story, it's much fantasy and also they have less words that you can missunderstand than other books, therefore, you can enjoy them, in my case absolutely I'd like to read a book above the great sea or hurricanes, because I love those that things above the nature, also I enjoy study about the medicine and sometimes I take time to do a littles searches in the internet and see the free books that the internet can gives you with need to pay some dollar no as others websites that offer you books and later that books haven't anything interesting in that words less than you like anything, but at least in my case is no the same.

I hope you can find a good book to read then.

[Chris]

If you're pretty decent with the English language now, I'd also like to recommend "House of Leaves" I enjoyed it but it may be hard to get through for some people because it has things like having to read the page in a mirror and stuff to see some parts.

[bobjenkins]

He acabado de leer timeline por michael crichton y es buenísimo. Os lo recomiendo

[irmamar]

Here you can find English books:

http://www.mansioningles.com/Libros.htm

[ookami]

Here you can find English books:

http://www.mansioningles.com/Libros.htm

Excelent website! Finally I had leaf trought some Chalers Dickens books and I can understand them better than i had expected. It's decided, I'm going to start by reading him. But he has a lot of books!

*Is that correct?

[bobjenkins]

Excellent website! Finally I had leaf trought some Chalers Dickens books and I can understand them better than i had expected. It's decided, I'm going to start by reading him. But he has a lot of books!

*Is that correct?

No estoy seguro de que lo que digas decir.:thinking: Quizás puedes también escribir la frase en español

[ookami]

No estoy seguro de que es lo que quieres decir.:thinking: Quizás puedes también escribir la frase en español


"Finalmente he hojeado algunos libros de ..."

I want to say "to take a glance" "I had take a glance trought the book..."


hojear verbo transitivo to leaf through, flick through: me he encontrado una foto suya hojeando una revista en el dentista, I came across his picture while leafing through a magazine at the dentist's

But I don't know how to use it here. (with the phrase "leaf trought")