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| 15.05.2009 20:54 | ||
| Obachecka |
AW: English books Zitat:
Read it, feel it, what else ? Our teacher wants us to collect 10 vocabs from each chapter for our "vocab-list", we have to make a reading log, we'll write a vocab test on thursday and so on.... Horrible...  Deniece Williams - Silly Let's go back to the "Musik-Thread"...;-) |
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| 15.05.2009 20:44 | ||
| DirkEausM |
AW: English books Zitat:
The Who - See me feel me 
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| 15.05.2009 20:36 | ||
| Obachecka |
AW: English books I have to read "About a boy" untill next thursday....  I watched the movie a few days ago and it was boring in my opinion. |
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| 15.05.2009 18:33 | ||
| Pit Brett |
AW: English books Hope you guys still have left some space for another recommendation.. It's Howard Jacobson's "The mighty Walzer" which has been brought to my attention by a friend from Chicago a few years ago. Of course it's not that catching as a regular thriller but you'll find lots of jokes almost on every page. As a ping-pong...sorry, as a table tennis player myself, I really enjoyed reading it even though I had to look up for a couple of words from time to time as a german. It's about a little boy who's a real natural at ping-pong and follows his way becomming a pro. Worth reading even for people who're not that familiar with table tennis. But if you're (and I know you're :-)) it will double the fun! In case that somebody of you read this book already, I'd like to know if it has been the same pleasure for you Get it here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mighty-Walze.../dp/0099274728 |
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| 15.05.2009 17:34 | ||
| Tabea |
AW: English books I can recommend "The Pelican Brief" by John Grisham. I read it for the CAE (Certificate of Advanced English from the Cambride University) and now it's one of my favourite books. It's catching and you just have to go on reading! |
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| 21.01.2009 16:36 | ||
| Tony_Iommi |
AW: English books ...finially about to finish up Sedaris' : 'When you are engulfed in flames' 
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| 21.01.2009 16:23 | ||
| Norbert |
AW: English books Paul Ekert: Ordinary Monsters if you like action thrillers... |
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| 19.01.2009 16:53 | ||
| Florian L. |
AW: English books I've just finished reading "The Jungle Books" by Kippling. It was the first time I closely was engaged with these themes. What was most stunning was that the thread through the text, basically, were the Mowgli stories. And, although, they were merely losely connected built a frame in which the other parts (Undertakers, ....) were emebedded fairly good. Neverthelesss the quality of the stories varied hugely, especially some of the poems I did not understand totally in terms of language and, particularly, meaning. At the very moment I read "Tracks" by Louise Erdrich, a native North-American author. I have to read that for university and I must admit that I find it rather boring. Of course the novel provides an authentic picture of the native American at the beginning of the twentieth century but, in general, it is focused on the minority. I don't like novels whose only purpose is to create a pledge for minorities and here you realise such tendencies. |
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| 01.11.2008 22:44 | ||
| Against All Odds |
AW: English books At the moment I'm slogging through Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. Read the German translation several years ago and I'm really kind of impressed with the translator's performance. People pay too less homage to interpreters... |
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| 01.11.2008 20:24 | ||
| Florian L. |
AW: English books This week I remembered to research "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in a reliable source (Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon; I wished I could gice the article here but I do not have the necessary access to the University's CDs to put on my own laptop). Indeed the perception of this very book changed in recent years. The actual intention of this book was to criticise the slavery and due to the fact that slaves were black the description of the African-Americans was a literary technique rather than the real aim of the author. It is interesting to keep in mind that it was firstly published in anti-slavery journal as a string of stories. Some academics even claim that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" caused the American Civil War continueing. For a fairly long time this book was a prototypical example of pleading of human rights for blacks and whites equally due to the fact that they were, one of the first time in history, described as actual human beings. Today's perception is totally different. Organisations of African-Americans detest this book and try to abolish it from the curriculum. Basically criticism is based on the, above mentioned, extensively applied stereotypes about black people. To summarize the discussion there is to state that both aspects can be interpreted and are absolutly acceptable although current academcis tend to classify "Uncle Tom's CAbin" as less important for the black movement. Perhaps this tendency developed since this work became more a children's book than adult literature. In this respect it is apparent that it bears more potential than being a mere children's book. |
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