English books

[Astrid Ramirez]

Last Month: A biography of Thomas Wolfe, written by Elizabeth Nowell

Now: Flannery O'Connor - ´The Habit Of Being´ (Letters)

[Juri Stroganoff]

Michael Lermontov: " Bojare Orscha "

Aleksandr Puskin : " Boris Godunow "



...no english-books - but very international

[Tony_Iommi]

Second Edition of "Decision Analysis" (David C. Skinner)

[Tony_Iommi]

Well, not necessarily a genuine English book, but nevertheless, we claim to be internationally here, don't we?

Emile Zola - Die Schnapsbude

[Against All Odds]

Zitat von knacker

I'm going to read Harry Potter 6. But I don't know what is better: English or German? Is it difficult to read it in English? My English isn't perfekt, so is it easy to understand?? I hope you can help me.

Knacker

the english one is way better!!!

[Tony_Iommi]

Eric Clapton - Autobiography

[Florian L.]

"Holes" by Louis Sachar (for the grammar school- quiet easy to read and an interesting story, somewhere in between a youth story and a criminal fiction)

"The Truman Show" for grammar school, too.

"Lord of the flies"- grammar school, too

"A Midsummer night´s dream" and "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare. We dealed with the originial versions and they are hard to understand since it is an ancient grammmar and different semantic meanign of certain words. But nevertheless it can be a pleasure to read or especially to watch or perform it.

Partly we also worked with "Macbeth", "Much ado about nothing" and other Shakespearean works.

Moreover I keep in mind a very impressing short story by Shirley Jackson called "The Lottery". This readingis alwasy worth reading because it presents the cruelty of human kind.

All these readings I did for the finalisation of my A-Level.

For my own amusement I joined reading all the "Harry Potter"-books. They are very clearly structured, no dialects or accents (except of Hagrid´s role) and you realise that it is written for youths. Probably it might be a good English book for beginners.

In addition I have read "The Hobbit" and I am reading "The Lord of the Rings" on the moment. Both are enjoyable but slightly more difficult than "Harry Potter" but still well to read.

Now I am dealing with "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen (a Christmas present by my brother) but I have just started reading.

One book I did not enjoy was "Rainmaker" by John Grisham since the topic did not touch me hardly although it is an interesting writing style which produces a lot of suspense. And the most difficult reading I did was "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov which shows a really striking topic but the style is not enjoyable at all. What you remark is that Nabokov is not a native speaker either.
For my English studies I have read and am still reading a couple of research papers on Linguistic, Literary studies, Cultutral studies and didactics.

One thing I would like to emphasize is that I find it most crucial that there is no dialectic languagein the reading since it is too hard for a non-native speaker to get the plot and the main meaning if there is a hard slang in it.

[Tony_Iommi]

Zitat von Florian L.

One thing I would like to emphasize is that I find it most crucial that there is no dialectic languagein the reading since it is too hard for a non-native speaker to get the plot and the main meaning if there is a hard slang in it.

Tough shit, buddy. But admittedly, you got a point there. Anyway, take it a little easy on youself and dig some real funny stuff, e. g.: "Why do men have nipples?" (Leyner/Goldberg). Highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller - hilarious stuff, so give it a shot!

[Florian L.]

Pretty hard for me since I don´t have a lot of time. I am in the first semester of my studies and we have to read really much. And almost all that stuff in English (clear for an English teacher).
I totally agree to you that is important to have fun caused by the reading. Here you develop language competence as well.
At least I will try to get a look at this book.
Thanks.

[sonex888888]

i read harry potter an the deathly hallows after its publication, but sometimes it was quite hard to understand, because my english is not the best