Leitilsdal
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Post by Leitilsdal on Jun 28, 2004 12:39:37 GMT 2
For anyone interested, and specially for Melinda to wash her past sins ;D , here it is the link to the Finnish original. It's a pity they haven't translated it to English on the net, or at least I haven't been able of finding it. www.gutenberg.net/etext/11940They have other works by Kivi too. (I just love Project Gutenberg page... you can find nice books there, and all for free).
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Post by HerraHirwi on Jun 28, 2004 16:44:30 GMT 2
I have to admit that I never read the book. We were assigned to read it at school but I never finished it. Instead, I read a picture book and passed the test... Brilliantly... I've read the version of Seitsemän veljestä, where the pictures are drawn by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, who IMO is one of the best artists ever lived. Whereas Kivi is Finnish national author, Gallen-Kallela is Finnish national artist. Jonne: you should make your own version of Seitsemän miehen laulu!! ;D ;D "Kiljukoon nyt kaikkein kaula, kohta saamma virren laula voimalla seitsemän miehen! Voimalla seitsemän miehen!"
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Post by DaveTheRake on Jun 28, 2004 18:33:29 GMT 2
Well, Melinda, if you admit my advice, I recommend the book to you. I've said already all I can say about it, but anyway, it's just that when I ended that book I felt very sad, I just enjoyed it so much that I wanted more and more. SOmetimes this happen to me, but not always, so when it happens, and several years later I still remember with so much love those books, take for sure that I found them great! Anyway, you know, about tastes there's nothing written, so maybe what I find lovely you find fucking boring For example I've needed reading The Old Man And The Sea 3 times in order to find why so many people think it's such a great book; there's a lot of people find that book amazing at first. I don't know why I always start talking and when I end nobody knows what the fuck I'm talking about, anyway, if you have time, read the Seitsemän Veljestä
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Post by Sethlad on Jun 29, 2004 12:41:36 GMT 2
Damn all of you people... now I'll have to go and buy the book...
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Post by DaveTheRake on Jun 29, 2004 13:58:50 GMT 2
Do it, brother, you wont think you've done wrong The book is worthy enough, I promise... but if you don't like it's no my fault, ok? ;D By the way, I think the editorial should pay us a percentage for all the promo we are doing to the book
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Post by DanFuckingLucas on Jun 29, 2004 23:35:58 GMT 2
Aye, I too want to read this book. But I'll have to stick with the translation, because I don't know Finnish. I like it like that, because it always leaves an air of mystery around Finnish music. I'm going to buy it tomorrow (the book, I mean. I'll be reading it when I'm sitting at the bar tomorrow afternoon!!)
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Fjola
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Post by Fjola on Jun 30, 2004 2:57:10 GMT 2
Well, Melinda, if you admit my advice, I recommend the book to you. I've said already all I can say about it, but anyway, it's just that when I ended that book I felt very sad, I just enjoyed it so much that I wanted more and more. SOmetimes this happen to me, but not always, so when it happens, and several years later I still remember with so much love those books, take for sure that I found them great! Anyway, you know, about tastes there's nothing written, so maybe what I find lovely you find fucking boring For example I've needed reading The Old Man And The Sea 3 times in order to find why so many people think it's such a great book; there's a lot of people find that book amazing at first. I don't know why I always start talking and when I end nobody knows what the fuck I'm talking about, anyway, if you have time, read the Seitsemän Veljestä I know. But I'm just a stupid angst filled teenager. Yeah I really should read it. I know. I know. I know.
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Post by DaveTheRake on Jun 30, 2004 14:44:17 GMT 2
Well, you know, I don't want to "oblige" you to do it... you know, I'm sure that after so many times telling you "read it, read it" you at last read it and feel it isn't so much worthy it happens lots of times. And I don't consider you are a stupid teen (if you were stupid you weren't had past the test on seitsemän just by looking at a picture book)... it's me who most of the times is a bit boring with some things that I like very much So now I change my mind... don't read it ;D! One of my stupid jokes, don't you ever take me seriously
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Post by Sethlad on Jun 30, 2004 15:00:33 GMT 2
Worry not me friend, we don't.
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Post by DaveTheRake on Jun 30, 2004 15:12:34 GMT 2
Worry not me friend, we don't. Well done! ;D ;D
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Post by HerraHirwi on Jun 30, 2004 16:44:20 GMT 2
Now reading: Aleksis Kivi: Kootut teokset (Collected works)
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Post by DaveTheRake on Jun 30, 2004 17:04:20 GMT 2
Me: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Post by MaliceGarden on Jun 30, 2004 19:20:52 GMT 2
i think my bro has read already that one. i cant stand it.
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Fjola
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Post by Fjola on Jul 1, 2004 2:25:21 GMT 2
Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo & Edgar Allan Poe's Collected Poetry.
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Leitilsdal
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Post by Leitilsdal on Jul 1, 2004 13:36:01 GMT 2
[before sleeping]: Borges: Other Inquisitions & Book Of Dreams.
[in the train to job]: David Birmingham: History of Portugal
[evenings]: Karen Eva Carr: Vandals to Visigoths. Rural Settlement Patterns in Early Medieval Spain
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