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Post by Scalawag on Dec 23, 2004 19:10:25 GMT 2
So, dear klanskin, yet another poll-like thread. What & who is (are) your favorite book(s) & author(s)? Here's my ABSOLUTE fave ;D :
Arto PAASILINNA, and his following works (roughly translated titles):
01. The Howling Miller 02. Wood Of Hanging Foxes 03. Rabbit's Year 04. Charming Mass Suicide
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Post by TomS on Dec 23, 2004 20:02:40 GMT 2
Favorite authors include: Terry Pratchett, J.R.R Tolkien, Herman Brusselmans, DBC Pierre, etc...
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Post by Helran on Dec 23, 2004 20:18:02 GMT 2
Terry Pratchett !
And I begin to read the books of Arto Paasalinna! I don't know the name in english, but in french is : "Le lièvre de VATANEN" and the next book I will read is "Petit suicide entre amis" .
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Post by TomS on Dec 23, 2004 20:25:31 GMT 2
...and the next book I will read is "Petit suicide entre amis" . Small suicide between friends? Sounds interesting
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Post by Helran on Dec 23, 2004 20:49:28 GMT 2
Small suicide between friends? Sounds interesting yes it's right! But sometimes, the name of the book, is note the same according to the countries.
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Post by Scalawag on Dec 23, 2004 21:21:40 GMT 2
Helran, the first book (Vatanen...) is probably Rabbit's Year... if it's about a guy and a rabbit, the second one probably Charming Mass Suicide, if about a group of people wanting to commit mas suicide, eh? ;D original titles (once i know by heart): Howling Miller = Ulvova mylärri (mylläri?) Rabbit's Year = Jäniksen vuosi the rest i'll try to post soon, if noone beats me to it
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Post by MaliceGarden on Dec 23, 2004 21:38:36 GMT 2
sherlock holmes by sir conan doyle.
every book from the "horrible" collection. small books for teenagers(aimed) that talk about several knowledge areas. very funny and interesting.
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Post by DaveTheRake on Dec 23, 2004 23:17:05 GMT 2
The one which Helran says is Rabbit's Year, I'm sure to 99%. I haven't read it, but is one of the ones which I project to read; my Finnish teacher recommended it to me 5 years ago.
I'll talk of books tomorrow, I'll need some time and a veeeery long post ;D
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Post by twilightheart on Dec 24, 2004 1:46:35 GMT 2
Unfortunately I don´t know the books you mentioned (exept Tolkien and Sherlock Holmes of course). I have only read german books (or german translations of the books) in my life so my favourite writers are: Wolfgang Hohlbein Erich Fried Marion Zimmer Bradley Ingeborg Bachmann and Arthur Rimbaud. Probably you won´t know any of them!
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Post by HerraHirwi on Dec 24, 2004 6:55:16 GMT 2
Robert E. Howard (the creator of CONAN THE BARBARIAN!!) H.P. Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith Kauko Röyhkä Aleksis Kivi Eino Leino Johanna Sinisalo Paavo Haavikko and manymanymany more..
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Post by Scalawag on Dec 24, 2004 11:24:20 GMT 2
Unfortunately I don´t know the books you mentioned (exept Tolkien and Sherlock Holmes of course). I have only read german books (or german translations of the books) in my life so my favourite writers are: Wolfgang Hohlbein Erich Fried Marion Zimmer Bradley Ingeborg Bachmann and Arthur Rimbaud. Probably you won´t know any of them! i know of Rimbaud. except of Paasilinna my other faves would be: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (100 Years of Solitude, The General in his own Labyrinth) Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose, Baudolino) Henry Miller (most stuff, except Opus Pistorum, that one is TOO much ) JRR Tolkien (of course) Guy Gavriel Kay (Fionnavar Tapestry, Tigana, etc)
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Post by Hiding on Dec 24, 2004 11:25:39 GMT 2
J.R.R. Tolkien (Gr.Br.) Gans Geins Ewers (Germany) Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia) E.T.A. Hoffmann (Germany) Victor Pelevin (Russia)
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Post by Helran on Dec 24, 2004 11:27:19 GMT 2
Oh I forget an excellent Russian author! ANDREJ KOURKOV But my favorit book is EDDA
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Post by DaveTheRake on Dec 24, 2004 18:33:55 GMT 2
Hi! I don't feel like talking too much, although I supposse I'll end talking a lot sorry Well, my favourite author is Ernst Hemingway, and my favourite book is For Whom The Bell Tolls; I just started reading it and I cannot stop. Also "the Old Man and the Sea" and "A Farewell To The Arms" are quite excellent books. Nowadays it seems that it's not polithically correct that a guy claims that he likes Hemingway, 'cos this seems to instantly make him misogynist; it seems that if you're a guy in order to be "ok" you must say you like Charlotte Bronte or Jane Austen... fuck off!!!! I don't find anything familiar in the story of a little poor protestant girl which runs away when she's gonna be married; but instead I find it on Hemingway, so Fuck Off, I like fucking Hemingway, and all the sexually repressed feminists that think I'm a misogynist for liking him can take their feminists books and do their fingers with them. Even though my favourite book is Bell Tolls, I think that the best book ever written is, of course, Don Quijote De La Mancha, by Cervantes; simply great. I mostly know English and American literature, due to my studies, and I would recommend you appart from Shakespeare's Hamlet, The Tempest or The Sonnets, Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller"; this is a very funny book, written with very much black homuor for an Scholar during the late XVI C. Nashe was a common prisioner due to his scandals every time he wrote something. Maybe one of the first Damned authors. Much enjoyable are Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Henryson's "The Testament Of Cressid"; two good examples of late medieval poetry. In romanticism I like a lot COleridge -whose Rhyme of the ancient mariner is well known by all Iron Maiden fans, and whose "Christabel" is even a good as The Rhyme- Lord Byron and Keats; I love Keats, his poetry is so much ellegant!! More authors... of course Poe, I won't say anything. I also enjoyed too much when I was a teenager H.P. Lovecraft, although nowadays his work smells too much to Xenofobia; anyway, I liked very much his writings. SOme of you will be waiting for Tolkien, aren't you? Well, I must admit I've always had as a project to read LOTR, but only have read The Hobbit, and I liked it a lot when I was 15. TO end with the English section, Swift's "Gulliver's Travels": it's a pity he was so much puritan, 'cos I really find he had the two biggest Irish bollocks in history! And I can't understand why being such a terrifying book, Gulliver ended as a book for children. One of my favourites books was Kivi's "The Seven Brothers"; simply brilliant, I stroingly recommend it. And the book which most impressed me lately was Italo Calvino's "El Baron Rampante" (in English something like The Rampant Baron, I supposse). One of the greatest stories I've read. Oh, I forgot before Dashiell Hammet's The Maltesse Falcon" and "Red Harvest". One Spanish, VAlle-Inclans "Bohemian Lights", a great theatre play; also Unamuno's "Midst" (In Spanish, "Niebla"). And one more English, the Harry Potter Saga, I like it a lot. More fave books... Kalevala, Homer's Odessy... there's too much to follow on, but I'll end it now, or I'm afraid one of those days the army of moderators will start cutting my posts Merry Christmas to all of you brothers and sisters!!!!!
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Post by Hiding on Dec 25, 2004 1:07:48 GMT 2
Andrej KOURKOV? Helran, I've never heard of him. It's strange TO end with the English section, Swift's "Gulliver's Travels": it's a pity he was so much puritan, 'cos I really find he had the two biggest Irish bollocks in history! And I can't understand why being such a terrifying book, Gulliver ended as a book for children. I also liked Gulliver and it's also strange to me that it ended as a children book. But I liked more pamphlet "Modest offer" or smth like this. I don't know how it is in English. It is where he offers to eat little children to avoid the hunger in Ireland ;D And I forgot to mention my favourite Gabriel Garcia Marquez!
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