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Non-political forum??? Hey you all. When I just started my membership here I really liked that this is a non-political forum with no religion discussion and no politics is allowed. What I see here now? Opinion on Israel? On Beiruth? Just for your knowledge, I have mucho friendo in Israel and...

Thanks! Thank you all! I will try those! BTW, I did not know that it was also the time of Nabokov in Berlin which makes it even a more exciting time to read about! What led me to read about this time period (beginning of 20 century in Berlin) was also a book by Alfred Doeblin, "Berlin...

Hi, I read a book by Amos Elon "The pity of it All" set in Germany between a bit before the WWI and untill the WWII. The book was really great. I am interested in more books about Germany (history or historical fiction) set in the same time period (a bit before WWI and untill WWII), and...

Salman's Rushdie "The Moor's last Sight" I just bought a book by Rushdie, "The moor's last sight". I scanned this forum for Rushdie and saw that actually his other works appear here - "Midnight Children" and "Satan Verses". Did anybody read "The moor's last sight"? Is it as good as those above?

I am just curious, if in your places there is also something special about the First of May. I currently live in Berlin, and in the night between April 30 and May 1st it is one big war here. A crowd (mostly students and teenage) is throwing beer bottles into police, and huge amount of...

Who's is the motorcycle? -It's not a motorcycle, it's a chopper! -Who's is the chopper? -It's Zed's. -Who is Zed? -Zed is dead babe... Zed is dead!

Most impressing action I ever read was in Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I do not know how he did it, but you feel like you are inside the book. The main character there is only training on his computer, only playing - but everything is in action. He goes to sleep and dreams- and still, you...

Well, thanx, but i was already in a court even as a participant. Some jerk changed his lane out of a sudden and hit our car. Well, the whole thing was quite different from the impressive courts you see in movies or read in books. We were around 40 people in one room, each came because of his own...

Ufff, all those Biblical names! Nobody however wants to name their kids Cain or Abel, although I personally like how Cain sounds! But for some ironic reasons, there are many Peters in the world - I bet however that the death of Abel was not as terrible as St. Peter's one. I wonder what kind...

Hey, I am trying to write a short story. It should partly take place in a court with a judge. However, I found out that I have no idea what kind of language they are using there! Whatever I write sounds unrealistic because I do not use the right terminology. May be somebody can help me to...

Wow, it is sooo great! Are there any translations of your book? Unfortunately, our nefiews (4 and 7 years old) still do not speak English... But it seems to be exactly the book for them!

It sounds so much like Asimov, but unfortunately, it also sounds like thousands of others SciFi. "Historians help" and "weather control", I've read a few of those and I have a huge mess in my head who was where and who wrote what...:D

Terry Pratchett advise would probably be... As a librarian, do not forget a banana and take care of the L-space! Good Luck!

"The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" by Jose Saramago

Great answer. Basically in January I was reading the slowest in my whole life. I found a book where I love to read every word. I like how the words make sentences, senteces form paragraphs and the story goes on. I do not want to come to the end of the book! I never liked the process of reading...

Oh, have those got out of their minds!??! Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes for school children?! One should be a rather miserable child with a very complicated childhood to read those at the school age. BTW, what was the school age? 10 to 14 or 14 to 18? Or those writers just tried to be "cool"...

USofA could already long time ago start using altermative fuel (trains, for example, are driven by electricity which means less polluting and cheap!). The main problem is that the US government encourages petrol. Have a look on the petrol prices across the world at...

Well, "Prime" was great! Highly recommended!

Berlinale I am going to see "Prime" today with Uma Thurman. Hope it'll be OK. But besides, the best place to watch REALLY cool movies is Berlinale (every February, in Berlin). Most unexpected and great movies, by known and not-so-known authors all over the world, are to be seen there! And...

I do not think so. It was my very first German book after I have finished two or three German courses. Kaestner writes very easy, and makes one really into the book. I stopped looking into a dictionary because I wanted to know what will be next, skipped hard parts and nothing could hold me from...