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I completely agree on Astrid Lindgren and Erich Kaestner. I can add only two more of their books : Astrid Lindgren's "Noisy Village/Bullerby children", about children in a swedish village doing funny things, and Erich Kaestner's "When I was a little kid", about the author's childhood in...

Well, I still think that the movie was not so bad. I kept thinking about it a week or so after I saw the movie. It means that it was not just another one which you see and then forget, but kind of movie about unjustice that troubles one (at least me). But yes, it was a bit boring, I do agree...

I enjoyed a lot "I. Claudius" by Robert Graves. About Rome.

Hey, I am more or less in your situation, not fluent in German but I live in Germany :cool: (well, I am studying here) I started my german with easy German books, and the best was reading Erich Kaestner's children books. "Als ich ein kleiner junger war", if you have not read it yet. One...

I have seen it yesterday. This is actually the first time that I do not know to say what is the movie about. It keeps you busy with watching untill the end, and then you feel kind of a philosofical emtiness. It is like in life, when you make many guesses what will be the next and it turns out...

13 is a lucky number in some cultures (in Jewish, for istance). Fridays are even better! So let's go party?

Thank you all very much. I'll try that!

My friend was advising me a science fiction book on a guy who was a lier (style Baron von Munchausen), This "Baron von Munchausen", however, was lying about things that happened to him in a space, how he was flying around various stars and funny things were happening to him. May be somebody...

Sorry I did not mean that :cool: Well, I do understand that! Good Luck! I have no idea why people are doing that to themselves. I felt so relieved when I stopped reading it. The sun was suddenly warmer, people friendlier, and life was much better in every respect! I believe that I...

Thanx for your advise.

The greates word is "Tapochki". At school we had one russian boy who was bringing funny words from his home. And Tapochki was one of his best. Crowds of kids were running in our school yard, screeming in joy "Tapochki-Tapochki-Tapochki". It just means "slippers" in russian. In German they also...

I was looking for some nice fiction book on India when I found instead a well-written book on Afganistan by Khaled Husseini, "The Kite Runner". However I still would like to find something about India. "The life of Pi" by Yann Martel was nice but it was not so much about India at the end. May...

There is more information regarding this name (Beelzebub) in a wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub The translation of this book title into Hebrew is also straight forward: "baal zvuv", (meaning lord-of-the flies :) ) all know what it means but not many where it comes from (which...

Thanks for citing me there above :) And anyway, may be the whole thing about "boys reading less" is bullshit? May be from the beginning it is based on "common-feeling" rather than on something solid? I do not have kids (yet) but I have a sister. While I've always been a book worm, she...

I can't release myself from the charms of Futurama. But Fightclub, Memento and Pulpfiction can do as well.

I had my first snow this winter!!! Huge white snowflakes were falling so softly from the skies! And I had to stay in bed because I still can't get rid of this flue. And than I started to count how many people in the world I know ("know" means that at least I said "hello" to him or her)...

Thanx, Abecedarian. In my university library we do not have those, but It's a high time to go to other libraries around and to see the changes that happened meanwhile in the world. I'll have a look and let you know. With DVDs I was normally borrowing those from the DVD-library untill there...

With that I do not argue. Library I do love too. Are there any libraries for CDs? By the way, I do think that Culture is OUR BASIC NEED. I do not want to live in a place without a culture. Sorry, but that scares me.

I am an old respectable Frau Kukinsohn, 88 years old, sitting here on the internet and trying to make the world better :) I

But you do drive the other car, don't you? Car is not a luxury. Culture SHOULD NOT be luxory either. You go and buy yourseld a cheaper car, don't you? Well, this is because the market ALLOWS you to have cheap AND expensive cars. I do not mind to have CHEAP and EXPENSIVE editions of the same...