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Finished Finished the Bovary. There is a good reason, though, why I have not read it till now - not my thing! Horrible, horrible, woman! Pathetic! Stupid! Thank God for the invention of D*I*V*O*R*C*E !!!!!!!!!!

The other city was Tostes, <-- here is its location - also not far away from Rouen.

Bovary Geography Here is the electronic version of Madam Bovary book. And on this map one can easily find Yonville, where Bovary family moves - actually a bit further from Rouen than I understood from the text - or is it not the same Yonville ? (took me some time to get the geografic idea of...

Finally, from all those plentiful prize lists, I recognize some people here! Rushdie whom I do not really like but read, Amos Oz whose books and essays I liked, Roth who's OK and Lessing who is on my TBR. Atwood - I heard the name... Can somebody suggest a good, exciting, easily readable...

Ok, I just read about this author... " Dreams of my Russian Summers " sounds promising! But Hemingway is also OK with me.

Stewart: Stewart, I feel so much like that in every cultural aspect. I'm a great fan of a Berlinale Film Festival, held in Berlin every February. And I have a feeling that each year it gets more and more depressing: more movies about abused children, smugglers, gangs, love which leads to...

I have a feeling that people here are trying to advocate those poor abilities to speak (or simply being interviewed!) by some celebrities. When I come to my grand parents who watch Russian TV, I have a feeling that the standards in Russia are a bit higher. I do not follow whether those are...

I liked that book. May be it depends in which age you read it? Here are some books that I found tedious but rewarding: Berlin, Alexander Platz - Alfred Döblin Baltasar and Blimunda - Jose Saramago I found them very hard to concentrate on, but it was a good feeling when I was...

I am afraid that you might have already read it... But... What about Gogol, with those novels/stories: "Taras Bulba", "Dead Souls" or "Village Evenings Near Dikanka"? The last one is supposed to reflect Ukrainian/Russian floklor, and I am a bit interested how life was then and there...

I am OK with Russians, but are there any happy (soviet) Russians? My grandparents, from USSR, has lots against Solzhenitsyn - also from talking to other Russians, not many like him (from people I know, so I am not trying to generalize.)... I never read him, thus I might. But again - are there...

I don't know... Give Bush a piece of paper, and I am not sure that he will be much better in writing than in talking... Another example - I heard that Winston Churchill was a great speaker, a good historian, and a good writer... (I should put him in TBR, to make sure...) No-no-no, you can not...

Good one ! :D I also thought so. But Tarantino was the one who destroyed my whole understanding of "Art of Words" and people behind it. How could he, he, who created those brilliant dialogues, not know to express himself in an interview?! - And to sell this horrible speech (16 min. long!!!)...

Should actors know to talk, in their everyday life? I just saw "Last Samurai" with Tom Cruise. At the end of the DVD he gave an interview. I thought to myself, "let's see it, he must know now A GREAT DEAL about Samurais and their culture". It went like that: Tom Cruise; "You know, I...

Thanks for telling me that! I did not notice:D

Something in the Alexandre Dumas thread deeply reminded me of other books that I liked as a kid. Rafael Sabatini (the author of "Captain Blood") is another such romantic writer, whose books I enjoyed back then, along with Dumas' romances... I believe that whoever liked Dumas' "The Count of...

Thanks for all of you, very flattering... That is overestimation.... I am below 30, but does not matter. I think that judging by CDs is harder today - most of my new music is on my MP3. My latest (and the only in the last 3 years) "physical" CD purchase was Patricia Barber, a young Jazz...

So here was the suggestion: I may start with my CD collection - can you tell the personality ? (I mean, from the CDs, not from my previous posts :D

There has been a discussion on luck of contests in this forum, and Motokid has suggested to bring them back... So here is what I thought to propose: There has been a whole new literature Genre born in B&R (see examples below) - it will be pity to loose it forever... I laughed so much when I...

Auch... I just realized that Santa Claus is not from Finland nor from the North Pole... This is what Wikipedia says: Greek, pfuia! Bathes in sun, not swimming with walruses!