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Oi Va Voi - Refugee on some internet radio. The voice sounded very familiar, and it's actually KT Tunstall.

assigned reading: Cal by Bernard MacLaverty from the library: Old School by Tobias Wolff

Finally got a broadband connection today, but it won't work! :mad: The router says I'm online while nothing is happening! I guess I'll just catch up on some sleep now. I went to a Shakespeare play yesterday and wasn't home until midnight.

The title is "H Autobiography of a Child Prostitute and Heroin Addict" by Christiane F. Is doesn't sell under 30$ though, because it's out of print und hard to get.

Thanks a lot for your insights everyone and the great review, Shade! I'm awaiting this book now eagerly.

And you're in Reykjavik! :eek: I'm just sooo jealous right now. What are you doing there?

Mafalda mentioned him on various occasions and I think that he deserves his own thread. There already exists a discussion about his novel "The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear", but "Rumo and his Miraculous Adventures" and "The City of Dreaming Books" will be published in the US soon, too...

Hallo Mafalda! :) It's nice to see you here since I'm struggling with the same problems, but your English sounds very understandable, at least to me. I noticed your avatar right away in another thread! Walter Moers is just great, I still have "Rumo und die Wunder im Dunkeln" somewhere on my...

I'm well known in the library. All the staff knows me by name and as soon as I open the door somebody goes to fetch everything which arrived through interlibrary loan. CDs and DVDs are limited, only three items each for one week, books three weeks. They don't charge me for anything -...

I read them a few years ago and liked them a lot. But somehow, in the middle of the fourth volume, I completely lost interest in it and stopped reading. I think the second used to be my favourite.

Ah well, I live in a big family, so I'm used to buy everything in huge relations. You get some queer looks though if you go out of the shop with 60 litres of salad oil in your trolley. :rolleyes: Recently my father ordered a 900 litre tank of oil, so that won't be so much of a problem anymore.

Oh well, we got two cars. A Nissan Primera and an old Peugeot 205, both diesel engines. Basically, we just get some oil from the supermarket and fill it in the tank, no modifications. The only problem is that oil needs to have a high temperature, so we can't drive with it in winter. We...

It does! I'm driving with vegetable oil and once forgot to close the back door of the car and wondered about the smell.. aaah! :rolleyes: 1,40€ per liter here! :eek:

"The Shadow of the Wind" got me instantly hooked, but somewhere in the middle of the book it lost me. It started out very promising but the second half coulnd't keep up to my expectations. Ah well, I heard a lot of different opinions, though. Let us know what you think about it, Miss Shelf.

I ordered this book from the library today and wondered if anybody has read it yet? Here is the Amazon page of the book for some further info.

'Au revoir, les enfants' by Louis Malle, assigned reading for school. From the library I got 'Die Mathematik der Nina Gluckstein' (The mathematics of Nina Gluckstein) by Esther Vilar and 'Die Elixiere des Teufels' (Devil's Elixirs) by E.T.A. Hoffmann. Tomorrow, my copy of 'Dubliners' should...

I never had bad experiences with high school classes, neither does the "snob-factor" put me off, but when I read a word like 'contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality' I get discouraged. I couldn't possibly figure out what this means all by myself, and I'm not so sure whether a German translation...

Some very insightful posts here. I always backed away from Joyce because of what I heard about "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake", thinking that I wouldn't manage to get through them anyway. I'll have a look at "Dubliners" now, though.

I just want to add "I'm not Stiller" by Max Frisch and "The Visit" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, both Swiss authors, as well as "The Pursuit of Unhapiness" by Paul Watzlawick.

You're getting a bit oversensitive to this topic, Wabbit - this are just some recommendations, nothing more. Anyway, I do have a question. While I'm familiar with most of the authors, I never heard about Felipe Alfau. So, what makes him worthy to be featured on your list?