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Me, too. They're playing at this year's Hurricane Festival. I'm looking forward to see Leslie Feist perform there. In the next days I will also order tickets for Tori Amos! :) So far I haven't been to many concerts, because I usually have to drive to Hamburg, which is three hours from here.

So far I read the following: 1. Zafon, Carlos Ruiz – The shadow of the wind 2.Schmitt, Eric Emanuel – Oskar and the Lady in pink 3. Schmitt, Eric Emanuel – L'enfant de Noe 4. Douglass, Sara – Enchanter (only second part, German edition is splitted) 5. Christie, Agatha – Murder on the Orient...

Did you try to call the author? The adress and phone number can be found easily on the net.

I've got a subscription of National Geographic and more-or-less regularly I buy 'Der Spiegel', a weekly magazine dealing mainly with politics and economy. From the library I pick up some others like GEO. It offers articles about science, geography and so on. From time to time some music...

I thaught that you, if anybody, would have read something by her. I mean, she is Belgian, isn't she? But she was born in Kobe, Japan, so some of her books refer to her youth there, too. It's hard for me to describe her books because I can't find the right words. In a way they are relly...

Welcome to the forum! :) It's been quite some time since I read a Russian novel. Last year I stumbled over 'Kys' by Tatjana Tolstaja. It has been translated into German but in hardly any other language, so I found it hard to find any opinions about the book. I'm not sure if I got all of it...

'Vanity Fair' by William M. Thackeray. I baught it a few month back without knowing anything about it and didn't think twice about it until I actually found out what it is about. So finally started reading and I'm enjoying it immensely.

German: 'The Discovery of Slowness' by Sten Nadolny - One of my favourite books, sad and uplifting in the same time. 'The Clown' by Heinrich Böll 'Brother of Sleep' by Robert Schneider French: 'Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of Coran' by Erich-Emmanuel Schmitt 'Oscar and the Lady...

I was wondering about that, too.. ;) I remember your praise for Hemingway in this thread. :) @cabrasopa: Do Amazon.com/Amazon.co.uk offer to browse in the book selection only for Spanish (excluding Latin Amaerica) authors? I know the feature from Amazon Germany and it could be very useful...

Such a great book that you had to buy two copies of it? :rolleyes:

I got the following from a used book store and the library: Martin Walser - Ehen in Philippsburg Ingrid Noll - Der Hahn ist tot (I coudn't find translations for those.. ) a collection of French poetry (Rimbaud, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé) Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen John Steinbeck -...

Spanish Civil War: Ernest Hemingway - For whom the bell tolls

I usually don't cry over books, but 'The Discovery of Slowness' by Sten Nadolny made me cry so much! The last part of the book was so sad, all the struggling of the main character and still he did not achieve what he wished.

So far, it would be this: German: Kafka - Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis) Eichendorff - Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (Memoirs of a Good-for-nothing) Sophocles - Antigone Lessing - Emilia Galotti Büchner - Woyzeck Schiller - Die Räuber (The Robbers) Hauptmann - Bahnwärter Thiel...

I'm not perfectly comfortable with the grammar myself, because I'm not a native speaker. Well, I learned at school (which doesn't have to mean much ;) ), that 'when' should be used to indicate a point of time, and 'if' to indicate a condition. 'When' sounds to me as if it were just a...

My little sister loved 'The Phantom of the Opera'. But she is a musical fan anyway. I'll have a look at it as soon as they got the DVD at the library. It doesn't. But it's not that hard to imagine: Roman Polanski's 1969 Movie 'The fearless Vampire Hunters' + the tune of Bonnie Tyler's 'The...

I used to hate them. My teachers chose mostly children's fiction, totally boring. It was all about the problems discussed in the book - prejudices, cloning, euthanasia. But finally we got to read some classics, of which I liked a lot. Kafka, Schiller, Eichendorff, Büchner, Sophocles, Lessing...

I stumbled across that, too. I never paid anything for the library. It is quite small but I can order nearly everything I want online and pick it up a few days later. The staff knows me by name now and sometimes even comes and askes whether I would be interested in some new book they just got...

150-200 for me. But since there is always a pile of library books around, I won't be able to change that. Some of those books I would have liked to read 2 years ago, but now they don't interest me any more..

I'm planning the trip with some friends. I learned French in school for 5 years and was fairly good at it, but I haven't used it for nearly a year. I still got all my school books and some french children's books, though. It shouldn't be that hard to get into it again.