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Recently I watched some episodes of "Bleak House" on BBC and I liked it very much.

I also read "Journey To The End Of The Night" some time ago and I liked it. "Death on Credit" is still waiting in my bookshelves for me. Greetings

There Will Be Blood - great film with an excellent Daniel Day-Lewis.

In the last weeks I had a reading run: Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned Anais Nin, Henry and June Beowulf Gracían, The Criticón Balzac, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (I'm sorry, but I have no idea what's this in english) Eco, The mysterious flame of Loana (I'm not quite sure...

Henry David Thoreau, Walden or Life in the Woods H. D. Thoreau, Civil Disobedience Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays R. W. Emerson, Nature

In my opinion the books by Thoreau and Emerson are very inspirational (and also philosophical).

"Anna Karenina" made me really really sad for about one month after reading.

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding. I hate this style of writing. And the story was also very boring to me.

There is one time for reading and there is one time for "business". ;) And besides, my toilet is not comfortable enough for reading.

1) One Book that made you read it More Than Once: Notes from the underground - F. Dostoyevsky 2) One book you would want on a desert island: In Searching For Lost Time - Marcel Proust 3) One book that made you laugh: Collected Stories by Mark Twain 4) One book that made you cry: Anna...

For me Don Quixote is beside Alice in Wonderland and Gulliver's Travels one of the most heart-warming (?) books ever. :)

As far as I know IQ can be trained with such tests (so I don't think that they are very characterizing). I've made a few and had always between 140 and 145 but believe me: I'm not a genius - sometimes (or often?) I can be very stupid. ;) Greetings

I like Jung very much, although I haven't read a lot of his books. I have occupied with parapsychology and in this context his theory of synchronicity is very interesting. Greetings

I love Walden. Reading this book makes me always feel better. :)

Hello! I'm interested in your opinions about "Who's afraid of Virgina Woolf?". I have read the play and a few weeks ago I bought the DVD - this film with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton is the best I have ever seen. :) The point that impressed me so much is the possibilty to...

Hello! I have only read Thérèse Raquin and I liked it very much. I also have Nana and Le Ventre de Paris - but not yet read. From the historical point of view Zola is probably most famous in connection to the Dreyfus affair, that had an immense influence on the society in France (in Proust's...

This is really a very difficult question. I would decide for Proust's "In Searching for Lost Time", if this counts for "one" novel. Greetings

Hello! I have the same "problem". In January I had to learn a lot, so there wasn't enough time for reading, but now I have all the time in the world, but I hardly can read 30 pages per day or so. I don't know the reason, I love books but actually I prefer to spend my time on PC. My "fortune"...

Hello! I don’t know if there exists already a thread about Proust. Nevertheless, I hope that there are some people who would like to talk about this genius of France and his work. I have the “problem” that it doesn’t matter, what the people in my surroundings are talking about, I could...

"In Search of Lost Time" by Marcel Proust. Of course, it's voluminous, so unbelievable voluminous :eek: , but it is worth to read every page. It's not so "shocking" like Dostoyevsky, but it points out the innermost part of everyone's soul in the same excellent way. Everyone knows these...