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That's all I needed to know. Thanks a lot :)

I'm looking for my next read and this time I decided to look for it in a different place: not in libraries nor in bookstores, but in a free on-line library called Project Gutenberg. If anyone knows it, I'd be glad to know if the quality of the ebooks provided in this site is high or low. In...

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The invalid character always suffered not only due to his deformity, but also due to his indecision about what professional career he'd follow. So he graduates in Medicine, then he goes to Paris to study Arts, to become a painter. Then ho goes back to England, in the countryside and become...

Revised, have you ever read Of human bondage? It's great, it made me change the way I face life. Since then, I'm looking for something alike. That's the reason for this weird topic. I finish reading a book and now I'm in search of my next read, but I don't know what to buy :sad:

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No, no, I have no problems. This book I'm looking for is not supposed to help me. I don't intent to use it as self-help. On the contrary, I'm just looking for a real good plot. I'll explain: real themes, problems that real people have in their real lives and a narrative of how a...

I'm on vacation in home, back from a short trip and finishing to read a book. Now I wanna decide what I'll read next. I need a book that could make me cogitate about life problems, personal facts that bring unhappiness, etc. But I'm not looking for self-help books. I want to read a...

I never took part in a Book of the Month discussion. But by the first time I'm thinking about participating by voting for a book I'm almost finishing the reading. So, due to my interest in this, here's the four-step schedule I suggest: 1) I don't know if it would be possible to create a...

I know it won't answer your question but the best way to preview a book you want to buy is going to a bookstore and asking the vendors to give a look at it. I particularly think so because you can obviously trust the content and also because any bookstore has a cafe so you can sit, relax and...

Thanks for your opinions. It's really interesting for me to know what others think about my piece. The “original” version was an almost 40 pages .doc file. It was saved in an older computer which I don't own anymore. I remember it was infected by annoying viruses and due to it's long usage I...

As I said before I'm 21 and it's nice to see that most of people in these forums are 20 or more. I really like to read and I hope I will never have a severe lack of time for this great habit. I want to keep the readings during the graduation (sometimes there is a exam or whatever else that...

And I still have no comments about my short story idea, heh... I don't intent to publish it (of course) but I'd really like to know if such story is interesting, boring or at least understandable. All these years I showed it to nobody and now that I post its abstract--a really short abstract, by...

I've written a short story before. It was about 2 or 3 years ago, in a vacation. I don't know why I suddenly decided to write in that time. The thing is that I aways liked the idea of writing, as if I could write the stories I don't see published to fill in the lacunae, but I had never written...

Oh, interesting post this one. I was thinking about taking a pic of my bookcase but it's an insignificant one, with the only 49 books I've read plus other non-literature books, Law books. You people read a lot LOL. Nice book collections you got.

I also get sick reading in car or bus. Basically anything that moves: these are the places where I don't like to read. So when I'm traveling by car, bus or even train I always find something else to do like enjoying the landscape lol. Cows and stuff. Listening to music during the trip is also...

Sure. I didn't mean Thomas Mann's books are commercial. I may have expressed myself not clearly. He is not commercial, that's for sure. By reading The Magic Mountain I have the impression that Mann enjoyed the writing. He did it with pleasure. It's interesting to read the philosophical...

I have a curiosity about the Odyssey, it seems to be an interesting adventure. But the reason why I never read it is the text structure: verse. I only get interested in prose. Anyway, your research is really interesting. I bet you'll find something that worths the reading--and in prose. I...

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Well, I'm 6 years older than you and I've read 48. Moral of the story? It does not matter how many books you read, all that matters is which books you read. There is a lot of bad/low stuff. You're aiming for 100 books. I only aim for a number when I'm dealing with money, health...