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I love their album 'Funeral', can't wait to get hold of their debut EP. They seem to be pretty popular over here, actually. The record company published the EP just three months after the album came out. Currently listening to "worlds apart" by And you will know us by the trail of dead

'As I lay dying' by Faulkner. Oh, I'm struggling! I'm wondering whether a translation would have been a better choice, but on the other hand I'm glad. I make only slow progress but get so much more out of it, having time to think and fully appreciate it. Usually I rush through books and get...

'Der Besuch der alten Dame' by Dürrenmatt. I finished it a few days ago and liked it well enough, but I think it would have worked differently on me, if I had seen it on stage. Dürrenmatt gives some very clear instructions for the performance on stage and I could imagine it well, but some parts...

Finished Harry Potter already, moving on to 'Der Besuch der alten Dame' by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

You did, but that was quite some time ago, I'm not so big a poster, but lurking around all the time. :rolleyes: 18 (finally free! :D ) and way up in the north, near Sylt and the border to Denmark.

Ever seen Magnolia? She did the soundtrack. Actually, she got an Oscar nomination. It was really funny how she told that yesterday. 'This song was nominated for an Oscar... lost it to Phil Collins, though..' and than something about apes, I think the Phil Collins song was from 'Tarzan'. She said...

Yesterday I saw Aimee Mann live in Hamburg. Gorgeous location (an old factory building) and a very relaxed and cool atmosphere. Great evening! And last monday Tori Amos! She seemed a bit tired and stressed, though. Wonderful evening nontheless. And it was open air with fabulous wheather...

I shall try the next time I stumble upon somebody from the UK or the US. :p I get most of it right, too. My teacher thinks I spent some time in America or England, but that's probably because he himself has not a clue about what he is talking about in the lessons. :rolleyes: It's awful!

I would miss them terribly.. One guy from my year at school did an exchange last year, too. I used to mock him, because he still doesn't get the 'th' right... ;) He speaks it more like a 'v'.

I know they don't, I used to have an American keyboard and was totally frustrated because I always mixed ä, ö, ü etc. up. So, you're soon coming back to Europe? Student exchange?

Kein ü mehr? ;) Kontonummer und Bankleitzahl, das wär's schon. Ansonsten Zahlung per Rechnung, ich weiß allerdings nicht, ob das als Neukunde sofort möglich ist und inwieweit das auch für die Marketplace Angebote gilt.

Well, you can handle it all by 'Bankeinzug' (don't know the english word :rolleyes: ), you give Amazon your details and they handle everything. The same goes for Marketplace offers, Amazon takes the money from you and sends it to the seller.

Exactly. ;) And what they don't have you get through the Marketplace offers, 3€ Porto per item. My parents used to wonder why I get packages from Florida, Sweden, Canada and so on.. So don't worry. It's really not that complicated.

'Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress' by Dai Sijie. I think Ell recommended it somewhere, too. The author is originnally Chinese, but the book was written in French.

I read mostly for pleasure, although I do enjoy analyzing the writing, too. My favourite books are usually those, whioch I analyzed, you just get so much more of it. But it does depend on the books I read, too. There is little use in analyzing 'The DaVinci Code', while Kafka takes some time.

You should try something by Ken Follett. He wrote historical fiction as well as some thrillers. Short chapters and easy to read. I loved 'The Pillars of the earth', although the length can be discouraging. 'The eye of the needle' would be a good strating point, I guess. 'The five people you...

I got 'The Club Dumas' recently from the library, hadn't time to start reading though. The last book I finished was 'Jigs and Reels' by Joanne Harris. I liked it well enough, although I'm usually not into short stories. Especially the endings of the stories were often very surprising and...

'His Dark Materials' by Philip Pullman would be a good choice. A great trilogy and very easy to read. 1. The golden compass(US)/Northern Lights(UK) 2. The subtle knive 3. The amber spyglass btw, what's your native language?

'Grapes of Wrath' by John Steinbeck, depressing but very impressive. 'Death on the Nile' by Agatha Christie. I guess I'll never make it and find the solution before Hercule Poirot solves the mystery. :rolleyes: 'The Character of Rain' by Amelié Nothomb. Interesting point of view, told by a...

The cover may draw my attention to a book, but I wouldn't buy it just because I like the cover illustration. It's interesting to have a look in my book shelf, because English, German and French books have all very different covers. The cover of the German edition of 'The time traveller's wife'...