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Good luck with it :) I might also add that knowing more than one language will also broaden your verbal skills on your own language. Although most of the grammar and structure are completely different and straight out translations are impossible in many cases, you can and subconsiesly will...

Watched Elvis: The Early Years (2005) Kay, so out I went to the library. I had no need for another book on top of the five books that I was already reading, nor did I need to borrow a movie on top of the three movies (or four?) that I'm yet to watch. I went there to kill some time, because my...

Hi Hannah, welcome aboard. Your game looks interesting... might take a further look, when I have a time to kill... :)

Hi Adam. I'm quite new here too, but welcoming you anyways. :) I'm quite interested in that "field" aswell, but so far have not bumped into any books about the subject. Maybe I'll look into (translations of) one of the above you mentioned.

Right. Shake hands and be friends? :) Like I said, interesting theory. Maybe you should write a SciFi novel based on it? ;)

Hah! That's clever! Only one R too many :p

I agree with Zolipara. I'm quite good in English. Not counting the slight (ahem) accent, my English is almost like my second language. I can have a conversation and listen to it without any need to enhance my focus, but even still, I rather read the translated book in my own language, because of...

I don't have them myself, but I've seen them a ton of times. These quotes are so funny, I'm thinking I need to find the Holy Grail to my collection... :p

I can't speak for the rest of the world, but for me, as a kid and teen, the problem was always with concentration. I was too hyper to stop for reading, although I tried many times, because I loved adventures, and I knew books would be a path to those adventures. In the end, all it took was age...

Thanks Sybs. Live and learn. I thought it had something to do with Cadillac... :D Life of Brian is okay, but Holy Grail is my absolute favourite. :cool: "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count...

What's a crabby? :confused:

I concur to the above. I admit, like I said, I didn't read all of it. I'm only human. I read the beginning one and a half pages, after which it seemed to loop into same arguments being repeated without any answers being provided to the questions. So I didn't think there'd be any answers in the...

Psh! That's what mums are for! :eek:

I don't tie no one's shoes, be it sultan, or even king, or Jesus himself, they all should learn to tie their own shoes. And that's it... :cool:

Hmm... kay... :rolleyes: Anyways, I watched Love Liza today. Was an okay movie. "Tragic Comedy" was the tagline of it. Drama comedy of a man who losses his wife to suicide, and can't quite cope with it, and slips into sniffing gasoline. Was funny at first, but in the end it got a bit more...

I'm open minded. I just don't think what you suggested would work in the real world. It sounds like a good science fiction novel, though. Calling other people brainless squirrels, simply because they disagree with your viewpoint, is not the best way to go if an open-minded discussion is what...

Yeah, well... when you don't know what to read, but you need to read something this is how I get around doing it. I'm not reading five books at one time because I'm uncontrollably buying books on impulse, but rather because I prefer reading several books at the same time. :) I do know when...

You're forgetting average. What I call a "good author" (in the sence I meant on the sentence you quoted), is someone who's work I truly enjoy. Bad authors would be those, who's books I can't even finish all the way. I would say good to average to bad authors would be something like 2:7:1...

I'm the opposite of these two above, I always buy books on impulse. First, I will look for familiar favourites, for sure, but if none of those can be found (and often, they can't because my list of favourites is short), I pretty much search for certain type of story, depending on the current...

I'm 26 and didn't read much in my teens, and not at all as a child. Didn't have the concentration for it. Been reading since I was in the army (age 20) and it seems to be picking up as I get older. There was lots of time on your hands and nowhere to go, so reading was my only past time. Atleast...