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Just killing the forum here...
By: the lost minion Date: July 16, 2018, 9:49 am
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What's the best way to kill a forum? Start talking about books:
those who read them will log out to catch up on the piles of
unread novels they have stashed somewhere in the house, and
those who don't will just leave bored and disgusted. So let's
try, shall we?
So how do you read books? Has the way you read changed in the
course of your life? I know, you read less than you used to, but
anything more than that? Like: "I used to love crime stories but
then I married a policeman"? Used to treat a book like an object
of a cult until at some point you realized it's just a lot of
paper put together, nothing more?
Oh, and do you sniff books? I'm serious. There are quite a lot
of fetishists, it seems, among people who read. They claim they
love the scent of the print. Are you one of them? Do you sniff
glue too?
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Re: Jest killing the forum here...
By: nataliestpete Date: July 16, 2018, 10:28 am
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Oh, I can't believe my eyes:) I mean the topic.
I use Amazon devices: Kindle + Audible. My list at this moment:
HTML https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kZ4PYnjtTA91PCyZyJAmbBUvDE5TBUP9
HTML https://drive.google.com/open?id=14GFgh43zgNyN2jfjByb3e00CjPDK2J_7
I read a lot of non-fiction connecting with my occupation
(marketing, hospitality, cross-cultural issues, management +
psychology).
I've never liked detective stories or love ( like females
stories) ones and nothing has changed dramatically.
Being a student, I was trying to read the books of Nobel winners
and found some of them not so good or I felt nothing being
indifferent. I used to read a lot of biographical books.
In general, a short list of my favourites are:
Gabriel Garcia Márquez "One hundred Years of Solitude". " No one
writes to the colonel"
Michael Bulgakov “ Master and Margarita”; The White guard”; “
The dog’s heart”.
Boris Pasternak “ Doctor Zhivago” ( the Nobel Prize)
Nikolay Gogol “ Dead Souls”.
Alexander Pushkin “ Eugeny Onegin”.
Sergey Dovlatov " Foreign woman"
Ilf and Petrov " 12 chairs", "The Little Golden Calf".
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky "Stalker", "hard to be a god"
Books for children. Many. " Alice in the Wonderland" for sure.
There was a huge library in my parents home which I gave as a
donation. When I was a child, having such a library at home was
equal to have jewelry. Good books were hard to buy and it cost a
lot especially because people needed to pay extra for getting
them. However, I'm definitely not a fan of printed books. If I
had an apartment as my parents had, I would think about it but
only for some rare books we had and art books, of course. I
really regret that I donated that books as well especially a few
for some personal reasons.
I still underline the main ideas in texts and can revise them
from time to time ( if I like the book).
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Re: Jest killing the forum here...
By: Allie Date: July 16, 2018, 10:38 am
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I love reading and I prefer printed books. I can read on iPad or
Kindle, but it's not the same thing. I don't smell the glue, but
I find easier to focus that way and it causes me less eye
fatigue.
When I was younger, I used to read way more in my native
language (which I hardly ever do nowadays) and I would read
ANYTHING in English (because there weren't many options
available).
Nowadays, I usually read books in English and French, sometimes
German.
Fantasy novels were popular in my teens and I read the most
common of that time, but I don't have patience for them now
(except Harry Potter, whose translations my German teachers
recommend all the time).
I love reading the classics, but I try to read comteporary
authors too. When I was younger, I had no patience for
biographies, but now I actually like them.
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Re: Jest killing the forum here...
By: nataliestpete Date: July 16, 2018, 10:46 am
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Does anybody like reading dictionaries and encyclopedia?
I read them rarely as a book now, but I was crazy about it when
I was a child and teenager.
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Re: Jest killing the forum here...
By: the lost minion Date: July 16, 2018, 11:03 am
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[quote author=Blonde link=topic=332.msg3729#msg3729
date=1531755994]
Does anybody like reading dictionaries and encyclopedia?
I read them rarely as a book now, but I was crazy about it when
I was a child and teenager.
[/quote]
As a child, I used to read a dictionary of Polish. When I
started taking English classes, I also started reading a
monolingual dictionary of English in my spare time. I'm not
(yet?) in a habit of reading a monolingual dictionary of
Spanish, however.
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Re: Jest killing the forum here...
By: Truman Overby Date: July 16, 2018, 2:13 pm
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Like Natasha, I used to read dictionaries and encyclopedias. I
couldn't get enough of it.
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Re: Jest killing the forum here...
By: the lost minion Date: July 16, 2018, 2:53 pm
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Used to, used to... And now what? Haven't you run out of
encyclopedias by now, Jerry?
What do you read? How do you read? Do you take notes, make
mental maps etc.?
Give me the juicy details, people. Post pictures of yourself
reading: you know, the kind they post on the Instagram: some
fancy book, glasses and a cup of coffee on a table and a blurry
reflection of an exposed nipple in a mirror in the background.
Remember: reading is not boring, reading is not boring. And now
repeat this 100 times...
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Re: Jest killing the forum here...
By: the lost minion Date: July 16, 2018, 3:00 pm
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[quote author=Blonde link=topic=332.msg3723#msg3723
date=1531754885]
Oh, I can't believe my eyes:) I mean the topic.
I use Amazon devices: Kindle + Audible. My list at this moment:
HTML https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kZ4PYnjtTA91PCyZyJAmbBUvDE5TBUP9
HTML https://drive.google.com/open?id=14GFgh43zgNyN2jfjByb3e00CjPDK2J_7
[/quote]
Dale Carnegie, huh? I read the one about making friends. Still
can't make friends nor influence people. I pick fights with
relative ease, though. I think I actually got better at this
after reading Carnegie, so it was worth it. I also read the one
about how to stop worrying. I got to one-third of it and stopped
worrying about finishing it, but what I had read was pretty
persuasive (as you can probably tell).
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Re: Jest killing the forum here...
By: nataliestpete Date: July 16, 2018, 3:20 pm
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[quote author=Whateva link=topic=332.msg3743#msg3743
date=1531771246]
Dale Carnegie, huh? I read the one about making friends. Still
can't make friends nor influence people. I pick fights with
relative ease, though. I think I actually got better at this
after reading Carnegie, so it was worth it. I also read the one
about how to stop worrying. I got to one-third of it and stopped
worrying about finishing it, but what I had read was pretty
persuasive (as you can probably tell).
[/quote]
You know why? Warren Buffett is the reason. Seriously though, I
was trying to read Carnegie at school though never having a
problem making friends. I considered his books being s.... Not
now. And plus, it’s in English. I almost always read books in
English.
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Re: Just killing the forum here...
By: the lost minion Date: July 16, 2018, 3:32 pm
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Oh yeah. Warren Buffet, a millionaire who reads how many hours a
day? I always forget. I bet that only the ladies who work in
libraries can beat him to it. But then again, they earn sh*t. In
Poland at least. And to be fair - I never see them read
anything. But I heard some of them do in order to classify the
books they have on the shelves.
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