Right now I'm reading Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen for the second time but I doubt that you wna read that :D
Last really good book I've read was The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. Horrifying! I can't remember a time I got so uncomfortable and angry reading a book. The fact that it's based on a true story made it even worse.
the book is written very well, easy to read and it makes you not wanna turn the page sometimes.
i didn't like the movie that much because you don't get to know about the feelings and the thoughts of david, but in the book it's explained very intense. gave the whole story a totally different look. but i can only speak for myself :)
it's a part of my jane austen class at university. have to search through it for certain sayings and characteristics for my 45min presentation in 2 weeks :s could look it up on the internet aswell but i rather read it again :]
Ah, okay. I did not think anyone (at least a male) would bother reading Jane Austen unless they were forced too, or they were a literature student. I do not really like Austen, and I had to read Sense and Sensibility last year too. Good luck with your presentation!
aww thanks :)
i have to admit that she is not my favorite either, but i think her books are quite easy to read and at the beginning of the semester i had the choice between jane austen (her most influential work) and gender studies (the struggle of women in the 19th century) and i rather read her books than talking about oppressed women all day long and how they changed. :D
i'm studying literary, cultural and media studies. it's one of the new study paths in germany, not much universities offer it yet. my studies are bascially focused on american and british history and literature with language experience classes aside. it's fun most of the time :)
Sounds good; interdisciplinary studies are the way forward. I am just about to finish a degree in English, and then I will do a postgraduate degree in either comparative/European literature, English, or linguistics - I have not quite made my mind up yet!
Unfortunately, I am just rereading books that I have already read for an extended essay and for a number of exams, but given the Wikipedia description of the book I would suggest Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Double: A Petersburg Poem (1848); it is a novella (135 pages for my Dover Thrift edition) about the gradual decline of the main character into schizophrenia.
To be honest, you could read most of Dostoevsky's works in that case, or perhaps look at his mentor, Nikolai Gogol, whose stories are just great fun to read.
Crime and Punishment is probably not the best of Dostoevsky's texts to start with to be honest, and I would suggest starting from the beginning so you get a feel for how his writing developed; some of his earlier work is far more bizarre and interesting than his later, more famous works.
i suggest you grow up
a.crowley - diary of a drug fiend
i.welsh- trainspotting
c.palahniuk - fight club
etc
have fun
ebtge al iemand een djoef op zn mulle gegeve?:p
sebiet een koek oep a bakkes?
Sapkowski - Witcher
Last really good book I've read was The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. Horrifying! I can't remember a time I got so uncomfortable and angry reading a book. The fact that it's based on a true story made it even worse.
cause i can't recall that being horrifying =d
i didn't like the movie that much because you don't get to know about the feelings and the thoughts of david, but in the book it's explained very intense. gave the whole story a totally different look. but i can only speak for myself :)
i have to admit that she is not my favorite either, but i think her books are quite easy to read and at the beginning of the semester i had the choice between jane austen (her most influential work) and gender studies (the struggle of women in the 19th century) and i rather read her books than talking about oppressed women all day long and how they changed. :D
Can't express the awesomeness. Should definitely give it a try!