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I'm a French-speaking guy... boom
but I want to read some good English book.
help me by presenting some uncommon book you liked!
why uncommon? mainly because I enjoy strange, unique, book and because i'm tired of getting ALWAYS the same answer (sorry but I don't want the G.R.R Martin thingy... a bit too mainstream for my taste... (and yes I read it in French...)
Anyway... feel free to share and discuss, I don't want suggestion for me, I just want to see what will come down!
thanks, and enjoy!
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I really enjoy reading Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. It's really great if you're into fantasy. I wouldn't say it was particularly uncommon however.
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Bulgakov's The Master and the Margarita. Perhaps not "uncommon" but one of the best books ever written IMO.
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Are we talking any book that happens to be in English, or American/British literature?
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Sword of truth series, by terry goodkind. really big into fantasy though and a 11 book series sooo...u really have to like it ;D. first book is "the wizards first rule"
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(01-03-2012, 01:19 AM)Pandabomber link Wrote: Are we talking any book that happens to be in English, or American/British literature?
Put any book! now with the ''awesome'' translate I can laugh and enjoy at the same time!
can we have a tiny synopsis please? some of those title interest me...
(you can also put a link on a site if your feeling lazy 8))
exemple:
Maybe not uncommon for English, but in French it is :
John Steinbeck ''The Moon is Down'' a compelling book about the passive resistance man can oppose to tyranny, transcending!
(no wiki, wiki always spoil...)
google books :
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The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Also, the Robert Pinsky translation of Dante's Inferno.
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(01-03-2012, 02:32 AM)Pandabomber link Wrote: The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Also, the Robert Pinsky translation of Dante's Inferno.
Karamazov... awesome reminder! (was looking to read it for about six month now... never remember...) But, as a rule, I read Russian (and any other language apart of English) in French, reading a translation, I will get my first language first...
Dante Inferno... noted! (love your suggestion, those book are free 8) )
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the Dragon Master series by Chris Bunch(not Eragon) very sexually detailed though very good books though, its a trilogy
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Knighthood of the Dragon
The Last Battle
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(01-03-2012, 02:32 AM)Pandabomber link Wrote: The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Also, the Robert Pinsky translation of Dante's Inferno.
The Idiot by Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
The Dune series by Frank Herbert
anything by Edgar Allan Poe
anything by Shakespeare
If I think of anything else, I'll list them later. I even write my own stuff sometimes.
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