My favourite city is Bukhara, Uzbekistan. In Europe I guess I like Vienna the most, although I also love Tallinn/Reval and St. Petersburg.
We don't celebrate Halloween here. But since I live in a protestant region we had another public holiday today: Reformation Day.
I cannot share your pessimistic views on this matter. Languages aren't static, they are formed by the people and are, because of exposure to...
"Death and the Dervish" by Mesa Selimovic. Or maybe a collection of Hölderlin's works.
I also prefer shorter novels and think that around 300 pages are the perfect size for a novel. When I see that a book has 600 or more pages then...
I don't really have the best book, there are quite a few books I really adore, and like the most depending on the mood I'm in; e.g. I love Kafka...
Changing the style depending on my mood rather than on the described situation - I have yet to form my own consistent style, I'm too influenced by...
I have been studying English and Russian in school for years, but I am not really able to speak them, because so far life has offered me too...
Actually I'm also reading Milton's Paradise Lost for pleasure at the moment, I don't think this has something to do with age. But I agree, the...
I was assigned to read it in school; it was not an enjoyable reading for me, although certainly better than some other books we had to read. If I...
I voted for general fiction, but actually I don't have a favourite genre. In a way I'm very picky, in another way not - I don't think about...
Seconded. I can't stand the style it is written in, the characters are flat and not affecting, and the plot (if a book has no language and no...
Thank you all for welcoming me. :)
I'm not sure but I guess it was Les Misérables by V. Hugo.
The best was - without a doubt - J. W. Goethe's Faust, the worst was The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. I still wonder how he found a...
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