what have you read recently?

[DJ Hydro]

Just finished reading "The Count of Monte Cristo" for the second time. Wonderful book.

[Castortroy]

"Economy" of samuelson-nordhaus.........

[suikofan1986]

i've just finished "el aleph" by jorge luis borges (no idea whether it has the same name in english or not)

[Skinner8]

i've just finished "el aleph" by jorge luis borges (no idea whether it has the same name in english or not)

It is. Did you like it, and have you read Ficciones as well?

[suikofan1986]

It is. Did you like it, and have you read Ficciones as well?

yes, i read ficciones 5 years ago, but i was too young to understand it. (i really hated "ruinas circulares"!)
i should read it again. �_�

[DarkCyntax]

Last thing I read was "school books", but I'm not in school anymore XD

[suikofan1986]

i've just finished "narraciones extraordinarias" (no idea the name in english,i'm not a transator yet! ) which had 20 short stories, all written by E.A. Poe.

[Skinner8]

i've just finished "narraciones extraordinarias" (no idea the name in english,i'm not a transator yet! ) which had 20 short stories, all written by E.A. Poe.

"Extraordinary Narrations", perhaps? I have something similar called "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"...

[suikofan1986]

"Extraordinary Narrations", perhaps? I have something similar called "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"...

no idea. there is a tendency, in all languages, not to translate, but to change everything.
for example, the movie "my girl" was translated here as "my first kiss" (it is quite funny with "my first kiss 2" ....i mean, my FIRST kiss TWO????????????? )
another example: the movie shaolin soccer was traslated here as: "the masters of kung fu")

[P. Wolvesbane]

I'm more than half wa through "A Crown of Swords" book 8 of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.

[Gulcasa]

Just finished "Out of the Darkness" by Harry Turtledove, the last in his Derlavaian World War series. Very good series.

[Mistral]

for example, the movie "my girl" was translated here as "my first kiss" (it is quite funny with "my first kiss 2" ....i mean, my FIRST kiss TWO????????????? )

Seems no worse than Final Fantasy 12.

Oh, and I read Saturn, by Ben Bova, and Counting Up, Counting Down by Harry Turtledove, for new books. Rather regretting buying another Harry Turtledove book, frankly. He has good works (early ones more so), he has bad works (somehow Featherston and the post-WWI CSA exactly followed Hitler and post-WWI Germany, in the strangest coincidence ever...not to mention one of the standing jokes for some readers of the Colonization series is determining which characters will not have sex at some point in a long, drawn-out, poorly-written sex scene)...I really should be a bit more careful with his works. Needless to say, I was less than impressed with his latest, too.

That said, Ben Bova is writing as well as ever, but he's running out of planets.

[Sniperman]

Yeah, I've gotten to the point where I don't even bother with his books anymore.

I've only re-read things this week
1-3 The Mage Storms Trilogy - Mercedes Lackey
4-6 The Keeper's Chronicles - Tanya Huff

[X-EvansBasher-X]

I am looking forward to reading J.K. Rowling's most recent Harry Potter on eBook (you know, the official *legal* eBook....) & Jacques Barzun's "From Dawn to Decadence". Two very good books, just need some time to get them in.

[Drageuth]

Dafydd ab Hugh & Brad Linaweaver - End Game
Dan Brown - Angels and Demons
Jacqueline Carey - Banewreaker