Isa
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Post by Isa on Aug 16, 2007 12:05:52 GMT -5
Sure, that could work - if you can't find a book from your country on the list, than you can suggest one.
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Post by Hanna on Aug 17, 2007 6:04:11 GMT -5
Okay, I'll go first. I see that there are two Ibsen plays on the list already (the Doll's House and Hedda Gabler). So that means Norway is already represented. The Doll's House was the one I would recommend anyway so. If I don't remember wrong from my Norwegian classes at high school, it was with this play Ibsen created a new genre, but I don't know what it's called in English, sorry.
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Post by Carma on Aug 19, 2007 7:55:17 GMT -5
for dutch literature I think... ehm... for youth Thea Beckman is great, probably 'kruistocht in spijkerbroek' Crusade in Jeans (in english..) oh, I think Anne Frank is considered dutch.. and that one is already on the list.. I've never read anything by multatuli, but people say he's a big writer... personally I loved this book by leon de Winter "De hemel van Hollywood” which means heaven of Hollywood, but I'm not sure if that book is available anywhere els ein th eworld..
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Aug 20, 2007 9:15:12 GMT -5
I've checked and it's available in italian, but I haven't found an english edition. I've read a short description and it sounds good
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Post by dragonfly on Aug 24, 2007 9:21:50 GMT -5
Hey, great idea, a list all of our own! Can't wait to see it finished. I'd like to make another suggestion, though. How about something by Astrid Lindgren for the children's section? I used to love all her stuff when I was a kid, actually still do. At least Pippi Longstocking is an absolute classic. And the Lorelais like her too, as we all know!
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Post by Hanna on Sept 3, 2007 13:57:45 GMT -5
My personal Lindgren favorite is Ronja the Robber's Daugther, but any Lindgren is great, so good idea Dragonfly!
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Post by jobean on Sept 6, 2007 7:28:28 GMT -5
I reckon The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini would be good for contemporary.
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Post by Carma on Sept 6, 2007 11:31:23 GMT -5
how is it going with the list Dominique?
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Post by Dominique on Sept 6, 2007 18:27:48 GMT -5
There's not going to be any work done on the list for about another month sorry guys. I'm just too busy with uni at the moment and the list is very time consuming. Hopefully in my holidays starting in 3 weeks I will get it nearly done. At the moment it's half put together. Just have to add all the stuff you guys have been suggesting and do contempory and y/a
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Sept 6, 2007 19:39:21 GMT -5
Take your time Dom, I'm sure we've all got plenty of books to keep us busy in the meantime
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Sept 7, 2007 13:12:57 GMT -5
Jefie is absolutely right
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Post by Dominique on Sept 30, 2007 4:33:48 GMT -5
I'm starting work on the book list again, no more new recommendations will be put in until after it has been put up and updated from now on. I think we should add to it regularly but it's too much work to keep putting new things people suggest from now on. So yeah feel free to suggest but from this point onwards all new suggestions will go in on the book list's first update. Any more book descriptions would be extremely helpful
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Sept 30, 2007 9:38:14 GMT -5
GALILEO by Bertolt Brecht It is a dramatization of Galileo’s career as a scientist, from the invention of telescope and the discovery of Juppiter’s moons to the first condemn by Inquisition and to his living under house arrest. This play was written just before the Second World War, in the years of breakdown between technical progress and social progress. Here Galileo is a metaphor of modern scientist and of intellectual persecuted by unavoidable connection of science and fanatism, but also a full of humanity character, living in the balance of the truth he asserted and his submission to superstition and political power. Hope it's not too bad
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Post by Dominique on Oct 1, 2007 6:20:41 GMT -5
Thanks lu that's great
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