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Thanks. I think my post fits better here :)

This book had mixed reviews. I'm one of those who did not like the book. By the way I could not even read it after the initial pages. That's because the book seem to be written exclusively for female audiences. I'm a guy. The book takes so much lines for describing how perfect Gray is that...

The great feature of e-readers is the e-paper display (most of them have it). This is great for reading because it wont emit light, working as a paper. That way you will have a more comfortable reading. Also reading outside in a sunny day won't be a problem. This is the only actual difference...

Treadmills are kinda boring for me, a very monotonous thing. And I am not used to the idea of listening to audiobooks as well. I like to exercise my body 'cause it prevents against stress and other stuff. So I prefer exercises that improve the development of my body muscles. While I do so, I...

Welcome. See, I don't know about German language, but I can assure you English is a very easy language to learn. Principally if you are a Latin-derived-language speaker--and I'm telling you this because my first language is Portuguese--, which is your case, once English grammar is a lot...

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You're a lucky girl. I don't take notes when I'm reading fiction. But things are a lot different when I'm dealing with academic/legal material. I must take many notes because I can't memorize everything. It's so much stuff to memorize. There are points I learn, so I don't have to take...

I'd agree with Gilgamesh. I have not read any of the other books you mentioned.

Very interesting post tZar, I'd like to ask you about something concerning this subject. As you said, So, as far as I can understand, the text is not self-sufficient in content because its meaning must be complemented with the reader's values. The values you exposed in your example (pride –...

I'd like to read In Search of Lost Time, it seems to be great.

As I said, I don't use to take notes of the book I'm reading but I had to make an exception for the one I'm reading right now. So I accessed Wikipedia and printed the family tree I need to follow the story line. There really are a lot of characters... This will make things a lot easier.

Do you take notes of the book you're reading? I'm starting to read One hundred years of solitude now. A friend of mine lent me the book and I found a paper inside of it in which a family tree is printed. He explained me that it is the family's the story is about. So I asked him what was that...

Frankenstein seems interesting.

I agree that what matters is not where you read, but what you read. So it does not matter if your read from a printed book or an ebook. The device used (paper or an electronic device) will make no difference. But reading news, on line forums or any other small texts on the internet requires...

I read every day, but each day I read for 1/2 to 1 hour. So generally I take a lot of days to finish a book. But I never stop. Slowly and always... Only exceptionally I read for more than an hour during a day. That happens when I'm very interested in the book. As an example, the book that I'm...

Sorry, I didn't know it was decided to be a female author. I should have read the thread carefuller :lol: Anyway it's great to know someone else would like to discuss The Magic Mountain :) It may seem a tedious book in the beginning, like a simple narrative of a time spent in a hospital and...

I know what you mean. I feel that the best way to become a good writer (no matter if you'd like to publish your stories or not) is to read a lot. Not that you'd use plot elements from other authors. The idea is to acquire the writing skills, like learning how to describe scenario's details in...

The magic mountain, by Thomas Mann

Oh these annoying viruses are hard to "cure" once they infect the system. I don't know if there is a way to delete all of them once they are in the system. Good antispywares may delete some of them, but I got this impression that there is always a rest that remains obscurely in the Windows...

I've never read it, but I heard it was great. I've heard about Flaubert's obsession with the writing form, the way he elaborated carefully each sentence in search of perfection, what took so much of his time that he wrote relatively little in his career. Now I see someone saying it was the...