Book Meme [via Jennifer]
A book that made you cry
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
A book that scared you
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
A book that made you laugh
Lucy Talk - Fiona Walker
A book that disgusted you
I haven't read a book that disgusted me.
A book you loved in elementary school
Brief aan de Koning/Geheimen van het Wilde Woud - Tonke Dragt
A book you loved in middle school
In the Netherlands, you don't really have a middle school. After six years of elementary/primary school, you enter high school. When I was around middle school age, I read everything by Thea Beckman. My most favorite are her two trilogies, one about the Hundred Year's War and one about a possible future.
The trilogy on the Hundred Year's War: Geef Me de Ruimte / Triomf van de Verschroeide Aarde / Het Rad van Fortuin
The trilogy on a possible future: Kinderen van Moeder Aarde / Het Helse Paradijs / Het Gulden Vlies van Thule
I can recommend both these trilogies, and I hope to see them translated into English soon! (no idea if this is a future project, though!)
A book you loved in high school
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet / Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth / Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
A book you hated in high school
Ubu Roi - Alfred Jarry
A book you loved in college
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (and not just in college)
A book that challenged your identity
The Zahir - Paolo Coelho
A series that you love
In Death series - JD Robb / M. Didius Falco - Lindsey Davis / Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling
Your favorite horror book
The Historian - Elisabeth Kostova
Your favorite science fiction book
Some Star Trek: Voyager books
Your favorite fantasy
Lord of the Rings Trilogy - JRR Tolkien / Dragon Bone Chair series - Tad Williams
Your favorite mystery
A Dying Light in Corduba (M. Didius Falco series) - Lindsey Davis
Your favorite biography
I don't think I have ever read a "star's" biography, but I guess Life of King Alfred by the Welsh monk Asser is a good guess.
Your favorite "coming of age" book
No idea if this is a "coming of age" book, but Two Lives by Vikram Seth is a wonderful tale of the author about his great-uncle and aunt.
Your favorite classic
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Your favorite romance book
Vita Brevis - Jostein Gaarder
Your favorite book not on this list
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Høeg
And cool I love Canterbury Tales too Did you read it in the original old English?
And thats funny that Smilla book I had heard of by the title Smillas Sense of Snow (which is also what the movie version is titled) but I see on Amazon that they do indeed sell copies with both titles. So confusing when they dont translate the title in the same way for different translated versions
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and yes I read Cantebury Tales in the original - but that is Middle English (dones teachers cap) : Old English was used upto approx. 1066 after which the French corrupted IMHO the english into what is known as Middle English - Shakespeare is actually considered to be Modern English already
and yes the Smilla book has two titles one UK and one US - no idea if the story is the same though I know the movie version is slightly different from the book ;)
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But yea Old English is pretty much unreadable to a modern reader I do believe.
Hmm I too am curious about the Smilla book. Though perhaps it is like the 1st Harry Potter where they changed the word Philosopher to Sorcerer but pretty much left the content the same (with the exception of a few random words I believe?)
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Old English - for germanic language speaking people - is like a warm bath : a combination of the declension with archaic germanic english For us it is not hard to understand at all because in fact it is more similar to our current language than modern english will ever be.
As for Smilla/HP - you might be onto something there.
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