Let's speak english together !

[Nessscafe]

lol i understand your son :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

i have nothing against Maupassant, but his style is to heavy for me (and weird too).

Actually, i'm reading a funny book (as i told about in an other topic), titled "hommes femmes : mode d'emploi". i recommand it. :laugh:

 

[Wizard]

I don't agree that Maupassant's style is heavy at all. On the contrary, I find it very sober, contrary to Proust for instance, or to the Romantics.
It's just that Bel ami is not really adapted to the class of "seconde", it needs a more mature mind to understand it.

Presently I am reading a Fantasy book by Robert Holdstock "Le Graal de Fer". Very good !

See you

 

[Tom Ford]

Hello everyone :smile:

Well since we are talking about books I am about to read what Ness is reading because what she said of it sounded nice so I am gonna go and get it as soon as I can :smile:
But if anyone wants to read a good book in english I would say : the handsmade tail by margaret atwood or alias grace :wub
Really good books I think but there are many others but those are the ones I thought of first :laugh:
By the way Nesss who is the author of your book ?

 

[stephanie21]

I don't agree that Maupassant's style is heavy at all. On the contrary, I find it very sober, contrary to Proust for instance, or to the Romantics.
It's just that Bel ami is not really adapted to the class of "seconde", it needs a more mature mind to understand it.

Presently I am reading a Fantasy book by Robert Holdstock "Le Graal de Fer". Very good !

See you

I have studied Bel Ami in class of "première" and I loved it ! I don't think it is hard or of an heavy style. But it is a kind of litterature you like or not...

 

[Tom Ford]

Well try reading shakespear and going to see king lear in the globe theater for 4h :notstupide:
I actually did read the book but the only part I liked and that made me laugh was when in the play they are suposed to say:
- "can you hear the sea?"
Then a plane passes above the theater and makes a lot of noise and the guy replies:
- "no" and he was suposed to say Yes :laugh:
As you can see it stayed :laugh: :laugh:

 

[stephanie21]

I have read Shakespeare when I was at university studying English, and I have enjoyed it even if it was quite hard because of the old English, but I have never read King Lear.

 

[Nessscafe]

Tom Ford, the author of the book is Sarah MLYNOWSKI. I just finished the book this morning, and at the end, i was a little bit disappointed : i would like this story never ends !

She wrote three other books, but i saw there are not available on www.fnac.com :
- City Girl,
- Trois filles en folie
- Télémania

I'm not able to choose the best one ! :laugh:

 

[Wizard]

Hi, Nesscafe

Perhaps I haven't read all the posts but I haven't seen what your book is about. As for me I read a lot of Fantasy, lastly I bought Raymond E. Feist Serpent War saga.

I liked Tom Ford's story about King Lear. I have a funny story too : when I was a student, I dragged my parents to a vey intellectual adaptation of "Les Chants de Maldoror". It was a one-man show, in a tiny room, we were about 15 or 20 in the audience... I was listening very religiously when, suddenly, my stepfather started snoring very loudly :blush: You can imagine the actor's reaction, poor man... :biggrin:

 

[Tom Ford]

I was listening very religiously when, suddenly, my stepfather started snoring very loudly  :blush: You can imagine the actor's reaction, poor man... :biggrin:

:laugh: poor man :laugh:

Well I actually wanted to go and get the book yesterday but everything was closed when I finished work
Anyways I will get them today :smile: plus now I have the authors name... :smile:
And today is a really good day because my boyfriend accepted the bday present I got him (its a 8 days trip to tunisia) and I thought that he was going to say no because boy are so proud and cannot accept that a girl pays for them... :knuppel:
So I am really excited now and I cant wait to go because I desperately need vacation and there was no way I was going without him :biggrin:

 

[Wizard]

(its a 8 days trip to tunisia) :

Gosh ! He is lucky !

By the way (it's the teacher talking) : an 8-day trip to Tunisia.
It's a very good instance of coumpound noums (no "s&quot, and "an" because of the "e" (vowel).
:smile:

 

[Tom Ford]

Gosh ! He is lucky !

By the way (it's the teacher talking) : an 8-day trip to Tunisia.
It's a very good instance of coumpound noums (no "s&quot, and "an" because of the "e" (vowel).
:smile:

Oups :embarassed:
My bad... :laugh:

 

[GOGOT56]

Hi everybody

When i was in term, I worked on the "Great Gatsby" from FS Fitzgerald. It's a very interessting novel wich is about the life of a man in the 20s, so during Roaring Twenty's because the economy at the time was through the roof and people were partying all over the place.
This novel is filled with multiple themes but the predominate one focuses on the death of the American Dream and also show a world of corruption.

Let's read it!

 

[Wizard]

Yes, a good choice !

 

[Crème]

Tom Ford, the author of the book is Sarah MLYNOWSKI. I just finished the book this morning, and at the end, i was a little bit disappointed : i would like this story never ends !

She wrote three other books, but i saw there are not available on www.fnac.com :
- City Girl,
- Trois filles en folie
- Télémania

I'm not able to choose the best one ! :laugh:

Hello,

Well I'm a big fan of the Red dress Ink Collection, I've got all of them!!

 

[sefana]

hello everybody.

I discovered this topic, this morning, and I think it's a great one.
So I introduce myself, my "pseudo" is sefana, I'm 22 years old, I live in a small town, called decines, and it's not far from Lyon
I like speaking english :wub , I always make mistakes, but I want to improve...

If I made mistakes, correct me please.

bye

 

[Nessscafe]

Hello,

Well I'm a big fan of the Red dress Ink Collection, I've got all of them!!

hello crème !

i used to be a fan of it, when the books started to be edited in 2004.

but one of them shocked me, it was "un très gros mensonge", by Lauren Baratz-Logsted. The subject of this book really shocked me because it treats about a woman who makes believe to her boyfriend that she's pregnant. Finally, the boyfriend discovers the truth but she continues to lie to other.

i hate this book because a lot of jealous or possessive girls use this awful stratagem in order to keep their guy, and, for me, this book may encourage weak girls (as i think the possessive and jealous girls are) to do this.

So, after that, i stopped my collection, but i like a lot sarah mlynowski's book. :wink2:

 

[bobaby]

i don't understand

 

[Nessscafe]

sorry, i probably made enormous mistakes...

wizard, if you have a moment, can you correct me ?

en francais : dans la collection Red Dress, il y avait un livre où l'héroine faisait croire à son copain qu'elle était enceinte pour le garder. Je n'ai pas aimé ce sujet, car ce genre de choses arrive réellement et ce livre peut être vu comme un encouragement.

voila :blush:

 

[Wizard]

No, I understood you. There are some minor mistakes, but what you wrote was OK :wink2:

I think the person who read didn't understand your post because she hadn't read all the other posts before on the same author.

So, it's OK. Nice to read you Nesscafe

 

[Nessscafe]

up !