Cezar Petrescu, Fram, ursul polar (Fram, the Polar Bear) – the first book I have ever read, when I was 5 and something. Still think in awe of the tiger tamer who put her head in the most dangerous tiger’s mouth.
Karl May, Winnetou, it introduced me to the adventure readings of my class’ boys club, which then continued with Alexadre Dumas. It was also the first book that made me want to travel and fight the bad guys. I also wanted to be Winnetou’s “queen” and kick everyone’s ass, but that is just the childish part of it :)
Mircea Eliade, Maitreyi, the most beautiful love story I have ever read, all in the magnificent Indian background of poetry and philosophy
3 books I’ve read more than once:
I don’t really read books more than once. The only exceptions are the books I read and then had to re-read for school or university, to refresh the details.. As it is not something chosen by me, won’t mention them here.
3 great books I personally hated:
Boccaccio, The Decameron – found it quite boring
Sade, Justine – finished it out of curiosity, how much worse can a life get, still thought it was awful…
Ioan Slavici, Mara – really hated it, had to read it though…
3 pure pleasures:
Garcia Marquez, One hundred years of solitude
Mircea Cartarescu, Orbitor
DH Lawrence, Women in Love
3 great books I should have read but haven’t yet
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Mario Vargas Llosa, any book by him
Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
3 books I ordered, bought actually
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Sartre, Les Mots, La Nausee
Yeah, been pretty lazy on buying books as I received some great ones on my birthday :)
Will tag Bart, Alex, and who ever else is interested.
Interesting choices. I also loved One Hundred Years of Solitude and I'm still meaning to get round to Love in the Time of Cholera. My favourite description of Garcia Marquez's work is that it's like Christmas cake, very rich and densely packed with detail. What do you think?
Owzy, really glad to see you around here! What can I say, time I don't really have, I read in the metro and blog whenever I get the chance :) Hope you will be back in business as soon as possible!
Safyia, the description is quite interesting. Yet what I appreciated most was the touch of humor behind it all and the fairytail-like fantasy of certain happenings.
i'll follow on from ali here, the only book in your list i've read was crime and punishment by whats-his-name (forgotten how to spell it :P )
i'll take you up on the list as soon as possible, i seem to be surfacing again for the meantime, but i'm feeling so horridly tired at moments, it's no fun...
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Interesting choices. I also loved One Hundred Years of Solitude and I'm still meaning to get round to Love in the Time of Cholera. My favourite description of Garcia Marquez's work is that it's like Christmas cake, very rich and densely packed with detail. What do you think?