Would you like to write down some books you like here?

Yea I’m a bookworm, I love reading. These are some books I like: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), My Name is Red (Orhan Pamuk), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia Marquez), Le Città invisibili (Italo Calvino), and so on.
And I’m reading James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it’s good.
Would you like to share your favourite books with me?

My mother tongue is Chinese, which is always considered as the most difficult language in the world for foreigners to learn. And my second language is English, we learn it at school. French was chosen as the third language I would learn, because I like French literature and art ;-)

My fave is PAPILLON the true story of a brave guy who scaped from prison many times.

I'm the happy owner of a new old great book. Another chinese classical – Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en. The translation in Romanian lies on more than 1000 pages.

Have you ever heard the four great classical novels in China, Gorgon? They are Romance of Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, Water Margin (Some translate it to All Men are Brothers) and Dream of the Red Chamber. And Journey to the West is so interesting that almost every Chinese kid have read it.

I didn't hear about Water Margin. It sounds really interesting, but it is possible to not be translated in my language and I can't read in English too complex books.

Water Margin is really a complex book, there are more than one hundred characters in it and most of them are important. It is a big job to read even for us Chinese :) But of course it is a good book and has a high position in ancient Chinese literature.

It was very interesting to read about your favourite authurs and books.  I've found  here like-minded people. I could repeat the names of the writers, but I think it's not worth doing it.I'd like to add some authors and books:

V. Nabokov The Luzhin Defense or The Defense,

D. Diderot The Nun,

Stendhal The Red and The Black,

H. Balzac Eugenie Grandet,

Albert Camus The Stranger,

Henrik Ibsen A doll's house,

Lion Feuchtwanger-novels,

F. Schiller The Robbers,

Charles Dickens-all the novels (Dombey and son, Little Dorrit, The old curiosity shop and others).

I adore Russian literature,one of my favourite writers is A. Platonov, though I think it is impossible to translate him correctly into other languages.

Hello, seagull. I’ve read Nabokov’s Lolita but haven’t read The Luzhin Defense. And I would like to talk about Stendhal, he is one of my favourite writer, and The Red And the Black used to be my favourite book :)
Hello, tunabige. The name of the book sounds very interesting, I really want to know what it is mainly about :)

Hello, Gelo,

Have you read Balsac's Eugenie Grandet? You are sure to read it.

Bulgakov "Master and Margarita"

J.Galsworthy "the forsyte saga"

voltaire's stories and plays

voynich "Gadfly"

salinger "the catcher in the rye"

C.Ahern "where the rainbow ends"

C.Ahern "P.S. I love you"

Hemingway – all of his works (one of my fav authors)

Harper Lee "to kill a mockingbird" 

this list is not finished yet) will add some books later)) 

BY THE WAY, DID ANYBODY HERE READ THE BOOKS BY NICHOLAS SPARKS????