verystrange

awww. that's silly. I would hate to not know what went on the night before. I'm usually a good drunk, always know what happened.

why thank you. I tend to forget I even have a page. I haven't even looked at it in ages.
I really should have kicked that kids ass.
And I know waht you mean. Scanning things is so tedious. I almost never do it. It's all about the digital pics.
Where are you from? Are you actually from Belgium or did it just sound like a good idea to say it when you made your profile? hehe.

Hello!
I'm not sure that Le Comte de Monte-Cristo is the best choice for a very first reading in french. Not that the story is not enjoyable: but it's a really long book, the writing has lots of repetitions (having been first published as a feuilleton paid, like, two centimes a line) and full of outmoded mannerisms that would need explanations....
What sort of french book could I recomment to a person with the tastes you mentioned in your "favorite books" line?...I'm afraid there's not a such thing as a french Terry Pratchett! What other book could I tell you of? While giving an eye to the shelves near my computer I'm doing an alarming finding: there are lots and lots of books translated from various foreign languages, a dozen english-written books... and very few french books, especially contemporary french books! Shame on me! A notable exception: in a corner are some books by Amelie Nothomb, I enjoyed a lot... perhaps should I mention "Stupeur et Tremblements", the one I've read most recently.
Kipling said 100 years ago "if you want to teach french to an English boy, give him a french edition of a book by Jules Verne and he will manage to understand it!" (i'm quoting de mmoire and maybe faultily...).... maybe 100 years after the advice is yet valid! For the same reason as above, I would not recommend one of the most massive novels (20 000 leagues under the sea, etc..) but some Verne books are kind of short and humorous, with a touch of nonsense: such as La Chasse au Mtore or Le Docteur Ox. Not the most frequently reprinted ones; however, as you stay in Bruxelles it should be possible, if not easy, to find them in paperback editions.
Writing about this reminds me of something I read some days ago in a newspaper: on France's most recent top 10 bestselling list is the newest Harry Potter! I mean the Order of the Phoenix, that's not already translated in french! It validates, posthumously, Kipling's advice: today's french kids can't wait for3 months before reading a new Harry Potter book, they prefer spend their summer learning english!



I don't know if my advice is worth reading... at least I didn't procrastinate answering to you!

Prosit!

He he. You should read my friend's ratsonjulia's pages, he keeps one of the best journals here.

And New Zealand.... judging from what I saw in the LOTR movie, it has amazing lanscapes. Great idea to choose this way for an escape .

Hello verystrange!
Congrats for the Degree!
having all the time in the world... I guess it has to be an uncanny feeling! I wonder if it'll happen to me any soon!

What do you plan to do? Going back home? Staying in the UK?? Travelling the world???

I wish you lots of luck!

(a frightening thought, however: how did you manage to FORGET how funny was Rocky horror? I hope you've had your memory well trained since you saw it first, and you don't forget anymore things like that!))

Another two? So, I wish tou twice as much luck as last time!

I can fully relate with your lack in interest for Kipling: I had exactly the same misadventure with Alfred Dblin: after having Berlin Alexanderplatz dissected in German litterature class I couldn't event think of rereading it for pleasure.
For Kipling it was entirely different: first, in France, Kipling is not studied in elementary school; second, when I was, like, 6, my father used to read me The Jungle Book as a bedtime story (I mean, the real stuff, not the Disney ersatz)... you imagine the effects it produced on a young and impressionable Tororo.
I'd read it again several times since, as well as most of his "Empire" novelets and short stories.... in French translations, of course. I noticed that Borges often mentions Kipling as one of his favorite authors and praises his mastery of the English language... so when Kipling was mentioned some days ago in a conversation with ratsonjulia I thought it was time for starting reading it in English....

(unfortunately I'm very busy now and for some weeks will have not so much time for reading)

You're right, I find it too cruel to ask me to pick up a single Borges book!
And merely chosing among them some favorites is a tricky task. You'll not be surprised I mention first Ficciones and Otras Inquisiciones, these are the first ones I've read and they changed forever the way I look at books. The one I open more often is probably El Hacedor, the poems and short-short stories it contains have some of my favorite lines in them.
And you?

*hands VS a Hersey bar and a pint of Blue Bell* Enjoy!

Erin's the vain one as you can tell i only have two pics up, but i'm glad you like them!

yea it is ... pukkelpop is comin up very soon again ...
how long do you stay in B.?

went seeing kid koala in the AB the other day ...
do you ever get on aim? or studying to hard 4 your exams?

cya

Yep music is the sorce!

whereabouts in the UK are you?

So, you liked my robo-rant? Shall i write more, or what?