Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 381 Birthday: 16th February
Location: Upper Largo, Fife
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject:
This one looks quite challenging
Spoiler:
1. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (he's German). I actually have Faust on Mt TBR - I wonder if I'll ever get to it???
2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbian). Also on TBR
3. Victor Hugo (French) I'm reading this right now
4. Milan Kundera (Czech - spelling??)
5. Miguel Cervantes (Spanish)
6. Don't know (have heard of it tho)
7. Nope
8. Nope
9. Nope ( trully, I know nothing of any of these titles)
10. Leo Tolstoy (Russian)
11. Don't know
12. Thomas Mann (German)
13. Boris Pasternak (Russian). I wouldn't mind reading this.
14. Umberto Eco (Italian) I read this ages ago, its very complex.
15. Elias Canetti (Bulgarian). I always like the name Elias,its pretty
16. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian) Oh yes I remember this one from earlier blunders
17. Emile Zola (French)
18. Chinua Achebe (Nigerian)
19. No idea
20. Mario Vargas Llosa (peruvian) I saw an article about this the other day, which is just as well or I would have had nooo idea!
_________________ Currently reading: Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 381 Birthday: 16th February
Location: Upper Largo, Fife
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject:
Glynis wrote:
By the way, it's fine to Google
That's cheating!!! If we google we'll all get top marks. Hmm...*scratches head*..does this mean we'll all get a prize?? _________________ Currently reading: Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 7637 Birthday: 7th July
Location: Shropshire
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject:
nicnic wrote:
Glynis wrote:
By the way, it's fine to Google
That's cheating!!! If we google we'll all get top marks. Hmm...*scratches head*..does this mean we'll all get a prize??
Good point
Ermm we'd have to do tiebreakers, something hard to Google _________________ Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10
Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 2509 Birthday: 19th July
Location: Dorset, UK
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject:
I did all the last one without any googling, or other! I thought that was the point, to see what we knew not what we could find out. Will probably do this on the same basis - I'm currently thinking
Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 7637 Birthday: 7th July
Location: Shropshire
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:55 pm Post subject:
Well we know some like to Google and appreciate the things they learn that way, and others like to rely on what they already know in order to answer these questions. Do whatever you prefer, we're easy _________________ Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10
Joined: 10 Oct 2007 Posts: 538 Birthday: 12th November
Location: In the Land of Pies and Piers
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject:
Spoiler:
1. Faust .. Goethe [German]
2. 100 Years of Solitude ..Marquez [I want to say Spanish but maybe not....ha ,ha....after reading newbooks mag..i know it is Columbia...
3. Les Miserables ..Victor Hugo [French]
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being ..Kundera [?]
5. Don Quixote ..Cervantes [ Spain]
6. Labyrinths ..? Was david Bowie in this ..
7. The Remembrance of Things Past ..Proust [ France]
8. The Sea of Fertility..Mishima [Tokyo]
9. A Dry White Season .. ?
10. War and Peace . Tolstoy [Russia]
11. The Second Sex ..Simone de Beauvoir [French]
12. Death in Venice ..Mann [German]
13. Doctor Zhivago .Boris Pasternak[ Russian]
14. Foucault's Pendulum..Umberto Eco [ Italy]..I have read this, it wasn't my cuppa tea
15. Auto Da Fe ..? I can translate it to something to do with fire..no idea
16. Brothers Karamazov ..Dostoevsky [Russian]
17. Therese Raquin … Zola [ French]..
18. Things Fall Apart.. Achebe [Nigeria]
19. The Decameron.. .? no idea
20. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter?..no idea
Done my best
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Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 919 Birthday: 23rd December
Location: Dorset, UK
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject:
Here goes
Spoiler:
1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2. Gabriel García Márquez
3. Victor Hugo
4. Milan Kundera
5. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
6. Jorge Luis Borges
7. Marcel Proust
8. Yukio Mishima
9. Andre Brink
10. Leo Tolstoy
11. Simone de Beauvoir's
12. Thomas Mann
13. Boris Pasternak
14. Umberto Eco
15. Elias Canetti
16. Fyodor Dostoevsky
17. Émile Zola
18. Chinua Achebe
19. Giovanni Boccaccio
20. Mario Vargas Llosa
Lisa x _________________ Currently Reading - Want to Play? By P.J Tracy (again)
20. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter - Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian)
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