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Patrik Ouředník Europeana. Stručné dějiny dvacátého věku. I think it could be translated by : Europeana. A brief history of the 20th century.
A personal way of writing - never read a book like this before. A different point of view on the events that made the last century.
Jiphy wrote: Patrik Ouředník Europeana. Stručné dějiny dvacátého věku. I think it could be translated by : Europeana. A brief history of the 20th century.
A personal way of writing - never read a book like this before. A different point of view on the events that made the last century.
It's all the Jews' fault? 
Shed Peel wrote: I am reading the novel The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
Snap! :)
Shellshocker wrote: It's all the Jews' fault?
No revisionism... I do not know if it has been translated in English, but I think this book is worth it. I must find a French translation just to know how the translator did because it looks unusual... By the way, I am reading on the inner sleeve, that the author, born in Prague, lives in France since 1984. His first book (the one we are talking about) received an award as "best book of the year 2001" in the Czech Republic.
Something between cynism and black humor...
Jiphy wrote:
Shellshocker wrote: It's all the Jews' fault?
No revisionism... I do not know if it has been translated in English, but I think this book is worth it. I must find a French translation just to know how the translator did because it looks unusual... By the way, I am reading on the inner sleeve, that the author, born in Prague, lives in France since 1984. His first book (the one we are talking about) received an award as "best book of the year 2001" in the Czech Republic.
Something between cynism and black humor...
You only speak five languages? I'm not impressed. 
Seriously, though, cynicism and black humor? Sounds like my kind of book. I couldn't find the author in Amazon.com, though.
Shellshocker wrote: Seriously, though, cynicism and black humor? Sounds like my kind of book. I couldn't find the author in Amazon.com, though.
follow this link : http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/1564783820/171-2533373-7344220?v=glance&n=52042011
Jiphy wrote:
Shellshocker wrote: Seriously, though, cynicism and black humor? Sounds like my kind of book. I couldn't find the author in Amazon.com, though.
follow this link : http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/1564783820/171-2533373-7344220?v=glance&n=52042011
Thanks. 
I should be able to find it on the American Amazon with the ISBN#. :)
I just read She Wins, You Win by Gail Evans. It's an okay book for reading, and to bring some ideas in the forefront of your mind, I suppose. I did like the statistics that it contained regarding women in executive jobs, but to actually see the low numbers in print was a little depressing.
I'm hoping that the other book I am about to read, Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, shall be more insightful. 
Steve Lea wrote: John Banville's The Sea which won the Booker Prize last year it says...
Give us a review when you're finished, please!
Shed Peel wrote:
Steve Lea wrote: John Banville's The Sea which won the Booker Prize last year it says...
Give us a review when you're finished, please!
Er, okay, will try my best
Prose is like Ray Bradbury's so far....very 'liquid'..? 
Must try harder...
