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Thank you sincerely! My Bulgarian is certainly too poor to read poetry. My Polish is much better. But I believe (sad experience, besides other things) poetry should only be read in the source language. Truth be told, I don`t really like poetry, or, more precisely, I`m rather picky and choosy about ...

Thanks for the review and Thanks for the kind words about the translation! My Bulgarian is still very poor, but, as far as I understand from the review, this particular translation is beautiful. It`s very nice and encouraging to know that beautiful translations still happen. Because the general ...

I am damn disappointed again! Why would authors ridicule miracles of their own creation by writing sequels not half as good? Well, in this particular case, it`s rather a "semi-sequel". But the important thing is, should the Тяжелый свет Куртейна by Макс Фрай https://readaholicme.weebly.com/readaholic ...

I know a small smattering of the latter language (due to some peripheral shoulder rubbing in Russian digital spaces), but it's entirely insufficient for reading, save for the simplest of texts. But languages are easy if only you stumble upon a book you really wish to read! If you can cope with ...

Thanks for your exhaustive review, Dragon! Getting to know what is not (quite) worth reading can be as valuable as being informed about what might be well worth reading. Here`s something I do believe worth reading. If you read Ukrainian, that is. Maybe it also exists in Russian, I dunno. Well, I do ...

Sometimes books inspire music. I don`t mean just poetry, where you pick a poem and put a tune to it so that it might be sung. I mean serious books and serious good music. Like "Tales of Mystery & Imagination" after Poe, or "I Robot" after Asimov by Alan Parsons Project, and so on. But here`s one ...

One of the things that I love about them is the humour. The kind of humour I don't see on other shows. I suspect humour is no longer PC... ;) I`m sorry to note most of what they seem to "create" nowadays (like, say, 911 ) is PC enough to make one puke. :evil: The eternal argument about who loves ...

Here`s another excerpt ( https://readaholicme.weebly.com/they-win-2.html ) from another book I have already mentioned ( https://readaholicme.weebly.com/the-scarlet-aura-of-the-archpartorg.html ). The book, I think I`ll never get tired of repeating, is well worth translating, but I`m afraid it will ...

So, do you read dictionaries? I mean, not because you need to / must, but simply because that`s fascinating? Here`s a really fascinating one, for Whodunit fans in particular. I do recommend reading Cop Talk , a dictionary of police slang by L. J. Poteet and A. C. Poteet ( https://www.goodreads.com ...

I did that with historical dictionaries only: it’s amazing to see the whole evolution of a word, the appearance and disappearance of different meanings across ages, nations and territories; the phonetic changes too; the etymology, the internal motivation of the word. But Yes!!! It`s also i ...

And when I was a high school student, I generously helped myself to the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary and a few others. But I wouldn't count that as proper reading. No, that`s not reading. We all use dictionaries, occasionally or frequently, but I suppose few would want to really read them ...

I`m not sure whether this is the right thread to submit my question to (after all, dictionaries are books, but not quite), or, for that matter, forum, but I cannot seem to find where to I should push it. If there`s a more proper place here, I would like a Mod or an Admin to move this over there ...

There`s also this to Russian language and Russian, or, to be more precise, Soviet literary/cultural outlook: many a national literature, bar (plus?) the Big Five, has been popularized thanks to Russian/Soviet literary politics (I`m not sure if "politics" is the right term, but that`s of no crucial ...

As far as I'm aware, there has been no widespread "witch hunt" on Russian things (or people) around here, at least in the social circles I frequent. Thanks, Dragon! No, we have no outright witch hunt here, either. It`s just soft but powerful ousting, accompanied by occasional hysteric outbursts ...

Another Russian writer I`d like to recommend is Святослав Логинов. He`s a SF writer, first and foremost, and his SF is OK (some outstanding things, too, like, say, "Свет в окошке" https://readaholicme.weebly.com/lit-little-window.html ), but it`s not his SF that I absolutely love. I do love his "Kitc ...

Cold shower and cold beer, and I can continue. Макс Фрай most translated is the Echo series. "Лабиринты Эхо", written together with Игорь Стёпин (at the beginning the pen-name covered both writers; now it`s Светлана Мартынчик by herself) is available in EN, too; the EN title is "The Strangers Magic", ...

Being the merge-itchy moderator here, I'll honor your request. Thank you! I know where I would like you to start: by telling us about Russian books that 1) are new--written in the past 10 or at most 20 years; 2) have won your heart and mind. I`d dearly like to start with a Russian writer that could ...

I simply must have this discussed, because there are lots of outstanding Russian books undeservedly forgotten, but mostly because the damn war in Ukraine is also a war on books. Don`t know about Bulgaria, but in Lithuania, and quite a few other countries, hating Putin has evoked hate towards ...

My review of Snuff : Snuff made me feel. But Yes! I deem the Vimes series, starting with "Guards! Guards!" and ending with "Snuff", the Very Best of Pratchett. Well, Wiki says the last one is "Raising Steam", but, to my mind, that`s not really Vimes... My sincere Thanks to everyone for submitting ...

I have a ready-made book for you: The Interpretation of Cultures :D My reply to that would depend on my mood. I`m not sure what mood, precisely, I`m currently in, so I`d better give a few: mean, cool and lyric (sentimental?). I`d (meanly :twisted: ) recommend "Apocalypse Culture" (ed. Adam Parfrey ...

Welcome to the club! What with the world going from crazy to demented, only morons can afford to be not tired. Being tired means you are still sane. Cold comfort, but still... And of course everybody has the right to silence! Being silent and listening to silence and reveling in silence... A nice ...

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situation. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand ...

Just to type in the minimum number of characters required No content-free posts. Kalin, I do understand that, but I`m still uneasy... A laconic post is not necessarily content-free. Like, say: Ignorance is contagious. Karl Marx Do people really need anything added to that to make it any more ...

Or I could give you the address of some one of my parents in Germany. Amazon could ship to them and they could resend it. Frog, Thanks A Million for offering help and for the links! But No, I wouldn`t think of bothering your (or anybody`s) parents just to get a book (or anything) I fancy. I`m ...

Thank you sincerely!

Just to type in the minimum number of characters required ( ), here`s a link to an ancient review on a rather strange book for children: https://readaholicme.weebly.com/grisly- ... water.html

Thanks, Kalin! I do remember your GoodReads review on the book, too. And Yes, it`s a pity no electronic version is available... I have another question to ask: any forum/thread on Bulgarian books for children here? I`ve browsed, but it seems there`s none. Or maybe I just missed precisely what I was ...

Ever since I first saw a review on "Bulgariana" by Randall Baker, I`ve been doing my damnedest to get a copy. It`s been years! Alas... Amazon won`t ship that particular book to my country, and no other way I`ve tried has been of any help. Could/would anybody here tell me more about the book? If ...