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After hours reading different articles about copyright law, I decided to distract myself with something just slightly related to it. Here the results of my distraction: reading meme. In my head it was much longer and quite witty, but I decided to post it anyway.
Books I am never tired of rereading:
Alexandr Pushkin “Evgeniy Onegin” – I can (and love to) recite huge pieces by heart. My dog was the only one who never refused to listen, though.
Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”
Jane Austen “Pride and Prejudice” – and the BBC series with Colin Firth, of course.
Mikhail Bulgakov “The White Guard”
Books that I consider utterly boring:
romance novels
legal textbooks, written in Russian after 1960
Note: if one has to read them, it is advisable to do so with a company of friends who have a sense of humour and can mock the style and content of those books.
Books that I read when I was thirteen and still love:
Giovanni Boccaccio “Decameron”
Ivan Efremov “Tais of Athens”
I remember reading Maurice Druon series “The Cursed Kings”, beginning was interesting but after the third book they got too depressing and I dropped it.
Books that were a sheer pleasure to read:
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon – There were some frisky Japanese ladies a thousand years ago!
Douglas Adams “The Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy” love, love, love it!
Umberto Eco “Foucault's Pendilum”
Books that I loved as a child and still do:
Astrid Lindgren Karlson on the Roof
Tove Jansson Moomintroll books
Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, “Through the Looking-Glass”
One old book in Russian, whose name I don’t remember now, but still have warm feelings about.
Books that always make me laugh:
Jerom K. Jerom “Three men in a Boat” The Irish stew leaves me giggling every single time.
Jaroslav Hasek “The Good Soldier Svejk”
Books that I planned to read all along but still hasn’t got to do it:
James Joyce “Ulysses” I’ve the book ten years ago.
F. Dostoevsky “The Karamazov Brothers” Yep.
Books that people like and I don’t:
Lev Tolstoy “Anna Karenina” Really, I wanted to kick all the characters under the train.
Margaret Mitchell “Gone with the Wind” - under the train, too.
Books that I want to read in original language even if I don’t know it:
Ludovico Ariosto “Orlando Furioso” – one of the remnants of my Italian Renaissance fascination.
Books that I’ve liked but couldn’t think of a category to fit them in:
Malcolm Bradbury “Doctor Criminale” Nobody feels unmocked.
L.Sprague de Camp; Fletcher Pratt “The Complete Compleat Enchanter”
Andrey Platonov “Kotlovan”
Henry Fielding “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”
My favourite SF writers:
Robert Sheckley; Ray Bradbury; Clifford Simack
I read them all long ago. Really long. I don’t know, if my opinion changes upon rereading it now. But as it is, they have their place in my heart.
My favourite mystery writers:
Agatha Christie, Elizabeth Peters, Joanna Chmielewska (Polish lady, wickedly hilarious mysteries)
My favourite fantasy writers:
This category is ever-changing. I cannot make a list.
My categories are all mixed up, and I am sure I missed some great books, but, that was what I remembered to mention at this moment.
There is one thing. I really need help. I need someone to proofread my admission papers. After hours of writing and editing and reediting I cannot see if anything wrong or right – and I know I always misuse articles. My friends here either know English no better than me or not available, and I have no idea how to find anybody to do it.
So I’d be really grateful if anybody could help me to check several papers 1 or 2 pages long for the most glaring grammar mistakes.
After hours reading different articles about copyright law, I decided to distract myself with something just slightly related to it. Here the results of my distraction: reading meme. In my head it was much longer and quite witty, but I decided to post it anyway.
Books I am never tired of rereading:
Alexandr Pushkin “Evgeniy Onegin” – I can (and love to) recite huge pieces by heart. My dog was the only one who never refused to listen, though.
Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”
Jane Austen “Pride and Prejudice” – and the BBC series with Colin Firth, of course.
Mikhail Bulgakov “The White Guard”
Books that I consider utterly boring:
romance novels
legal textbooks, written in Russian after 1960
Note: if one has to read them, it is advisable to do so with a company of friends who have a sense of humour and can mock the style and content of those books.
Books that I read when I was thirteen and still love:
Giovanni Boccaccio “Decameron”
Ivan Efremov “Tais of Athens”
I remember reading Maurice Druon series “The Cursed Kings”, beginning was interesting but after the third book they got too depressing and I dropped it.
Books that were a sheer pleasure to read:
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon – There were some frisky Japanese ladies a thousand years ago!
Douglas Adams “The Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy” love, love, love it!
Umberto Eco “Foucault's Pendilum”
Books that I loved as a child and still do:
Astrid Lindgren Karlson on the Roof
Tove Jansson Moomintroll books
Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, “Through the Looking-Glass”
One old book in Russian, whose name I don’t remember now, but still have warm feelings about.
Books that always make me laugh:
Jerom K. Jerom “Three men in a Boat” The Irish stew leaves me giggling every single time.
Jaroslav Hasek “The Good Soldier Svejk”
Books that I planned to read all along but still hasn’t got to do it:
James Joyce “Ulysses” I’ve the book ten years ago.
F. Dostoevsky “The Karamazov Brothers” Yep.
Books that people like and I don’t:
Lev Tolstoy “Anna Karenina” Really, I wanted to kick all the characters under the train.
Margaret Mitchell “Gone with the Wind” - under the train, too.
Books that I want to read in original language even if I don’t know it:
Ludovico Ariosto “Orlando Furioso” – one of the remnants of my Italian Renaissance fascination.
Books that I’ve liked but couldn’t think of a category to fit them in:
Malcolm Bradbury “Doctor Criminale” Nobody feels unmocked.
L.Sprague de Camp; Fletcher Pratt “The Complete Compleat Enchanter”
Andrey Platonov “Kotlovan”
Henry Fielding “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”
My favourite SF writers:
Robert Sheckley; Ray Bradbury; Clifford Simack
I read them all long ago. Really long. I don’t know, if my opinion changes upon rereading it now. But as it is, they have their place in my heart.
My favourite mystery writers:
Agatha Christie, Elizabeth Peters, Joanna Chmielewska (Polish lady, wickedly hilarious mysteries)
My favourite fantasy writers:
This category is ever-changing. I cannot make a list.
My categories are all mixed up, and I am sure I missed some great books, but, that was what I remembered to mention at this moment.
There is one thing. I really need help. I need someone to proofread my admission papers. After hours of writing and editing and reediting I cannot see if anything wrong or right – and I know I always misuse articles. My friends here either know English no better than me or not available, and I have no idea how to find anybody to do it.
So I’d be really grateful if anybody could help me to check several papers 1 or 2 pages long for the most glaring grammar mistakes.
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Date: 2003-12-11 03:32 pm (UTC)If you can't find anyone better qualified to do it, I'm very happy to look through your papers, if all you're worried about is grammar mistakes. But if I would need to have any knowledge about your subject I don't think I'd be any help at all! And the other thing is I'm going to be away until Sunday evening - do you need them looking at sooner than that?
Anyway, let me know if you don't find anyone else, and you think I have any chance of helping.
Showering you with my gratitude and undying devotion
Date: 2003-12-12 01:28 pm (UTC)This is exactly what I need - grammar check. I bear the full responsibility for the content, but I am slightly paranoid about my grammar use: small things (like articles) puzzle me, no matter how many times I reread the rules. I hope I won't steal much of your time though. I am planning to finish everything in December, the first one will be ready by Sunday. Please tell me how and when can we make it.
Glad you liked my meme!
Re: Showering you with my gratitude and undying devotion
Date: 2003-12-14 06:45 am (UTC)