:hmm: I've always been open to new tunes and music styles. Just recently a friend introduced me to symphonic metal and quickly learned to appreciate bands like Nightwish and Epica. But my all time favorites are Michael Jackson, Metallica, Mozart and Mariah Carey. Mozart's Piano Concertos accompanied...

Rosshalde by Herman Hesse. It was a heavy, dragging book. I think Hesse failed in this one. It seemed like he was new in the world of writing

Samson, have you read Dance, Dance, Dance by Murakami? I would like to know your opinion on this particular Japanese writer, because it would be interesting to learn the european perspective on asean writings (eventhough i think he's already much influenced by the contemporary western style of writi...

Thanks for the welcome, everyone! Let me give you more details about me because my first message wasn't very clear. I am 29 years old and i work at an International School in Jakarta and I give Spanish classes in the evenings, mostly to foreigners. I also do translating and interpreting in Spanish-E...

Great to have you in booktalk! Although i'm not so much a historian or history reader, but it has always interest me! I remember i used to get As in "Historia Universal" in High School.

Maybe you can share some of your knowledge with us

I also have my reasons for not posting as much as i want to and although they sound lame, that's the way it is. I'm online only when i'm at work and as a HS Registrar, having to handle the paperwork of almost a thousand kids, leave me no time for almost nothing. Sometimes, when i get to read the sto...

Hi Abigail, Although I'm a newbie myself, i'd like to welcome you. Yours is a very interesting introduction, especially the last paragraph you wrote. You mind explaining a lil bit more on that? I am very open-minded and want to understand everyone and their points of view, but I understand that some...

Well, a couple of weeks ago i read a book called "Essays on love" by Alain de Botton. De Botton describes the stages of being in love: from its beginning until the break up. I could also mention Hesse, Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Coelho, Unamuno, amongst those i consider philosophical fiction, but...

i'm currently reading Demian by Herman Hesse and a Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. The books that are on my list to read rite now are:
1. Conversations with God volumes 2 and 3
2. Steppenwolf and Magister Ludi by Hesse
3. The lost continent by Bryson

I would definitely say that i prefer fiction, although after 2 or 3 fiction books i always try to read a non-fiction to broaden my knowledge. At the moment i'm reading "A short history of nearly everything" by Bryson and i find it quite interesting and revelaing.