Passenger

Roland Garros is the one Grand Slam title still missing. She's good enough and imo she deserves to win. Or maybe Schiavone does it again. :rolleyes:

monday is a bank holiday in the uk... :\

Alan Sillitoe - Road to Volgograd

Personally I found "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" utterly exciting and devoured all 600 pages in a couple of days. I'm sure you'll enjoy it, it's an easy read. ;)

"Room" by Emma Donoghue

This reminds me of Vincent and his jokes nobody finds funny enough. :P

Oh wow, so it's part of the Canadian national curriculum? Interesting! Now reading "Freedom" by Franzen. Having high expectations here because "The Corrections" is one my favourite books.

Agreed! Hated the way he denied his mistakes. Not saying that I would have done it better but estimating your initial costs and coming up with a selling price was kinda obvious, not? :shocked2:

FInished reading "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker. Heart-gripping story!

Mary Poppins - just seen it over easter again realizing imo it is one of the best movies ever!

"The curious incident of the dog in the night-time" by Mark Haddon

Richard Adams - Watership Down

William Faulkner - Sanctuary

I finished The Double by Dostoevsky and now started reading The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro.

The Tourist - 8/10 Kinda liked it because it reminded me of Jumpin' Jack Flash and Mission: Impossible 1. The good old times of espionage. ;)

Never heard of it. Is it any good? :)

Yeah, I think Bulgakov's short stories are quite good. "Diaboliad" ( collection but also the name of one of the short stories) is pretty... different, I guess. ;) Gogol's "The Nose" is the most famous Russian short story but also very very abstract. There are some similarities between the two. Supposedly, you either like it or not. The Hours is a good book, particularly because the connection to Virginia Woolf becomes much more clearer. Regarding existentialism, love Kafka, ambiguous towards Camus. Never read Der Steppenwolf or Siddharta by Hesse. That's all I wanted to say. :D

I agree by 10000000%!!! Go CHRISTIAN BALE! :)

Love Actually might have been a good idea actually. lol It's quite disturbing. The story is not new but the atmosphere of the movie leaves you with a very distinctive impression. Like Fight Club but much darker. Anyway, I really liked it.

The Machinist - 9/10 I am still a bit speechless. This movie is so dark and sinister that I don't really know what to say about it.

Nolan tries giving each character a darker edge than the way they have been portrayed before. Can Anne Hathaway play such a role? I think she's good but have never seen her in those kind of movies. So I remain sceptical despite knowing I could be wrong. ;)

If you only knew how right you are... :laugh3: Well, maybe Bulgakov isn't that famous but his work certainly counts as world literature. Admittantly, I study a bit on Russia and thus may kow more than some others. The other day in the bookstore I really had to contain myself to stop buying a collection of his short stories. They're really unique. Weirder than Gogol I think.

Gut, dass du noch Karten bekommen hast. ;) Ich musste ja erst mal googeln, um zu erfahren, um wen es hier geht. lol *nicht so auf dem Laufenden ist'

bloody rainy and stormy for the past week! wondering how sunlight looks like!

I learned that the Lisbon Treaty establishes a Citizens' Initiative. Most valuable fact after a two-days research. lol