What are you currently reading?

Tiger I & Tiger II Panzer in the east 1944

 

We all came out of Gogol's overcoat

 

Almost finished with ''Divine Direction,'' and it's a bit underwhelming. I was hoping for more, but it's okay.

 

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That seems like some dangerous reading, comrade

 

Know your enemy

 

I bought a Mesa Selimovic book on your advice but it turned out to be in French. It's nice to have it though.

 

The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking

 

Oh no.
Now it will be unread :-/

It's a great book though, I don't know how many times I've read it so far.

 

. . : the “New Posts” silly

 

If I devoted the next twenty years to learning French I could probably make some sense of it, but I'm getting on in years and I haven't got time for that. I'd much rather learn a bit of Russian for my personal edification. An even more impossible task, but it would be endlessly fascinating.

 

It's useless.
If you do want to read it, read it in English.
If you're anything like me...while reading in a foreign language, you'd just focus on grammar, vocabulary and structure. And not on the book itself.
And that book is too good for that.

 

Do you enjoy reading biographical short stories.?

 

I usually go with dutch translations, even with english authors. I did read the LotR in english though! One of the few non dutch books i read in its original language.

 

I'm sure you made the right choice there

Did you read The Silmarillion in English too? The language there is a kind of 'high' English I'd say. Almost poetic. Fitted perfectly to the themes in the story.

 

No, reading the Silmarillion in dutch was enough :-D

 

I bought this over a year ago and am just now getting around to reading it. I'm enjoying it very much

 

Released around Y2K, so there is some dated info but it has some good info on hardware and computer history. Checked out from library.