- John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Schlagwort: Novel
- Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Terry Pratchett: Night Watch
- „The Other Hand“ (US: Little Bee) Chris Cleaves – Recht neu, aber genial für die Behandlung von:globalization, relationships, integration and exclusion, spannend, anregend für Diskussionen, OBERSUPER
- „Roots“ Alex Haley – So prima, dass ich nach Gambia gefahren bin um das Buch noch besser zu verstehen.
1. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
2. David Lodge, Nice Work
1. Jeffrey Archer: Prisoner of Birth – packender Krimi, der auch viele lustige Stellen hat, definitiv ein page-turner.
… is a web-based book suggestion engine. WhichBook doesn’t ask for a list of books you have already read. At WhichBook you use a series of sliders to indicate how much of a given element you want in your reading. Looking for funny happy sex? Peg the sliders for each to the maximum and see what WhichBook kicks out. Lists of books are generated and displayed on the right side of the screen for your browsing.
Eine schöne Site um z.B. Wortschatz für „Talking about Books“ zu üben. Wie soll das Buch sein? „expected“ oder „unpredictable“? „easy“ oder „demanding“? „optimistic“ oder „bleak“? Auch bei den Inhaltsangaben der empfohlenen Bücher gibt es nützlichen Wortschatz.
Alternativ zu einer Filmrezension konnte man im diesjährigen (bayerischen) gk Abitur auch eine Buchrezension schreiben. Hier ein Book Review Writing Tutorial und eine Datei mit vielen Beispielen von Rezensionen.
Crowdsourcing. The Wisdom of the crowds. Social networking. Collaborative enterprise. The buzz these days is all about the network, the small pieces loosely joined. About how the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. About how working together and joining the dots serves the greater good and benefits our collective endeavours. […]
… von David Lodge ist eine empfehlenswerte Ferienlektüre:
„A collection of articles which appeared in „The Independent on Sunday“ for 50 weeks between 1991 and 1992. The art of fiction is considered under a wide range of headings, such as the intrusive author, suspense, the epistolary novel, time-shift, magic realism and symbolism and each topic is illustrated by a passage or two taken from classic or modern fiction. Drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James and Martin Amis, Jane Austin and Fay Weldon, Henry Fielding and James Joyce, David Lodge makes accessible to the general reader the richness and variety of British and American fiction. Technical terms, such as interior monologue, metafiction, intertextuality and the unreliable narrator are explained and the application demonstrated.“ (Quelle)