Greetings!

At the suggetion of CoffeeCup, I decided to spin-off the books from the Movie/Films & TV thread and this way we now have one thread for discussions about Music (and of course there is Lampada's fabulous music thread ), one for Film/TV, and now one for Literature/Books!

As with the other threads that I have started, even though I only speak English, please feel free to post about literature in any language. And as always, if you post in English, I will do my best to correct any mistakes that I may notice.

On the old thread, we have brought up the following literature/books:
  • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • The Twelve Chairs by Ilf & Petrov's[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • The Night Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (a great review was written for this one) [/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • The Reader by Bernhard Schlink[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe [/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe [/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (a play)[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (a play)[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • P.S., I love you by Ahern Cecelia[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith[/*:m:13s02t2z]

AND...
If I understood Basil correctly, the following books all relate to a discussion about the movie Seventeen Moments of Spring and the intricacies of the plot and spies during that era and are all by Yulian Semenov:
  • "Бриллианты для диктатуры пролетариата / Diamonds for the dictatorship of the proletariat" [/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • "Пароль не нужен / Password is not needed"[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • Испанский вариант / Spanish version" [/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • "Альтернатива / Alternative" [/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • "Третья карта / The third card"[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • "Майор Вихрь / Mayor Vikhr' (Vortex). "[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • "Семнадцать мгновений весны /Seventeen Moments of Spring" by Yulian Semyonov[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • "Приказано выжить / Ordered to survive "[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • "Бомба для преседателя / Bomb for a chairman"[/*:m:13s02t2z]


So, what book, play, poetry ...
  • ...are you reading?[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • ...have your recently read?[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • ...are you contemplating reading?[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • ...author do you just love?[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • ...do you want to recommend or tell us you really did not like?[/*:m:13s02t2z]
  • ...are you reading but are having difficulties with? (maybe it's in not written in your native language or like me it has references to places or uses some non-native words, and you want to know more details or if the book is accurate) [/*:m:13s02t2z]