What Book Are You Currently Reading?

[Loki]

You're so predicable wannabe Englishman, reptilian really. That book is more confirmation bias BS by a pro-Brexit nitwit and more "Muh England was great" for your pooh tooth English self-esteem project. You are only as good as what you are now and England is going to shit due to uneducated myopic dunces like yourself. You're too dumb and prideful to learn.

Your relishing in past glory is so pathetic. You are probably too much of an intellectual coward to read a book that challenges your thoughts and too much of a coward to respond to me directly. Keep hiding behind mommy Grace's apron.

Totally uncalled for outburst in this peaceful thread. You can be glad I didn't ban you. Next time I will.

[Rafael Passoni]

[Andullero]

[bc76]

This one

[Your Old Comrade]

Oorlog en vrede - Lev Tolstoj.

[David_Ball]

So what book are you currently reading?

I'm reading Hrafnkel's Saga & Other Stories right now.

Reading takes a lot of time. If you are a student and you want to find information on how to do this quite easily, then use samplius

Now I`m reading wicher. That`s great book

[Incal]

Pretty didactic:

[lei.talk]

What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?

The barbarians are due here today.

Why isn’t anything going on in the senate?
Why are the senators sitting there without legislating?

Because the barbarians are coming today.
What’s the point of senators making laws now?
Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating.

Why did our emperor get up so early,
and why is he sitting enthroned at the city’s main gate,
in state, wearing the crown?

Because the barbarians are coming today
and the emperor’s waiting to receive their leader.
He’s even got a scroll to give him,
loaded with titles, with imposing names.

Why have our two consuls and praetors come out today
wearing their embroidered, their scarlet togas?
Why have they put on bracelets with so many amethysts,
rings sparkling with magnificent emeralds?
Why are they carrying elegant canes
beautifully worked in silver and gold?

Because the barbarians are coming today
and things like that dazzle the barbarians.

Why don’t our distinguished orators turn up as usual
to make their speeches, say what they have to say?

Because the barbarians are coming today
and they’re bored by rhetoric and public speaking.

Why this sudden bewilderment, this confusion?
(How serious people’s faces have become.)
Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,
everyone going home lost in thought?

Because night has fallen and the barbarians haven't come.
And some of our men just in from the border say
there are no barbarians any longer.

Now what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?
Those people were a kind of solution.

[rothaer]

An Asterix comic "De Spökenkieker" in Low German. After a 12 yo son of mine announced wanting to learn Low German I pulled that comic out from my shelf, showed him and he is excited to start reading that tomorrow.



There are actually a number of Asterix editions in various German dialects. The spelling is essentially arbitrary and just supportive of how it sounds. The High German dialects have never been written and the Low German dialects have been written from time to time but are also not uniform in their spellings. There has never been an agreement on any spelling.

[Victor]

"Days", "1920" and "Years" by Vassily Shulgin.