Need help with assignment

[Cufaol]

Hi everyone,

It's sure been a while since my last post on e-budo. It's nice to be back. Anyway, I have a fevor to ask of you guys:

I study journalism and I'm in my last bachelor year. For our English course, we have to send a native speaker of English an e-mail about a book we have read (any book will do btw). It's a rather silly assignment, but we have got to do it anyway if we want to pass the course. My question now is: Is there anyone who has read "The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" by D. Adams? And who is willing to mail about it ofcourse. I'm just supposed to ask some simple questions about your reading experience so it's no big deal really.

Anyway, thank you in advance. ;)

greetings,

Christophe

[Brian Owens]

Your English is so good (better than the average American's these days, it seems to me) that I didn't realize English wasn't your native language.

I read HGTTG many years ago. If no one who has read it more recently logs on to this thread in the next day or two, I'll try to help you.

[dirk.bruere]

I read it so long ago I've forgotten about it!
Listened to the original radio prog first time round as well.

Dirk

[Cufaol]

@Brian: Thank you for the compliment. :) (Though I have to admit that English is a mandatory course for almost every student in Belgium.)

@Dirk: Yeah I heard some fragments of the radio show too. very funny stuff.


Brian, I can also pick another (more recent) book too. It is just that I don't know what kind of books you guys read. Feel free to make any suggestions.

Cheers,

[dirk.bruere]

Brian, I can also pick another (more recent) book too. It is just that I don't know what kind of books you guys read. Feel free to make any suggestions.

Cheers,

Diaspora, by Greg Egan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)

Dirk

[Brian Owens]

@Brian: Thank you for the compliment. :) (Though I have to admit that English is a mandatory course for almost every student in Belgium.)

That's a good thing, because I can guarantee that your English is better than my French or Flemish!

...Brian, I can also pick another (more recent) book too. It is just that I don't know what kind of books you guys read. Feel free to make any suggestions.

HGTTG is fine; even though it's been a while, I can skim through it to refresh my memory and then carry on a reasonably intelligent conversation about it. Well...as intelligent as can be for me.

In the last two months I've read or re-read: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, an anti-slavery novel written before the U.S Civil War by Mark Twain, my favorite American writer; The Lord of the Rings (trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien; The Chronicles of Narnia (all seven books) by C.S. Lewis; Autumn Lightning by our own E-Budoka Dave Lowry; A World History of Photography by Naomi Rosenblum; and Journal of a Soul by Pope John XXIII.

One of my favorite books, although I haven't read it for a while, is A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle; a criticism of communism, disguised as a children's science-fiction/fantasy novel.

I'd be happy to discuss any of the above; including, of course, your original suggestion.

[Cufaol]

Mark Twain is one of the great american authors indeed, I really enjoyed reading his work. I've read a large part of the important work of each period, but the authors that I enjoyed most are E.A. Poe, E. Hemingway and my personal favorite T.S. Eliot. I don't now why, but the Wasteland left a great impression on me when we read in High School.

Anyway, I reread Tolkien too a couple of months ago, so I suggest we go for TLOFTR. If that's okay with you?

cheers,

[Brian Owens]

...Anyway, I reread Tolkien too a couple of months ago, so I suggest we go for TLOFTR. If that's okay with you?

Sounds good. I sent you an e-mail a few moments ago with my confidential e-mail address.

The time difference between us is pretty large, so there may be some delays as we sleep, etc., but we should be able to get some good exchanges before Tuesday.

(It's 6:30AM here, and I'm going to sleep now, but I'll check my e-mail in 8 hours or less.)

[Cufaol]

Hi Brian,

I already sent you an e-mail to say this, but I'd just like to let you know that I'm very glad the assignment thing worked out fine. Thanks to your help.
I owe you one. ;)

Cheers

[Brian Owens]

Glad I could help.

I think The Lord of the Rings was a good choice.

And guess what was on TV over here yesterday! It's a post-holiday weekend, and one netwrok played the whole LofTR trilogy back-to-back.

[Cufaol]

one netwrok played the whole LofTR trilogy back-to-back.
Yeah, I held a LofTR marathon too last year. During X-mas holiday. Almost 12 h of film really is to much for any sane person. All I could say at the end was "Gollem", "Gollem". :D

[Brian Owens]

Yeah, I held a LofTR marathon too last year. During X-mas holiday. Almost 12 h of film...

My precious!