Have you ever read a book...

Hi Lana,

yes I read books in English... don't look up all the new words but just the vital ones to grasp the meaning.

I tried to read several English books but finally gave them up. one of them was Hilary Clinton's autobiography Living History, but it turned out to be so boring. And another one was Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, I couldn't understand the language (American slangs) well, it's quite different from what we've learnt in school

Hi everyone, I started to read books in English some weeks ago and the first one was really hard because I had to look up almost every second word in the dictionary. I think I choose the wrong book for the beginning, it was a novel from Jack London, so the language was pretty old-fashioned and sophisticated. Then I tried Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code and that one I could understand much, much better. The language is much more contemporary and not so complicated as in most of the classics. Thrillers are great for me, too, right now I'm reading "The Bourne Identity" and that one is easy to read as well, I'm really enjoying it. I think the most important thing is that we pick up a book that we are interested in, otherwise it gets boring very quickly.

Almost every book I read these days is in English. I am a fast reader, so when reading a german book I am too fast done with it.
An english one takes more time to read. And they are usually cheaper.

I rarely have to look up a word now for better understanding, in most cases I get its meaning by the context.
By now there was only one book I gave up reading, it was Melvilles "Moby ***".