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I read Satori In Paris by Jack Kerouac few days ago. It was... very Kerouac, quite easy to read (mostly because it is a really short book) and had its funny moments (I laughed out loud few times). Lovely.

Just started Dexter in the Dark and I am really liking it. ^^

Start reading "Dracula" in english finally! (Penguin Red Classics rule!!!) And I have to say it is such a diffrenz to the german one I´ve read allready 3 times. The magic of it is so much bigger, and the feeling you get while you read. A masterpiece.

^Exactly why I read any book originally written in english, in english, not translated. It started for me when I was reading some of Laurell Hamilton's books, and the last Harry Potter book, I didn't feel like waiting till they'd been translated, so read them in english. SO much better. So now, I read all those books in english. Means, in general, that I read most books in english. Don't know why but somehow I seem to read mostly American and English writers. Maybe cause I read fantasy and sci-fi most of the time? That isn't written a lot by Dutch writers, those instead write the most horribly boring books about banal things, or books about people like, being cheated on, or getting cancer. Who'd want to read about that, I read for escapism, I don't want to read about things I have to deal with in daily life already.

Re-reading Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey, have Kushiel's Choice on stad-by for when I've finished, or then I'll read Robert Jordan's The Shadow Rising, since I finally managed to get my hands on it.

So true.

exactly!
i`m a escapist from belief

me niether. Though recently I discovered I love to read memories of people from WW II time. I mean, I always was somehow fascinated by this period, and now, well, books like that just make me think of what human beings are capable of during war time. More specifically, they make me wonder a lot about psychological mechanisms occuring in different situations during the war.

And about fantasy:

Really? I'm surprised, cause we get plenty fantasy writers here in Poland, some of them really good imho, so I thought every country has a lot of their own fantasy writers, that are just not very popular abroad.

I lovelovelove Sapkowski and his... I think the English version is The Witcher? (Wiedzmin, or something along those lines in Polish). I really need to read it again.

i'm currently reading "the antichrist" by friedrich nietzsche...mainly cause i needed some food for my brain again...and cause i love it of course...

Hehe, yeah, it's Wiedźmin in polish, Witcher in english. You know, Sapkowski's very popular, one of most popular polish fantasy authors here, and I never read anything by him But I'll have to finally, I heard he's very good, also from a guy who has taste very similar to me when it comes to books (and movies, and music).

^ Blasphemy! He is quite popular over here too, and even though I haven't read the new-ish trilogy (the Hussite trilogy) he wrote, Wiedźmin was one of the first fantasy stories I ever read - that, and Lord Of The Rings got me obsessed wih the genre of fantasy for a long time. The Czech translation I read was amazing. I think many people find his style boring, but not me. :3 I was surprised that by the time I read it the first time, there was no English translation (though Wiki says that it has been done/is being done).

Well, it's weird, we have some fantasy writers here, but not many. Most are children's books. I just looked and looked, but only found a handful of dutch writers of fantasy to be found. I have read basically one. Or two. Tonke Dragt and Thea Beckman, both children's books writers and not always writing fantasy.

Dutch sci-fi.. well I think that's almost non-existant.

The Jungle Book, Heidi, Polyanna and Oliver Twist are the books i have on the go at the moment.

I love to read the Twilight books, but I'm not obsessed with al the movie players and shit. The book is written so beautifully and I can't have enough of it.
I've also read the Millenium trilogy from the swedish write Stieg Larsson, good books! I already saw the movies too (:

^You like the Twilight books? I haven't read it, but have heard that they're crap books, but very addictive. People say they're easy reading, fluff, and not very well written, but that they're addicted none the less.