[Shaos]

I can`t live without reading. I do appreciate reading, it is a great pleasure for me, more valuable than movies. Written words cause that many images, dreams, thoughts, ideas. I lose all sense of time?
I tried to read in French and in English many times. But it was boring; I felt that it was just a kind of assignment. Something for studying, not for life. It was a deal with myself: well, we have 10 pages in English / French and then we will enjoy our book in Russian

At last! Yesterday I bought MY FIRST ENGLISH BOOK.
It is the 'Winnie-the-Pooh', 4 books in a pretty box. I`m amazed how finely and skillfully Russian animated cartoon has been made. It seems that Leonov's voice could say something like 'You didn`t exactly miss but you missed the balloon.' And I found an absolute truth: Some have brains, some have not (I suspected that!).
Actually I`m going to spend this night with my First English Book.

And what was your First English Book?

[Helena Bonham Carter]

It`s difficult to name my first English book `cause I started reading several books and unfortunately didn`t finish a single one. My first books were �The Happy Prince� by Oscar Wilde, �Pride and Prejudice� by Jane Austen, �The Client� by John Grisham and several more which I even can`t remember. And now I`m reading �The Economic Naturalist� by Robert H Frank. I think that this is going to be my first book that I`m really looking forward to finish. As I already said that I never got to finale with English books.

This book explains economics in a completely different way. You will get to know what cost benefit principle is and you will get an answer from explanation of such questions as �Why do women`s clothes always button from the left, while men`s clothes always button from the right?�, �Why do milk sold in rectangular containers, while soft drinks are sold in cylindrical ones?�, �Why do brown eggs cost more than white ones?�, �Why is there a light in your fridge but not in your freezer?�, �Why do 24-hour shops bother having locks on their doors?� The answer is simple: economics.

�Economics doesn`t just happen in classrooms or international banks. It is everywhere and influence everything we do and see, from the cinema screen to the streets. It can even explain some of life`s most intriguing enigmas.�

�For years, economist Robert Frank has been encouraging his students to use economics to explain the strange situations they encounter in everyday life, from peculiar product design to the vagaries of sex appeal. Now he shares the most intriguing � and bizarre � questions and the economic principles that answer them to reveal why many of the most puzzling parts of everyday life actually make perfect (economic) sense.� And author�s students helped him write this fantastic book with their essays. �Learning economics is like learning to speak a new language. It`s important to start slowly and see each idea in multiple contexts.�

Totally recommended to those who want to understand economics as a whole. You will spend a full of fun and useful time during reading.

[Fox]

My first English book was �Three Men in a Boat�. I enjoyed it very much. I remember how I laughed out loud in places. Then there were other books as well � the stories about Sherlock Holmes and some of Conan Doyle�s novels; �White Fang� and �Martin Eden�; �Alice in Wonderland�, �Jane Eyre�. And, after watching the unforgettable Lithuanian movie �Rich Man, Poor Man� (I always get shivers up my spine when I listen to �America The Beautiful� which is played during the end titles) it was impossible not to read the book.

I think it�s important to start reading books in English with the one you are really interested in. In that case it won�t be �something for studying, not for life�, as Shaos reasonably pointed out.

Now, unfortunately, I have no time to read at all , but soon I�ll have a vacation and I think of reading something of Sir Walter Scott whose books I read before in Russian only.

[Shaos]

Fox, enjoy your vacation!

[azs]

Shaos, on 11 June 2010 - 10:43 PM, said:

I can`t live without reading. I do appreciate reading, it is a great pleasure for me, more valuable than movies. Written words cause that many images, dreams, thoughts, ideas. I lose all sense of time?
I tried to read in French and in English many times. But it was boring; I felt that it was just a kind of assignment. Something for studying, not for life. It was a deal with myself: well, we have 10 pages in English / French and then we will enjoy our book in Russian  

At last! Yesterday I bought MY FIRST ENGLISH BOOK.
It is the 'Winnie-the-Pooh', 4 books in a pretty box. I`m amazed how finely and skillfully Russian animated cartoon has been done. It seems that Leonov's voice could say something like 'You didn`t exactly miss but you missed the balloon.' And I found an absolute truth: Some have brains, some have not (I suspected that!).  
Actually I`m going to spend this night with my First English Book.    

And what was your First English Book?

Hello,dear! As for my first English book! Of course it was "The ABC"  with a lot of pictures and words. I was 7 years old then. It was my favorite book. But not long ago I have got a present from my student. It was the book "The adventures of Tom Sawyer" by M.Twain. She has bought it in the USA. And now I am reading it with great pleasure!

[Dizel]

azs, on 11 December 2010 - 11:20 PM, said:

Hello,dear! As for my first English book! Of course it was "The ABC" with a lot of pictures and words. I was 7 years old then. It was my favorite book. But not long ago I have got a present from my student. It was the book "The adventures of Tom Sawyer" by M.Twain. She has bought it in the USA. And now I am reading it with great pleasure!

Hello, Azs! My first book was "The ABC" too. But I was 9 years old then. In the near future I want to read the book in English. Advise something please.

[Elena]

Hi,everybody! My first english book was "Bridget Jones.The edge of the reason". It's needed to read - there is a bit of Bridget in every girl:))

The underlined bit is a tad Ruslish