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I was a voracious reader as a youngster, sometimes borrowing as many as a dozen books a week from the local public library. Most of my selections were non-fiction. Most of the fiction that I did read was science fiction, I am afraid, which at least helped improve my English (there were few SF books available in Swedish), but of course I also read all the Swedish classics in the course of my school work: Lucidor, Stiernhielm, Bellman, Kellgren, Geijer, Tegnér, Runeberg, Fröding, Snoilsky, Karlfeldt, Lagerlöf, Strindberg, and many others. Strangely enough we did not read much foreign literature in school; in German just Goethe's Faust, in French nothing I can remember except some short pieces by Daudet and Maupassant, although of course we had all read Dumas and Verne in translation. In English, there were some Shakespeare excerpts and some short stories. I read many classics such as "1984", "Brave New World", Pearl Buck, Hemingway, Steinbeck, and in translation Dostoyevsky, and post-war German writers, but not as part of the school curriculum. - Later in life, I read fewer books, preferring news and science magazines and trade journals (and more recently: on-line articles). Below is a list of some books that I would like
to comment upon and/or bring to the attention of my visitors. The
list is in no particular order. It may expand or contract depending
on my whims :-)
One can often find interesting reader comments to these and other books by looking them up at www.amazon.com. |
