Inspired somewhat by Tom's post, here's one I'm toying with for next year
Larry Send a noteboard - 15/12/2010 04:46:05 AM
Reading a prose work, a play, and an epic-length poem or poetry collection in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, and either Latin or German. Some of those by necessity would be re-reads; some of which I've been meaning to do for a while.
For example, I could read Petronius or Cicero, Terence, and maybe Juvenal, Ovid, or Vergil for the Latin, re-read/review something by Gabo or Vargas Llosa, Calderón de la Barca or Vega, and Darío or El Cid for the Spanish, then Camus, Moliere, and Chrétien de Troyes for French, Eco, Buzzati, or Calvino, Benelli, and either Ariosto or Boiardo for the Italian and then Pessoa, Saramago, and Camões for Portuguese.
Hrmm...that might actually be worthy of a challenge, as it would force me to insure that my fluency improves in each of those languages, even if I've read roughly half of the authors named in their native tongues.
For example, I could read Petronius or Cicero, Terence, and maybe Juvenal, Ovid, or Vergil for the Latin, re-read/review something by Gabo or Vargas Llosa, Calderón de la Barca or Vega, and Darío or El Cid for the Spanish, then Camus, Moliere, and Chrétien de Troyes for French, Eco, Buzzati, or Calvino, Benelli, and either Ariosto or Boiardo for the Italian and then Pessoa, Saramago, and Camões for Portuguese.
Hrmm...that might actually be worthy of a challenge, as it would force me to insure that my fluency improves in each of those languages, even if I've read roughly half of the authors named in their native tongues.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
2011: a year of RAFO challenges.
- 13/12/2010 10:45:30 PM
2675 Views
What do we win? *NM*
- 13/12/2010 10:59:45 PM
969 Views
I like.
- 14/12/2010 01:08:36 AM
1531 Views
I refuse to watch film versions of books if I can help it
- 14/12/2010 01:20:21 AM
1480 Views
I generally agree, but sometimes the movies are better than the books. *NM*
- 14/12/2010 01:27:44 AM
897 Views
Name one. *NM*
- 14/12/2010 05:07:36 AM
843 Views
I'll name a dozen.
- 14/12/2010 10:32:04 AM
1563 Views
Not all of those are valid choices.
- 14/12/2010 03:32:55 PM
1568 Views
Also Big Fish.
- 14/12/2010 08:02:07 PM
1665 Views
Lots of poor movies there
- 14/12/2010 10:48:59 PM
1507 Views
Yeah, I don't know how any movie could be as bad as that book. *NM*
- 15/12/2010 08:06:20 AM
1032 Views
This is a really good idea. I like the challenges. I wonder if I can be arsed to do one. Or more. *NM*
- 14/12/2010 08:23:42 PM
1006 Views
Question: Can books count for multiple challenges? *NM*
- 14/12/2010 09:34:28 PM
951 Views
Preferably not. But we can be tolerant if you're running out of time.
- 14/12/2010 09:49:26 PM
1457 Views
- 14/12/2010 09:49:26 PM
1457 Views
But the challenge-books can count towards the 50 and the book you'd been meaning to read.
- 14/12/2010 10:17:12 PM
1494 Views
Re: But the challenge-books can count towards the 50 and the book you'd been meaning to read.
- 14/12/2010 10:22:06 PM
1517 Views
Inspired somewhat by Tom's post, here's one I'm toying with for next year
- 15/12/2010 04:46:05 AM
1566 Views
A condition and an observation
- 15/12/2010 11:27:29 AM
1537 Views
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian?
- 15/12/2010 01:08:04 PM
1674 Views
I liked The Road and No Country For Old Men as well.
- 22/12/2010 06:23:23 PM
1547 Views
Is The Road really a western, though? *NM*
- 22/12/2010 10:30:44 PM
911 Views
true. Not so much, I just always pigeonhole McCarthy as a westernish writer. *NM*
- 25/12/2010 02:20:54 AM
803 Views
Karl May?
- 15/12/2010 07:27:03 PM
1616 Views
- 15/12/2010 07:27:03 PM
1616 Views
Hm
- 15/12/2010 03:15:50 PM
1641 Views
I've read a western. I'm counting that!
- 30/12/2010 10:50:46 PM
1719 Views
Re: <will watch interestedly as you play>
- 16/12/2010 12:22:54 PM
1513 Views
Question:
- 17/12/2010 01:56:50 AM
1623 Views
Dirty half dozen and genre challenges for me
- 17/12/2010 12:14:00 PM
1533 Views
As always, I won't succeed at the 50 book challenge, but the others...
- 20/12/2010 07:05:30 AM
1486 Views
I think you missed a trick here.
- 30/12/2010 09:19:20 AM
1640 Views
More questions
- 16/01/2011 08:39:01 PM
1456 Views
Re: More questions
- 16/01/2011 08:48:09 PM
1501 Views




You'd think two things here that aren't true