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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.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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2011: a year of RAFO challenges. - 13/12/2010 10:45:30 PM 2296 Views
What do we win? *NM* - 13/12/2010 10:59:45 PM 757 Views
Pride? A feeling of accomplishment? - 13/12/2010 11:01:55 PM 1073 Views
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I demand pie! - 22/12/2010 08:16:19 PM 1058 Views
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I like. - 14/12/2010 01:08:36 AM 1141 Views
I think it says "challenge" - 15/12/2010 02:04:34 AM 1139 Views
Competition with yourself, then. - 15/12/2010 03:52:13 AM 1188 Views
I refuse to watch film versions of books if I can help it - 14/12/2010 01:20:21 AM 1120 Views
I generally agree, but sometimes the movies are better than the books. *NM* - 14/12/2010 01:27:44 AM 667 Views
Most of my favorite books are unfilmable. *NM* - 14/12/2010 01:40:04 AM 643 Views
Just like Watchmen! *NM* - 14/12/2010 02:46:14 AM 632 Views
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I never watched that. - 19/12/2010 01:12:19 AM 1227 Views
You are a lucky lady. - 19/12/2010 03:53:30 AM 1268 Views
Name one. *NM* - 14/12/2010 05:07:36 AM 631 Views
Mansfield Park. - 14/12/2010 08:36:23 AM 1249 Views
I'll name a dozen. - 14/12/2010 10:32:04 AM 1198 Views
Not all of those are valid choices. - 14/12/2010 03:32:55 PM 1221 Views
Also Big Fish. - 14/12/2010 08:02:07 PM 1283 Views
I prefer the book version of that, by the way - 14/12/2010 10:45:54 PM 1196 Views
Weird. *NM* - 15/12/2010 05:47:21 AM 640 Views
Lots of poor movies there - 14/12/2010 10:48:59 PM 1144 Views
Yeah, I don't know how any movie could be as bad as that book. *NM* - 15/12/2010 08:06:20 AM 792 Views
Wonderboys *NM* - 14/12/2010 04:49:47 PM 655 Views
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Seems nice, I will try to do the half-dozen challange *NM* - 14/12/2010 07:32:20 PM 773 Views
Question: Can books count for multiple challenges? *NM* - 14/12/2010 09:34:28 PM 736 Views
Preferably not. But we can be tolerant if you're running out of time. - 14/12/2010 09:49:26 PM 1118 Views
So... - 15/12/2010 04:13:27 PM 1390 Views
A single book can count for many things... - 15/12/2010 04:17:59 PM 1248 Views
Oooh. This sounds great, count me in! - 15/12/2010 12:38:39 AM 1365 Views
A challenge I'm toying with for 2011: - 15/12/2010 04:00:36 AM 1217 Views
Inspired somewhat by Tom's post, here's one I'm toying with for next year - 15/12/2010 04:46:05 AM 1209 Views
I'm in. *NM* - 15/12/2010 05:20:04 AM 641 Views
Hmm, exciting - 15/12/2010 08:10:50 AM 1465 Views
A condition and an observation - 15/12/2010 11:27:29 AM 1181 Views
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian? - 15/12/2010 01:08:04 PM 1307 Views
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Is The Road really a western, though? *NM* - 22/12/2010 10:30:44 PM 696 Views
Karl May? - 15/12/2010 07:27:03 PM 1262 Views
I'm sorry, but I keep reading "Karl Marx?" *NM* - 18/12/2010 04:51:40 AM 557 Views
Yeah, they're rather different. *NM* - 18/12/2010 01:33:23 PM 633 Views
Hm - 15/12/2010 03:15:50 PM 1248 Views
I've read a western. I'm counting that! - 30/12/2010 10:50:46 PM 1335 Views
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I think you should try to do one challenge now issued by myself - 16/12/2010 01:07:18 PM 1160 Views
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I am so doing this! - 16/12/2010 09:55:19 PM 1108 Views
Question: - 17/12/2010 01:56:50 AM 1275 Views
I think we can accept that. - 17/12/2010 09:05:55 PM 1326 Views
Ok cool. Thanks *NM* - 17/12/2010 09:34:30 PM 609 Views
Dirty half dozen and genre challenges for me - 17/12/2010 12:14:00 PM 1153 Views
I think that would definitely qualify. - 17/12/2010 09:07:28 PM 1205 Views
Re: I think that would definitely qualify. - 20/12/2010 12:45:42 AM 1192 Views
As always, I won't succeed at the 50 book challenge, but the others... - 20/12/2010 07:05:30 AM 1103 Views
I'm going for the 120 book challenge. - 22/12/2010 06:18:25 PM 1184 Views
I think you missed a trick here. - 30/12/2010 09:19:20 AM 1236 Views
I think that one is always understood. *NM* - 30/12/2010 09:36:38 AM 740 Views
I don't think it is. - 30/12/2010 04:20:41 PM 1089 Views
Well. - 30/12/2010 04:55:00 PM 1204 Views
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Faulkner? - 16/01/2011 08:58:12 PM 1204 Views
Hmmm. Maybe. *NM* - 16/01/2011 09:11:25 PM 1312 Views
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I have read a Family Chronicle - 18/01/2011 03:03:48 AM 1363 Views
Nice try. *NM* - 18/01/2011 06:19:48 PM 573 Views
You disagree? - 19/01/2011 01:30:45 AM 1162 Views

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