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Just read Il Dottore Zhivago ( Doctor Zhivago, the anti-communism russian book earning itself a nobelprice for world literature but declined it because of pressure by the russian government at the time )... in dutch again 
and now reading The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe of york, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river Oroonouqe; having been cast on shore by shipwreck wherein all the men perished but himself with an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates in english 
, brave new world will be next on my list after the medieval story 'van den vos reinaerde' ( reinaart the fox, dunno if you all-over-the-worlders know it... ), aburame, ( btw, aburame as in: shino's last name? or am i remembering things wrong...)
Yep. Aburame is Shino's last name. XD - DZ
sidenote: Gotta love those old books titles!!
and now reading The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe of york, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river Oroonouqe; having been cast on shore by shipwreck wherein all the men perished but himself with an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates in english , brave new world will be next on my list after the medieval story 'van den vos reinaerde' ( reinaart the fox, dunno if you all-over-the-worlders know it... ), aburame, ( btw, aburame as in: shino's last name? or am i remembering things wrong...)Yep. Aburame is Shino's last name. XD - DZ
sidenote: Gotta love those old books titles!!
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), so i would like to point this thing out about bram stoker's dracula ( one of my favourites 
), there is this witchhunter by the name of Van Hellsing, of which even you not-dracula-readers have heard of, who, in the book, is dutch too, or at least, that's what stoker says him to be, but he in fact speaks german, like "Gott im Himmel!" and such phrases, when they need a foreign sentence once in a while, this is because stoker did not know the language, and thought dutch to be the same or similar to german, which is not the case, for the people that know the languages, this is very funny in the book 
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Those are two of the best series i've read, though i do not own the Ender's Game series myself 
