Morning everyone!
I've just managed to sign up and was wondering if you could possibly help me.
I'm to give an oral report on Lost in a Good Book in my Uni class in a few weeks, and I want to make it really special in order to get people to go and read the book. Any ideas? Funny ways of presenting the novel? Some smashing concept that even convinces German students that reading the sequel is a must? Every little helps and is appreciated!
Cheers
Barbie :-)

Hmm, puzzling. Give me a couple of hours to think about it.

And welcome to the fforum, too.



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Hmm, puzzling. Give me a couple of hours to think about it.

And welcome to the fforum, too.



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Hi all,
my first time here and just spent several hours reading these pages!

i've recently read books 1 & 2 in sucsession (is that spelt right? Ignore it...) one after the other after my eng tutor recommended them.
re your oral report - i got everyone i work with hooked by reading at my desk (it's okay, i'm a civil servant), and when ever questioned i replied "she's call Thursday Next, dag nabbit! now leave me alone!"

it worked, they all wet themselves at Jack Schitt and his half-brother... yeah i know that's pretty sad, but i told you what i do...

nggy (pronounced like 'ing' but there's no 'i'... and according to google, i'm a boxerobics teacher in california as well as a merchandising exec in asia... i probably earn loads...)

That has to be one of the better introductions of recent times...

Welcome to the fforum...



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Yes, welcome... You sound as though you should fit quite nicely ino our little band of lunatics. :-)

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I don't know what's it like at your university, but I've got the feeling that it is difficult enough to get students to read at all. Strangely enough a lot of the students at my university seem to be astonished that english studies have something to do with reading. Maybe you should tell them that the book has not so many pages and very large print? (I think a lie is ok as long as there are good intentions behind it) And don't tell them about the allusions to classical literature?
If I'm completely mistaken, please tell me where you study and I'll move.

Vio



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Hi Vio - where do you study? I'm at Mainz University (Germany). For some reason many of the students here think that everything you read at Uni must be some boring classic or other and they don't seem to be too keen on reading. Which is rather weird, for we're literature students, aren't we? Studying literature does somewhat imply reading...

I've put a topic in "Nextian Chat" to get my fellow students to have a look at the site and the fforum *g* It's their homework for class. *meangrin*
I think, I'll just introduce the page, explain the connection between literature and the net and so on and then give them a few bits to chew on so they have to read the next book...



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Hi!

I'm at Duisburg-University (Germany as well). We've got a class here, where students jaust have two read two fictional books and write a report on them, which are not classic (to make sure they don't use just some old course material or copy it out from the Kindler Literaturlexikon) and most of them are just looking for the shortest novels available. Too sad.

Your idea seems very good to me, people are more keen on reading as long it is on a screen and not in these old-fashioned paper-things...



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Hey Vio - bist du Deutsche? Or are you on an exchange program?
I reckon you get those pathetic, literature-lazy buggers everywhere. When I was still in our English Fachschaft (students council), we had freshers asking questions you would have loved to answer with "go study something else..."



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...third attempt to post, let's see if it works now. Ja, ich bin Deutsche, and I wouldn't have thought to meet other Germans here.
I just stumbled over the Eyre Affair by accident and thought, there wouldn't be that many German readers before the release of the translation next january. (Although I keep telling my friends that these books are a must, I have persuaded only a few by now. Maybe it's because of my slight aversion against lending books) Btw. being in the Fachschaft, I know this urge to tell those mostly-not-only-literature-lazy students just to quit.



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*totlach* Well, don't we all know that... I'm in my 8th semester now, so I've been around for a while to know what's what.

I guess I wouldn't even have come across the book by chance, it's all my tutor's fault *g* He's big into stuff like this, and if he says "you'll enjoy this" I better believe him. :-)

Our class is called "Jane Eyre and after" and we've read Jane Eyre (obviously), Wide Sargasso Sea and The Eyre Affair. Great mixture, great seminar, I must say! I'll take my oral exam for the Zwischenprüfung in this one, I'm really looking forward to that!!!



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I've been to Duisburg. I had a couple of friends there. Lost touch with then since then though...

My only German experience so far has been a 6 hour drinking binge in Munich while waiting for a train. And very enjoyable it was too.



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@Barbie: sounds like a great seminar, we've got too few of this sort here, we almost do nothing but canonised literature. Also sounds like a good topic for the Zwischenprüfung, especially if you've chosen the right examiners. I did mine on "Tristram Shandy" and as this was also one of the all-time favourites of my examiners, this exam was more a nice chat about how awesome this book is.


@psd: Munich is not in Germany, it is in Bavaria. Although this belongs technically to Germany, it really is like a foreign country, sometimes one doesn't even understand their language...,but I like it somehow.



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Don't tell people, Munich's not in Germany, they'll believe it!
Ok, Bavaria is a different country in a way, but they're not yet an independent republic... *g*

We've quite a few seminars on new authors/new literature, that's what I particularly like about our University.



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...well it's a Freistaat,...and I stated once i talk-show ( yeah, i was young and needed money) that Bavarians are a socially marginalised subculture or something like that...

We've got some "newer" stuff here (e.g. at the moment i have a class on In-yer-face-theatre), but I think unfortunately there wouldn't be room for something like TEA at my university. Would be glad if any of my teachers would prove me wrong.



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Well, they rarely do, I fear. But hey! someone has to take care of the "old stuff", I presume. *g* I've just checked the programme for next term, and I think I'll take a class on Harold Pinter. Not exactly old literature, either.



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