Monthly Group Reads: JUNE 2012 (Group Read 2): Inquisition by Alfredo Colitto

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I tried to find a You Tube video of an English speaking interview about the book with Colitto, but they were all in Italian. I would have liked to add on to the groups videos to coincide with the group read.

Nice find, Marty.
A friend of mine found two cheap copies...through Amazon i think??.....she got one sent last week and she said it smelled so bad she wouldn't touch it to read it. Got a refund from the supplier, threw the stinky book in the bin and ordered the other used copy. :-) So although the first book fell through, she is soldiering on with another used purchase and hoping to get it in time to read it with us.

[Tasha]

And yes, that would be me... ;) I have ordered another copy and waiting anxiously for it to get here!

[Tasha]

Yep, both copies were through amazon and both under $5.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I believe the book in question smelled like faeces...:)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I have put this book up on the main page as currently reading even though we haven't started yet.
I'll post this message in The Emperor's Spy Group Read Thread also.

[Tasha]

Terri wrote: "I believe the book in question smelled like faeces...:)"

Pretty much. :(

[Tasha]

I have never thrown away a book (unless of course it was already beyond repair) so this was a weird first.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I have thrown away a book. I dread to tell you all what it was for fear of being stoned. :-)

[Tasha]

You can't leave us hanging like that...fess up!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

It was the first Harry Potter book. :/ I have zero interest in Harry Potter books (not that I have a criticism of them, it's just that I don't read kids books). I bought it last year used as I was being cajoled by a few into reading it. In the end I couldn't do it. Had no use for it in my personal library, live rural so it's not easy to give to charity and they go too cheap on ebay for me to resell. So I chucked it in the bin. :-)

[Tasha]

Aaahh!! That's just crazy! ;)

I read and loved that series...as you know.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Yes I know. That's why I didn't want to say. Because of the one eyed crazy HP fans that will come get me. :-)

[Tasha]

I'm not that crazy. ;)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Crazy enough to watch my back and listen for the sudden swooshing approach of fast flying stones. :D

[Tasha]

HAHAHA! Silly girl...

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Tee hee :D

[Marty]

P.S. folks - Half Price Books has Inquisition in some of its stores and online. www.hpb.com.

(Okay, I'll go away now and stop being annoyingly helpful. Hee hee.)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

hahaha! You're not being annoying helpful. Lol :-) Only helpful (you know I SO wanted to tease and say 'only annoying' but I resisted.......I have no idea why)

[Dawn]

Tasha wrote: "Aaahh!! That's just crazy! ;)

I read and loved that series...as you know."

I'm still in love with the first book and movie but the interest fell off and I haven't read the last book or watched the last 4 movies.

Somehow it doesn't surprise me that Terri doesn't like Harry Potter. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Dawn wrote: "Somehow it doesn't surprise me that Terri doesn't like Harry Potter. :) .."

lol. No, it isn't that I don't like HP, it is that I have about as much interest in the HP books as I do in the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

I didn't mind the movies, although I lost interest after the first 3.

[Anne]

I read them. I liked some of the books, others not so good. Would have been happier if she left Dumbledore alone. There are a lot of really young kids who read the books.

[Tasha]

I loved all the books, up through the last one. Even though it was written for a younger audience, I found the books great reads. I'm actually looking forward to her new release this fall.

[Dawn]

Crazy, I was 18 when I read the first HP. What self respecting 18 year old reads a kids book??

Still love them though.

And Terri....that's what I meant....that you wouldn't be interested. Not that you'd read and hated them or anything....

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

How about that Inquistion! I hear its a real heartbreaker. :D

P.S The kind of age group that I think of when I think HP is the same age group, in this day and age, as all those screaming girls outside Justin Beiber concerts. In fact that is my memory of HP books. Little girls on the nightly news outside bookstores waving their wands and screaming at the tv cameras.

[Simona]

I think you are right. HP started as a cute book for kids and ended as a very gothic series for teenagers Same target as Twilight, and THAT's a book I'd gladly burn - if I had it, which I don't.

I usually prefer to give away books, to friends or to the library, but I'll confess here, girls, that some last-moment-books-before-catching-a-train had the same end.

[Dawn]

Hmmm, book burning...........well this is the Medieval group......I think it fits. We've just changed why we burn them. I do love a good fire. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Simona wrote: "I think you are right. HP started as a cute book for kids and ended as a very gothic series for teenagers Same target as Twilight, and THAT's a book I'd gladly burn - if I had it, which I don't.

I..."

Twilight..hmm...whatever happen to that? ;) That is one craze I am glad to see the back end of.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Dawn wrote: "Hmmm, book burning...........well this is the Medieval group......I think it fits. We've just changed why we burn them. I do love a good fire. :)"

Yes, chums, let's have ourselves a Twilight bonfire. I'll bring the mead and whole suckling roasting pig, someone else needs to bring the Medieval Band.

[Tasha]

I was in my 40s when I read HP.

[Dawn]

So we all meet in Hawaii for a bonfire, I'm pretty sure we can get the pig but we may have to settle for an Island Band...... :)

[Tasha]

Sorry, I can't get into a book burning. although Twilight is not my style, I appreciate that it might be for others.

[Dawn]

Tasha wrote: "Sorry, I can't get into a book burning. although Twilight is not my style, I appreciate that it might be for others."

For alot of others it seems........and I'm all for any book that gets people reading but sometimes I despair of what's popular. :)

[Anne]

I agree with Tasha and Dawn. "Twilight" has no interest for me, but if we really would burn books then we will be no better than the Nazi's.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

It's alright people. We aren't really meeting for a book burning.

Island Band may suffice, Dawn. Not quite the ambiance we're going for, but we may have to make do. :-)

[Dawn]

We'll have to make do with outdated magazines for our book burning too....... lol

Not quite what we started planning but it may still work. :D At least we can still get the pig.......

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

...hmm..well I only get digital magazines now, so I'd have to throw my tablet into the fire. I think we'd better call it off.

[Dawn]

Ahhhhhh, and Hawaii sounded so nice.... :)

Good thing the group read is gonna start soon, we need to get back on subject here...

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Too true....

I got the book from the library yesterday. Thought it was going to be a BIG book. But it is fairly normal size.

I didn't flick through and read any snippets as the start date is so close I thought I'd wait. I usually like to flick through a bit, to see what the writing is like, is it quality, is it not, just to prepare myself.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I get to start early too because we hit the 1st before the US.
Although, there are no date police. Members can start now if you wish. Lol

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I don't know if anyone else noticed this. The Inquisition with the English translation bookcover (the one pictured in the topic heading) was only described in English for the ebook version.

The paperback was seperate to the ebook and had a book description in Italian.

Using my GR librarian powers ;) I have merged the ebook with the paperbacks, so you can select your edition from all the editions now, and I have changed the Italian description on the English edition of the Inquistion paperback from Italian to English.

If you hadn't noticed the ebook/paperback discrepancy then don't try and understand what I am saying. Just know it is fixed. :-)

[Simona]

If you'd like, I'd happily translate from Italian for you - provided that you'd like a translation apparently made by a three years old...

[Dawn]

Simona wrote: "If you'd like, I'd happily translate from Italian for you - provided that you'd like a translation apparently made by a three years old..."

:D

Hey at least you can. I'm still a one language person, much to my embarrassment when I go traveling and expect everyone else to speak english.

[Dawn]

Terri wrote: "I don't know if anyone else noticed this. The Inquisition with the English translation bookcover (the one pictured in the topic heading) was only described in English for the ebook version.

The p..."

I'm glad you did, I kept thinking I should look into it and see if I should fix it. Now it's done......

[Anne]

Dawn wrote: "Simona wrote: "If you'd like, I'd happily translate from Italian for you - provided that you'd like a translation apparently made by a three years old..."

:D

Hey at least you can. I'm still a one..."

I know how you feel, Dawn. I will always regret that I did not pursue language study more diligently. I got to a point in French in high school where I could carry on a halfway decent conversation with my teacher, a wonderful German lady, but the next year we had a new one and she was terrible. Unfortunately for me.
It is a shame that Rosetta Stone was not around back in the 50's and 60's.

[Dawn]

I keep attempting to learn German. I got CD's to listen to during the commute to work but I keep switching to audiobooks or the radio. I really need a class but German classes aren't to be found here.

[Tasha]

My first languages were Russian and Ukrainian but i have since stopped speaking them, sadly. Although I can generally understand the languages still, thankfully. I had French in high school and advanced through into college and could understand and speak fairly well. I had a great teacher in college and she loved that i spoke russian so i earned some brownie points. ;) Now, however, I remember almost next to nothing of the French language. I loved it though.

[Anne]

Dawn wrote: "I keep attempting to learn German. I got CD's to listen to during the commute to work but I keep switching to audiobooks or the radio. I really need a class but German classes aren't to be found here."

I guess you will get a kick out of this fact, I am translating a German book with the help of Bing Translator. it is only for my own reading, but it is a lot of work. 444 pages and a highly educated author making it very hard, but rewarding too. No, the book has never been translated to English.

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I read French fairly well, speak it moderately. I took a year of Spanish in elementary school. Interestingly enough, I was at an antique fair and saw a photograph of a gentleman in uniform with Spanish text under it. The seller didn't know anything about the photo.

I looked at it and, using my French, was able to do a rough translation: who the man was, what he had done, what social rank he had held, and where his home was.

Interesting... I guess we have the Romans to thank.

[Simona]

Good for you, Anne! I haven't had time to study German, yet, but I know some basics because I live very close to Switzerland, where it's one of the official languages. It's very difficult!

I have the "advantage" of a mother tongue that no one takes the pain to learn - so it's a logical choice to learn a couple of languages, for business and traveling.
In my line of work I see many French customers, so I learned that one when I started to work. Years ago I spoke French quite well, but languages get lost easily if you don't use them.
Recently, Linda suggested me the books of Andrea Japp and I'm sweating on them. It's pretty good historical fiction, but the language of this author is quite sophisticated - I mean difficult, I guess.
This evening I'll start "Cuore di Ferro", the library provided me the Italian copy so I'll take a break from Middle Age French.

[Anne]

My birth mother was half French Swiss and half Italian-LOL
I remember years ago when I remembered a bit of my HS French, I was able to help a Haitian man get his check cashed by explaining rather awkwardly what the cashier needed from him.