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Imantaghavi Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Reading Book

Hi there,

I'm looking for an advance reading book which is available in most of the bookstores around the glob.

Any help is highly appreciated,

Regards

Iman
  

Top answer

Are you speaking of a book (novel, etc) to read? Or are you looking for a textbook on reading?

  • Are you speaking of a book (novel, etc) to read?
  • Or are you looking for a textbook on reading?
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Are you speaking of a book (novel, etc) to read? Or are you looking for a textbook on reading?
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Hi Mistre Micawber,

Textbook on reading.

Iman
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To be honest, Iman, I don't think that they make 'advanced reading' texts. By the time the students are at that level, they should just be reading novels and other books themselves.
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Hi Mister Micawber.

What about chicken soup for the soul series or for and against book.

Have you heard about these books? How are they?

Thanks
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The first book I have heard of. It's a kind of 'self-help' book; the other I do not know. I'm afraid that I myself now stick to the classics mostly, and re-read the books I love rather than exploring new authors.

The main point is to choose a book that interests you. All else is secondary.
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Thank you Mister Micawber for your response.

Would you tell us some of your favorite books?

In addition, you have written the first book I have heard of instead of I have heard of the first book. Is this inversion common in informal writting or it is also common in formal writting?

This kind of sentence sounds incomplete to me, I expect another sentence to
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Thank you Mistre Micawber for your concern.

Regards,

Iman
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In addition, you have written the first book I have heard of instead of I have heard of the first book. Is this inversion common in informal writting or it is also common in formal writting?-- It's common with me in both, yes.

This kind of sentence sounds incomplete to me, I expect another sentence to follow when I hear 'the fist book I have heard of'. Somet
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Thank you Mister Micawber for your explanation.

Is it possible to tell us some of your favorite books?

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Yes, but they are not for the faint-hearted. I am an admirer of style or technique more than content.

The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust

Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban

True Grit, Charles Portis

Finnegans Wake, James Joyce

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

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