One third of a book

I finished the first part of Agatha Christie's Autobiography [the book has three parts which are split by two sets of photographies] yesterday.
Yes, I really know it isn't important for the World, but I'm really proud of it. I have read it for five months - so long time, because I didn't keep my own obligation: to read at least one page every day.
Now I have to read next 358 pages to finish the book cempletely and I should get to do it because:
1) I've got The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes as gift from my classmate Vendy
2) Vendy have brouht me two Boris Akunin books from London
I must say that I have these Akunin's books in English not to be pride oneself. Unfortunatelly Boris Akunin is not as known writer as I would like he would be in Czech republic hence I guess the Pelegia series will probably not appearance in Czech at all.
Though Albatros publishing [publisher of Akunin's Erast Fandorin series] finished the Harry Potter series finally they could start to publish the other books too.

Books and the Русские фильмы

1) I finally finished the terrible book yesterday. The book is terrible because:
a) the translator has translated all the person's first names. He has written Czech Julián, not French Julien and so on. I don't like it. The book is French, the protgonists are French hence their names should be French too,
b) the story is OK but the book is too wordy. And the wordy books are hardly readable,
c) the protagonist Julien is silly but also single-minded, politic and he has an inferiority complex. This is a terrible combination.

2) Karel found a Russian shop in Brno yesterday. There are Russian vodka, candies, books, music and movies on DVD - with region code 2 in the shop. He bought a whole series of Nu pogodi! for my mother because she likes this popular Soviet animated series a lot.
I bought one DVD with these Russian movies:

The Sovereign's Servant [IMDB] [trailer] [web]
The Rider Named Death [IMDB]
The Barber of Siberia [IMDB] [trailer] [web]
Pushkin: The Last Duel [IMDB] [trailer]
The Fall of the Empire [IMDB] [trailer]
The State Counsellor [IMDB] [trailer] [web]
Turkish Gambit [IMDB] [trailer] [web]

and:
Azazel [IMDB] [trailer]!

Because there are 8 movies in one [even double sided] DVD, the movies have low quality and they are without dubbing and titles. Nevermind. The important thing is I don't have to try to find a solution with my Russian DVD Azazel with region code 5.

PS: The main reason why the long picture collection is here is that I like to make pictures collection.

Wiki

After more than a year I've started to cotribute to Czech Wikipeida again.
I can't suffer an egregious absence of information about Boris Akunin on Czech Wikipedia anymore. Because the Akunin theme is well-written on English Wikipedia I've decided to tranlslate it to Czech and also to take it as the other kind of my English learning.
My first article is about Nicholas Fandorin [the grandson of more known Erast Petrovich Fandorin] and I hope it is not the last one.

Boris Akunin again

I have the "Boris Akunin evening" again:

No news from Albatros publishing house. The promised State counsellor probably will not appear and I almost lost my trust in publication of next Akunin's books in Czech.
A lot of Akunin's books are online in Russian, but I know Russian lesser than English. Because English fulltexts are not available, I'm thinking about buying Akunin's books in English. Some of them could even be bought in Czech Republic.

I had writen about Статский советник movie and its website already and now I found the webpage of Турецкий гамбит movie.

The very pleasant report: The Azazel [also known as the Winter Queen] was discovered by Hollywood. Paul Verhoeven [RoboCop, Basic Instinct] directed movie Azazel is announced for the year 2009. The film premiere should be this year, but the shooting was postponed for Mila Jovovich pregnancy.
I'm very curious if Sharon Stone will impersonate tremendous boarding schools foundress.