Vocabulary books at Amazon

Reading books in a foreign language does always mean ignoring a lot of words you don't understand. I mean, of course, one would look up words that seem to be important, but reading isn't fun anymore if you have to look up every second word to get the content of the book.

Thanks God, Amazon provides remedies. They not only sell books, but for some of them there are even vocabulary books available. I, for example, read the book "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and bought also "Aschendorffs Vokabularien zu fremdsprachigen Taschenbüchern".

At first I was a bit disappointed, because there was only the German translation and there were also a lot of words I already knew. However, the book turned out to be really useful for many other words, expressions and abbreviations, like "ROTC", "shop talk"... It also explains slang expressions and gives information about phrases that refer to quotes or historical event. It's, at any rate, a good way to increase your passive vocabulary and it keeps you reading smoothly.