learning german [books to read]

I noticed its REALLY easy to read German if you're first language is english. I can read and pronounce everything with little training, people tend to be in agreement on this.

So, that being said, I'm looking for a novel that helps teach an english reader german by telling a work of fiction. Maybe its 1/5 english and 4/5 german (english explains and defines the german). It would be a good learning tool because its active and you're involved and thinking. I don't even know if these kinds of books exist, it just seems like it would be the ultimate learning tool.

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This. Spelling isn't hard, but the grammar with the der, das and die, and den, denn and dass and so on and so on. My first language is Swedish, so it should be even simpler for me, but it's pure hell. But I'm pretty sure my German is fairly understandable. Besides, I have a minimum of three years to learn it further, unless my High school allows me to switch to Russian, which should be as hard for me to learn as German has been, since
i speak Bosnian which is a Slavic language. Sorry for going off topic here, OP.