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Yes, another book thread - but this time one in which I hope that all fellow bookworms will tell us all what they are reading at the present time. This of course, can be added to as time goes by.

  To start things off, I'll offer:

  Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

                      and

Dude, Where's My Country? - Michael Moore.    

Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Obsidian Trilogy - Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory.

I just got jPod for my b-day, and Ill Be Your Mirror (andy warhol interviews)...i usually have about 10 books going at once.

I'm usually on about three at once.  

I stick with one at a time, as I hate to put a book down in the middle of a story.

I used to be as disciplined, but now my mind seems to be all over the place. Most of my reading gets done in bed - with a large dictionary/thesaurus close at hand.

I can usually infer the meanings from the surrounding words, but when I can't I seize the opportunity to stretch my legs and go over to the bookcase for my thesaurus.  One thing I could never do is read in bed.  I never can find a comfortable position without the cat jumping up and sitting on my book.  Unfortunately, he's not transparent.

Oh. I thought EVERYONE read in bed!

I use the dictionary etc. more to find out the derivations of words than to discover their meanings. In your next life, have a transparent cat!

I only read in bed when I'm hospitalized and have no option.  I think in my next life I'll BE a transparent cat.  The perfect home companion.

People will clean you - they'll think you're a window.

No, just a "pane"!

I'm jealous. I have no time to read books even though I'm a bookworm at heart. *sigh*

  Can't wait till the kids are a bit grown-up so I can catch up on the books you guys are recommending.

I've got an ever growing list that I need to get too:

Frankenstien

Young Trudeau

1984

Communist Manifesto

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?  

I think I read Frankenstein by Mary Shelly when I was in highschool.... oh so long ago.

  Best novel from highschool has got to be To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Love that book.

But my favourites so far have been Animal Farm and All Quiet on the Western Front.

 My stack of reading by my bedside is getting embarassingly large (because all I end up reading is websites and magazines). But I reall want to read:
Botany of Desire - Micheal Pollan (like a total stoner I read the section on teh herb first)
The Pinball Effect - James Burke
Driving Over Lemons - Chris Stewart
Salt A World History - Mark Kurlansky
I'm on a bit of a non-fiction kick right now.
   

the complete works of Sherlock Holmes vol 1 and 2 nearly done reading vol 2 finished vol 1 a week ago  written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  

Sportsdude wrote:
 Love that book.

If you're referring to To Kill A Mockingbird, then so do I - I seem to find more and more in it every time I read it. It's a masterpiece.

In the last two weeks:

  The Chamber- John Grisham 6 out of 10.  Lots of dry court stuff.

Dead by Sunset - Anne Rule -- Not bad.  6.5 out of 10

Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason, (can't remember author) FUNNY AS HELL OMG GET A MAN TO READ THIS AND HE WILL FIND OUT SO MUCH. 9 out of 10

Jurassic Park - Michael Crighton (wanted to see if it was better than the movie.  It's not) 6 out of 10

  I read a lot on my deck or at the beach.  

"Swarm" by Adam Fulford

I wonder how long they'll keep using "To Kill A Mockingbird" at the high school level.  

 Some Chick wrote:  [strong style="font-style: italic;"]The Chamber[/b]- John Grisham 6 out of 10.  Lots of dry court stuff.

That's a good one of his. I've read most of Grisham's stuff and it rarely disappoints, but it can be a bit dusty in parts.

 I just finished The Cat Dancers by P. T. Deutermann, Strong Arm Tactics by Jody Lynn Nye, and SSN by Clancy. All were pretty good.

I just started Under And Alone by William Queen, and it looks good already. (Non-fiction- a cop goes undercover inside the Mongols motorcycle gang for a year or two.)

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice is quite good.

I have been trying to get through "Tale of the Body Thief" by Anne Rice.  I love the stories she writes, but I find her overly verbose and verbal flatulence difficult to wade through at times and she annoys me.

I'm wondering if anyone would recognise this extremely brief summary (?) of a book I started reading YEARS ago, that I would like to read again.  I don't remember the title and only remember the name of ONE character (I think....lol)  

It was about two brothers, and I believe one of their names' was Phineous (?).  One of the brothers had fallen (out of a tree (?) and was paralysed.  And that's my summary (rofl)  I know it's not a lot to go on, but ring any teeny bells for anyone ???

[span class="sans"]Could it be[/span][b class="sans"] [/b][span class="sans"]A Separate Peace [/span][b class="sans"] [/b]by John Knowles?[a href="vny!://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books-uk&field-keywords=John%20Knowles/202-9377995-2852640"][/a]          

Hi TehBorken [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/a010.gif" border=0].  That doesn't ring any bells for me.  I believe I would recognise the title if I heard it......but on the other hand  ???

  I remember hearing the title of the book in a Jeopardy answer once....and I was positive I'd remember it, but alas......

  What is the book you mentioned about ?

 P.C. wrote:  [div style="font-style: italic;"]What is the book you mentioned about ?[/div]
 Via Amazon:

A Seperate Peaace by John Knowles depicts a fictional story between the two bestest of friends, Gene and Phineas(fin-e-us)(Finny). Gene, the intellectual finds himself thinking that Finny, his athletic roommate at Devon, an all male boarding school, is trying to sabotage his chances of becoming valedvictorian of his class. However, it finally hits him that no, Finny is not that kind of person and just didn't think Gene had to work all that hard to make his grades--Gene is just good at it like he is at sports. One night during a meeting of a club that Finny had founded Gene jounces a limb and causes Finny to fall and crush his leg... Ok, that's enough of a synopsis, probably wasn't really necessary seeing that the Webster's Literary Dictionary said all that and MORE. Didn't want to give away the ending or anything..., but that's ok. A Seperate Peace should appeal to those who like a book with some realism to it. One can easily identify with the more "realistic" character, Gene but ends up admiring the near perfect Phineas. I've noticed some of the reader comments asking how could Gene knock his best friend off a limb like that even after knowing that there was no real competition between them. My class has discussed this and we came up with somewhat of an explanation: deep down, well maybe not that deep, all humans are savages. Everyone has sadistic temptations and sometimes they're hard to surpress, thought we like to think that wer're always surpressing these feelings, wer're not. In other words, Gene jounces the limb because of a tempation, it just happens. For those of you who didn't like the book maybe your're not the type who likes this kind of book. Everyone has their own personal oppinion; however, as to the fact of this plot being real, it's very real. I can name a modern day incident like this that recently occured: two cousins, age fifteen and sixteen, were playing with a gun--Texas Draw. Don't ask me what they were doing playing with a loaded gun, but they were. The gun accidently goes off, while the fitten year old is holding it, and shoots the sixteen year old in the neck. The sixteen year old's paralyzed from the neck down and the fifteen year old's receiving psychiatric treatment.

THAT'S IT TehBorken !!!!!!  That title has absolutely NO familiarity to me at all, but I'm sure that's it.  Thanking you tons.

Have you read it ???  You came up with it awfully quickly.

lol  

  So did I with the name and the word "crippled".  Google is my bestest friend.  Interesting how it mirrors the old mythology story of the guy falling from the sky.  (I only read the synopsis though)

[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/liebe/g038.gif" border=0].

I have to politically incorrect words in my work each day.  I put that together with the name of the character and ... viola.

  With a bit of imagination, there's not much you can't find with Google.  Hell, I check out the guys I'm going to date so that I can leave a trail should anything ever happen to me.

  Paranoid?  Maybe  :)

I usually DO Google first, and ask questions later, but as my 'summary' was SO brief (not to mention I wasn't even sure my recollection was accurate), it never occurred to me.  It's a memory from 30 + years ago.

A thousand pardons.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/traurig/a010.gif" border=0]

 P.C. wrote:
 [div style="font-style: italic;"]Have you read it ???  
[/div]
 Nope, never read it but it sounds interesting.


You came up with it awfully quickly.

I cheated, lol. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/14.gif)

'Unquiet Soul' - Margot Peters (yet another biography of Charlotte Bronte).

I'm trying to catch up on all the New Science bulletins in my mailbox.  I let them build up, and now there is a lot of interesting reading for me.

Try some of the Bronte biographies, you'll possibly find them far more interesting than their writing - certainly they all paint a  unique picture of unforgettable pathos, triumph, tragedy and genius.  

I doubt that I'm in the mood for pathos at this time.  But eventually I will check out the Brontes.

Yes you must, it's obviously something that's been missing from your life.

I really hadn't noticed the lack, but now that you have brought it to my attention........................

Never too old to learn....

But potentially too old to comprehend!!

Oh, I really don't think so.

 Soon to be elementary Spanish I. (Starting tomorrow)
British Literature English Book (Still have to finish that class)
some dumb technology book. (I don't read it it puts me to sleep still have to finish that class as well)

Plan on finishing the Technology by the end of Sept. and British by Nov.

Then I finally can close that wacky/rocky/hard never ending chapter in my life known as high school. Argh, I hated K-12

K-3 was fine but then 3-12 was pure hell.
   

Am currently re-reading some old favorite graphic novels: Ronin by Frank Miller; League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (ignore the movie, this is the real deal) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. And if I had a copy of From Hell (also Alan Moore) I'd be reading it too.  

I recently finished reading "Bolo" by David Weber.  I'll read anything he cares to write, though.  I think he's very good.  As always, that was a great book.  Now I have to wait for him to write something else.  Darn!!!

Aaron's Rod - D.H. Lawrence (but so far not overly impressed).

 Sportsdude wrote:
I've got an ever growing list that I need to get too:
Frankenstien
Young Trudeau
1984
Communist Manifesto
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
 

Ah. Do Androids... is one of my favorites. I even wrote a sequel to it for a sci-fi lit class. When I get a little bit of money in my pocket again, I'm going to get a collection of Philip K. Dick books.

 

Did you publish the sequel?  If so, where can I find it?

'The Blue Bird' - Maurice Maeterlinck.

Accordion Crimes - E. Annie Proulx.

Dragon - Stephen Brust

Is that good, kitten? Dragon? I love dragons.

  Am currently reading The Chronicles of Prydain by Llyod Alexander.

I thought it would be, but the further I get into it, the more bored I become.  He tries too hard to be funny.  It gets tiresome after a while.

  How is your book, Lise?  Does it contain dragons?

kitten wrote:
 I recently finished reading "Bolo" by David Weber.  I'll read anything he cares to write, though.  I think he's very good.  As always, that was a great book.  Now I have to wait for him to write something else.  Darn!!![/DIV]
 I like david weber as well. Which bolo did you read by weber? Theres like four 'bolo' books out by him. One of them has a compilation of two, but they arent complete.

  To be honest you are the first person Ive 'talked' to that has read and has similar tastes to me.

  Which other books do you read that are similar, if you do.

  EDIT: forgot to put what Im currently reading. Sad as it is, cause Im back in school studying Im reading Instrumentation and Control by Reeds series of marine engineering.      

I've been a science fiction addict since I was 12.  Everything from fantasy to hard science to military fiction.  I've read the first book, and plan to get the rest later.  I've put in a request at the library, but there are several reservations ahead of me.  I've read all the Honor Harrington series and thoroughly enjoyed them.

No dragons in my book as yet but enchantress, warriors and the lot. A tad childish for my taste but the book was in my  husband's old collection so I thought I'd give it a try.

Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer.
Amazing what crazy fundamentalist zealots we have living right here within our borders. brrr.
 

The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamnyn West

A Catskill Eagle by Robert L. Parker  

Man, Gopher dude, how many books do you go thru in a month???

 Lise wrote:
Man, Gopher dude, how many books do you go thru in a month???
Gopher reads like I do: obsessively. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/14.gif)

I do about 20 to 30 a month if the library is well-stocked.
 

Holy Moly !!!!!!!   I don't think I could go through 20 or 30 books in a month, even if I read all day, every day.  I've always thought of myself as an avid reader.  Now I realize I am an avid SLOW reader.....lol.

OMG. That's a lot, TB!!!!!!!!! I'm lucky to even finish a book in a month.

Blow Fly - Patricia Cornwell

Aerie - Mercedes Lackey

What a strange name - Mercedes makes one think of wealth, lackey something less.

Interesting combination.

Maybe you can think of an appropriate middle name for her?

Sorry, no.  Do you have any suggestions?

Can't think of anything at present. Maybe something hypenated would work?      

Gopher wrote:
Can't think of anythingn at present. Maybe something hypenated would work?

  Mercedes Lackey So-use-the-remote.  
   

Gophie wrote: I do about 20 to 30 a month if the library is well stocked

  I'm still stuck on this.!!!!!!!!

      But I think I figured it out

   .

(//vny!://www.wigtown-booktown.co.uk/siteimages/2004images/minibooksinpalmbig.jpg)    

LOL! on your picture PC

  I also do about 20-30 a month when Im onboard ship.

  Im currently reading another book by Nelson DeMille. Awesome author! Has anyone else read him?

I just can't get my mind around that I guess.  That's like a book a day.  I'm lucky these days if I can get through a dozen pages before I go to sleep. I suppose that's the part I'm overlooking.....I RARELY read in the day time.  (I'd be scared to start)

Yeah, Im the same right now PC. I cant start reading a book during the day or I dont stop, same thing at night, Ill stay up an extra two hours reading when I should be sleeping.

  On the ship other than playing games, watching movies, harrasing others, you read lots.

What the Koran Really Says, by Ibn Warraq (Boring as hell, as it is a technical/academic analysis of the original Arabic text of the book, showing among other things how it could not possibly have been written by any deity or angel. Because gods don't usually make grade school level mistakes in composition.)


 

Wow, did you have any trouble getting the book? Is there any controversy around it Trollio? I cant beleive that the Muslim community didnt cry foul and try to burn everything surround a book nit picking their Koran.

  Other than being dry, is it pretty good?

[span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"] Russ wrote:[/span][br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"][div style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"]Wow, did you have any trouble getting the book? Is there any controversy around it Trollio? I cant beleive that the Muslim community didnt cry foul and try to burn everything surround a book nit picking their Koran. [/div] [div style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"] [/div] [span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"]Other than being dry, is it pretty good?[/span]

No trouble getting it, but you guessed it, the author (whose name is not really Ibn Warraq -- that means 'son of a bookseller') is under a fatwa, and if they ever found out who he was, they would most definitely kill him in a heartbeat.

It's quite good for what it is. The best thing about Ibn Warraq is that we do know that he is a former Muslim from South Asia, so his books are not coming from the "[insert faith here] is better than Islam" perspective, but from a guy who grew up in and lived his life as a rather devout Muslim at one point.

The Negotiator - Frederick Forsyth  

Dunno if anyones interested but I had a friend send me this link cause I was asking questions about it to my friends after Trollio's post.

  Free Koran, just pay shipping.

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    Gopher, ever read the dogs of war by him? Good book.

No, but thanks for the tip - I'll give it a try.

I actually went looking for my book Gopher! Im going to reread it next.

  linky just so you can know what its about.

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Thanks, I've just checked it out.

The Cardamom Club - Jon Stock

Province newspaper.  No time to get to the library yet.

Maybe you should stop reading the paper?

Not while it has comics in it!

I thought that might be the attraction (I take it that you mean the references to political figures).

Naturally!

1) Saskatchewan Heroes and Rogues - Ruth Wright Millar

2) Avenger - Frederick Forsyth

Currently reading J.V.Jones - A Man Betrayed

  You can read a sample of her writing here, from the first book, The Baker's Boy

  [A href="vny!://www.jvj.com/bakersam.html"]vny!://www.jvj.com/bakersam.html[/A]

Great literature! I must find time to read it in depth.

Trace - Patricia Cornwell

The Body Farm - Patricia Cornwell

Over Christmas I splurged (and went broke at the same time) bought every single Orwell book he ever wrote.  Going to read all of them after I finish this class.

  1984

The Road to Wigan Pier

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Down and Out in Paris and London

Homage to Catalonia

Burmese Days

  Already have read Animal Farm

    Edit:

Plus I've got 3 Pierre Trudeau books to read, The Communist Manifesto, and finish up reading all of  Erich Maria Remarque's books (All Quiet on the Western Front writer) and maybe some Hemmingway.

That'll keep ya busy for a while, SD.

  Current reading: Eragon. What else.

Yup sure will just finished reading The Merchant of Venice for my class I've got to finish.

anyone here read life of pi. i have that on my bookself and am planning to read it this summer but there are so many other books i want to read.

  has anyone heard of the book 'the secret'. i seen them on ellen a month or so ago and it kinda looks very "cult-like".

Life of Pi? Never heard of that.

Isn't that the book that everyone makes fun of if you have it in your locker or something?

Sportsdude wrote:
 Yup sure will just finished reading The Merchant of Venice for my class I've got to finish.[/DIV]
 I read that in school. I enjoyed it but shows alot of the racism of the day with shakespeare if I remember it correctly.

  Have you been disecting the quotes in class?

well class is the internets so have I been discussing the quotes in my head yes.  Shylocks I'm a jew speech comes up a lot. Next book is Frankenstein.

  My favourite quote is from Antonio in the first act: "I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

  love that quote.

My favourite lines from The Merchant of Venice are those which begin

  "The moon shines bright: in such a night as this..."  

I got about half way through Life of Pi and just couldn't get into it.  

  Currently reading

  1. The world is flat

2. Running with scissors

3. Honeymoon(trashy light read)

4. The baby whisperer.

Hey Ally.  I finished reading "The Notebook" and I totally agree with you that it is wayyy better than the movie.  Though, the movie storyline is kept close to that of the book, which I like the best.  I love how, in the book, they talk about the two when they are older but in the movie, they concentrate on when they were younger.  I would reread the book again, it's that great.  I couldn't believe it that it was the author's first book.  I absolutely love it.

nothing better than a super enjoyable read.

  Another book that I enjoyed...light read, but enjoyable was The Devil wears Prada.

  The movie was quite a disappointment.

Hmm, I might read that book now that you said that it was good.  The movie was ok.  I only watched it because I like Meryl Streep.  It was a cute movie.

Cause of Death - Patricia Cornwell

Robert Jordan - Eye of the World (1st Book in the Wheel of Time series) Looks pretty good.... one down, 8 or 9 or whatever left to go.

Got Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men for X-Mas. We are a house of Firefly freaks so we had to get it. Fantastic writer.
Speaking of comics, purelife is that Kabuki in your avatar? David Mack is one of my favorite artists.
 

Firefly rocks, dude!! I thoroughly enjoyed the short-lived series.

Unnatural Exposuere - Patricia Cornwell

Predator - Patricia Cornwell

Wow, Gopher. You're one fast reader!!

The Great Hunt by Robert Jordon. Woot! Second book.

Not come across this one, what's it about?

Second book from the Wheel of Time. I've got a long ways to catch up on all eleven books. It's mostly about three young lads who are caught in a 'pattern' of Time and have to save the world. Quite interesting.

Soundss it. Have you ever tried His Dark Materials?

Nope. What's that?

I think they're currently making it into a film - ostebnsibly it's a children's book. It's got eerie depths though and I imagine that eventually it will get a cult following.

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Pelican Brief - John Grisham

Has anybody read The Life of Pi?  Just curious...

Gopher wrote:
The Pelican Brief - John Grisham[/DIV]
   I watched that. S'okay. Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington, right?

Don't know. I didn't see the film - but as far as the reading's going, I imagine it was better than the book.  

I read half of the Life of Pi.

  I'm a really avid reader and love getting great suggestions from other readers.

  I kept hearing about the Life of Pi and picked it up about 2 years ago.  I just could not get into it.

It never grabbed me.  I tried and tried and finally retired it to my bookshelf.

Hmm, okay.  Thanks for letting me know.  I won't be buying that book then.  
 
 My friend was verrry animate of me buying the book "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry.  I brought it, read a quarter way and couldn't continue.  It was so verrrrry depressing. I had already cried in the beginning.  I was begging my friend to tell me if it gets any better, but she said "nope"  I almost balled again....sad sad depiction of India.  I might finish it one day when I'm it that "mood."  

Not enjoying the Grisham, Gophie?  I like his stories.  I've read them all.  There was one I DIDN'T like, but I can't remember which one it was.

I'm finding it's getting better, three more chapters seemed to do the trick.

I added another book to the 8 Orwell books, The Motorcycle Diaries.  

Yeah we were doing book reports in class the other day, and about 5 different people were reading Life of Pi. They said it was OK, but unrealistic, since there's a tiger or whatever on board, and it doesn't eat the kid. But hey, what do we high school kids know? ;)

The Alphabet of Manliness  by  Maddox  
^  funny ass book; go read it. "R" (for road rage) is the best chapter.
 

I'd probably have been kicked out of school for reading the book.  Damn christian school.  They censured everything.  For example when we read Huckleberry Finn we weren't allowed to speak the words in the book, the teacher would give us detention.  God was she a nut case.  

Smiley's People - John le Carre

The Fabric of Reality David Deutsch
The Whole Equation, A History of Hollywood David Thomson
The Emotional Brain Joseph LeDoux
 

That was good reading, Gopher.  I'm sure you're enjoying it.

Dragon Reborn - Robert Jordon. 3rd book. 8 more to go..... *sigh*

Resurrectors - Micheal Connelly

The Gunslinger by Stephen King (again).
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq  by Michael Gordon & Bernard Trainor. It's a little dry but worth it.
 

Introducing Stephen Hawking by J.P. McEvoy & Oscar Zarate. Part of my attempt to unravel the universe.    (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/14.gif)


 

Just finished Michael Connelly's The Last Coyote

  And on the second chapter of Michael Connely's  A darkness mre than night.    

Frankenstein  

Cross of Fire - Colin Forbes

current reading is DS!!  hi!  : )  

the scarletti inheritance by
Robert ludlum


 

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - Dee Brown

(for the fourth time)

Single & Single - John le Carre

44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith

just finished dan browns angels and demons the prqual to the davinchi code

all i can say is damn wow holy crap awesome... zipped through the book in 3 days

cover to cover it had me enthralled every page...
jeeze i hope nothing got stolen at work this week...  but yeah that book was that good

ducks for cover as gunshots ring out in the hood again ...

 

Scott Ritter's Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change.
*cutting at wrist with butter knife*

 Goph, Bury my Heart was a must read.
An outstanding book for anyone interested in the real cost of "taming the west"     :(

 

The 2.1/2 Pillars Of Wisdom - Alexander McCall Smith.    

Shadow Rising - Robert Jordan 4th book...... *sigh*

Let me guess lise you are rereading the series and waiting for the next book to be published ... expected publication date for the final book in the series is
early 2009

rumored title is to be

A Memory of Light



 

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck.

lullabies for little criminals by Heather O'Neill

Orik wrote:
Let me guess lise you are rereading the series and waiting for the next book to be published ... expected publication date for the final book in the series is
early 2009

rumored title is to be

A Memory of Light



 
 Hey Orik, good to see you lurking around.

  No, I'm not re-reading the series. My husband got me the first three books for Christmas and told me to start reading them. So far... it's been ok but I got tired around the 3rd book.

  Thanks for the rumored title. Nice to know that.

Place Of The Dawn - Gordon Taylor

The House- Danielle Steel
Her books had started to fade for me...too much lovey dovey romance vomit..but this one sounded alright.

French Women For All Seasons: A Year Of Secrets, Recipes, And Pleasure.

Ian Rankin - The Falls

M*A*S*H - Richard Hooker

Time to read all those Orwell books I bought.

first up 1984
 

I plan to read a book called: "Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene.      

Gopher wrote:
M*A*S*H - Richard Hooker[/DIV]
     MASH had a book................................?  

Yes, it originated the whole thing.

Well, I read a couple chapters of 1984. I'm on chapter 6. I keep falling asleep when I'm reading it though, can't find a good place to read without falling asleep. lol  

Are you finding it rather grim? I remember I did. Sort of interesting but unrelenting.  

well my favourite book ever was his Animal Farm. If that wasn't 'grim' I don't know what is.  Right now its on overload on details.  The character is explaining everything.  

I found it depressing and entirely believable............more so as time goes on.  

He just made a mistake with the date.

True, but not by that much.  I don't think one could accuse him of optimism.

oh yeah the book is completely believable.
Fighting an enemy for so long he's forgotten what started the war and who is actually involved. Never ending war (war on terrorism will be that)
Making up war stories to promote nationalism modern day example: (Pat Tilmann ex NFL player, killed by friendly fire but for years he was classified as dying by the enemy.
People 'disappearing'
 

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World:  An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children  

Whiteout - Ken Follett

Not current, but the mention of 1984 reminded me of We, (supposedly the inspiration for 1984 and/or Brave New World)

 by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

  All that really stands out in my memory is this part where the narrator says "I was no longer a number. I had become a mere person."

  Anybody can throw out a line like this nowadays, but ol' Yevgeny was way ahead off his time, having written that in 1920.

  Bugs me that that's all I can remember. I guess I'm ready for Sarducci's 5-minute university course.  

Here's Guido's 5-minute university bit. [A href="vny!://pratie.blogspot.com/2005/03/guidos-five-minute-university.html"]vny!://pratie.blogspot.com/2005/03/guidos-five-minute-university.html[/A]

ROFL.

You a Prisoner fan WA?  

tenkani wrote:
 ROFL.

You a Prisoner fan WA?

  Was that in Blighty? With Patrick McGoo?  
 

Yes, it was ages ago, but I still remember it very well. If I recall it was mainly filmed in small place in Wales called Port Meirion.  

I've seen it, yeah. It was kind of chilling. Was it also meant to be a bit funny as well?

McGoo    :)

Yeah, I used to watch it all the time with my dad.

What a weird little town!!

It was so perfect, because it just had this surreal quality to it and when the white blob came blubbering out to get someone it almost made sense. They used to play the Prisoner on public TV here but they stopped because I think the fan base, rabid though it is, can't compete with the likes of Dr. Who and whatnot. The Prisoner is not exactly easy to get into.

  EDIT: Funny...yeah, in a bleak way.

Have a look on the search engine for Port Meirion, Tenk. I've been there, and it's exactly how it was shown in the series.      

weird al wrote:
 I've seen it, yeah. It was kind of chilling. Was it also meant to be a bit funny as well? ......

 I think it was supposed to be a bit funny, but - like Queen Victoria - I was not amused.


   

Here's Guido doing the 5-minute bit. [A href="vny!://www.fathersarducci.com/video.html"]vny!://www.fathersarducci.com/video.html[/A]

  (sorry for the hijack btw)  

St. Patrick smoked????

Woah, Portmeirion has a REALLY nice Web site!!

Annual Prisoner convention, yeah, makes sense.

I'm still not sure whether people actually live there.

I mean, they have cottages and a hotel for visitors, but are there private residences?

I wondered about this as well. By the way, was the website you came across bilingual (English/Welsh?)    

If "Cymraeg" is welsh then yeah    :)

  [A href="vny!://www.portmeirion-village.com/"]vny!://www.portmeirion-village.com/[/A]

Yes, you've got it. Nice looking language isn't it?

Gopher wrote:
Yes, you've got it. Nice looking language isn't it?

  Great language! I like the name of that town, Llanfair, etc.

 Knew a lady that was from there. She said the sign on the train station was longer than the building.
 

"Ei nod oedd dangos fod modd datblygu safle prydferth heb ei"   My cat types in the same language when she runs across the keyboard.

Yes, but can she speak as well as type?

weird al wrote:
Gopher wrote:
Yes, you've got it. Nice looking language isn't it?

  Great language! I like the name of that town, Llanfair, etc.

 Knew a lady that was from there. She said the sign on the train station was longer than the building.  ......

 You can buy souvenir tickets from the railway station.


 
 

Yes, but can she speak as well as type?

  Yeah, but only when her tail gets stuck under the rocking chair

Ah, and then she swears in Welsh?

Yes.

Rage Therapy by Daniel Kalla

Driving to the end of the world by Mark McMahon

[A href="vny!://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Physics-David-Halliday/dp/047122863X/ref=sr_1_14/104-9618616-8025552?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175942219&sr=8-14"][SPAN class=srTitle][FONT color=#003399]Fundamentals of Physics[/FONT][/SPAN][/A] by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, and Jearl Walker

ah, the fundamentals of fizziks text is still is use?!  I had a much earlier edition in a different colour (tan?).

Micheal Connelly

Black and Blue

[span style="text-decoration: underline;"]Pandemic [/span]by Daniel Kalla  

The Hammer Of Eden - Ken Follett

The Key To Rebecca - Ken Follett

Camp Free in BC - Cant remember the author.

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins  

Eye Of The Needle - Ken Follett

Preternatural & Preternatural Too:Gyre - Margaret Wander Bonnano

  So far I'm half-way through the first book, and I really don't know whether it is worth continuing.  It has been very dull, and I don't think it is worth reading the second volume.

The Fourth Protocol - Frederick Forthyth

At the moment...DS.  I must get to the library soon.

Well, DS always makes a good read.

There's so much to catch up on since my return.

At Risk - Patricia Cornwell

Lord Darcy - Randall Garrett

Something I must try. Have you ever read His Dark Materials?

Not to my knowledge.  Is there perhaps another author with the same name?  I'm referring to the one who wrote of an alternate Earth.  Lord Darcy was a detective.

Yopu've got me wrong: His Dark Materials is a book by Philip Pullman

Sorry, I thought you were answering my previous response.

No, I was merely making an aside.

A very well made one, too.  It sailed over my head and into the unknown.

As befits the subject.

I still have every book Orwell ever wrote to read.

 

Black Notice - Patricia Cornwell

How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman (funny name for a doctor)

wouldn'tyouknow wrote:
 How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman (funny name for a doctor) ....

 Yeah, a funny name but Gropeman would have been far worse.


 

A lady I knew worked for a dentist, a Dr. Loader. Which wouldn't have been particularly funny, except for his habit of  washing down Valium with alcohol, which often necessitated his taking a  cab home in the middle of the work day. He's long retired by now.  

From Potter's Field - Patricia Cornwell

The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde

Ff??

Yyess!

Strange how names that are spelled with a double 'f' always seem posh, isn't it?  

Is a double f stressed more when being pronounced?  I agree about it sounding more posh.  I always wondered why the letter would be duplicated.

In Welsh ff is pronounced as (our) f, whereas a single f is pronounced as a v - so maybe that's where it comes from. Ffascinating!

Ffor sure!  Thanks for the information.  I thought it might be Welsh.

I've got a double letter in my last name. Funny thing is that people never pronounce the other letter after it.
I've also got an "e" in my name that my german grandmother says it like an "a" so I end up saying it and confusing people even more. lol
 

Point Of Origin - Patricia Cornwell

Resistance- Daniel Kalla  

Notes On A Scandal - Zoe Heller

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck

Its an urban planning book critical of american sprawl
 

Striptease - Georges Simenon. (By the way, Notes on a Scandal was excellent, well worth the reading).

I can't read   =(

  But I like listening to audio books on my bicycle rides around town.

I'm currently listening to Wigfield by Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and the great Stephen Colbert.

It's a comedy. It will make you giggle, chortle, and maybe even guffaw.  [A href="vny!://www.highbridgeaudio.com/wigfieldbr.html"]vny!://www.highbridgeaudio.com/wigfieldbr.html[/A]

I am currently trying to read the instuctions on where to pound tree fertilizer spikes.  I'm sure it's facinating reading, except that my arms seem to be too short.  

"pound tree fertilizer spikes"   Sexiest four words in the English language     (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Love/3.gif)

I'm on chapter 2 of my urban planning book.  

I'm still on Robert Jordan's book. Been staled ever since. Last night I took up reading again. Hmmmm.....

chapter 3 now.  

 last week i read the davinchi code and digital fortress. this week i read eragon and am just about finsihed its 2nd book eldest...
tom afternoon i will start another novel just not sure what just yet i have a few to choose from...


   

love Dan Brown.
 
 I'm reading [span style="text-decoration: underline;"]The Naming of the Dead [/span]by Ian Rankin.  I'll be needing fish and chips soon, as the Scottish detective Rebus lives on takeaway fish and curry.
 
 
   

Isn't Dan Brown, DaVinci Code guy ?

  I have never been more disappointed in a book, that was seemingly right up my alley, as The DaVinci Code.  Too much hype maybe ?  

I'm in agreement with you, PC. Too much hype indeed. Saw the movie and didn't think too much of it either.

never read the book nor saw the movie.  

You're not missing out much there on the movie, SD. Totally boring. Predicatable and what's up with Mr. Hanks' hair?!?!?!?!

yeah his hair was goofy.
Right now I'm just focused on my urban planning book which gets me through the day.
 

How's the reading going? Not too dry, I hope.

Nope really sad actually, its all about how america and noth america in general has lost its way with sprawl and that we've become so addicted to the car, old cities that are people friendly are illegal to build nowadays.
Instead of Robson Streets and Granville Islands we build big box stores with giant parking lots.
 

read more of my book. fascinating.  

Good Behaviour - Molly Keane

Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (the Angela's Ashes guy).

So far it's amazing and unlike Angela's Ashes won't leave you looking for a sharp thing to cut yourself with.

  Also the Dark Elf trilogy by R.A. Salvatore.

If you enjoy fantasy it's an amazing display of character development and world-building.

It's also great if you like to read about angry elf chicks whipping subservient men until they bleed.

If it has angry elf chicks I've got to read this one!  Just kidding, but it seems interesting.  I'll look for it at the library.

It raises some interesting questions, Miss K, about what would happen if an entire society was based upon what we would consider to be "evil", and in such a setting what would be considered deviant and obscene.  

still reading my book. Trying to find another urban planning book to read after I finish my first one. I like the authors of the first book, they're sort of activists that are shaking up the building community. They've got their own organization and everything. But the book mainly deals with suburbs, I need a city book now.  

The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

^^^^ what's it about?

Oh that's a hard one. It's a mystery, but very different to any other which I have read. Concerns someone who selects a book from the cemetary of forgotten books. Other people become interesting in acquiring it from him - mainly they are doppelgangers of the characters in books. I've not read all that far yet, but it looks as though fiction and reality are going to blend.  

Waow.

So it's fantasy? Sounds very strange and wonderful.

What made you choose it?

Someone gave it to me and I vaguely recalled hearing about it a few months ago (in glowing terms).

 I can't decide on which book about Vancouver urbanism to buy.

This one:
[b class="sans"]Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
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or this one:

[/span][b class="sans"]The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design
[/b][span class="sans"][a href="vny!://www.amazon.com/Vancouver-Achievement-Urban-Planning-Design/dp/0774809728/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/105-8065872-6743615?ie=UTF8&qid=1181299398&sr=8-1"]vny!://www.amazon.com/Vancouver-Achievement-Urban-Planning-Design/dp/0774809728/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/105-8065872-6743615?ie=UTF8&qid=1181299398&sr=8-1[/a][/span][b class="sans"]
[/b]
personally I think I'm going with the second one because the Dream City book is more like a novel, you can read excerpts from it.
   

Lost Girls and Love Hotels by Catherine Hanrahan  

Firestarter - Stephen King  

Ooooh!  How is it?  I haven't read Stephen King for ages.  I used to stay up all night in HS and read Stephen King because I was too scared to sleep!  

 I just started getting into it and so far, after a few pages, it's really really GOOD!  As you can tell, I don't think that I've ever contributed to this thread which means that I [span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"]rarely[/span] read.  LOL, my guy recommended me this book.  I'll tell you how it is when I'm done. :)

LOL Lil Me.  You're funny :))
 

 The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design

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Its in route to my house.
Should be a great read, for me anyway.
 

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
 
 It's a hilarious narrative and a great story.  Similar to Catcher in the Rye but with a My Big Fat Greek Wedding feel. ( I just found out that it's also an Oprah pick for Summer 2007.)
   

If Oprah likes it must be good!
When is she retiring anyway, didn't she announce her retirement a few years back as some date in the future, can't remember now.

My book will arrive on Monday I think.
 

sweet! my book came!  

your book can cum?  

in knowledge  

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  ... but I read most of it in the first setting of a half hour or so - good fun!

stretchedout wrote:
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  ... but I read most of it in the first setting of a half hour or so - good fun!

  I'm not sure how you would know?
 

ok Troll!

Schad speaks his mind......just like you speak your mind.  I thought you liked that?  As an advocate of non-conformity, I would have thought you would have some level of respect for that.

The Modigliani Scandal - Ken Follett

  (addition, some days later: and having come to the end of it I wish I'd not even bothered to read the first page).

Awakenings - Oliver Sacks

Southern Cross - Patricia Cornwell

The Heart Of The Matter - Graham Greene

Just finished Running With Scissors- Augusten Burroughs
 a funny and disturbing memoir
   

I am currently reading the installation instructions for 2 new wall sconces.  It's a really well thought out plot....as it carries you through exciting twists and turns trying to decipher the translation glitches.  A story of pure mystery and intrigue where the author plays with his reader to the end.  A must read.

sounds like a new york times best seller!  

I can't wait to find out how it ends and the mystery is solved, P.C.!

I'll be sure to share it with you all.....I always like to pass on a good read.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c028.gif" border=0]

Im currently reading parts interchangability for chevy 350 cu in small block motors.. Im thinking about rebuilding my motor again. The horsepower to gas ratio currently doesnt impress me.. so I think Im going to attempt again, and put the motor in the boat this time. Put the boat motor into the Truck.. I gots me a book on building up Marine Motors for Mercruiser legs as well.  

That also sounds like a great read, Russ.  I'm thinking I should take out my Toyota manual and read it more thoroughly.  I could be missing something.  It looks like manuals are the "in" thing to read.

Could we be missing out on some REALLY good reading out there Russ? [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c008.gif" border=0]

  (I hate that I haven't made the time to read a good book for the last few MONTHS)  

I'm still working on my vancouver urban planning book. (600 pages of how to build more yaletown's and false creeks)
Can't wait for the last harry potter book.

 

I haven't been able to concentrate on reading lately.  I hate to start a book unless I can finish it in one sitting, but I've either been too busy or too tired to manage it.

I go on spurts too Kitten.....although I never finish a book in one sitting.  I only read after I crawl in bed.  If I did otherwise, I'd never get anything done.

  (have you read the Poisonwood Bible Kitten?....I'm thinking you might like that.)

P.C. wrote:
 I go on spurts too Kitten.....although I never finish a book in one sitting.  I only read after I crawl in bed.  If I did otherwise, I'd never get anything done.

  (have you read the Poisonwood Bible Kitten?....I'm thinking you might like that.)[/DIV]..................
 The Poisonwood Bible is in this very room but I've not yet read it.

I haven't read the Poisonwood Bible yet.  Come to think of it, I hadn't even heard about it .  I'll have to look for it at the library.  Thanks for the tip.

I havent heard of the 'poisonwood bible' either kitten.. if you dont think your toyota manual is a good enough read for you, I can lend you a few others to read through.. I mean, you never know if you are going to drive a 66 dodge charger or a '70 dodge challenger. Could be prepared then for it!

I had a Mazda manual before, but I fell asleep half way through it.  The ending was too predictable.

I had my ford manual. I forgot to read the last chapter "that rattle you hear it's nothing"  

Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan  

I'm trying to get into Lisey's Story by Stephen King...  

The Book Of Snobs - W.M.Thackeray

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  Im actually reading this.

Ahahahaha.  Perhaps you'll give us a daily progress report? :)
 Starting with the garage? :)
   

garage is perfect. house needs to be worked on so I can get more in there.

I'm reading the last harry potter book this weekend.

How did you grab a copy of the last HP book, SD?  

  LOL Russ.  Don't you offer any of your stuff to my guy if you see him next!  And, don't mention about that tank, k?!  I know that if there was more space at my apt., the more 'junk' I'll be seeing... I'm dreading moving into a 2 bdrm.    

I haven't yet, but on my way to KC I'm stopping by Borders to get it.

I'm just going to read this weekend.

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  Russ wrote:     Im actually reading this.



  WHY Russ....WHY !!!!  I just need to know WHY.[/DIV]

Assignment in Brittany - Helen MacInnes

I am so jealous of people who have time to read........

  Harry Potter and Deadly Hallows. Going fine so far. I might actually finish this book by the end of next week.

Lady's Maid - Margaret Forster

  Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning as seen through the eyes of Elizabeth's maid Wilson.

Lost Continent- Bill Bryson

 

The Phantom Of The Opera - Gaston Leroux    

Black Wind- Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler  

Sandstorm - James Rollins

  Hm, I haven't read a Clive Cussler book yet.  My guy has his books.  One of his fav authors.

i need to read more.  

me too, takes a lot of time. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/11.gif)

Actually I should have said "need to read more from cover to cover".

Eldest -  Christopher Paolini

  (It's my kid's book, but it's good)

Is that the sequel to Eragon or prequel?  Have you read Eragon JJ?

purelife wrote:
 Is that the sequel to Eragon or prequel?  Have you read Eragon JJ? It' the sequel to Eragon, and there is going to be a third book to complete the trilogy.  Yes, I read Eragon, I thought it was very good. Did you know that the author was a teenager when he wrote Eragon?


 

Meh. I read Eragorn. It was... ok. It hasn't wowed me completely yet and I'm still debating whether to read the second book.

  I've FINALLY (!!!) completed the Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan. Onto the fifth book now, The Flames of Tar Varlon???

The Godfather's Revenge by Mark Winegardner
 
   

I couldn't get into the Eragon book as well.  I heard that the movie sucked.

purelife wrote:
 I couldn't get into the Eragon book as well.  I heard that the movie sucked.[/DIV]
 You have to remember that the book is for juveniles so has a simple plot.  I haven't see the movie as I always read the book first but I can't see that it would transfer into a good movie.

Gopher wrote:
 The Phantom Of The Opera - Gaston Leroux

   
 I finished this book in July . I didn't enjoy it because  I'd seen the musical.   I wish I'd known there was a book before I we went to the musical it would have been more enjoyable to read the book first!

Yep. The movie sucked. The book is better then again, it's written by a tween so it's not too difficult to stomach the language. The kid's got potential though... I'm sure in later years he'll develop more writing ability which will put him up there with Piers Anthony, Robert Jordan and Anne McCaffrey.

  My book's been better than so far. Good stuff.

I finished, Eldest -  Christopher Paolini.  It was totally predictable from beginning to end, only one minor twist in the middle that I should have seen.

Michael Connely.. Echo Park

JJ wrote:
Gopher wrote:
 The Phantom Of The Opera - Gaston Leroux

   
 I finished this book in July . I didn't enjoy it because  I'd seen the musical.   I wish I'd known there was a book before I we went to the musical it would have been more enjoyable to read the book first! ..............

 

 I'm still reading this book and throughly enjoying it. However I haven't seen the musical so our positions are reversed....and now, of course, I want to see the musical just so I can compare it with the book.

 

Lost Continent
I'm a Stranger Here myself
both by Bill Bryson
 

The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier

finished The Calling of Emily Evans by Janette Oke
 reading The End of East by Jen Sookfong Lee
 
   

Marriage Lines - Ogden Nash

  It's just come to me that we've not yet had two people concurrently reading the same book!

Stone From The River - Ursula Hegi    

 finally finished Sandstorm by James Rollin and am now starting with I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.    

Has any one read Paddle to the Amazon ?  I read this a long time ago, and have been trying to locate it to read again.  My friend is good friends of the Starlells....the guys that took this incredible journey.

  [!-- [img]vny!://www.roadjunky.com/images/502.jpg" width="60" height="90" alt="amazon paddle starkell cover" class="thumb_float_left" /] --] [DIV class=content_text] "We've all heard of the father who wants to live out his dreams through his sons, but Don Starkell took it a step further by dragging his sons along with him. Since his marriage broke up in 1970 he spent a decade waiting for his sons to come of age while he planned the journey that would save them as a family – a 9000 mile voyage by canoe from Winnipeg in Canada to the foot of the Amazon river in Belem, Brazil."

 It's a great real life adventure read.

[/DIV]

I read that, PTTA, a few years ago and loved it. The stuff they went thru was unbelievable, and they were  lucky to live thru it.

  Reminds me of another, more sedate, but quite beautiful book, River Horse, by William Least Heat Moon, describing his retracing of Lewis and Clark's expedition on a boat custom-made for the occasion, Nikawa, or River Horse.

  Some quite gruelling passages, but nothing like PTTA. Also a lot of historical observations.

And every night they stop at whatever pub is closest to the river, and sample the local craft beer.

Geez, I'll have to read that again soon.

Now THAT sounds like an adventure, weird al.     The story of the Starkell's journey is really incredible.  I think one of the sons quit part way through.  I even remember seeing it on the news at some point, but it took my friend to make the connection for me.

A Shropshire Lad - A.E. Housman  

The Very Best of Monty Python

 

A Meal to Die for - Joseph Gannascoli

  The Kalahari Typing School for Men- Alexander McCall Smith

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

  rofl......quick summary please ?  That sounds intriguing.

just read the symposis on amazon. sounds hysterical.  

Uh uh.  I want to hear it from Lil Me.  (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)

Set some years ago, the main characters in this short mystery are lovely, intriguing characters in Botswana- including a wise detective and her assistant.  The title of the book comes from a plan hatched by the assistant detective to supplement her income by opening a typing school for men.

  "Typing, of course, was a special case.  Not only was there male anxiety about being bettered by women in the operation of a machine (men liked to think that they were the ones who understood how to use machines), but there was the additional embarassment for them of being seen to do something which many people viewed as a women's activity.  Men did not like to be secretaries and had invented a special word for men who had to do any of that sort of work.  They called themselves clerks.  But what was the difference between a clerk and a secretary?  One wore trousers and one wore a dress."    

Sounds intriguing Lil Me.  I'm going through one of those 'dry phases' with reading.  3 lousy books in a row, sends me into a tail-spin.  I need something good......AND I NEED IT NOW.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/konfus/f035.gif" border=0]

I've got books about living in middle merica P.C. written by an ex pat who lived in England most of his life? The books are hysterical.  

The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nightime- Mark Haddon

The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs- Alexander McCall Smith

Lil Me wrote:
 The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nightime- Mark Haddon

The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs- Alexander McCall Smith[/DIV]
 [FONT size=2]I love Alexander McCall Smith's  #1 Ladies' Detective Agency books but I haven't read any of his other books.[/FONT]

Tipping the Velvet- Sarah Waters  

The Laughing Corpse by Laurell Hamilton

Manhunt - Ian Slater

That looks very intriguing, Gopher.  Where can I find a copy?

If it's like the last of his books which I read, don't bother. I am only reading this one (well, about to start it) to see if it's as bad as the last one of his that I read.

Really?  If he is on your reading list he couldn't be THAT bad.  You are a discriminating reader.

At First Sight - Nicholas Sparks

Wow, two in a row:
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kitten wrote:
 Really?  If he is on your reading list he couldn't be THAT bad.  You are a discriminating reader. ......

 

 It wasn't on my reading list. Someone sent it to me for a joke - knowing that it would make me want to be sick.


 

In the Skin of a Lion- Michael Ondaatje  

A Prairie Boy's Winter - William Kurelek

World Geography
Sociology
Anthropology
 

The Discrete Charm of Charlie Monk - David Ambrose

World Geography
Sociology
Anthropology


Any authors in particular or just texbooks ?

Sittin' in the Front Pew- Parry "EbonySatin" Brown
 Leave it to Me- Bharati Mukherjee
 
 

just textbooks Michel.  

Sportsdude wrote:
World Geography
Sociology
Anthropology
 
 You don't have reading list for Sociology?  

Its intro. They just want you to like the course. Next semester I'm taking Social Inequilty which will most like have a million books to read.  

No need to read about it, just look everywhere around you!

Since you're leaving anyway, take out the trash- Dixie Cash  

         

Quaker Biographies (no author specified)

Interesting, Gophie.  I've read about the Amish and the Hutterites, but nothing about Quakers.  *adds Quakers to mental list*  

You'll definitely find it interesting.

Who has seen the Wind- W.O. Mitchell  

That's brilliant, Lil Me - I read it for the second time earlier this year.

I'm about halfway through.  Finding it a slower read due to the level of description, but loving the details about all the characters.  I had previously read the Jake& the Kid books, which went at a much faster pace.  

I far preferred it to Jake and the Kid - I liked the slower pace!

As much as I'm enjoying the book, I'm hoping to pick up the pace of reading and get it done already.  I have a stack of new library books- including Atlantis Rising by Clive Cussler!  

I'm off to the library tomorrow - in search of some good escapist material.    

What did you find at the library, Gophie?  

I just finished my book and now looking to read Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordon.... only to find that I'm missing the damn book. Now I have to go out and buy the copy. Sheesh.

Lil Me wrote:
What did you find at the library, Gophie?  
 ...........

  A book on the history of Wimbledon and something by Georges Simenon.

Altantis Found- Clive Cussler
 
   

The swords of Night and Day by David Gemmell. Excellent book. I haven't been this engrossed in a long time.

The Old Patagonian Express - Paul Theroux.

  Almost as interesting as the written contents of this book (which is at least third hand, the donor having died in August) are the intriguing items which were left between some of the pages; incuding:

  two Mongolian banknotes dated1983, a clipping from the Golbe & Mail dated 1993 which relates to the deportation of a Canadian from Mongolia  - and a Mongolian Airlines boarding ticket. I have a feeling that these 'extras' have a story of their own, and I intend to unravel it - one day.      

The 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom- Alexander McCall Smith  

Men Lie- David Maxwell
 (it's a murder mystery by a local author, not a pop psychology book...)
 
 Speaking out Louder- Jack Layton
   

oh I've got to get the Jack Layton book.  

UltraLongevity: The Seven-Step Program for a Younger, Healthier You by Mark Liponis.  He was on the Rachael Ray Show (love that show--and her magazine too!), and did a very good segment with a 25-year old made over to look like a 46 year old and boy did she look scary!

that sounds like an interesting book, wyk.  what kinda of tips are discussed?  

reading Michael Connelly's Echo Park.  it's nice to find this new book at the library.  


 

 "The Man for a  New Country" by David Ricardo Williams Judge Begbie. I like the judge! (//forums/richedit/smileys/Angry/7.gif)

Of course, I like purelife too! (//forums/richedit/smileys/Other/12.gif)    

You want me to be your Judge?  I can do that Marchi. ;)

 purelife wrote:
You want me to be your Judge?  I can do that Marchi. ;)

Especially since Judge Begbie, was, you know, the Hanging Judge.(//forums/richedit/smileys/Angry/7.gif)

 

purelife wrote:
that sounds like an interesting book, wyk.  what kinda of tips are discussed?  

reading Michael Connelly's Echo Park.  it's nice to find this new book at the library.  

Well, took me almost a week to read this book.  Frankly he doesn't say anything new that we already don't know thanks to Oprah and her Dr. Oz.  The book talked about the immune system and how it is key to keeping us looking younger than our actual age. It is not a diet book or anything like that.   Basically, if you smoke, don't sleep enough, don't breathe right, are eating too many processed foods, aren't having enough sex, aren't taking the time to relax, etc., you'll look older before your actual chronological age.  I would rather have gotten this book from the library for free (but who wants to be #43 on the wait list, eh), but if you're in a hurry and don't mind spending $20 on yet another "sleep 8 hours a night and stop smoking" book, it is worth a look.  (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)

 Now Oprah has me interested in this book, "Eat, Pray, Love."
 


 

Eleanor Rigby- Douglas Coupland
 Londonstanni- Gautam Malkani
   

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Tea ?

lol that would be the greatest coffee table book ever.

Tea?
 

I'm still reading The Old Patagonian Express - I didn't think it would be so interesting. Reason for the length of time I'm taking is that at the moment I'm just too tired to read when I go to bed.  

I just picked-up Alexander McCall Smith's new book - The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

I'm not reading anything at the moment.  I'm just curious as to what your avatar is JJ.....I can't quite make it out.

P.C. wrote:
 I'm not reading anything at the moment.  I'm just curious as to what your avatar is JJ.....I can't quite make it out.  

 It's my favorite game piece, actually it's a points counter.


 

Ahhh....that's probably why I didn't recognize it.  What game ?

Point counter? What the heck's that?

  Currently reading: Son of Dragon by Margaret Weiss

Will someone please explain what a points counter is? Is it something everyone should have?    

P.C. wrote:
 I'm not reading anything at the moment.  I'm just curious as to what your avatar is JJ.....I can't quite make it out.

  I've changed it again to a game piece from Robo Rally.
 

I like that little guy too.....lol

A points counter keeps track of your points in a game.  In the case of the game I play you have life points you try not to go do to zero, when you're dead.  You can also use them for some cards for tricks you've won.

Trojan Odyssey- Clive Cussler  

Lil Me wrote:
Trojan Odyssey- Clive Cussler  
   Not too bad.. I just finished reading a Clive Cussler a-like from another author.. not too bad.

Im reading 'Hide & Seek' by Ian Rankin right now.

I'm still waiting for The Dogs Of War to return to our libtrary, Russ - I've not forgotten.

Wow.. long time.

But Im worried now that when you read it after all this lead up to it.. you might be disappointed! I dont know your reading style..

I liked the last one I read by the same author (I think that's why you recommended TDoW to me in the first place, so it should be o.k.

Vancouver Sun

  :)

Posts on DS.

Devil Wears Prada  

I've seen the movie and it was ok, but I bet that the book is WAYYY better.  

Hmmm, my guy has quite a few books by Clive Cussler and Ian Rankin.  I've never read his books yet...maybe I'll try one.  I've read James Rollins, James Patterson... hmmmm... I have a soft spot for guys named James. :))  hee hee...
 

Lock 14 - Georges Simenon

The Zahir - Paulo Coelho

The Corrections- Jonathan Franzen  

Steel Rain - Tom Neale

Next - Michael Crichton

Next - Michael Crichton  

I've just had a look at the synopsis, it looks as though it would be something I'd enjoy. I'll hunt it down in the library.

Hey Gophie, are you talking about the book I'm currently reading, or Russ's?      

Your's Purelife.

I didn't know that you were into sci-fi.  I've read one of his books called Prey and that was excellent.  I really like his style of writing.

  If you like this genre of books, you will also love "The Discrete Charm of Charlie Monk" by David Ambrose.  I've been trying to find more of David Ambrose's books, but can't find them at the library or book store.

I'm into science fiction occasionally, I tend to get spasms of it - as I've not had one for ages it's about time I did so again. For some reason I  forget about it for months on end.

I'm pretty much the same as you.

  It has been a month since my last good book I got into.  I don't think I ever read murder mysteries and I enjoyed it, surprisingly.  But, it was time to read another one of Michael's books.  :)))

  I hope you get around to reading it.  You'll enjoy it.  I'm already a few pages into it and it's already exciting.

I looked for it in the library, Purelife, but as it wasn't there I've settled for Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock. However, I'm going to keep trying.

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Das Kapital - [span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1196021343_3"]Karl Marx[/span]

only want books. Hopefully I get the Origin of Species because I was denied the right to an evolution class in high school (and my local public school had it banned) and I heard about Richard Dawkins book on a BBC Interview.
 

Maybe you should add these to your list.....to round yourself out.

  Fanny Hill  by John Cleland

  Myra Breckenridge  by Gore Vidal

  Tropic of Cancer by  Henry Miller

  Fear of Flying  by Erica Jong

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Shame on you, P.C.  Corrupting the youngsters!
 
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well like I'm going to find those books in missouri. lol  

Shame on you, P.C.  Corrupting the youngsters!

  Well I ummm....it's just that I....well I was just thinking....ummm...All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ?

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    well like I'm going to find those books in missouri. lol  

  Yer not in Kansas anymore.  

bwhahaha yeah I'm not lol.
when I take a sociology class on feminism i'll be sure to pick those up.

 

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basically, but it deals with feminist ideas as well. a bit.  

  Gopher wrote:
I looked for it in the library, Purelife, but as it wasn't there I've settled for Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock. However, I'm going to keep trying.
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]Hey Gophie...the book is fairly new...so it may take a while, hopefully soon.  i've been taking a while to read it because i only read it on my way to and from work, but so far, so good. :))

 

Prey - Michael Crichton

Hey Gophie!  You found the Prey!  Tell me what you think of the book.  I'm still reading Next....I'm taking a long time because I only read it to and from my ride to work.  It's so far so good.  

Bought the Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment from Amazon going to read it over the break.  

purelife wrote:
Hey Gophie!  You found the Prey!  Tell me what you think of the book.  I'm still reading Next....I'm taking a long time because I only read it to and from my ride to work.  It's so far so good.  
 .........

  I've only read the first 50 pages so far, but what I've read I've liked - I just hope that the technospeak doesn't increase though. I'll definitely try another of his afterwards.

The Chase- Clive Cussler  

The Love Come Softly series by Janette Oke.
 I finished Book 3 this morning, about to start Book 4 later.
 Can't put them down!
   

State of Fear - Michael Crichton  

I loved State of Fear.  

I only started it last night, so I'm not sure at present. However I liked 'Prey' by the same author, which I only finished a couple of days ago.

Currant reading.  

  I'm reading about how to make tit cakes.

I'm googling recipes for them (and looking for photos).  

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I suppose you'll be 'researching'  for several hours ?    

I hope so, but now I must go. Incidentally PC, I'm having a lot of trouble with Internet access at the moment, so if there's a period when I don't appear you'll know why.

I knew you'd like Crichton.  He's one of my favorite!  I finished reading Next and OMG, excellent!  I have State of Fear and will read it after I'm done with my other books.    

State of Fear hasn't yet grabbed me as much as Prey, but it's early days. I'm glad you drew my attention  to Michael Crichton, Purelife  

You'll like NEXT for sure!  

The Golden Buddha- Clive Cussler  

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purelife wrote:
 You'll like NEXT for sure!   ......................

 

 I've just got it from the library and will start it as soon as I've finished my present book.


 

I'm starting into Books 5-8 in the Love Comes Softly series by Janette Oke.
 Great pioneer stories by a Canadian author.
   

Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig.

  Purelife, a million thanks for recommending 'Next'. I almost literally couldn't put it down, it was terrific.    

OMG....I haven't thought about that book for years Goph.  I read that YEARS ago.  Ahhh...sweet nostalgia. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/xmas/a042.gif" border=0]

You're very welcome, Gophie.

The Princess Bride by William Goldsmith (I think). OK, it's technically not written by him but adapted from some French dude.

reading a 3 book series, starting with the first series titled Jumper by Steven Gould.

reading a transportation planning policy/development book.

 

I've jumped on the Next bandwagon.  Thank you, library.

A Backdoor to Heaven - Lionel Blue (but I'll be returning to Zen etc. in a day or so).

Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy

The Broker- John Grisham  

Derailed - James Siegel

Death of A Celebrity - M.C. Beaton

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt- Anne Rice.  

My next reading will be an Ann Rice book too.  My guy just loves her (as an author, that is)  I just can't remember the name of the book that he had suggested though.

The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman. And yes, there's a movie based on the book.

cool i liked the first movie out of three

reading some book my prof wrote about macedonia, then i have to give a book review.
 

Has anyone read Pillars of the Earth yet ?   (Ken Follet)  

i thought this site would be like...

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oh well, thanks anyway :D

   

  Your cleverness is overwhelming.(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Shocked/2.gif)

reading this...for curiosity sake.

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I'm writing that book as we speak, PC.  (//forums/richedit/smileys/Teasing/4.gif)   You wanna write the foreward?  

A Dedicated Man - Peter Robinson

                       and

Written In Blood - Caroline Graham

   

The Scold's Bridle - Minnette Walters.

Are you going to read the sequel ?

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King Beyond the Gate by David Gemmell

P.C. wrote:
 Are you going to read the sequel ?

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  No, but you can always listen to The Bartered Bride if that's any help.

Final Jeopardy - Linda Fairstein

The Fourth Hand- John Irving

 Waiting For Macedonia- Identity in a changing World- Ilká Thiessen.

This is my anthropology prof's book about her 5+ year field work in Macedonia from '91 til '95 more or less. I've got to do a book review on it. Its the most non-academic book reads like a biography/history book. I like it. Main thesis is about how western europeans view "backward eastern europe". You know we've got the funny names, weird food and languages and that whole communism thing. lol
 
basically her class makes me want to move to Budapest.

Not exactly reading it at present, but as I've just given up on The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury (after the first 75 pages) I may as well stick it on the list - if only to remind myself not to try it again.  

Same here Gophie.  I haven't been reading  lately.  I have, however, am addicted to Mario DS!  Too much fun!

Started off again:.

  Tales Of The South Pacific - James A. Michener (the one on which the musical was based).

Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?- Anita Rau Badami
most depressing book i've read in a while. There's no real joy in it at all.
 

Ann Rice - The Mummy or Ramses the Damned

Children of the Danube - Henry A. Fischer
just bought it off of amazon.
 

A Thousand Splendid Suns- Khaled Hosseini
 
 Goph- do you feel the urge to burst forth into song whilst reading South Pacific?
   

No, I had hoped to feel younger than springtime from the reading of this book, however I was very disappointed in it  - the parts which  formed the basis of  the show and the film were very small indeed. The rest wasn't very entertaining.  

[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/musik/f020.gif" border=0]Yeayyyy. Gophie made the 500th post !  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/musik/f020.gif" border=0]

      I'll celebrate anything.

I'll let you.

I'm thinking there isn't much choice.

the intellectual thread turns 500 replies. cool.  

     
 

   

I clearly don't belong in the intellectual thread.
 I'm over in the Brown thread.  Prune juice, anyone?
   

No thanks, I've just had a cup.

Coffee?  Metamucil?  

hahahaha
okay the thread is more oprah's book club but still we're talking about books. lol
 

   

everybody reads maxim these days.
playboy is for old people
 

       
 

     

 bwhaha bach is cool. fine i'll go back to der muttherland pictures. lol
i thought myspace made her famous?
Go to any american university frat house, its all maxim, fhm, men's health. etc.
   

     
   

 Who needs National Geographic when you have Maxim and Stuff?  

   

speaking of grocery store lines. I miss the day when the only 'tabloid' that was on the rack was People. My sister doesn't believe me when I tell her that or that people smoked in grocery stores. lol
She's never known a computer without a 'mouse' :( I'm old.
 

 Lise wrote:
Yep, Russ. He's a fantasy writer and my husband swears by him. Has his whole series. Still going strong too.
 
Here's a summary of the works. You can read more at Wikipedia.
  [h3][span class="mw-headline"][a title="The Wheel of Time" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time"]The Wheel of Time[/a][/span][/h3] You can find chapter summaries for the first eleven Wheel of Time books [a class="external text" title="vny!://wotmania.com/chaptersummaries.asp" href="vny!://wotmania.com/chaptersummaries.asp"]here.[/a][/p] [ol][li][a title="The Eye of the World" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_the_World"]The Eye of the World[/a] ([a title="January 15" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_15"]15 January[/a] [a title="1990" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990"]1990[/a])  [/li][li][a title="The Great Hunt" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Hunt"]The Great Hunt[/a] ([a title="November 15" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_15"]15 November[/a] [a title="1990" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990"]1990[/a])  [/li][li][a title="The Dragon Reborn" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dragon_Reborn"]The Dragon Reborn[/a] ([a title="October 15" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_15"]15 October[/a] [a title="1991" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991"]1991[/a])  [/li][li][a title="The Shadow Rising" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Rising"]The Shadow Rising[/a] ([a title="September 15" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_15"]15 September[/a] [a title="1992" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992"]1992[/a])  [/li][li][a title="The Fires of Heaven" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fires_of_Heaven"]The Fires of Heaven[/a] ([a title="October 15" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_15"]15 October[/a] [a title="1993" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993"]1993[/a])  [/li][li][a title="Lord of Chaos" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Chaos"]Lord of Chaos[/a] ([a title="October 15" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_15"]15 October[/a] [a title="1994" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994"]1994[/a])  [/li][li][a title="A Crown of Swords" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Crown_of_Swords"]A Crown of Swords[/a] ([a title="May 15" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_15"]15 May[/a] [a title="1996" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996"]1996[/a])  [/li][li][a title="The Path of Daggers" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Path_of_Daggers"]The Path of Daggers[/a] ([a title="October 20" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_20"]20 October[/a] [a title="1998" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998"]1998[/a])  [/li][li][a title="Winter's Heart" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter%27s_Heart"]Winter's Heart[/a] ([a title="November 9" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_9"]9 November[/a] [a title="2000" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000"]2000[/a])  [/li][li][a title="Crossroads of Twilight" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_of_Twilight"]Crossroads of Twilight[/a] ([a title="January 7" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_7"]7 January[/a] [a title="2003" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003"]2003[/a])  [/li][li][a title="Knife of Dreams" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_of_Dreams"]Knife of Dreams[/a] ([a title="October 11" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_11"]11 October[/a] [a title="2005" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005"]2005[/a])  [/li][li][a title="A Memory of Light" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Memory_of_Light"]A Memory of Light[/a] (working title) [/li][/ol] [a href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jordan"]vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jordan[/a][/p]
Sadly the series of novels has come to a end

For those who have not heard or do not kno. Sadly Mr Jordan passed away on the 16th of September 2007 from complications of primary [a href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloidosis" title="Amyloidosis"]amyloidosis.[/a]  he was undergoing chemo therapy and other treatments at the time. ( i have not written of this before now. i was so terribly heart broken to lose my favorite author. even now, i find myself growing sad. losing his writing is like losing a best freind.) leaving the last book in the series [a title="A Memory of Light" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Memory_of_Light"]A Memory of Light[/a]  partially written yet unfinnished.  Mr Jordan family along with the publisher have brought in Brandon Sanderson to finish the work.  so those of us who are huge fans of his collective writtings, can read the conclussion to this fantastic series of novels.

the estimated release date for A memory of light is november of 2009
   

Oh my.... yes, Tila is quite the pretty thing, isn't she? (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/13.gif)

  I'm off Robert Jordon. No offense but I'm getting bored with his stuff. I'm now reading Quest for Lost Heroes by David Gemmell.

   

I had a long break from reading, but finally found this book to read:

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Believe it or not, Purelife. I've also had a long break from reading! It's getting uncanny, isn't it? Anyway, I've just started my second reading of The Great Gatsby.

I didn't think you would take breaks, Gophie.  You came across (to me anyways) as a quick reader.  I take forever to finish one book. :)

I AM a quick reader, it's just that I've been too tired recently.

The Color Purple- Alice Walker.  

I like that movie. Verrrrry good.

  David Gemmell's Druss the Legend. Almost ending. Can't wait.

Yikes this thread almost went off the first page!

I looked through my buying history this year on Amazon. I've bought 8 books. lol


 

High Crimes- William Deverell
 Shoeless Joe- W.P. Kinsella
 
   

That brought back some memories.  Have you read Kinsella's Dance Me Outside ?

No, but I've seen the movie.  

There's a movie?  Jeebus....I gotta get with the times.  On the other hand, I usually enjoy a book more than a move...although there are always exceptions of course.

I enjoy the books more as well.
 I can't stay awake through a movie anymore.
   

Curious.....has anyone ever read a book, only to discover that there was a prequel ? ....and if so, would you go back and read the first book?

   

Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay (my third reading of this in not too many years).

When the Game is Over, It all Goes Back in the Box- John Ortberg  

Waylander II by David Gemmell. (finished)

Legend of the Deathwalker by David Gemmell.

Medicine River- Thomas King  

The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham

Die Linke's Manifesto

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The Day Of The Triffids - John Wyndham (I'd forgoten what an enthralling book it is ,despite it's seeming to be slightly dated).

I'm trying to find something to read...

Sacred Stone- Clive Cussler  

Hey Gophie.....have you ever read any of David Nivens' books ?  You strike me as someone who would enjoy them.  The Moon's A Balloon.....Bring on the Empty Horses.  

No, not read any of them - he's a bit before my time!

I see.  Does that matter ?

So Shakespeare is out for you ?

No, I like Shakespeare: we're contemporaries. I should have expressed myself better and said that I've never particularly cared for David Niven.

Well then you probably wouldn't enjoy.  I read them many many years ago, but I remember them being laugh out loud funny.  

In which case, I may be tempted.

(//vny!://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/David_Niven_in_The_Toast_of_New_Orleans_trailer_cropped.jpg).  

Ooo....I just remembered the other one.  Go Slowly and Come back Quickly....or Go Quickly and come back Slowly.....(can't remember, too lazy to look up) ?

Is that a dance, a book or a  romantic liaison?

I think it is a book that you can read while you are doing a romantic dance.

As For Me And My House - Sinclair Ross. I first read this about three years ago and decicded that it was the best work of literature ever to come out of Canada, and I'm wondering how I'll feel about it this time round.

Too Long A Stranger- Janette Oke
 Timeline- Michael Crichton
   

White Wolf - David Gemmell

i was reading the iching and steven kings  the cell  but some dirt bag son of a bitch stole them off my job site ... now i am book less until i buy another copy of the iching and steven kings the cell  damn junkie crack head homeless shits  they got maybe a buck or 2 for the iching and probably 3 dollars for the king book. God damn them all If i catch that little book worm im gonna squash him  (//forums/richedit/smileys/1.gif)

i guess i will reread  mobydick  till i get to a book store on monday


 

Don't like the library, Orik?  

 i got banned from the vpl i took a bunch of books out when i was homeless the sqaut burnt down.. im not alowed a library card till i pay to replace all those books :( :(...  besides i like to own my novels  to reread time and again especialy the realy good ones.. i like have a exstencive home library...  3 6 foot tall 4 foot wide book cases full now and i want 4 more

   

Hey Orik.. I know what you mean. I have bookshelves as well.. and they are overflowing.

  Im currently reading 'The Shadow Man' by John Katzenbach.

Ill have to buy some more books when i hit London as I have only three..

  Hope alls well with you Orik

doing good russ. hows about u mano ?

 got any ideas how i can become a passanger on a merchent vessel one way to the philipines :D i will work for my passage hehe figure its got to be cheaper than buyi9ng air fair whcich i cant afford on the pittance i earn each month... damned air canada wants me to buy 2 seats cause im a bit on the large side... damned obesiety :(


 

No Logo - Naomi Klein
Now I just have to find time to read it.
 

It's a quick read and you'll enjoy it, SD.
 It'll increase your resolve to never set foot in Walmart or Starbucks.
   

lol
It's not like I go to those places already.
I don't know what I'm going to do now that I'm moving to the richest postal code area. Going to miss Harewood although they've now ruined the ambiance of the place, they've gentrified the strip mall there, put in a Starbucks. Oh well there's always DTES, Gastown and Commercial Drive to make me feel at home.
 

Yeah, I'm sure you'll enjoy lots of Vancouver neighbourhoods.
 Plus- there are lots of protests, political meetings, lectures at the library, etc.  It's all listed in the Calender section of the Georgia Straight newspaper (the free one on the street).
 
 
   

Okay, cool.

 

     

The Ghost King (David Gemmell)

tried to read Farewell to Arms by Hemmingway but couldn't get into it.  Snore!  Will try again later when I'm not so exhausted.
 
 
   

   

 Michel wrote:
Have you ever try Animal Farm or 1984 from Orwell ? Brave new World from Aldous Huxley ?
 --
 Read these ones, but not since high school.
 
 
 

   

Hey, I can't read French beyond a picture book or a cereal box.
 
 But I read an English translation of a French book a couple weeks ago.  Caribou Hunter by Serge Bouchard.  
 
   

   

It's the true life stoy of an Inuit hunter in Labrador told to an anthropologist (Serge Bouchard) who wrote it down.  

   

Have a good skytrain trip.  Time to feed the cat.
 
 
   

   

       

You are totally right!  My bad.  Apologies to the Innu.  

   

Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman
 
 yet another sequel to the gothic novel Rebecca...and quite entertaining...
   

A boy of Good Breeding- Miriam Toews

hilarious Canadian novel.  Read it, Goph?

No. I haven't been able to even start anything for a couple of weeks. I'll have a look for it when I go to the library again.

Got my reading list for 20th Century German Literature and Contemporary German. Freaking awesome.



 

What look as though they'll be the highlights?

Well my prof's list is avoiding the easy topic of World War II. I don't have to read Mein Kampf and that prof's list has All Quiet on the Western Front and I've read 'the trilogy' by Erich Maria Remarque in high school.
Well for the first semester I've got Gerhart Hauptmann, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Georg Kaiser, Robert Walser, Joseph Roth, Bertolt Brecht, Veza Canetti. With movies being Fritz Lang's Metropolis as the stand out movie I know of.  Again the prof aviods Hitler, which is fine. I've seen Triumph of the Will about 3 times (high school and its on IFC every once in a while).

I don't know the second semester authors that well.
 

No Hesse? That's disgusting!

Nope. That's a glaring admission by all the classes.  

The Shiva Option

  By David Webber and Steve White

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*sobs*

Just finished The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks.

 Lil Me wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]*sobs*[/div] [div style="font-style: italic;"]Just finished The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks.[/div]
It certainly is a tear jerker.  That's funny that you mentioned it because I started reading it again yesterday.  I just love that book.

I read another one of his love story and it was good too.
 

Plague Ship- Clive Cussler

Exciting book, despite what TB thinks about Clive Cussler...    

burning through the rest of the Nicholas Sparks canon of works.
 
 Bend in the Road
 Love at First Sight
 The Wedding (it's the sequel to The Notebook!!!)
 
   

Ooo... I haven't read the prequel yet.  Lemme know if it's good and if it helps to read it.

  At First Sight - I really enjoyed this book.  It has been a while since I read it.

  Are ya gonna read Dear John?  

  ADD:  I also heard that "True Believer" book is the prequel to At First Sight.  

  I really enjoy his books but some are so terribly sad...yet most romantic.

  Lil Me - did you watch the movie for Notebook?  

  Sorry for all the questions, he's one of my fav authors and I just absolutely love the movie and the book.  

I have a hankerin to read War and Peace, but I reckon it would take me a century to finish.  

Have not yet seen any of the Nicholas Sparks movies.

Trying to read all the books- waiting for them to arrive on the holdshelf for me.

  The Wedding was amazing

Next up: The Choice.

I am reading some good ol fluff.  I just wanted something that engaged me instantly and that I didn't have to think too much.  (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)   Every once in a while, it's good to catch up on missed fluff.  Mary Higgins Clark, (the fluffiest.....but great for an easy read) John Grisham (semi-fluffy), James Patterson.....etc.  Right now is MHC, I Heard that Song Before.    

No War and Peace?!

Perhaps in my next life.

Lil Me wrote:
The Wedding was amazing

  Thanks.  I'll have to read that one.  

  I've been reading The Rescue by Sparks.  So far so good.  

  It sounds like you're in a romance mood. :)  You definitely have to watch The Notebook.  You will absolutely love it if you love the book.    
 

War and Peace really is well worth reading: what's more it's thoroughly enjoyable.

Hi Gophie [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/a010.gif" border=0]......I don't doubt it for a minute.  I just don't have the patience for a long read right now.  Maybe some day.  ( I think I started it years and years and years ago)

Der Mann aus St. Petersburg - Ken Follett (just to see if I can still read a book in German without too much difficulty).

Awesome, Goph!
 I admire people who read in other languages as a challenge.  Me, I'm too lazy.  
 
 I'm starting on a Beverly Lewis series.  Takes place amongst the Pennyslvania Dutch Amish.
 
 
   

Are you allowed to use a Book-light when you're reading that ?

lol  

P.C. wrote:
 Are you allowed to use a Book-light when you're reading that ?[/DIV]...............
 [FONT color=#0000bf]Only if it doesn't work.[/FONT]

     
   
 

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I'm too lazy to go back and look to see if I mentioned this book before.  But I just read it again (which is really rare for me) and I loved it all over again.  So if I did mention it before....I'm mentioning it again.

  The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd    

You have P.C. I remember.  :)

 

Hey, I've read that PC - it's fascinating.

I liked it a lot too Gophie.  

The Robber Hotzenplotz - Otfried Preussler

The Third Man - Graham Greene

 It's funny how you guys were talking about The Secret Life of Bees!
 
I just purchased it today and can't wait to read it.[/div][div]
Are you guys going to watch the movie when it comes out?
 
I also heard that the book, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is good.  Has anyone read it?

I'm half way into the Secret Life of Bees and really really enjoy it.  Good choices, PC and Gophie.  Thanks. :)

Lil Me - I think you'll like it too. :)
 

Kafka's Before the Law



 

Book Of The Dead - Patricia Cornwell

Metamorphosis - Kafka

 

I preferred Ovid's Metamorphoses! lol.

Hmm not a Kafka fan Gopher?
So many different meanings to his works, at least I what find. To me though everything is either political or it's a statement of religious hierarchy. So when we read Kafka's original Before the Law (not the posthumously extended piece where 'K' is talking to a priest), I saw him talking about Religion and life's bureacracies that we've created. lol
 

     
 

Yeah the absurdity is hard to take some times for me. I keep coming back to the question of 'what's the point to this? or am I just reading a ramble of nonsensical lines put together on a page?' Then again it is expressionism.
 

The Fallen Idol - Graham Greene

Jon Kellerman - Rage

sorry Im about 25 books farther than teh last time I mentioned waht I was reading.. no idea what they all were either! lol.
 

Life of Pi by Yann Martel.  

ooooh.  I liked Life of Pi....even though I didn't really "get it". (all the symbolism about the boy, the lifeboat, the tiger...)  I have no idea what the book was really about.
 
   

I have to say, I'm glad to hear that Lil Me.  I too am floundering a bit.  I'm on the track, that the symbolism of his collection of religions and his interaction with the animals on the lifeboat, are somehow related....but I'm not quite far enough in the story to know if this is so.

but I do want a pet tiger now.  

lol....I want a pet tiger every time I see a cub on the news.  (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)

So, are you saying this book is an elusive enigma to the end ?  I'm already at that stage where I'm hoping for it to start connecting. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/10.gif)  

   
 

Bump this question for PC and Gopher:  (posted from last page)

   It's funny how you guys were talking about The Secret Life of Bees!



I just purchased it today and can't wait to read it.



Are you guys going to watch the movie when it comes out?



I also heard that the book, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is good.  Has anyone read it?[/DIV]

Eat Pray Love was ok.  I didn't hate it nor love it.

Will you be watching the movie when it comes out?  

I probably wouldn't go out of my way to watch it.....but if it happened to be on, I wouldn't turn away.  It's a great story....and I can't see any room for Hollywood to ruin this story.  It's basic and wonderful in its simplicity and there is little room for wild interpretation.....which is usually the downfall of books turned to film.

Metamorphosis- Kafka
Kafka week continues.
 

Oh I just remembered the book A Separate Peace- by John Knowles as one of the books that had a major influence.
 

A Gun For Sale - Graham Greene

   
 

Exit Music- Ian Rankin  

Kafka and his killing machine aka In The Penal Colony.

 

The Quiet American - Graham Greene

     
 

I'm hoping that the book will be as well. At the moment I'm finding it heavy going.

   
 

no more Kafka! yes!

Robert Walser- The Walk... Kafka's favourite author, so Kafka isn't really leaving he's just become a haunting ghost, floating around, saying boo.
 

     
 

well we are moving our way up the century, but my prof threw in the 'hey guys he was Kafka's favourite author for all you guys who looooove Kafka. haha"  

     
 

ehh i'm 50/50 on the guy. During our first story from him I connected the dots about what he wrote about, the idea that the door keeper said there were more doors and more keepers that he couldn't take it either, like it was sickening to him, the idea he was talking about bureaucracies just made sense.
 Then from last year I knew Max Weber was still around during Kafka's period, and I knew Weber was big on these burgeoning bureucracies. Then came Metamorphosis and the Penal Colony, same ideas with different spins.

After the first reading we started talking about Kafka's life because he's writing about his life in these books. Sure enough, his job entailed about being in a burecracy.  

With Kafka we just read the background on him of when he wrote such and such.
 

Cannery Row - John Steinbeck  

Oh, I enjoyed that one.

ahhhh you guys read so many books! I'm lucky if I get through 3 novels (that I pick myself) in a year...  there are video games to be played!  

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Marik wrote:
ahhhh you guys read so many books! I'm lucky if I get through 3 novels (that I pick myself) in a year...  there are video games to be played!  
   But you still do lots of reading, even if not from books.  Games have plenty of caption to read.  (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)

lol purelife tell that to my parents!

 

The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd
 

The Painted House- John Grisham....fabulous read.  I'm not usually a Grisham fan (though I read most of the books...lol) but this one is GOOD.
 
 Got another pile of Beverly Lewis books from the library- another series of novels about the Amish.
   

The Memory of Running - Ron McLarty

  Thanks for the recomendation on Painted House. (I saw it the other day but wasn't sure if I should read it)  I'll check that out after my read.

 Lil Me wrote:
The Painted House- John Grisham....fabulous read.  I'm not usually a Grisham fan (though I read most of the books...lol) but this one is GOOD.
 
Got another pile of Beverly Lewis books from the library- another series of novels about the Amish.
 
I read all of Grishams books. Like his writing style.
Why are you reading novels about the Amish? Trying to become a nun or something? :)

Im reading solar wars by charles solgrid
 

I like reading about different cultures.
 The Amish aren't nuns, Russ!!!!  They're farmers.  They don't use much technology because they want to live "the simple life".  I think there's wisdom in that.
 
   

Have you watched "The Village" Lil Me?  It refers to the Amish.

   

 

lol.  I should get a straw hat to go with my fur.
 
 Haven't seen the movie, purelife.
   

Hmmm.  I read the Painted House, but I don't recall it being a Grisham.  I mean, I know it is, but for some reason it doesn't ring a bell.  (I've read all of his stuff too Russ)

  Lil Me.....I finally slugged my way through The Life of Pi.  I have no idea what value the first 37 chapters had in that story.  Almost tossed it, but my friend insisted I try to hang in.  Middle of the book was sensational....nail biting and totally exciting, hard to put down....all to end up with an ending as dull as the beginning.  Grrrrrr

Uhm.... is anyone here into fantasy?? Am I the only odd one out? (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Teasing/5.gif)

  David Gemmell's Troy: Lord of the Silverbow

 Lil Me wrote:
I like reading about different cultures.
The Amish aren't nuns, Russ!!!!  They're farmers.  They don't use much technology because they want to live "the simple life".  I think there's wisdom in that.
 
  LOL! I know the Amish arent into tech.. Just buggin' ya!
I really got a good vision and idea about them when I followed a girl to Guelph one time.. just outside there, there's a farmers market.. and a HUGE amish population.
I think its called St Jacob's farmers market.. the homemade sausage and soap is out of this world! I have friends that have family there, and whenever they go, I dont have to ask them to bring back any anymore.
 

oooooh!  I love homemade soap.  Russ- you would like goat's milk soap (I'm not a fan).  Makes you smell very goat-y.
 
 
   

 Lil Me wrote:
oooooh!  I love homemade soap.  Russ- you would like goat's milk soap (I'm not a fan).  Makes you smell very goat-y.

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Gone With The Wind - for the umpteenth time, it should keep me going for the next three weeks or so.

Job- Joseph Roth

just finished it. Nice easy read if you're looking into the struggles of an Eastern European family moving to North America. Funny because Roth never visited New York City yet he gets ever right about it.
 

I found out that one of my favorite authors died the other day...Michael Crichton.  (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/11.gif)

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Bertolt Brecht - The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

the hitler satire play.
 

The Art of Racing in the Rain- Garth Stein
 
 This is the best book.  Amazing descriptions.  The dog is the narrator.
 
 
   

Still wallowing in Gone With The Wind - only another 700 pages to go.

   
 

The book is a billion times better

   

Read it and find out.

   
 

I think what I've most liked about it (so far) has been the account of the civil war.

   
 

You've got it - now put your teeth back in.

   
 

lol the civil war my state's finest achievement to mankind.
"bushwacked"
bloody bill
jesse james
guerrilla confederate tigers
Lawrence Massacre
bleeding Kansas
Claiborne Fox Jackson
Dred Scott case

 

I highly recommend The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
 I think everyone here would enjoy it.
 Don't be deceived..it's not about auto racing.  It's about life.  (just like Shoeless Joe wasn't really about baseball)
   

Thanks for the recomendation Lil Me.  I'm always looking for good books.  I'll place a reserve on library's website for the Painted House and this one. :)

Just finished GWTW (at last) so now I'm reading about its writing in The Road To Tara by Anne Edwards  

 Lil Me wrote:
I highly recommend The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
I think everyone here would enjoy it.
Don't be deceived..it's not about auto racing.  It's about life.  (just like Shoeless Joe wasn't really about baseball)

I just started reading this book and am enjoying it so far.  The story is making me chuckle and want a dog even more!  I wonder why it's a 2-week loaner instead of the usual 4-weeks....
   
 

One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovitch - Alexander Solzhenitsyn.  

   

Not read anything by him before - one of those authors who I just kept putting off.  

   

I haven't decided yet, I'll figure out tomorrow

hmm sounds like a good title for a book. lol
 

 Hated Denisovitch and gave up after 40 pages, now reading The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark.  

   

Finished reading the Art of Racing in the Rain... sad sad book...cried a few times. :(

  Now, I'm just waiting for the Marley and Me book at the library.  Got it on hold.

 Michel wrote:
lol was it too depressive ?  
....
No, I just found it relentless  

   
 

 Michel wrote:
I checked relentless, but not sure which definition to applied.
Ha! I gots you to 400 points there Michel. Sorry, small things amuse small minds
 

     
   

lol, my karma points are going up alot faster as well!

Im currently reading The BFG by Roald Dahl... yes yes its a kids book but I used to love him
 

     
 

We sure do, almost as much as we love everyone else on this forum!

Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
 

Daphne - Justine Picardie  

 Robert ludlum the bourne ultimatum... been reading it since nov 8 th. normally a 3 day rad. now over a month just no energy to read.

 also reading a little of spontaneous healing.  and accumulated web pages on jaundice hepatitis / liver failure / healing foods / high potassium low salt dieting .. and other ridiculous malarkey... most of it sounds like complete bunk.

i wouldn't mind having a juicer and trying some of the things.

sugarcane juice with lemon sounds pretty darn tasty..

fresh pineapple juice with carrots sounds good too

tomato juice and lime  sounds yucky

 id probably wash that down with a cup of sugar cane and lemon

just were do i get sugar cane and how do i remove the juice
isn't it like wooden and to big for a juicer...

 

just were do i get sugar cane and how do i remove the juice
isn't it like wooden and to big for a juicer...
 
 Orik,
 
 I've seen sugar cane juicers in vietnam, they are a cross between a bench press and a bicycle tire - they start by using a machete to chop off the bark then they run it through this press kinda thingy that has an adjustable knob on it to increase the pressure and then they turn this crank and the juice pours out. Not sure how they do it here.  (//forums/richedit/smileys/10.gif) The contraption looks like a metal box with a wheel on it.

 
 

  thanks van_guy... now if i could only find a sugarcane juicer box and a place with a ton of cheap sugarcane... sighs.. or perhaps a place that sells sugarcane juice...

 

Orik wrote:
 thanks van_guy... now if i could only find a sugarcane juicer box and a place with a ton of cheap sugarcane... sighs.. or perhaps a place that sells sugarcane juice...
 
 Not sure where to find any of that stuff this side of the pacific.
 
 

John Grogan - Marley & Me.  

Determined to finish the Lost Continent- Bill Bryson. Its a good humour/travel/memoir book if you want to know about the midwest/south where I grew up. The writer/humourist travel writer is too much like myself. He wrote in the book he wanted to be a European boy living in Europe at around 12 and didn't care much for corn fields and Iowa or (insert state). lol
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 sounds like as good read sportsdude. sorry to hear of ur grammama hugs to u and ur family and blessings of the creator to you all may ur gram ma recover quickly and come home  may ur new year be a happy and blessed one

The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte - Daphne du Maurier  

When a friend lends you a book that they really really liked....totally psyched about it.......and you hated it......what do you say when they ask you if you loved it ?????

  Are you polite ?  and tell them it was great ?  Or do you tell the truth ?

 i have always been one to admit my feelings about that.. not all persons have the same taste... but it can lead to arguments sometimes, so it has to depend on how adamant the friend is on the author and book in question...

but it would give you something to talk about why you hated it and why they loved it and other points of the novel...

 

Just mumble incomprehensibly.  

Hi Gophie !!!!!!!

  I feel bad when I don't like a book that a friend was excited to lend me.  Last book in question was Life of Pi.  It was easier to voice my opinion  when she said..."Do you want me to explain it to you ?" .(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Angry/3.gif)  

 That sounds rather patronising.  

It FELT rather patronizing.  I'm sure she didn't mean to be insulting....I think/hope she might have been trying to say....Can I tell you what I got from that book ?  

Superiority?  

I don't think so Gophie.  I really think she just worded it badly.  She was totally tickled by the book, and I wasn't.  I GOT it....I just didn't care for it.  The beginning was tedious, the middle was fantastic...loved it....the ending was weird and a big letdown.

  Besides....I've always maintained, that if someone has to explain a book to me, the writer did a poor job telling their story.

That's true. I'm struggling through my present book at the moment, even tho' the last one I read was all about its writing!  

I remember one of the books recommended on Oprah's bookclub.  In the beginning I read them all.  Then, there was one....I don't even remember the name of it....where they kept saying, if you lose interest, or get confused, or you're not getting it, START OVER.  And KEEP doing that until you get it.  THEN, they dedicated a whole hour to explaining the damn book to all of us mental midgets who weren't enjoying it.  Now I'm sorry....best seller or not....you did your job poorly.  If I need to read a guide, on how to understand what you wrote....I don't want to read it.  Just entertain me.

 lol hear hear....

hear hear...

goes back to rereading the sword of truth series
 

The Tenth Man - Graham Greene  

   
 

I read the book and throughly enjoyed it, however I've not yet seen the film.  

   

Crabwalk- Günter Grass

next up is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S. Thompson
 

The Thing On The Doorstep: And Other Weird Stories - H.P. Lovecraft  

Ann Veronica - H.G. Wells  

   
 

Mediterranean Caper by Clive Cussler. It was his first Dirk Pitt novel from back in the '70s and much clunkier than his other novels.  

[img style="WIDTH: 100px; HEIGHT: 148px" height=423 src="vny!://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c130/WriterUnboxed/inkheart.jpg" width=177] Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. Good tween book. Next on my list, Twilight just cuz everyone's reading it.

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it came today, which means Seattle and the getaway is coming near. relaxation (not got a book review and midterms to study but 3 days away from Vancouver)

 

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  Wut ?

 Michel wrote:
Never heard about it, read a few however from that author, the most well known and a few others more obscure, including his impressions of his travels in Soviet Russia at the time of the Civil War and of Stalin's terror.
.............

It's a very long way from being his best. It's also very 'dated'.

 

   

   Very verrrry weak is a good description of this book as well.    

 P.C. wrote:
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Wut ?

lol fear and loathing in Las Vegas PC

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Yes....I read that.  It was your cryptic post I didn't follow.    

oh i see.
i'm reading the book in seattle after midterm chaos of next week.

 

Homecoming  - Bernhard Schlink  

Through Black Spruce- Joseph Boyden
 The 2008 Giller Prize winning novel.
   

 Gopher wrote:
Homecoming  - Bernhard Schlink  
...............

One of the best 'new to me' books I've come across in ages.
 

The Way of the Shadow by Brent Weeks

 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell  

   
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The Old Patagonian Express - Paul Theroux (second time around)  

Pompeii - Robert Harris  

Finished The Gum Thief by Doug Coupland.
 
 Like any Doug Coupland, it's full of witty description but also makes one feel generally depressed and lethargic.
 
 
   

 The Plague - Albert Camus  

   

 

Not as overwhelmingly wonderful as I had been led to believe. I recall reading it in my teens (600 years ago) and not finding it very special even then. I just thought I'd give it another try and see if my opinion had changed.  

   

Road to Omaha by Robert Ludlum

I'm reading Ageless Body Timeless Mind by Deepak Chopra.....again.  It didn't take the first time.[img onclick="selecte('eh.gif');" alt=emoticon src="vny!://www.pushupstairs.com/images/emoticon/blehnet/eh.gif" border=0]

 Michel wrote:
lol same here. I read it twice in the original French and was not impressed. I too give it another try after many years just in case. I suspect that a lot of Camus prestige is coming from political reasons as he was the only well known anticommunist intellectual who participate in the French Resistance.
 
I found [em]La Chute[/em] however much better ("the fall" maybe it would be called in English)......

I was relieved that you had the same reaction to this book, I thought I was the only one.
 

   
 

So... its just a crummy book? Cant be... never the problem of a book.  

 I should finish it sometime today, then I'm going to read the introduction so that I can discover why it is so highly acclaimed (and what points I may have overlooked).  

     
     

 Michel wrote:

Probably not as it brought a Nobel Prize to his author eventually, but it aged a lot I would say. First of all, it's antichristian and deals with morality, who cares today except believers that are disappearing from the surface of the Earth at a speed never seen before in History? We're no longer in the 1940's, that crap is too old, especially in French culture or for any advanced element in societies of today, no matter from which culture you're from. Second, it's an allusion to the German Nazi occupation of France in the daily lives of people. This period has been long forgotten (I mean at the daily life level), so it's hard for modern readers to see it and connect to it. Anyway, personally, even with that in mind, I feel it's still an extremely weak "denounciation" of fascism.

For the Nobel Prize issue that I talked about earlier, I must defend in a way Camus, although I'll pinch my nose at the same time. Camus was more a petty bourgeois radical anarchist than an anticommunist as he obviously never understood what Stalinism was. Actually Simone De Beauvoir even wrote that he was so out of touch with Marxism that he decided not to sacrifice any time to study it seriously. That kind of "intellectual" is well recognized and applauded by the powers in place. And during the Cold War, just a few years after thousands of Communist partisans wage a guerilla war against Germany and Italy plus their local fascist bourgeoisie all over Europe, this was even more true than ever. He's to be put in the same group as Orwell, Malraux and Koestler, although strangely he's associated by people who obviously know nothing about Existentialism with this last current. Big mistake as Existentalism embrace Stalinism, then Maoism that they associated falsely to Marxism, but of course never Trotskyism, which is revolutionary Marxism. It's possible that all these people would have arise themselves politically to some temporary levels reached by Maxim Gorky or Diego Rivera at the most in another era where the Left wouldn't have been suffocated by Stalinism, but probably never more, and especially not Camus, by far the weakest politically speaking of them all. This help a lot to get a Nobel prize in such times. This help actually so much that when Sartre was nominated for the Nobel at his turn, he just refused it, as he was not happy at all that the bourgeoisie try to recuperated his works. Let's say that traumatized him so much that he began selling Maoist newspapers on the street as to purify himself and prove to the world that he was not "one of them" lol To the merit of Sartre however, he actually wrote an equivalent to La Peste called Les Mouches (the Flies). It's a theater play denouncing the nazi occupation of France too. And contrary to Camus who wrote about these events after the war, Sartre presented it in Paris during the Nazi occupation. This play is so weak that even the German officers assisting the play never understood it was antinazi ah ah ! Poor Sartre...

For people outside of French culture, I think all these people are probably called "Existentialists" because they are all French speaking, antireligious, antifascist and "left" leaning in one way or another, and all from the same era and from the same class. But Camus was actually an absurdist, just like Kafka. You can't really get excited with that, as there's no point to get excited about the absurdity of our life. But of course this is "mandatory religious reading" in all universities of the world as it sound "profound intellectual wouh scary" and yet it's totally inofensive to the rule of society. Maybe a conservative priest from last mid century would found La Peste shocking, but I ain't no priest.

Let's say it might have been a good book but it aged a lot and it's kept alive by a crummy intelligentsia, which in turn is nurtured by regiments of pedantic university students generations after generations who just parrot about it to prove they have [span style="color: rgb(185, 185, 185); font-style: italic;"]bourgeois[/span] culture? Anyway, what can you oppose to La Peste today? Da Vinci Code ? John Le Carré or whatever crap is sold at Chapters? La Peste will survived for decades to come if nothing culturally change as [span style="background-color: rgb(185, 185, 185); font-style: italic;"][/span]a[span style="color: rgb(185, 185, 185); font-style: italic;"][/span] [span style="color: rgb(185, 185, 185); font-style: italic;"]weak (my personal opinion here) [/span]witness of an Era, but that doesn't mean it deserve to be praise by readers of today anymore.

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Wow that was a response. LOL.
thanks Michel.. intersting.
 

   
 

The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins  

The war with Mr Wizzle by Gordon Korman  

You can discuss books with Heckyl, Russ.  He reads the same stuff :)  

Heckyl could probably polish off War and Peace in an afternoon.

 Lil Me wrote:
You can discuss books with Heckyl, Russ.  He reads the same stuff :)  

LOL, pretty much hey? I used to read gordon korman as I used to be a real bookworm and would read about a book a day.
I found these at Value Village... and had to buy them to read them again.


 

Good to a Fault- Marina Endicott


 

Cure for Death By Lightening- Gail Anderson-Dargatz
great novel by a BC author
 

     
 

lol.  THAT'S what you never finish a book.  You pick books that are heavily political and require a lot of thinking = slow reading.
 
   

   
 

The Wall Jumper- Peter Schneider

I like it a lot.




 

The Scapegoat - Daphne du Maurier.  

Gregg Distributors Ltd.

Im looking for some new aluminum storage boxes.. so far the ones I want are 1800 bucks and Im not going there.. so Im looking for hardware to make my own.
 

Russ, did you catch Lil Me's post in the Lunch thread ?

  "Where's Russ?  There's a locking truck box on sale at Princess Auto for $279.99.  Steel, dual locks, 36-1/4"x17-3/4"x18".  88.6lbs. "

All Quiet On The Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque  

       

 Pretty awesome reading isn't it? And STILL there are wars!  

I read that book in high school. (The Road Back)
Need to read Three Comrades since its sort of a trilogy.


 

   
 

     

Yeah The Road Back was banned by the Nazis. Funny what I read in History class in grade 9-10, its where I got most of my political views. Animal Farm, Candide, Western Front, The Road Back, A Separate Peace and so on. lol lol The conservative Christian school failed in its motto.  

Anything that's banned by anyone is always worth reading.  

MICHEL !!!   (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/3.gif)   I missed you.  So did you consider your trip a success ?  Sounds like it was pretty good.  

   

The New Life - Orhan Pamuk  

 Ekaterinburg: The Last Days Of The Romanovs - Helen Rappaport  

 Gopher wrote:
The Last Days Of The Romanovs: Ekaterinburg - Helen Rappaport  

This one sounds interesting.. let me know how it turns out!
 

Like you, I'm breathless with excitement as to the outcome.

All joking aside, this is (so far) the best book I've read on the subject.  

Sounds good gopher..

Im currently reading another Clive Cussler book.
 

The Phantom Of The Opera - Gaston Leroux  

Recipe for Bees- Gail Anderson-Dargatz
 (partly takes place in your neck of the woods, P.C.)
 
 I've been reading Giller Prize finalists for the past few months.
   

Really.  I might have a read just because.

  Not related to The Secret Life of Bees, I guess.  I so liked that book.

(So did I, PC)

    Giant - Edna Ferber

Under The Tricolor - Mary Medawar  

I liked that book too.

I'm reading Pray Love Eat - Elizabeth Gilbert.  I'm not sure if I'm going to finish it yet....
 

Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje

Understanding and Caring For Your Septic System.

A little light reading, P.C.?  Or is it making you feel flushed?

LOL....no.  It's shitty reading. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/2.gif) The more I read, the more disheartened I'm getting.  

Summer Crossing - Truman Capote  

TWILIGHT!!! I've jumped on that bandwagon.

ahahaha hahahaha ahahaha

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LOL Lil Me.  I have to admit, it's tripped off my curiosity too.  (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)

 The Brutal Art - Jesse Kellerman.  

P.C. wrote:
 LOL Lil Me.  I have to admit, it's tripped off my curiosity too.  [img border=0 src="vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif"]  --

 I think you should read it.  You too will have a crush on the 17 year old vampire named Edward Cullen, who is actually 104.


 

It's been a year and I'm almost finished with Bill Bryson's Lost Continent. Thoroughly enjoyed the journey home, and discovered that I'm a travel writer at heart. lol


 

LOVE Bill Bryson.

  Republic of Love- Carol Shields

You've read him Lil Me? I get a little misty eyed when he starts talking about home. Iowa/Missouri same thing really.  

   

 [span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"]Lil Me wrote:[/span][br style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"][span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"]P.C. wrote:[/span][br style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"] [div style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"][em]LOL Lil Me.  I have to admit, it's tripped off my curiosity too.[/em]  (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif) [/div] [p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"]--[/p] [p style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"]I think you should read it.  You too will have a crush on the 17 year old vampire named Edward Cullen, who is actually 104.[/p][hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]I watched the Twilight movie the other night and really liked it.  It was such a chick flick.  I am looking forward to reading this love story series.  I bet the book is 100 times better than the movie.  
[/p]
 

The Wicker Man -  Robert Hardy/Anthony Shaffer  

The Last Witchfinder - James Morrow  

The second Twlight book.

I can't wait to get my hands on the Twilight series.  A friend is going to loan me the first 4 books!!!

There's a tv series called True Blood that is also a vampire-based show.  And then another new show called Vampire Diaries.  And there's another vampire book series that's out too.  
 

The Image of the City- Kevin Lynch

Really easy quick read. Half way through in more or less 3hrs of reading. (I read slow)

 

Finished reading the first Twilight book and am on the second one.

 

The Bellini Madonna - Elizabeth Lowry  

Eclipse - 3rd book of the Twilight series.  I dunno if I want to finish this one.  

OMG. We're so alike, purelife. I'm on New Moon. Must admit, I am getting a tad bored with the book already.

  Lise wrote:
OMG. We're so alike, purelife. I'm on New Moon. Must admit, I am getting a tad bored with the book already.

I agree.  The 2nd book was very boring.  I know that she's a teen writer but the story just drags on and on and on......  but I finally finished it.  I kinda started on the 3rd one, but I can already predict what is going to happen.  You going to finish the entire series?

 

I'm about 1/2 way through the 2nd book.  Haven't read for about 2 weeks, due to life getting in the way.

I am going to try to finish the entire series.

  And oh man, do I have a big crush on Edward. *sigh*

Have any of you ladies watched Twilight yet?  And planning to watch New Moon?

I personally prefer seeing Miss Bella with Jacob rather than Edward.  :)
 

Yes. I watched Twilight en route to Hong Kong. I wasn't impressed but the boy did look yummy. I bit pale for my liking (I much prefer darker men) but then again he's a vampyr so it's not a surprise.

  Not sure about New Moon. Maybe I will.... if I can stomach the screaming tweens.

  I'm beginning to think Bella should go out with Jacob. I mean, c'mon... why the frack did Edward have to leave her? Insensitive jerk.  

LOL Lise.

The only thing that appeals to me about the Edward character is his voice.  I'm about half way in the 3rd book and so far, it's quite interesting, at least more so than the 2nd.  I heard the 4th one is boring.  And that the writer is re-writing the 5th book because her final book was leaked to the internet and some guy read it so she is re-writing it and killing some characters on the way.  It's a rumor, so who knows.
 

I like Edward's eyes and how they change depending on his mood. *scream*

  ORLY? Stephanie Meyers is thinking about writing the fifth book? That's crazy but heck, I can't wait to read it. Maybe she'll turn Bella into a vampire at last. Wouldn't that be great?

  OK. I officially need to get out more.

Ah yes, I forgot about those eyes......

Apparently she already wrote her 5th book but since the internet leak, she's going to re-write it....again!!  I wasn't sure if I worded it correctly at my last post.  

I just know people who are more of a fanatic about the Twilight series than I am.  
 

I've three co-workers at work who are Twilight fans so we spend the hours just chatting about Edward and Jacob. So far, Jacob's been winning the post of hottest character. Hehe.

  Have you seen the New Moon trailer, purelife? It looks sooo good.

Yup, sure have, Lise.  I could already tell that things are a bit different from the book when Jacob turned into a wolf (in the trailer) to attack Laurent.  The book is much different.  I won't be watching it in theatres though.  You?

Oh, and even MrPL is going to read the book too.  He's just thinking about skipping book one and heading to book two.
 

I don't know, purelife. I'm not a big fan of the first Twilight movie. I was kinda disappointed. So maybe I'll wait for the DVD to come out. *shrug*

  Don't tell Mr. PL to skip the first book. I think the first book is probably the best since it explains a lot that the movie don't.

  Yeah, the second movie seems to move away from the book base line. I guess there's not much excitement happening there so I can understand why.

A Place Called Freedom - Ken Follett  

Zoli - Colum McCann  

Gosh, you're a fast reader, Gopher.

  Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer

Starting the 4th book of the Twilight series.    

 Dancer - Colum McCann  

Doing Gender- Candace West and Don Zimmerman
from: Gender and Society vol. 1 no. 2 (1987)

Yesterday was even more fascinating, Inclusion and Exclusion in pre-adolescents from the 80s among white middle class 4th graders who liked to utter 'f---' in their daily speech.  I found that rather interesting, as expletive did not enter my lexicon basically until middle school. Heck, I didn't even know the word existed until someone told me to spell it out on the bus in grade 3.

 

Im reading a few Louis L'amour books right now.  

A Dangerous Fortune - Ken Follett  

Engels - 1884

undecided on next book, I think my brain needs a break from theory/non-fiction.

I'm thinking..

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

In American literature I tend to gravitate towards midwestern/southern and new england works. And this is part of the 'southern cannon'

I thought about reading Richard Wright's Native Son, but I'm just not in that kind of mood this summer.

 

Saltfish Girl by Larissa Lai.    

No Man's River by Farley Mowat

Ice Station by Matt Reilley

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The Fate Of The Malous - Georges Simenon

Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  Certainly one of the best books that has come my way in the last five years.

Death of a Witch - MC Beaton

Schultz and Peanuts - A Biography

Winnie and Wolf - A.N. Wilson, and if it's only half as good as Love In The Time Of Cholera, I won't complain.

Heart and Soul - Maeve Binchy

July 2009.. Popular Mechanics  

Illustrated History Of Europe - Frederic Delouche

Jewel - Bret Lott

I forgot to add that I'm concurrently reading Winnie and Wolf again - I started it again the moment I'd read the last page.

Whenever I discover a schedule that works, bedtime reading will be Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

 

Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

We Were The Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates

The Holocaust: A New History - Doris Bergen

A really bad textbook on Asia.

 

The Castle In The Forest - Norman Mailer

Gopher wrote:
The Castle In The Forest - Norman Mailer

P.S. I've decided to give up on this. The start was far too complicated and having looked at several other parts I decided it wasn't my kind of reading.

Really? How come? I'd like to start reading.  

The Courilof Affair - Irene Nemirovsky

The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene  

The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown

Let me know how that one is, Lil Me.  I was so disappointed with The DaVinci Code....so I'd be interested to hear a report on it.  

Hondo, Louis Lamour


Ive been getting addicted to these darn books again
 

 I didn't persevere with The Power and the Glory so now I'm reading David Golder by Irene Nemirovsky  

[span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"]Russ wrote:  Hondo, Louis Lamour[/span][br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"][br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"][br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"][span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"]Ive been getting addicted to these darn books again[/span]


I hope this doesn't spoil anything for you, but I always think of Louis Lamour as the guy equivalent to Harlequin Romance.  (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/3.gif)  

I always associate him with Dorothy.

 P.C. wrote:
I hope this doesn't spoil anything for you, but I always think of Louis Lamour as the guy equivalent to Harlequin Romance.  (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/3.gif)  

LOL, I guess in a ways it is!
 

Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky

Tea For The Traditionally Built -  Alexander McCall Smith

audio books bromliad trilogy by terry pratchett taking a break from reading I like to listen to them while working

 

P.C. wrote:
Let me know how that one is, Lil Me.  I was so disappointed with The DaVinci Code....so I'd be interested to hear a report on it.  --

 It wasn't very good. :(

 
 

 

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

when I find time.

Fire In The Blood - Irene Nemirovsky  

Le Bal - Irene Nemirovsky

The instruction manual for my new watch. And here I was under the impression I was buying a watch to read the time off of. oh silly me.  

Snow In Autmn - Irene Nemirovsky  

The entire journal of East European Politics and Societies' November 2009 Vol 23, Issue 4
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Critical by Robin Cook

  probably not good to read a medical thriller about drug retsistant bacteria while I'm battling a staph infection...

The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells

The Visible World - Mark Slouka

The Lighthouse by P.D. James.

  Though I fear I won't be reading much more.  I'm about 5 chapters into it and more characters are being introduced....it's very....slow...for a mystery.  It's my first P.D. James novel.  My mom reads these, but I'm finding it way...too...slow...

Im on the Louis LÀmours again  

I should read one of those.  I never have.

 Lil Me wrote:
I should read one of those.  I never have.

Just send me any ones you have.. you dont want to read them. Ill take care of them for you though

 

Hey Lil Me....have you ever gotten those Eric Wilson Books for your older lil guy ?  They are awesome.  Some are set in Vancouver,  the Kootenaysetc....so it makes it fun that they are about places he likely knows of.  

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I have a signed Eric Wilson book around the house somewhere?

I love Eric Wilson!  I think I've read all of them.

I should get Heckyl to start reading them again.  He started a few years ago, but they were a bit difficult for him then.

I'm sure he'd be interested in the ones set in Vancouver, Disneyland and West Ed Mall, as he has been there.

I know....they're great books.  

Awesome JJ....I think we do too.  I remember my son being beside himself when
Eric did a reading for the kids at our local library.  He had already read them all (and everything else in the library).  He was a voracious reader.

I remember thinking he was regressing when he got in to the Tin Tin books....but discovered they were fabulous too.
 

There's local books about Vancouver? Sweeeeet.

I'm stuck on America.
 

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Kate Summerscale.

Funny how that works.  When you were in America, you were stuck on Canada.  Now you're in Canada and you're stuck on America. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)  

Hitler's Women - Guido Knopp

(Eva Brown, Magda Goebbels, Winifred Wagner, Leni Reifenstahl and Zarah Leander)

Of course I meant Eva Braun. Darn not being able to make corrections!

I agree Gopher.

Popular Mechanics
 

I always wondered what the unpopular mechanics were.  

 P.C. wrote:
I always wondered what the unpopular mechanics were.  

LOL, deep thoughts of PC here people!
 

(//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)

That's about as deep as they get.
 

 P.C. wrote:
Funny how that works.  When you were in America, you were stuck on Canada.  Now you're in Canada and you're stuck on America. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)  


Hahahaha

Blame it on the novels I have to read for class. My profs are British and spent their graduate and phd work in America. So the books are between UK and America. Also, I'm being heavily encouraged by people to focus on American lit for future writing ideas. I'll admit that travel writing is fun for me to do, but I rather write a planning book if I got the chance.

The last Canadian literature I read was years ago back in Nanaimo. What I took from it was this story about growing up in Newfoundland that I really connected to, a story story about a father who never left his small town in Quebec who also had a son who travelled the world, but wanted nothing to do with him. Then before the old man died, the son took his father to Quebec City.

Then probably one of the best books I have ever read 'Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?' is a story about Air India and transnational migration of a Punjab community in Vancouver. For obvious reasons I connected with a few of the characters who felt as if they were living in two places.

Oh and Leonard Cohen. :)

I throughly enjoyed Canadian Lit, but my parents wouldn't be pleased if I had become a Lit major or Film Studies student.




 

I didn't realise they were so unenlightened.

Orwell 1984

 

Love in the time of cholera

Oh, I read this very recently. It's brilliant. How are you liking it so far? One of the three best books I've read this year.

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (at last, I've been meaning to get around to this one for several years).  

Gopher wrote:
Oh, I read this very recently. It's brilliant. How are you liking it so far? One of the three best books I've read this year.

 --

 Loving it.  Wish I had more reading time in my life.

 Working sucks!


 

Lil Me wrote:
 <P>Working sucks!<BR></P> <DIV></DIV>


You don't know the full truth of this until you retire!

Currently reading louis lamour.. the quick and the dead.

  I found a whole bunch at my parents so I stole them.

 Gopher wrote:
Lil Me wrote:
 &lt;P&gt;Working sucks!&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;


You don't know the full truth of this until you retire!



Yes, but my brain fully develops at 25, which means I only have a few more years.

 

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani  

The Front -Patricia Cornwell  

Tomte Tummetott - Astrid Lindgren (A children's book, but nevertheless one to be relished).

The English Assassin - Daniel Silva  

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers (excellent)  

I've given up on Tom Wolfe, I just don't like it.

Going to start reading my favourite genre, travel writing.  Steinbeck's travels with Charlie. I want to find Steinbeck's Russian Journal, but I've been unsuccessful so far (without resorting to amazon)


 

If you're talking about The Bonfire of the Vanities, SD then I didn 't like it either - also gave up on it pretty quickly.

The Keeper of Secrets - Judith Cutler
 

The last gospel.. david gibbons

No Country for old men- Cormac McCarthy

 Gopher wrote:
If you're talking about The Bonfire of the Vanities, SD then I didn 't like it either - also gave up on it pretty quickly.


Nope. I was talking about Electric Kool-Aid Acid test.


The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson

 
 

The Road From Damascus - Robin Yassin-Kassab

Ian Rankin, the hanging garden

missed this one out of his set somehow

Travel's with Charley: In search of America- John Steinbeck


Btw,  Duthie Books on 4th Ave is closing after 52 years. I bet P.C.'s been in there a few times. I've only gone a couple.

 

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"If you don't know how to read, you're not going to get very far in life."

 Zhuara Rivera
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The Black Book - Ian Rankin

I gave up on The Sound and the Fury.  Even with lit notes, I was having too much difficulty figuring out the past/present in the narrative.

  Back to easy reading!  Medusa by Clive Cussler.    

Strip Jack - Ian Rankin

Still working on Travels with Charley - enjoying it immensely.

I've decided to read Brecht's Mother Courage next.
   

Read both of them, SD.

Oh I will. Its just my reading queue. I'm going back and forth between Steinbeck, Hunter S, Brecht plays and Kerouac. You'd think I'd get tired of American travel writing, but I haven't so far.

 

I meant 'read' in the past tense, SD. Have you tried The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux?

Nope. But feel free to shout out suggestions. My reading sailboat likes to wander. One of my favourite prof's always hints at books I should read through email that he thinks I'd find interesting. I wouldn't have known about Samuel Beckett that way, or Pynchon or that drunk from Memphis on my first flight to Canada convincing me to read Confederacy of Dunces (which I haven't yet, its one of those I need to get to that stares at me from the shelf).  And so on.


 

I'm pretty much the same, one thing sparks my interest in another.

Micro Serfs by Doug Coupland

Almost The Truth - Margaret Yorke

Bertolt Brecht - Mother Courage, The Jewish Wife, In search of Justice, the informer, the Elephant Calf, The Measures taken, The Exception and the Rule, Salzburg Dance of Death, What was killed for?

Nice to read some plays before I transition into urban planning theory for probably the rest of the semester lol.

 

A Hitler Youth - Henry Metelmann

poisonwood bible

Glad you mentioned it. I've been trying to remember the name of that book for ages.

guns and ammo april 2010 edition.
its rubbish.
 

Jack Kerouac - On the Road

My other reading friend now complains I'm too much into Americana thus = American.


 

this forum page  

Maria Stuart - Schiller

A Jest of God- Margaret Lawrence

the no-cry sleep solution book.

not working so far for us. :(
 

Time Traveller's Wife

 LM@work wrote:
Time Traveller's Wife

Oh, that movie was good!  I wish that I had the energy to read.  I miss it.  I end up falling asleep.

 

The Kingdom By The Sea - Paul Theroux

I'm still with Jack on the Road somewhere. Like his novel, I had prolong breaks between journeys with Dean Moriarty.

I've been wanting to read Andrew Brown's 2009 Orwell Prize winning book Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the future that disappeared, so that book is next.

However, I have got to get a move on with my urbanist/architecture reading list for the Summer. I have amassed over 35 books in my room, most of which are urban related.

I grew up in the wrong generation. Used books and independent bookstores fit me like your well worn, but favourite baseball mitt you had as a child. Too bad they're going out of business. I'd love to work in one though. I have ideas on how to save these stores and I think it would work.  

Oh, and I've begun to catalogue all my books.
 

Death In Breslau - Marek Krajewski

A Russian Journal- John Steinbeck

I cannot escape memoir/travel writing for the life in me. lol

 

The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett  (in which the Queen discovers that one can find reading enjoyable)

The microwave instructions on my dinner

^lol

DS, of course  =)
 

Looks as though I've unintentionally settled on a billionth reading of Gone With The Wind

 Pretty soon, meaning with in a few hours I will start reading The Gathering Storm. Robert Jordan's final novel. Written mostly by another author after his sad unfortunate and untimely death.

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The Gathering Storm is the 12th book of the fantasy series The Wheel of Time. It was incomplete when its author, Robert Jordan, died on September 16, 2007, from cardiac amyloidosis. His widow Harriet McDougal and publisher Tom Doherty chose Brandon Sanderson to continue the book after Jordan's death.

Jordan originally intended to finish the series in a single volume titled A Memory of Light, but when Sanderson began writing the book it became clear a split was required as it was believed a single volume would be too large to print. The expected final book was then split into three volumes: The Gathering Storm, Towers of Midnight, and A Memory of Light.

 The books would be published a year apart with the first volume, The Gathering Storm, published on October 27, 2009; a week earlier than originally announced. Upon its release, it immediately rose to the #1 position on the The New York Times hardcover fiction Best Seller list, making it the fifth consecutive Wheel of Time book to reach the #1 position on that list.

The three books will together encompass what can be considered Jordan's final vision of the series. In the foreword, Sanderson states that they can be thought of as "the three volumes of A Memory of Light or as the final three books of The Wheel of Time. Both are correct." He also comments on the differing writing style, suggesting that it could be compared to different film directors directing the same script.
 

I read a book once.................opsssss comic sorry

Fishing in Utopia by Andrew Brown  

DS.......then back to the microwave instructions

The House on the Strand - Daphne du Maurier

I am still reading the gathering storm but the final 12 chapters It will be just a few short hours till I start it over again. Read it once to get the whole story &amp; twice to make sure you did not miss anything seemingly insignificant.  

Hunter S Thompson - Hell's Angels.

 

Down and Out in Paris and London  

Sportsdude wrote:
Down and Out in Paris and London  

 ........


 I've been meaning to read that for years.

Chapter 14 of that book explains our current world in a nutshell---- and to think this book was published in 1933.




 

I'll make a must of it for my next read

I like books on tape better

Nice---  I think you will enjoy, Gopher.

Long car rides D?

 

Sportsdude wrote:
Nice---  I think you will enjoy, Gopher.

Long car rides D?

 
 Yes when heading up to 100 mile. It is nice for a change than listening to music. I have found it to be relaxing and I look forward to it now. The person reading the book makes a HUGE differance on how much I like it. I find a nice female voice the best.

I couldn't listen to someone reading a book. It would put me to sleep. I prefer music, the beat keeps me moving.

The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith

Bearing an hourglass
book 2 of 8 in the series
 Incarnations of immortality
By Piers Anthony

 

 [P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"]Penthouse..................opps not much to read here   LOL [?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /][o:p][/o:p][/SPAN]

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

Tears Of The Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith

DS

Violet

Not In The Flesh - Ruth Rendell

European Tribe --- Caryl Phillips  

Macbeth (again)  

Ah yes, I ought to get round to it again again too.  

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Gopher wrote:
 Ah yes, I ought to get round to it again again too.

 
 What is "it" exactly?

Macbeth

Cafe Europa by Slavenka Drakulić and her very seductive book cover -- which I'm convinced is a sarcastic, inside joke on her part (in fact, I know it is).
 

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It's hard to explain how funny this is, but it's brilliant.

 

I saw it in the library recently, picked it up and returned it to the shelf. Seems as though I made a mistake.

Means of Evil - Ruth Rendell

Bored so am currently listening to Diane Duane So You Want To Be A Wizard.. Read it a bout 100 times as a youth and it will pass a few hours of the clock.  

 I liked it. Although I'm not very impartial when it comes Eastern European themes.    

I'm reading some summer fluff. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)

Little Alters Everywhere by Rebecca Wells  
Not half as good as The Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sitsterhood
 

 Nothing like a little bit of junk food for the brain PC. I too, love a bit of  fluff once in awhile. It makes a welcome break from the in-depth novels or study books, you know the ones I mean. They are the kind that make you think or go hmm...
   

LOVE Rebecca Wells.

  I'm into summer fluff books as well.  I've been burning through African American paperback romance novels from the library.

I don't think I read fluff, or at least have no idea of when to take a break from 'heavy reading'. A friend of mine, who just finished up his Masters in Engineering said, "dude, that's intense -- I've only been reading light fiction lately", when I brought up my summer reading list. What the heck is light fiction? To me light fiction is a Steinbeck novel. haha

oh dear.



 

'Fluff' is good for the soul - although when I was the same age as you, SD, I didn't even contemplate the possibility of this.

  The Private Patient - P.D. James

Morality For Beautiful Girls - Alexander McCall Smith

Starman some early autumn summer fluff
 
 

The Kalahari Typing School For Men - Alexander McCall Smith

The Monster In The Box - Ruth Rendell

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest- Stieg Larsson

 [P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal]Pent House

That is not reading that is just fapping to naked women..
 
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 Here is a Hairy Pussy just for you D.
 
 
 The Discover Seattle Forum of course  

Nice looking pussy

My kitten is much more attractive.

  I currently have 7 of them. But they're ready to be given away so I'll end up keeping 2.

Natasha wrote:
 My kitten is much more attractive.

  I currently have 7 of them. But they're ready to be given away so I'll end up keeping 2.[/DIV]
 I bet your pussy is more attractive......................I would love to have it

Here it is!

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A mouse and a cat...working side by side?  THE INSANITY

DDD wrote:
Natasha wrote:
 My kitten is much more attractive.

  I currently have 7 of them. But they're ready to be given away so I'll end up keeping 2.[/DIV]
 I bet your pussy is more attractive......................I would love to have it[/DIV]
 As I said I have 7 and am only keeping 2 so I have 5 to spare. Take your pick whenever you're ready.

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  Are they anything like this, Natasha?  

 [P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal]reading Paul Richardson blog

That's a lot of cats, Gophie. Are they yours?

Terry Pratchett's latest work Unseen University and I just put it away in a little under 8 hours and it was fantastic right from the first page and right on to the last page.

what a great &amp; hilarious novel another one of his laugh riot books...  

Portobello - Ruth Rendell