Books u'd recommend..or currently reading

[dfemc]

in my attempt to nerdify all...yeah i don't believe in free will. please share away any great books u have in mind, i'd love to check it out myself. n here are a few of my favs:

Slaughterhouse five by Kurt Vonnegut (i'm a vonnegut groupie)
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion

and plenty, plenty, plenty, plenty more.

currently reading: Crows Over the Wheatfield

btw, if u got literature in other languages, please do share. :wub:

 

[Nameless]

Err, I'm currently reading George R.R Martin titled A feast for Crows. It's a political fantasy. I'm a big fan of his works. Basically, I'm into the whole sci-fi/fantasy genre.

 

[dfemc]

Err, I'm currently reading George R.R Martin titled A feast for Crows. It's a political fantasy. I'm a big fan of his works. Basically, I'm into the whole sci-fi/fantasy genre.

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niiice, growing up and still now, i was an orson scott fan. Ender's Game...my all time fav. n still reading Ender's Shadow. but i gotta look into George RR Martin.

 

[anti-hmong]

gifted hands by ben carson

mountains beyond mountains by tracy kidder

the spirit catches you and you fall down by anne fadiman

they're all books about doctors =D...and cultural clashes

 

[pink mafia]

a few books that i've read recently or am currently reading are:

frankenstein by mary shelley
lolita by vladimir nabokov
north and south by elizabeth gaskell
wives and daughters by elizabeth gaskell
trainspotting by irvine welsh
porno by irvine welsh
100 years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez
things fall apart by chinua achebe

some plays that i've recently read:
fool for love by sam shepard
three sisters by anton chekov
the seagull by anton chekov
the children's hour by lillian hellman

i also read lots of trashy romance novels..haha

dfemc...my sister is also a big vonnegut fan..i however...haven't read any of his books yet

 

[dfemc]

i also read lots of trashy romance novels..haha

dfemc...my sister is also a big vonnegut fan..i however...haven't read any of his books yet

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niice...hopefully, i can find ebooks of vonnegut to share, if only i can zap my vonnegut collection into digital pieces, i'd put them out there.

i love ur list. lolita is twisted but a great literary and linguistic work; things fall apart truly falls together and trainspotting and frankenstein are novel classics...i hope ur enjoying them. i'm down for a literary discussion anytime. but i've loved to check out the others on ur list there, especially porno, provocative title.
p.s. i have great friends who reads trashy romance novels too...it's the best thing to shop for at flea markets. i'm sure they're down to exchange collections with u so maybe they're not too trashy afterall...since they hang around long enuf.

 

[rukmos]

my recommandations would be:

Harry Potter series
Orson Scott Card(author)-Enders's game
Johanna Lindsey
June Pifue(chinese author)- she's really good...she writes romance mixed with action kind of thing...check her out

 

[pink mafia]

niice...hopefully, i can find ebooks of vonnegut to share, if only i can zap my vonnegut collection into digital pieces, i'd put them out there.

i love ur list. lolita is twisted but a great literary and linguistic work; things fall apart truly falls together and trainspotting and frankenstein are novel classics...i hope ur enjoying them. i'm down for a literary discussion anytime. but i've loved to check out the others on ur list there, especially porno, provocative title.
p.s. i have great friends who reads trashy romance novels too...it's the best thing to shop for at flea markets. i'm sure they're down to exchange collections with u so maybe they're not too trashy afterall...since they hang around long enuf.

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porno is actually the sequal to trainspotting

 

[Nameless]

Speaking of reading. I've actually purchased the DaVinci Code awhile 5 months ago and Angels and Demons 3 months ago and they're both stilll sitting on my bookshelf untouched.

 

[marduk]

-Bean rocks!! Ender's ehhh.

-Angels and Demons is good. I haven't read The Da Vinci Code yet.

-I'm currently reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo. I've heard good things about it and it's currently going pretty well.

-I highly recommend Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "100 Years of Solitude." Maybe throw in Beloved too (I finally agree with Oprah on something).

-I'm also reading Shen(2) Diao(1) Xia(2) Lu(3), aka Return of the Condor Heroes for all those who watches the chinese show (although actual title is more Heavenly Condor and Heroic Couple). The story is one of my favorite but my chinese isn't that proficient so it's going kinda slow (because I read in chinese but also compare it with the english translation).

-For a nice poetic feel, read "The Gangster We Are All Looking For" by Le Thi Diem Thuy. I know her because she went to my high school and we grew up in the same neighborhood. The book doesn't have a plot, but I feel like I'm taking a trip down my own memory lane when I read it. You might be able to evoke fond memories of your own and exorcise old demons from reading it.

-For a visit back to childhood, read "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Colville. He used to be one of my fav authors as a kid (with memorables just as "Aliens Ate My Homework" and stuff). What's amazing about this book is that while it is a kids book, it has so much heart in it. It makes you believe in the magic of Midsummer Night.

There, that's my contribution to your edumacation.

 

[juicee]

Let's see...I recently, as in the last month or so, finished...

- Lermontov's A Hero Of Our Time
- Gogol's "Nvesky Prospet," "The Portrait," "The Overcoat," "The Carriage," and "Diary of a Madman"
- Dostoevsky's Poor Folk and Notes from Underground
- Turgenev's Fathers and Sons
- Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
- Oyoung's The General's Beard
- Trenka's The language of Blood
- Freud's Interpretation of Dreams
- Duane's Caught Inside
- Allende's Daugther of Fortune
- Yamanaka's Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre
- Woolfe's To the light house
- Faulkner's Light in August

there's more that I'll add later...

 

[Kina]

wow....u people love to read. i do too but i havent found the perfect time to actually sit down and enjoy a good's day reading.

i DO love Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre". i have read that more than enough.

 

[KawaiiTennyo]

memoirs of a geisha
a brave new world
princess
the things we carry
alot more i can't think of it now..

 

[pink mafia]

brave new world is a great book...i like it way more than 1984

 

[BaBeeLaiLai]

Well the only books that i am reading right now are books that are required for meeh to be read from skool...i am currently reading Frankenstein and i just recently finished Hamlet...It's Boring...hahaha!

 

[Nameless]

Oh yeah, I'd like to recommend Neil Gaiman's books. And also, all of Sydney Sheldon's books. Both are great author and storytelling.

 

[darvil]

I can't believe i missed this thread.

last month I went crazy and bought alot of books.. I haven't spent this much over books in a while. Usually I just read from the library.

Anyway I haven't been reading alot at all.. I've been kinda busy with skool and sites stuff.. but its ok.

Right now I got quite a few books in my to read list. I'm still reading the english translation of the story of Romance of the Three Kingdom novels.

My list

Politics and social

A couple of P.J. O'Rourke books
China Wakes by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn
Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray (this is the guy who wrote the Bell Curve).

Popcorn books

The Janson Directive by Robert Ludlum
The teeth of the tiger by Tom Clancy
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Three Kingdom (English translated)
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (obviously the translated one)

Science (and perhaps pseudo for some of you )

The Dancing Wu Li Master by Gary Zukav
Consilience by Edward O.Wilson
The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins

 

[goinkrazy]

Speaking of reading. I've actually purchased the DaVinci Code awhile 5 months ago and Angels and Demons 3 months ago and they're both stilll sitting on my bookshelf untouched.

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you should definitely read them, they are both very good. i also recommend his other 2 books: deception point and digital fortress, they are both amazing, well i think so anyway....oh and to those who are fans od dan brown, i believe he should be releasin another book called the skeleton key which also stars robert langdon from angels n demons n the da vinci code. but ya, recommendations also goes to: the harry potter series - jk rowling
to kill a mockingbird - harper lee
where the heart is - forgot authors name!
the satanic verses - salman rushdie
the odyssey & the illiad- homer
oedipus rex - sophocles
at first sight - nicholas sparks

i also like to read romance and the mystery/romance ones and for those who like them too, i recommend linda howard, sharon sala, nora roberts, danielle steel, and catherine coulter, jsut to name a few

 

[natty]

for those who loves science fiction and lord of the ring stuff.. i totally recommend Terry Brooks.. but for those who loves romance vamipires and greek mythologies.. i totally recommend Sherrilyn Kenyon

 

[Thookatha]

i can't believe i missed this thread.

ok, hmmm...first, thanks natty...im actually into both, science fiction and greek/roman mythology...so i'll keep those two authors in mind.

p.s. great recommendations from everyone. i would like to vouch for Tom Clancy books...all his books are good...especially if you are into the military science stuff.

my favorite book, however, is "asking and listening: ethnography and personal adaptation", by Paul Bohannan and Dirk van der Elst. i've read and re-read this book many times. it should be pretty simple reading and it teaches you a lot about BEING human, as well as understanding HUMANITY, in general. kind of a short book. only 102 pages. but at least you won't get bored if you're not into anthropology. LOL anywho, go out and get it. you will learn a lot from it, and you will love it...i hope.

i just ordered 38 books from amazon. im going to treat myself. you guys should do the same. hahaha

p.s. don't ask me how much i spent.