I'm saving David Attenboroughs Amazing Adventures for the weekend. I'm too sick to go out so I'm going to hole up with a book.
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I'm saving David Attenboroughs Amazing Adventures for the weekend. I'm too sick to go out so I'm going to hole up with a book.
In view of the gravitas of this place and the deep respect I have for you, in spite of knowing you for such a short while, I apologise unreservedly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carcinus
:childish::lol::earl:
Sorry, I really am.
HarryPotter and the prisoner of azkaban
Nice. :happy: Like Harry Potter? It really has a good story, IMO.:) Waiting for the Half-Blood Prince to come out on paperback though...:pinch:Quote:
Originally Posted by night_elf
Currently reading:
1.) Travel book--->Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown :cool:
2.) Home book---->A Time to Heal - David Mack :lookaroun (its ST I don't want anyone to know I'm a fan...:shutup: )
Me too. :pinch:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hairbautt
Any idea when that's likely to be? :unsure:
I saw it on Amazon UK (US didn't have anything), it said Feburary 21st I think. I live in US, so I was like eh can't be too far off. Now the amazon US has it listed:Quote:
Originally Posted by Barbarossa
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/043...Fencoding=UTF8
Semptember 1st, 2006 :pinch:
Just looked at amazon.co.uk it has it newly listed (I dunno what I looked at before):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...592332-8118228
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...592332-8118228
Paperback - June 23, 2006 for UK. Lucky...
Icon Ciritcal Guide to Beloved ed. Carl Plasa
Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Apotropaic Imagination by Kathleen Marks
Icon Critical Guide to The Sound and the Fury/As I Lay Dying ed. Nicolass Tredell
Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner ed. Philip M. Weinstein
Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
Cambridge Comapnion to Tennessee Williams ed. Matthew C. Roudane
Critics on Jane Austen ed. Judith O'Neill
Cambridge Companion to Jane Austin eds. Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster
Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England by Roger Sales
A Handbook to English Romanticism eds. Jean Raimond and J.R.Watson
And also a few books on Oscar Wilde and Robert Louis Stevenson that I left Mrs. Cheese's house.
Hey check out
"Love&Justice" and "Whispers from a Troubled Heart" these are detective stories by author Rique Johnson
Have your woman read "Every Woman's Man" by Rique Johnson if you want to get lucky. It's HOT!!
Right now I'm reading Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.
I need something new to read. <_<
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what kinda stuff do you like?Quote:
Originally Posted by MagicNakor
I'm currently read the Graphic Noval of V for Vendetta
I'll read most anything, save trashy romance/mystery.Quote:
Originally Posted by ilw
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LK Hamilton - Incubus dreams.
It's never been literature, but she's managed to reach new lows.
The whole series should be renamed "Let's see how many cawks I can get in one character at the same time". :dry:
It's unfortunate, because the initial books in the series were actually enjoyable. Then it turned into a purple-prose fest.
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In search of the miraculous - Oespensky...try it Magic ...
or one of Gurdjieff books..always a little difficult to get into but well worth the effort
http://www.gurdjieff.org/
Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson another brilliant literary work ...
Right now I'm reading Eldest, the sequal to Eragon. Soon I will also start readin One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest which I've heard great things about. I'm loving Eldest and can't wait to start on cookoo's nest.
The LOTR books.
You've mentioned before that you're an avid reader so you've possibly read things by these 2 authors, but i'd highly recommend Tom Sharpe and Ian Banks. If you want a more obscure author who i enjoyed, but might not be to everyones taste then i'd suggest books by Jeff Noon.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagicNakor
Tom Sharpe: very funny 'slice of life' style books where everyday events seem to conspire to ruin certain peoples lives. My favourites were 'The throwback', 'Wilt', 'Wilt alternative' and 'Blott on the landscape'
Ian Banks: most famous for his sci-fi, which is generally very good, but some of his other books are better imo, in particular 'The crow road'.
Jeff Noon: bizarre stories and sometimes bizarre writing style, but i found them captivating. Not really sci-fi or fantasy, but some weird mix of both. Wikipedia article suggests his writing would fall in a similar genre as Lewis Carrol's work and I've seen his books described elsewhere as technopunk if that helps at all.... I'd suggest 'Vurt' as a starting point.
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes
I'm not currently reading anything, for the first time in such a long time. :blink:
Got Flight of the Nighthawks by Feist to read,first in The Darkwar trilogy.
Carrying on with the characters from Exiles Return :w00t:
Two years' vacation (Jules Verne)
Treasure island (Stevenson)
Hitler's War - David Irving (Excellent!)
Mythology - Edith Hamilton (Basic Greek/Roman with some Minor Norse thrown in, pretty good!)
Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa, Trans. Charles S. Terry (Just started, translation seems to be very good, something different instead of the usual western literature I read.)
Do you read lots of books by holocaust deniers? :ermm:Quote:
Originally Posted by Draugr
I'm nearing the end of Stephen King's The Dark Tower vol. 7 - The Dark Tower.
I was a little annoyed when vol.5 (Wolves of the Calla) veered off almost uncontrollably into ridiculousness. Authors putting their own books into their own books is always a shite idea, but then suggesting I suspend belief over deadly plate-throwing women? Come ON!
In vol. 6 (Song of Suzannah) King put himself in there as a central character and I didn't like the book at all because of it.
Vol. 7 is a big improvement over the last two but I get the impression King has spent his effort on finishing the series before he either goes blind or gets run over properly. The result is that a great story has deteriorated somewhat.
These last three installments have been a disappointment for me, a huge SK fan.
At Risk - Patricia Cornwell
Fort Pillow - Harry Turtledove
Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz
Forever Odd - Dean Koontz
Castways of the Flying Dutchman - Brian Jacques
Vanished - Karen Robards
Edge of Battle - Dale Brown
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment - James Patterson (Re-reading)
Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever - James Patterson
Imposter - T Davis Bunn
Hour Game - David Baldacci
No, but I am indeed reading this book soley because of his status as a Holocaust Denier. I want to know what this man could have possibly written to be sentenced to three years in jail. Why listen to biased news sources when I can read it straight from the horse's mouth and form my own opinions? It's like asking the Catholic Church if The Da Vinci Code is a good book or not. I may be ~200 pages into Hitler's War, but I can already see if is a far better written and sourced book than great's like Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Your statement bothers me because you seem to act like I'm doing something questionable or wrong. I was brought up to hear both sides of an argument and not form a biased opinion based on my personal beliefs. If I did I'd probably be a Bush supporter!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheese
lost in care,its a great read,anyone read it?
Babes in Arms.
Just finished that.
Great read. Definitely recommanded.
The Da Vinci Code, not sure what I think of it so far though.
Just finished Da Vinci Code - it was okay, my GF should have my Angels & Demons soon -- or else I'll backhand her. I also just started Everything is Illuminated, so far so good =)
Don't take offence, I was just seeing why you were reading that book in my own abrasive style. I would probably read some of his work if I had the chance for much the same reasons. I've read Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich which I enjoyed and I have read that Irving, whilst having questionable politics, is very knowledgable in his field.Quote:
Originally Posted by Draugr
On topic: I am currently reading The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction. As the book is 2000 pages long it should take me a while to finish this one.
Ah, the Ladies, you've got to keep them right.Quote:
Originally Posted by jooface
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I've just 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' by William Shirer...Great book, but it's left me exhausted. Now I'm curious about this 'Holocaust Denier'...
Yes, but now you know all about the Third Reich.Quote:
Originally Posted by Illusionz
There are others you could read for perspective, but Shirer kinda wrote the Bible, there.
Mm...
Hesiod's Theogeny and Works and Days
The Odyessy
The Iliad
The Homeric Hymns
Agamemnon
Prometheus Bound
Oedipus Rex
Antigone
Hippolytus
Greek mythology course readings. Can you tell? ;)
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The Greatest Secret - David Icke
Shocking book to absorb !!