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Post by Ayinger on Dec 10, 2005 23:08:14 GMT -5
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Post by poseidon on Dec 11, 2005 21:07:39 GMT -5
"Patlogi: have you hit that Anne Rice book yet? She fell off my radar a number of years ago but when I saw that post a while back it struck up my interest." - Ayinger
Nope hasn't become a featured selection of the month at the book club like the latest Koontz novel. Man, I'm pretty sure I read that Jeckyll and Hyde book a long time ago...know some of them split personality types. Their odd people...
Stevenson...didn't he also write Swiss Family Robinson and Treasure Island?
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Post by poseidon on Dec 11, 2005 21:14:25 GMT -5
Looked it up on barnes & noble site: yes he wrote
treasure island no on robinson. Wyss wrote SFR.
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Post by phil on Dec 20, 2005 9:06:27 GMT -5
Books I enjoyed the most in 2005 ...
- Memories of my Melancholy Whores ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Legends : A Novel of Dissimulation ~ Robert Littell
- High Tides : The Truth About Our Climate Crisis ~ Mark Lynas
- Lutetia ~ Pierre Assouline
- American Darling ~ Russell Banks
- Traité d'athéologie ~ Michel Onfray
- Tree : A Life Story ~ David Suzuki - Wayne Grady
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Post by tuneschick on Dec 20, 2005 10:20:48 GMT -5
Books I've got ready to go for my 12 days off at Christmas:
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda - Roméo Dallaire
This is the first-hand account of the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans in 1994, written by a then brigadier general with the Canadian Forces, who was the commander of the UN peacekeeping mission. I'm REALLY looking forward to reading this, but have to almost steel myself first... can't believe what this man went through.
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
I've always meant to read this, but it's taken my book club to actually get me to do it.
Riptide - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
A lighter read by two of my favourite fiction writers.
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Post by rockkid on Dec 20, 2005 23:19:25 GMT -5
Yeah I want to read the Dallaire book too.
Just about put the poor guy over into loonie world.
What if you yelled a warning & no one listened................................................
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Post by phil on Dec 20, 2005 23:36:16 GMT -5
OH ! They did listen but then ...
they just didn't care !!
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Post by javagal41978 on Dec 23, 2005 23:35:47 GMT -5
Hi I am new here and thought I would put in my two cents about books.
Well, the book I am reading is The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath which so far is...wierd but entertaining. I finished Girl, Interrupted recently and loved it. Much better than the movie of course. I also recommend two books by an author named James Frey called A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard which are both memoirs and very raw and beautiful reading. By the way, my name is Tif. Thanks for listening.
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Post by rockkid on Jan 14, 2006 11:28:29 GMT -5
Another Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops. Not as good as Napalm & Silly Putty IMO. Rather disappointing over all. |
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Post by tuneschick on Jan 16, 2006 9:19:56 GMT -5
Yeah RK, Steve got that Carlin as a promo from work... we were both pretty disappointed with it. Not that we're huge fans to start with, but still.
Finally started Owen Meany... completely engaging so far, though I'm only on page 50-something of 600+.
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Post by rockkid on Jan 16, 2006 11:38:57 GMT -5
Silly Putty is a better read by far.
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Post by Rit on Jan 16, 2006 13:02:32 GMT -5
i need a good suggestion for a novel to read. i haven't read novels for at least a year. just non-fiction things.
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Post by Rit on Jan 17, 2006 10:10:39 GMT -5
thanks for the suggestions, fatties.
i've decided on Jeffery Eugenides' Middlesex
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Post by Thorngrub on Jan 17, 2006 12:04:20 GMT -5
i need a good suggestion for a novel to read. i haven't read novels for at least a year. just non-fiction things. Read Patrick Suskind's Perfume. |
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Post by Thorngrub on Jan 17, 2006 12:05:12 GMT -5
or Gabriel Garcia Marquez' sorcerous telling of 100 Years Of Solitude (my personal ideal candidate for best novel ever written).
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