Angel at his table Posted September 10, 2005 Author Share Posted September 10, 2005 C. D. Payne - Youth In Revolt woho :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambergris Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 Brown, LeMay, Burnsten - Chemistry, the central science :idea2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverion Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Hmm. I am planning to read Douglas Adams. Life the universe and everything again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darlene_Ihnfsa Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 last thing i read was... aulularia by plauto.. a roman comedy theatre writer... :idea2: it was fun. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kekita Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 For fun : Parallel Text short stories in french- they have the english translation!!!! its great found it while trying to find this book: Analytical Computer Cartography- what a bore :snore: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bibe Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 " The Go-Between": can be a bit boring sometimes but on the whole I like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kekita Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 ^ what's the Go- Between about? fiction of non-fiction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bibe Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 it is fiction. The author is LP Hartley. It's the story of twelve-year old boy Leo in 1900. In the summer he is invited to one of his school friend's aristocratic mansion in Norfolk and he falls in love with his friend's sister Marian who is much older. But he is soon used as a messenger by the same Marian who has a secret love affair with the gardener. So i'm not gonna tell you how it ends but what I can say is that his initiation into love and the world of adults is traumatizing for him... Actually "The Go-Between" has been adapted to the cinema by Joseph Losey in the 70s and it's a very beautiful film :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kekita Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 ohh the book sounds juicy :wink3: thanks for that so many things to watch and read! i read a book once called The Chateau it was set in a French village where this rich family lived. The husband was crippled and the wife was devoted to him, they had an older son but where keeping care of a nephew, a little boy who would inherit the chateau. They hire an English governess who is not supposed to speak french so they can continue with their plans to kill the little boy. But what do you know! the governess speaks French and she falls in love with their son... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bibe Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Waow! I like the story! I've never heard of that book though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kekita Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 yeah i got it from someone who was doing a bit of spring cleaning i don't know the author and i don't have it anymore but i wish i did that book was a fun read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bibe Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 If I had to recommend a good read, I would choose "The Rotters Club" by Jonathan Coe, "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D Salinger and of course the Harry Potter series! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kekita Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 definetly The Catcher in The Rye yah Harry Potter but i havent read the sixth book yet :cry: i would recommend To Kill a Mockingbird, and Anne of Green Gables The Master and Margarita its Russian, the devil comes to pay a visit to the city of Moscow- lots of fun i think you might like this Bibe here is a site about the book http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/russian/Bulgakov/public_html/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bibe Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Thanks for the link! And I really loved "To kill a mockingbird" :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kekita Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 no prob :thumbsup: thanks for the books you mentioned gona add it to my must read list. i should be going now need sleeepppp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bibe Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Good night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennyLane Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk Trainspotting- Irvine Welsh and...Art in Theory 1900-2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sienna Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 The Da Vinci code-2nd time :stunned: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bibe Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 I've never heard of "Invisible Monsters" Oh yes the Da Vinci Code: a must-read! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennyLane Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 I've never heard of "Invisible Monsters" Oh yes the Da Vinci Code: a must-read! it's really good...actually any book by Chuck Palahniuk imo is a good book...he wrote Fight Club just for anyone who didn't know and wanted too... His writing style is very unique...the way he tells a story, it's more like a normal person's thought process...it jumps forward, and backward, from present to wherever all over the book...my favourite thing he says to explain how he writes is, "No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day." Anyways...you should all pick him up sometime... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bibe Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day." That's so true! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennyLane Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 yep...hope that inspires you maybe to pick up his stuff....he says some things that are so honest...it's quite unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polkahard Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 I'm reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova right now. The best comparision I can give is to The Da Vinci Code, though the two really aren't that similar. It's about a girl who finds some letters in her father's library that talk about Dracula. She asks him about it, and he starts to tell her the story about how he went on a search for Dracula 25 years before. I'm on page 300 and I'm really loving it so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennyLane Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 ^ i saw adverts for that book all over the undergrounds, I want to read that! Let me know how it pans out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenjie Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Just finished Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult and am about to start Millennium People by J G Ballard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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