Ms Magpie Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 LotR - RotK and Slovene lit. books! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 I've just started on Blood games by Laymon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winigwl Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 finally finished a tale of two cities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soufiane Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 "L'ermite" by Guy De Maupassant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahlem Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 " le baron perché " - Italo Calvino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kekita Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 The Master and Margarita- Mikhail Bulgakov. A work of genius. totally agree !, one of my all time favourites. i love the Behemoth character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kekita Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 For the Coelho readers out there here's a link to BBC world service Paulo Coelho interview. click on audio :). http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/the_interview.shtml now i understand his book 'Veronica wants to kill herself' a little better, and the asylum setting ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julissofine Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 Tales of The Otori - Lian Hearn Great stories! :) It's about conflicts and fights to win more territory and wealth between powerful clans in Japanese society centuries ago. They will do anything to win with strategies that seem so evil and cruel for us now, but in that time these ways were common or usual. There were people with supernatural powers involved in these fights and battles which we called as Ninja now. You can learn many things about Japanese culture (esp Ninja) at that time period from the story. But if you don't like story with murders, traitors, bloods, and any kind of violence, don't read this! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kekita Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 ^ that sounds interesting...um is it very gruesome? i remember after reading 'the Idiot' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, i wanted to understand what was Prince Myshkin's (one of the main characters in the book)facination with punishment techniques etc. so read a book on the history of punishment. quite disturbing....yet dare i say it interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julissofine Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 No, actually it's not. It's more about love, family, trust, friends, and loyalty. The violence in the story appeared just because the story was set times where violence are a common thing to do. You know, like harakiri, when somebody has to kill himself because of his failure. That's all. Try to read it. You won't regret. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kekita Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 ^ cheers i'll def will -- phew gona be lota reading this holidays lol :) i've never read about that part of history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Magpie Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 For the Coelho readers out there here's a link to BBC world service Paulo Coelho interview. click on audio :). http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/the_interview.shtml now i understand his book 'Veronica wants to kill herself' a little better, and the asylum setting ... Coelho wrote some columns especially for a slovene magazine. :nice: Btw, who wrote Veronica wants to kill herself? Every foreigner tells me this is such a good book and wants to visit Ljubljana just because of it, but I have no idea who's the author.... :embarassed: :embarassed: :embarassed: :embarassed: :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kekita Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 ^ i thought it was Coelho (!) (?) Edit: checked it out and it's actually Veronika Decides To Die, my mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Magpie Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 thanks. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacey Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 i am reading the ten habits of highly effective people.....its very intriguing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Reading Silmarillion right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron369 Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 The Alchemist again. SInce the first time didn't go well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kekita Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 Philip Pullman's Northern Lights has been named the best children's book of the past 70 years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6228124.stm to tie into the topic of thread. Just read Kafka for beginners, though i have read a book of Kafka's stories when i was in high school. I read them and was dumbfounded perhaps i was too young to read it or i was used to books that told linear and unambiguous stories- but i really didn't understand it. Reading Kafka for Beginners (part of the Icon books series) i found i understood the story of Metamorphasis better, i am planning to re-read his works as they are a distant memory of confusion. also the guy who did the cartoons in the book is called Robert Crumb the name and style of drawing reminds me of American Splendour (the movie had comic book drawings). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackchickintheback Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Red Badge of Courage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yamfox Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 ^ I read that when I was 7. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahlem Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 nothing i'm fed up with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julissofine Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 The Alchemist again. SInce the first time didn't go well. Great book! I love it! :) Does anyone here have read the second book of Artemis Fowl? I've read the first one and it's pretty good, but I have to make sure that the second one is also good before I buy the book and read it. :) Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giuly2E Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 "Pamela" by Richardson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 The gospel according to Chris Moyles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceci29 Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Blindness by Jose Saramago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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