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Post by androdaking on Aug 9, 2005 5:40:00 GMT -5
What books have you been reading, lately?
I've been reading the Pentology Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, and I've just began on the fourth (So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish). It's really, really great. I love it, it's so very funny, interesting and intelligent. READ IT!
Also, I like Harry Potter a lot, but I haven't read the new one yet. DON'T TELL ME ANYTHING IF YOU KNOW!
So, what aboot you, eh?
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Post by greener greg on Aug 9, 2005 8:22:17 GMT -5
i'm rading hemingway...the man and the sea
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Post by androdaking on Aug 9, 2005 23:04:44 GMT -5
Is it any good?
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Post by MrClean on Aug 9, 2005 23:21:02 GMT -5
The Da Vinci Code was the only book that I read.
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Post by Car on Aug 10, 2005 0:05:38 GMT -5
haha that was the last book i read i dont read too much, i guess im more a visual/sound person... or just lazy, haha i know the scence of a book is that you can use your imagination for scenarios and stuff, i've read the book "amityville house" book and it was scarier than the movie, i gotta admit that
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Post by karro on Aug 10, 2005 0:45:28 GMT -5
I bought today the last Harry Potter. Harry is happening to die at the end...oh oups...hahah just kidding I found it in the used books story for 20 bucks today. What a discount. I was pretty lucky. But since I didnt read yet the 5th one, it's going to wait. I bought the 5th last year and I still dont read it. To admit, I'm too busy with reading spirituality books. I don't know, it's like drugs. More I read spirituality books, more I want. I even put a restrained order on myself at one point on Omraam's books haha. The only novel I read since 2 years were Da Vinci Code and Les Chevaliers d'emeraude(6 tomes..). Probably cause my Harries are in English, I'm a bit lazy to read it. My friend Lili loaned me some Charles Burkoski's Woman. She said it is good if I want to make a change. She liked it (She is obsessed over spirituality books as much as me). Spirituality is a large word. For me, it's involving all those esoterics and religions books also. Recently I read some book about Islam. I was curious about since my friend is one of them...Don't worry, I even own a book about Satanism too. I'm curious over everything. I read a book also by Joseph Murphy: "how to attract money". It's still not working though hehe. I don't know, I read so many many many things. I'm like a computer with books. I think I wont have no end until I'll get satisfy with my answers about how the universe is really working above and below. Anyway, I need all those datas for the novel I write. I know when people see the word spirituality they immediately relate to: BORING. Even myself before to get introduced I was thinking like this. But once you're into, it's the total opposite. It's when life start to be entertaining cause you see things around that other are not concious of. You understand everything better and then you start to become the one master of your life. Anyway, even if I would try to make a list of what I read only the past year....woow My suggestion: A Wish Can Change Your Life by Gahl Sasson. Best book ever. I read it 3 times, almost 4. This book is really working. It's also endorsed by the DalaĆ®-lama. You just need one wish and to follow the instructions. It's based on Kaballah, the jew's Tree of Life. The synchronicities with this book are just fucked up. For anyone who wants to see their life changing and the doors opening to their consciousness. There is good life lessons in this book. I think it's the most coincise book to resume the laws of life and make you conscious about yourself and others.
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Post by fUx0r on Aug 10, 2005 2:35:22 GMT -5
Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides are both awesome books that I've read in the last month. Both by Jeffery Eugenides. Awesome, awesome reading.
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Post by androdaking on Aug 10, 2005 8:34:30 GMT -5
Ok. What are they about?
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Post by Chastity on Aug 10, 2005 11:47:10 GMT -5
I saw the film version for The Virgin Suicides. I do wish I had read the book prior to that since I am a bookworm.
Ironically though I haven't been reading much lately. My latest favorite one though is 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed. You guys are going to laugh at my choice of this book because the plot has made me all the more predictable and cliche. It's a diary documenting a teenage girl's sexual exploration with people her age, people much older than her, females, group sex and s&m.
What sets this book aside from many other erotica novels is that the author wrote this at the age of 14, I believe. She has this jaw dropping talent for writing. Her book sounds as if it can be literary trash or a cheesy romance novel but it is neither. She is Sicillian (sp?) and her book was orginally written in Sicillian and has been translated in many different languages. It's very clear that her writing did not get lost through the translation.
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Post by fUx0r on Aug 10, 2005 13:18:07 GMT -5
the virgin suicides is a book about a family living in an upper-class suburban neighborhood with a serious problem. after their youngest daughter commits suicide, the family is changed and scared, especially the remaining sisters. the story is told by an un-named narrator who tells their story through the bits and pieces they've put together from interviews and personal belongings they've collected. i don't want to give you all the details, but really it's a great read. the movie does a good job, but there are parts that are missing in it.
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Post by androdaking on Aug 10, 2005 23:04:22 GMT -5
Ok, it sounds very good. Wonder what it's Swedish name is. Maybe I will read it as school work. They might have that book.
What's middlesex about?
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Post by fUx0r on Aug 11, 2005 4:11:43 GMT -5
middlesex is about a hermaphrodite. the narrator calliope, who at first was thought to be a girl, later discovers when she's 16 that she's actually male. at that point he's known as cal. the book also tells the story of cal's family and their greek origins (which also involves a hidden family secret that later explains cal's genetic dilemma). i didn't actually know it was about a hermaphrodite, since middlesex is also the name of a city in the US. but i enjoy eugenides' writing style, so i picked this book up.
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Post by androdaking on Aug 11, 2005 5:30:55 GMT -5
sounds really cool. Gonna check them out.
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Post by millenCOOLin on Aug 12, 2005 19:55:38 GMT -5
hey man... books are expensive... but I love all Sherlock Holmes books
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Post by fUx0r on Aug 12, 2005 22:24:43 GMT -5
well, it depends on what books you're talking about. my reading books cost me no more than $15 on amazon. now my design books, like ones displaying stationary systems and logos, cost about $40 each. now THOSE are expensive. i've seen some for over $100.
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