Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:12 am
Helter Skelter and A Clockwork Orange are two of the best books I have ever read.
Helter Skelter is the freakiest book I've ever read. It took me a couple of chapters to realise that- whoa, this is a true story. I can only conclude that Charles Manson was a genius.
A Clockwork Orange is confusing until you get used to the language.
Helter Skelter is the freakiest book I've ever read. It took me a couple of chapters to realise that- whoa, this is a true story. I can only conclude that Charles Manson was a genius.
A Clockwork Orange is confusing until you get used to the language.
Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:57 pm
Christopher wrote:I reading a novel by Ben Elton, so far there are already two people stalking the main character and its already full of humour and bad American/British relations.
What is the book called?
Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:19 am
.neko. wrote:Christopher wrote:I reading a novel by Ben Elton, so far there are already two people stalking the main character and its already full of humour and bad American/British relations.
What is the book called?
'Blast from the Past', having read more its become a romance-ish between a Soldier and a Feminist with stalker subplot and making satire of Gender politics.
Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:06 am
"Protector of the Small:Squire" By Tamora Pierce. Gonna read Lady Knight soon...
I just read
Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:55 am
I just read Lucky You, it was really good I highly reccommend it!
Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:11 am
Redwall:The Long Patrol by Brian Jaques. A great story from a great author.
Tue Aug 24, 2004 5:39 am
<u>And the Band Played On</u>
<u>The City of Ember</u> and the sequel, <u>The People of Sparks</u>
The first book I've listed is a nonfiction book about AIDS, and the start of the epidemic (it may seem a bit odd for me to be reading it, but my mom's a nurse/scientist, so we have quite a few medical-related books around our house... Two shelves on our floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall living room bookshelf are for medical books and medical fiction/nonfiction only... And as a result, I'm currently reading a book about 'six great medical detective stories'). The other two are YAF (Young Adult Fiction). They're sort of sci-fi, sort of not.
<u>The City of Ember</u> and the sequel, <u>The People of Sparks</u>
The first book I've listed is a nonfiction book about AIDS, and the start of the epidemic (it may seem a bit odd for me to be reading it, but my mom's a nurse/scientist, so we have quite a few medical-related books around our house... Two shelves on our floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall living room bookshelf are for medical books and medical fiction/nonfiction only... And as a result, I'm currently reading a book about 'six great medical detective stories'). The other two are YAF (Young Adult Fiction). They're sort of sci-fi, sort of not.
Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:19 am
I recently went to the bookstore and came back with:
- How to Rule the World
- The Supernaturalist
- Molvania, a land untouched by modern dentistry
- How to Rule the World
- The Supernaturalist
- Molvania, a land untouched by modern dentistry
Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:37 pm
My English teacher told us that she wanted us to read a book that she thought was great. She didn't force us, she merely asked us to try to read it. Seeing as I can't read when I'm forced to, I went home and read most of it the first day I got it. The book is called "The Five People You Meet In Heaven". I wasn't expecting it to be any good, but when I actually started reading it, it turned out to be a pretty good book. I'm not completely done, but so far its been great.
Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:02 am
I just finished Childhood's End by Arthur Clarke. I was going to go to bed at like 10 tonight, but now its 4 am and i just had to come post. So I very much liked the book, but when I started it, right up until what must have been the last 5th of the book I found it all together aggravating and upsetting.. perhaps even disturbing, but captivating none the less. The closer I got to the end the more I understood. When I finished I must say I felt particularly tranquil not to mention fairly enlightened, as to what though Im not entirely sure.
Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:21 pm
"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy is spectacular. I would read it just for the language -it's beautiful, it's sensuous and really really sad. All about class divisions in South India in 1960s amongst other issues. Communism is a prominent theme - it's great.
Sun Aug 29, 2004 1:03 am
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott. Terribly interesting, it is.
And The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, although it will bore most to tears. String theory and all that.
And The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, although it will bore most to tears. String theory and all that.
Sun Aug 29, 2004 6:17 pm
Atamand wrote:Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott. Terribly interesting, it is.
And The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, although it will bore most to tears. String theory and all that.
In the book I just finished there's a part where the child is like exploring space with his dreams and he comes across a planet who's mass was so great that it collapsed on itself greating a flat-plane like thing and it's inhabbited by 2 dimensional sentient beings.
Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:45 pm
.neko. wrote:Atamand wrote:Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott. Terribly interesting, it is.
And The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, although it will bore most to tears. String theory and all that.
In the book I just finished there's a part where the child is like exploring space with his dreams and he comes across a planet who's mass was so great that it collapsed on itself greating a flat-plane like thing and it's inhabbited by 2 dimensional sentient beings.
Cool. Like a giant shoe stomped the planet. Splatland.
OK, so it wasn't that funny.......
Mon Aug 30, 2004 3:05 am
I read JK Rowling's notes for Harry Potter 6 and 7...