favorite/recently read books

[blackeyed]

okay what was your fave book? you can have a max of three but try and keep it below that.
(one of faves)
title: 1984
author: orwell
best bit/quote: whenever him and julia are in the room above the antiques shop, or when he finds out the rest of 'oranges and lemons'
(recently read)
title: oranges are not the only fruit
author: jeanette w-something...hmm
best bit/quote: 'thats the thing with disractions; you always end up getting involved'

 

[Loona]

damn nowadays I have no time to read
about 1984, I only saw the film. I didn't wanna do so, as I don't like to watch films made of books without reading the book first. This way I cannot and don't want to say much about it, I hope I will get the time and will be able to read it; after I will see brighter maybe.
The other one I want to read is Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. Heard the story in a nutshell and liked it. Do you know this one?

 

[toolsofthetrade]

the stand - king
brave new world - huxley
hyperion - simmons
uriels machine - knight & lomas
the hiram key - knight & lomas
lord of the rings - tolkien
interviews with god - walsch
any given book about film

 

[blackeyed]

anyone read for whom the bell tolls? was gona get it out the library on friday but id like to know what its about roughly first

 

[Eos]

anyone read for whom the bell tolls? was gona get it out the library on friday but id like to know what its about roughly first

I tried to read thatone in English a few years a go but it just didn't work.. I suppose I should get it in German *ggg*. Same with Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway"

 

[Loona]

anyone read for whom the bell tolls? was gona get it out the library on friday but id like to know what its about roughly first

I should read it because of the university, but I didn't do so yet...

 

[blackeyed]

I tried to read thatone in English a few years a go but it just didn't work.. I suppose I should get it in German *ggg*. Same with Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway"

heh, yeah it might be an idea lol!

 

[pistol_pete]

the van - roddy doyle

 

[Don Corleone]

damn nowadays I have no time to read
about 1984, I only saw the film. I didn't wanna do so, as I don't like to watch films made of books without reading the book first. This way I cannot and don't want to say much about it, I hope I will get the time and will be able to read it; after I will see brighter maybe.
The other one I want to read is Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. Heard the story in a nutshell and liked it. Do you know this one?

excellent novel...very touching. a very original book indeed. you get to see the mental growth of a retarded person, and the complexities he gets in later on. i love that one.

 

[Don Corleone]

anyone read for whom the bell tolls? was gona get it out the library on friday but id like to know what its about roughly first

a classic. hemingway's second best if you ask me (after "the old man and the sea"), and definitely much better than "a farewell to arms"...this one has a very bitter ending.
hemingway is one of my fave authors. a fucking lunatic, thats what he is hahah

but my fave novel still happens to be the godfather by mario puzo. as you can tell from my nickname.

 

[Faelivrin]

J. R. R. Tolkien - Silmarillion
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings

i love these books... Tolkien is my god... i readed LOTR twice and started again Simlarillion =)
when i end silmarillion i will start read it in english version =)

 

[best]

bukowski-"hollywood" and "ham on rye"

dostoyevsky-"notes from the underground"

john fante-"ask the dust" (an incredible writer who is surprisingly underrated)

kesey-"one flew over the cuckoo's nest"

kafka-"transformation and other stories"

all very good books, read them specially fante and buk

 

[Drynwhyl]

i really enjoy good written detective novels, based on real criminalistic methods, knowledge, etc. no tall-stories or banal, boring murders.
i'm reading henning mankell - villospår right now.
it's gripping!

 

[best]

excellent novel...very touching. a very original book indeed. you get to see the mental growth of a retarded person, and the complexities he gets in later on. i love that one.

it was an OK story but i dont really get the point, i cant see why it is an excellent novel

 

[Drynwhyl]

bukowski-"hollywood" and "ham on rye"

dostoyevsky-"notes from the underground"

john fante-"ask the dust" (an incredible writer who is surprisingly underrated)

kesey-"one flew over the cuckoo's nest"

kafka-"transformation and other stories"

all very good books, read them specially fante and buk

yes, buk is great! his short novels are very good as well.
i guess everyone has to read dostoyevsky more than once to understand and follow the thread of his thoughts, endless ego themes to debate with yourself, i think "idiot" is my favourite still.

 

[best]

yes, buk is great! his short novels are very good as well.
i guess everyone has to read dostoyevsky more than once to understand and follow the thread of his thoughts, endless ego themes to debate with yourself, i think "idiot" is my favourite still.

yeah, i have had many instances where i said " i feel like him" while readin dostoyevsky. Same thing with buk but some of his short stories are not really that great which are the ones he wrote for porn mags i think. Have you read "the blanket" or "most beatiful girl in town"? i think they are his best short stories.

 

[DragonLady1]

I like french literature, specially St Exupery (he has written other amazing books beside "Le petit prince"), Baudelaire (god!), Racine, Camus etc... but also Hesse or Kafka have some great works and of course mighty Tolkien and the stories of Poe are great too! recently I've read some adventure book my aunt gave me for christmas, was something from Isabel Allende, nothing really deep but quite enjoyable

 

[Loona]

in literature, my favourites are all Hungarian, so you may don't know
don't know what you miss...

 

[DragonLady1]

@loona just tell us, it may be interesting

 

[best]

I like french literature, specially St Exupery (he has written other amazing books beside "Le petit prince"), Baudelaire (god!), Racine, Camus etc... but also Hesse or Kafka have some great works and of course mighty Tolkien and the stories of Poe are great too! recently I've read some adventure book my aunt gave me for christmas, was something from Isabel Allende, nothing really deep but quite enjoyable

i like camus, "outsider" was a great novel. also there is Louis Ferdinand Celine and his novel "Journey to the end of the Night" i think it is a great book.