What book was so good to you?
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Life Of Pi by Yann Martel. One of my favourites I couldn't put it down. The ending is a suprise. It was so good I went into depression when I finished it. I wanted to keep on reading it!
A Confederacy of Dunces is a novel written by John Kennedy Toole about New Orleans. I read this one in a few days. It was published in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide. A very funny book that had me laughing all through the two days I took to read it.
A Confederacy of Dunces is a novel written by John Kennedy Toole about New Orleans. I read this one in a few days. It was published in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide. A very funny book that had me laughing all through the two days I took to read it.
Shantaram a true story I couldn't stop reading.
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"Neville Shute's "On the Beach" was a depressing story and a worse movie."
One of the worse attempts to bring a book to the silver screen.
As for 'having to read a book'. I've read just about everything by Charles Dickens. I finished 'Nicholas Nickleby' for the second time just this year...but...why on earth did they make us read 'Great Expectations' in high school? The last dicken's book that any teenage male would enjoy when there were so many great Dicken's alternatives. almost as bad as making us read the 'Great Gatsby'. There must have been a plot by the department of education to turn kids off of reading novels.
One of the worse attempts to bring a book to the silver screen.
As for 'having to read a book'. I've read just about everything by Charles Dickens. I finished 'Nicholas Nickleby' for the second time just this year...but...why on earth did they make us read 'Great Expectations' in high school? The last dicken's book that any teenage male would enjoy when there were so many great Dicken's alternatives. almost as bad as making us read the 'Great Gatsby'. There must have been a plot by the department of education to turn kids off of reading novels.
Everytime I find an author I like I go and devour all their work. Three that come to mind are Mordecai Richler (I read everything he had written in 3 weeks), Frank Herbert ( I read the six Dune books around 8 times each) , and Kurt Vonnegut (I have to take a little time off from reading them so that I can read them again).
As far a my favorite book...??? Mabey Catch-22. couldn't put it down.
As far a my favorite book...??? Mabey Catch-22. couldn't put it down.
RE: What book was so good
Lamb: The gospal of Christ according to Jesus's Childhood Friend Biff. By Christopher Moore.
Best book ever. I laughed so hard.
Lamb: The gospal of Christ according to Jesus's Childhood Friend Biff. By Christopher Moore.
Best book ever. I laughed so hard.
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I really enjoy Dickens, too. I've read everything by Dickens, and I was really sorry that he didn't write more. And that he didn't complete "The mystery of Edwin Drood".
And if you like Dickens, Athabaska, you would probably enjoy Wilkie Collins, too. He wrote at about the same time, and his novels are just fascinating.
athabaska said:
I really enjoy Dickens, too. I've read everything by Dickens, and I was really sorry that he didn't write more. And that he didn't complete "The mystery of Edwin Drood".
And if you like Dickens, Athabaska, you would probably enjoy Wilkie Collins, too. He wrote at about the same time, and his novels are just fascinating.
Mitch Albom
"The Five People You Meet in Heaven"
Eddie is killed and goes to heaven. There, he learns that he must first encounter five different persons from whom he will learn something about the meaning of his life From each of the five persons the late Eddie encounters in turn, he learns something different about himself and its significance to his life and about life itself. He is awakened to his own worth and the value of his life. He learns about the interrelationship of all lives, about sacrifice, the everlasting value of love, and the the poisonness of lingering anger
Could not put it down!
"The Five People You Meet in Heaven"
Eddie is killed and goes to heaven. There, he learns that he must first encounter five different persons from whom he will learn something about the meaning of his life From each of the five persons the late Eddie encounters in turn, he learns something different about himself and its significance to his life and about life itself. He is awakened to his own worth and the value of his life. He learns about the interrelationship of all lives, about sacrifice, the everlasting value of love, and the the poisonness of lingering anger
Could not put it down!
Arthur C Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama, and the other rama books. amazing
also Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Will Self, Great Apes
I like reading
also Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Will Self, Great Apes
I like reading
Being a fast reader is a curse. I pick up a paperback "best seller" at the airport in Vancouver and by the time I get to Toronto I've usually finished the book, and had a short nap. On the way back I have to buy another book, and even paperbacks are $10 or $12 a shot these days.
If you like Robert Heinlein, try "Number of the Beast". Sorry, if you like Heinlein, you have already read this book.
Try "Mote in God's Eye", or "Lucifer's Hammer", by Larry Niven & Gerry Pournelle
If you like Robert Heinlein, try "Number of the Beast". Sorry, if you like Heinlein, you have already read this book.
Try "Mote in God's Eye", or "Lucifer's Hammer", by Larry Niven & Gerry Pournelle
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Thanks for the recommendation. No, I haven't read any of Wilkie Collins' but now look forward to checking him out at the library. Re 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood', many years ago I read a mystery about dDckens and 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' ...a bit like recent novels that will incorporate Sherlock Holmes.
Vereya said:
Thanks for the recommendation. No, I haven't read any of Wilkie Collins' but now look forward to checking him out at the library. Re 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood', many years ago I read a mystery about dDckens and 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' ...a bit like recent novels that will incorporate Sherlock Holmes.
#juan said:
Juan. I haven't bought more than a dozen new novels in my life (but lots second hand) I do, however, live within walking distance of two libraries and stop in a couple times a week and sign out novels, magazines, DVDs and so on. We always sign out book CDs for car trips. I also now take book CDs when flying as it shuts out the noise and is relaxing.
I'm a fussy reader so I'll sign out a half dozen paperbacks, read the first chapter and maybe finish 2 or 3 of them. A lot of modern novels are a bit too cliche. The characters are often over achievers who are experts in their fields by age 25 , the top 1% of good looks, and already possess a lifetime's drama, trauma and tortured past.
I second he recommendation of sci-fi by Larry Niven.
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Whoa tamarin! You obviously have hidden depths. You're the only person I've ever encountered who's even heard of him, except for my dear departed mother. I too have got 'em all. I've also got a wonderful letter from his wife. I wrote to her after Loren Eiseley died, just to express to her how much his writings had meant to me, and got a very gracious and grateful response. He was one of a kind. So's his wife.
And that brings up something else worth noting. If there are authors who've really touched you, write to them and say so. You can always get in touch with them through their publishers. They'll be extremely grateful, if they're worth knowing at all, and you'll have done your bit to spread a little more kindness and understanding around the world. Among my favourite writers are Morris West for fiction and William Manchester for history; I've written to them both via their publishers, and received wonderful responses. DO IT.
tamarin said:
Whoa tamarin! You obviously have hidden depths. You're the only person I've ever encountered who's even heard of him, except for my dear departed mother. I too have got 'em all. I've also got a wonderful letter from his wife. I wrote to her after Loren Eiseley died, just to express to her how much his writings had meant to me, and got a very gracious and grateful response. He was one of a kind. So's his wife.
And that brings up something else worth noting. If there are authors who've really touched you, write to them and say so. You can always get in touch with them through their publishers. They'll be extremely grateful, if they're worth knowing at all, and you'll have done your bit to spread a little more kindness and understanding around the world. Among my favourite writers are Morris West for fiction and William Manchester for history; I've written to them both via their publishers, and received wonderful responses. DO IT.