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What Are You Reading?; The bookworms shall inherit the earth!
Topic Started: Mar 5 2005, 07:18 PM (10,287 Views)
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I recently went to Berlin and my uncle gave me a tonne of books as a gift. :) There are so many titles that are famous all around Europe, and maybe can only be found in Europe.

The book pile I plan to read are:
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
Homo Faber by Max Frisch
A Wild Sheep Chase by Murakami
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Shadow of The Wind by Carols Ruiz Zafon

All I know is that The Pillars of the Earth was on Oprah once, so I'll definitely read that if it was good enough to be promoted like that. :) I'm reading The Shadow of The Wind at the moment, and WOW I must say it is a very intriguing book.

The story is told through the eyes of a boy named Daniel as he grows up. To me, there's a certain factor at the beginning that's a bit suspension of disbelief because the kid is supposed to be ten years old, yet speaks like a college professor. :giggle: The entire story seems to have a billion subplots that one event leads to another, to another, to another, to another... Everything that appears seems to be connected to this book Daniel finds, which is the main item in the entire story.

I'm halfway through, and as the plot thickens, I can't help but kinda laugh that alot of the things in the book reveal what goes on in a teenage boy's mind, where he practically falls in love with every pretty woman he comes face to face with. :lol: No matter how sophisticated the story is written, boys will be boys. :rolleyes:

The plot is going fast, but it's usually the case of leaving out any events that would distract from the main storyline, except for Daniel's romance encounters, of course. :rolleyes:

*goes off to continue it* :geek:
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Vanelo
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Currently reading The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. Tis a very intriguing and well written story so far, I'll say that.
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Alantie
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Dreams the world far away
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I’m with you- I was never really fond of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I liked it when I was seven or so, and…I dunno, I think I outgrew them.  There are lots of childhood books that have stayed with me- Narnia, Peter Pan, Secret Garden to name a few but for some reason, those books didn’t just make the cut. Maybe it was the fact that they had no real villains or no real threat- even as a kid, I liked when authors showed that there IS darkness in the world.


Oh, thank goodness I'm not the only one who feels that way about those books. :lol: I just could not get into them. I felt there wasn't a point- like you said, there wasn't really a darkness to balance things out, no particular villians or purpose. Secret Garden- guh, I love that one and A Little Princess. <3 Very good childhood books. ^^

So I finished reading the Looking Glass Wars. I will say this- I very much like the idea behind the writing and the general plot. I'm not so fond of the author's writing style. It's a bit lacking to me. But nonetheless, it was fairly decent, and I plan on reading the next book, Seeing Redd.

I've also got a copy of Inkheart and plan to read that soon as well. :D
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Nevaleigh
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rockstar by Nikki Sixx

Okay so I have a weakness for rock star stories. But this is pretty interesting, graphic and very violent picture wise. My kind of book.

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Nation by Terry Pratchett. Totally in love with it.
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Missing White Girl by Jeffrey J. Mariotte. The author of Supernatural: Witches Canyon.
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Remember your pride
I thought that name looked familiar XD

The Secret Circle by L.J. Smith
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Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.
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Song Lilly
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rereading Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind
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Sadhana
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Feb 13 2009, 07:23 AM
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ugh, I love that book. Amazinggg. I don't know how I feel about The Shadow of the Wind though. I started it a few months ago, but I have yet to finish it because even though the language is great, I feel like it's too plot-heavy. :/

Books I've recently finished:
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

I would definitely have to recommend the latter two to anyone. They were fantastic.

And now, I'm just starting on The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
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Xia-ya
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I'm finishing The House of Many Ways by Diane Wynne Jones. I loved her first Howl's moving castle.
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In the midst of reading ...
'Warlord' by Jennifer Fallon
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Nevaleigh
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Not Brave Enough To Be A Elephant
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk

Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Paul of Dune by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Byzantium by Stephen Lawhead - Almost done with this one. Amazing book.
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Kusari Yarou
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I don't know how I feel about The Shadow of the Wind though. I started it a few months ago, but I have yet to finish it because even though the language is great, I feel like it's too plot-heavy

I know very well what you mean. I can’t really and truly enjoy a book unless I care enough about the characters and I thought that Zafon focused on the scandal and intrigue and drama surrounding his main characters instead of actually fleshing them out. He went overboard in my opinion: all the leads seemed like characters out of a soap opera and the only ones I could care about were actually the secondary characters- Julian’s dad, Miquel Moliner, Nuria Monfort- ‘cause they were the ones that seemed real to me.

Yeah, the author(and the translator) did do a great job on the language—I enjoyed being taken to all those mysterious streets and dusty libraries and ghostly mansions. But I still think all the rave reviews for this one are exaggerated *g*

I’m now reading At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill; it’s a romance between two Irish boys set the year before Dublin’s Easter uprising. Now this is a book that deserves all it’s rave reviews. The narrative is really cool--the traditional third person, but occasionally lapsing into stream-of-consciousness, and it even takes on the POV of a schizophrenic character. It’s probably not for everyone, but I’m loving it—the romance is just beautiful. I don’t want it to end :lol:

Sadhana
 
The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

This book seems to crop up everywhere I go- what's it all about?
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