eternal light Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Paper Citizens by Kamal Sadiq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maven2blue Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 I am reading Eclipse. It's one of the Twilight books. I've read the first two. Is this the third one in the series? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mernie Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 I recently finished Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, which I absolutely loved. Now I'm reading The Satanic Verses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroselambra~ Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 (edited) i have read a lot of critical acclaim about rushdie but have yet to read any of his novels is *midnight's children* as good as the reviews it gets? Edited December 2, 2008 by caroselambra~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mernie Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 i have read a lot of critical acclaim about rushdie but have yet to read any of his novels is *midnight's children* as good as the reviews it gets? I had this discussion with my oldest son, who turned me on to the book in the first place. He is a Rushdie fan and liked the book, but he's not sure if it really deserves all the critical acclaim it received. I think yes, it does. For me, it was one of those novels that just pulled me in and I couldn't read it fast enough. It's both historical and utterly magical. I think Rushdie is brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 A while ago I finished a great biography about the Russian revolutionary poet Majakovskij which was very interesting. Unfortunatly there are not many books about him in English, but there is a Swedish writer named Bengt Jangfeldt that has a deep interest for Majakovkij and is the first one who ever written a biography of Majakovskij. It might be published in English soon, as well. Right now I am reading a great book about the battles at Peleliu and Okinawa. Eugene B. Sledge was a surviving marine of the Pasific war during WWII and when he got home after the war he started to write his story down. It was supposed to be a story he would share within his family, but sometime during the 70's they thought he should publish the story for everyone to read. It was first published in 1981. Here's word about the book: "A classic... In all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic, or moving memoir. This is the real deal, the real war: unvarnished, brutal, without a shred of sentimentality or false patroitism, a profound primer on what it actually was like to be in that war." - Ken Burns (PBS) I highly recomend this book. www.amazon.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Finished With The Old Breed last week, which was a fantastic book. Now I picked up Lovesick Blues, The Life of Hank Williams by Paul Hemphill. I have only read about 40 pages, but I like it so far and it seems like a well written biography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedZepChick Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Just picked this up the other day...I know I'm gonna love it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzfan715 Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 John Lennon: the Life. So far so good, its well written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Arthur by Stephen Lawhead. It's book three of four in the Pendragon Cycle. I've thoroughly enjoyed the series thus far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxie Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I'm about halfway through Andy Taylor's autobiography mostly about his time in Duran Duran. Pretty interesting so far, and he's mentioned Zep quite a bit so far. The funniest bit was how they had to go on right after them at Live Aid. He says "Which bastard put them on before us?". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I never miss the annual Southern Music issue, now celebrating it's 10th anniversary with this edition of the Oxford American. Every year the Southern Music issue also comes with a CD, in commemoration of their 10th anniversary this year's is a double. If you're so inclined you can read the tracklisting and liner notes here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenman Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Read both halfs of the Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe while on holiday in New Zealand, the adventures of a banished torturer in dystopian slowly freezing future earth really got me into the holiday spirit. Seriously though if you like complex sci fi like Dune is definately worth a read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychoRockNRoll Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortuna Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 I have just started reading A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth. Has anyone else read this book? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllisonAdler Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Peter Hennessy's Never Again: Britain 1945-51, which is really excellent. Trying in vain to get back to serious work with G.R. Elton's Reform and Reformation, England 1509-1558, and Christine Carpenter's book on late medieval Warwickshire, Locality and Polity, but to no avail with the husband ill and all the hospital to-ing and fro-ing. Someday... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrum Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 'Tent Life In Siberia' by George Kennan An attempt to link America and Asia via telegraph in the 1860's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virginia Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 Getting ready to start the Twilight series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandra Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I'm reading a book i recently bought entitled The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel With A Broken Wing Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Currently reading "The Man Who Loved China" by Simon Winchester. This past year I mainly read along with the books my daughter was assigned in her middle school classes, some for the first time, others were repeats that I enjoyed as much the second time around. "To Kill a Mockingbird", "A Separate Peace", "The Outsiders", "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian" are a few titles that spring to mind. The most fascinating book I read in 2008 was this one, "Crashing Through" -- A story about Mike May who was blinded by a chemical accident when he was just a toddler and then had his sight restored at 46 years old. In many ways having sight turned out to be a far greater hardship and struggle than he (or anyone with sight) could possibly imagine. The greatest difficulty he had was in recognizing faces (everyone looked identical, he could distinguish male from female only if there was facial hair, for example). So much so that he finally gave up and resorted back to the other sensory cues he used while blind (such as hearing) to know who he was speaking with. The book is supposedly being made into a movie but don't know when or if it will be released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireOpal Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Yesterday, I got cracking on "Sarum" an epic novel about England, specifically Salisbury and the surrounding area, spanning in time from the end of the Paleolithic era to World War II. I've gotten up to the Neolithic period, which is of a particular fascination to me, as this is the culture who built Stonehenge and all the other remarkable earthworks in the area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Yesterday, I got cracking on "Sarum" an epic novel about England, specifically Salisbury and the surrounding area, spanning in time from the end of the Paleolithic era to World War II. I've gotten up to the Neolithic period, which is of a particular fascination to me, as this is the culture who built Stonehenge and all the other remarkable earthworks in the area. Sounds like an interesting read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternal light Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Robert Burns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zepaholic Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Sounds like an interesting read! It's epic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zepaholic Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 John Lennon: the Life. So far so good, its well written. I'm on page 352. John is a very...errrr, complex bloke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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