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Post by Tritogeneia on Mar 7, 2006 11:18:50 GMT -5
Which are your favourite books? Which are the books you would definitely recommend to others and why? Which is your must-read book?
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Post by Betty Ann on Mar 7, 2006 13:47:30 GMT -5
Memoirs of a Geisha! That book was so amazing!! I'm definitely going to read it again some time. I also think everyone should read The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. OH, and The Stranger by Albert Camus  |
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Post by darkmoonfire on Mar 7, 2006 18:09:58 GMT -5
I really like Harry Potter, but I don't think many people here know him I read a year ago a new book named Amos Daragon. It's the same style as Harry Potter, but the main character isn't a wizard. He's actually a young knight who looks for small glass balls that give their owner the powers of the four elements (wind, water, fire, earth). It's really interesting. |
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Post by Tritogeneia on Mar 8, 2006 4:24:45 GMT -5
Memories of a Geisha is one of my favouite books too, after I had read it I asked someone to buy it as a birthday gift because it was a must- have-book for me. I suppose you've seen the movie too Betty Ann? Did you like it? I must say I was rather disappointed in it. It just wasn't as great as the book was. Speaking of books turned into movies:is the book always better than the movie? I think yes. Darkmoonfire - Harry Potter, are you kidding? I read all the parts up to number 6 (but I'm planing to get it soon when my paycheck comes trough)...I really liked "The Goblet of Fire" and I read "The Order of the Phoenix" in one and a half day. I just couldn't stop reading! It's a real page-turner.  Lucky for me it was summer when I was reading it so I had a lot of spare time since I stayed up till 4 AM just to finish the book. |
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Post by Betty Ann on Mar 8, 2006 19:40:17 GMT -5
Memories of a Geisha is one of my favouite books too, after I had read it I asked someone to buy it as a birthday gift because it was a must- have-book for me. I suppose you've seen the movie too Betty Ann? Did you like it? I must say I was rather disappointed in it. It just wasn't as great as the book was. Speaking of books turned into movies:is the book always better than the movie? I think yes. I haven't seen the movie yet (my boyfriend has bad hearing, so we don't usually go to see movies in theaters), but I did see some previews... it really bothered me that Nobu was so different from how he was supposed to be in the book!!!! I think that in a lot of cases, books are better than movies, but there are some cases where the movies are definitely better. Some examples off the top of my head are Girl, Interrupted (which wasn't a bad book, I just liked the movie better), What Dreams May Come (the book and the movie stand separate in my mind - one isnt' better than the other), and Legends of the Fall (it's a short story that was just... boring. The movie was awesome, though!) So I think it just depends on how the story is set up, and how it is written. I always like to read the book before seeing the movie, though |
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Post by arwentheelf02 on Mar 8, 2006 22:02:27 GMT -5
I adore the Lord of the Rings series, of course. My favorite "classic" book is The Great Gatsby. And I am a huge fan of Shakespeare, especially the comedies.
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Post by sailor nemesis on Mar 9, 2006 1:39:02 GMT -5
why Sailor moon Manga of corse! but searusly I love Anne Rice so almost any of her books also Harry Potter or anything by H. G. wells.
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Post by darkmoonfire on Mar 9, 2006 17:08:27 GMT -5
I read "The Order of the Phoenix" in one and a half day. I just couldn't stop reading! It's a real page-turner. Lucky for me it was summer when I was reading it so I had a lot of spare time since I stayed up till 4 AM just to finish the book. One and a half day? How many pages are there in the version you read? I read it in French and it took a week to read all the 975 pages. You must read really fast to be able to do such a thing. I'm impressed. |
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Post by Tritogeneia on Mar 10, 2006 7:32:02 GMT -5
I've read it in Croatian, it has the same number of pages. I do read pretty fast, but keep in mind that it was like this: started reading around 7 PM till 4 AM, than slept till 10 AM and read again all day till 3 AM again (OK, that's more like 2 days ) AND DID NOTHING ELSE. The book went everywhere with me:bed, kitchen, toilet...you name it. I admit that I'm a freak. When you only read and do nothing else for approximately 40 hours it's not that impossible. |
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Post by darkmoonfire on Mar 10, 2006 17:21:47 GMT -5
 OK, I'm still impressed but a little less. You can spend two days reading? I can't read for 2 hours without any pause for not becoming crazy. You got my admiration. I have to read The Outsiders for my English class and the teacher said it was a classic, so I suppose you know it. Is it a good story?
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Post by numbmelody on Mar 10, 2006 19:31:57 GMT -5
I read that in eighth grade. It was the first book I read in school that I actually liked! I hope you like it.
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Post by ladylilith on Mar 11, 2006 15:14:24 GMT -5
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Post by Tritogeneia on Mar 12, 2006 7:47:49 GMT -5
OK, I'm still impressed but a little less. You can spend two days reading? I can't read for 2 hours without any pause for not becoming crazy. You got my admiration. I have to read The Outsiders for my English class and the teacher said it was a classic, so I suppose you know it. Is it a good story? Yep, I can spend two days reading. This book...The Outsiders...it doesn't sound familiar, maybe I've read it in Croatian, then it had a different name. Who wrote it? This is the list of books I like and which I would recommend to others. The numbers don't mean I rate these books, it's just the order in which I remembered them, and since I read most of these in Croatian, maybe I will write some of the titles wrong...anyone is free to correct me 1. Franz Kafka: The Process Metamorphosis 2. Emile Zola: Germinal 3. Gustave Flaubert: Madamme Bovary 4. Meša Selimović: Death and the Dervish ( this author is from Bosnia so I don't know if the book is available in the US or other countries in Europe but he is a Nobel prize winner (I think ) so maybe someone translated it 5. Kawabata Yasunari: Thousand Cranes 6. Rynosuke Akutagawa: Rashomon 7. Stephen King: It The Stand 8. Lav Nikolajevič Tolstoj: Ana Karenjina (totally a classic masterpiece with many many pages  9. J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings 10. Aldous Huxley: Brand New World 11. Arthur Golden: Memories of a Geisha 12. Dante: Divine Comedy 13. J. D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye 14. Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea For Whom the Bell Tolls 15. Shakespeare: just about everything This is all for now, but if I remember or read a really good book I'll put it on this list. I would like to invite anyone who has read any of these books to give their comment, good or bad. |
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Post by ladylilith on Mar 12, 2006 10:19:11 GMT -5
I study Dante Alighieri at school and now I'm reading the Divine Comedy, or as we call it, "La Divina Commedia".XDDDD It's a masterpiece, but it's really really difficult even for meXD
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Post by Betty Ann on Mar 12, 2006 11:18:49 GMT -5
I read most of these in Croatian Do you ever read books in English? Sometimes I read books in German (my second language), but I prefer reading in English, since it's my first langauge and I want to make sure I understand everything perfectly. Also, you've read a lot of good books |
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OK, I'm still impressed but a little less. You can spend two days reading? I can't read for 2 hours without any pause for not becoming crazy. You got my admiration.
