What are your favourite books?
Just a conversational question: what are your favoutie books? What sorts of books do you normally read?
I mostly read general fiction - the sort of thing that doesn't be long to any particular genre. I tend to be as picky about books as I am about websites and often don't finish what I start.
Here are some of my favouties:
- Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens (set in my home town and is - gasp - actually really good)
- Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey (very strange and original)
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (set in 19th century China, footbinding and all. I like books with different cultural settings.)
- The Kite Runner (interesting story, very well written)
I also sometimes read non-fiction books about web design, yoga, and assorted other topics of interest. Right now I'm reading Designing Web Usability by Steve Krug which is 5 years old but still interesting and useful! I'd definitely recommend it to anyone interested in usability.
Side question: What did you think about the DaVinci Code? Will post my thoughts on that later!
bja888 posted this at 20:03 — 17th October 2005.
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As long as you don't tell anyone I read...
Fight Club (book, not movie)
Diary (autor of fight club)
and current reading "Slient Bob speaks"
mairving posted this at 20:03 — 17th October 2005.
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Favouties, is that the Canadian version? Use favorites in the US and favourites in UK I believe
As far as books go, I really have too many to mention. The last one that I read the other day was 'Prey' by Michael Crichton. Not all that great but a fast read. Before that it was 'Art of Warfare in the Western World'. Before that it was 'The Screwtape Letters' by C.S. Lewis. Before that it was 'Great Women in the Christian Church'. Before that it was 'Absolute Postfix'. Of course, interspersed with reading the Bible. Most of those are in the last 10 days or so.
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Megan posted this at 20:07 — 17th October 2005.
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favouties - LOL, bad type-o. Am sick & a little jet lagged still, give me a break
(fixed now BTW)
mairving posted this at 21:00 — 17th October 2005.
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I thought that it must have been a Canadian expression since you typed it several times. A search on Google yielded a lot of results for that spelling.
The other thing that I thought that it may have been is that Busy had somehow used your login to post.
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Busy posted this at 09:32 — 18th October 2005.
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Should we tell her she missed two of them
How could you think I typed that? Way to many big words for me, plus I thought the DaVinci Code was a movie
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JeevesBond posted this at 12:23 — 18th October 2005.
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Hmmm, you're not far wrong it was written like it wants to be made into one.
Oh and I made the mistake of mentioning that book in Megan's presence once... Be careful she may start ranting
I'm a bit of a sci-fi geek, anything by Iain M Banks is good IMO, although I'm reading "The Wasp Factory" by Iain Banks (same guy different genre) and it's really good. I can also recommend Complicity by him as well, his books are always scarily well thought out.
My favourite has to be "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque, it is about war, but not from the perspective you'd expect.
I've also read almost every Paulo Coehlo book available as well, simple, clever and inspiring. All the happy-factor of self-help without the patronising undertones!
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02bunced posted this at 06:30 — 20th October 2005.
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That's a powerful book . . . and has been made into an even more powerful film.
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timjpriebe posted this at 13:11 — 18th October 2005.
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Although I think I've read most of his stuff by now, I'm a huge Isaac Asimov fan. Nowadays, I read mostly nonfiction. The last book I finished was The Power of Approachability, by Scott Ginsberg. Cool/interesting fact about this guy: He's been wearing a nametag 24/7 for the past few years. (hellomynameisscott.com)
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demonhale posted this at 02:07 — 19th October 2005.
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actually the da vinci code is now on works to becoming a movie,
most of the time I read web books, PC books, Engineering books, and for my other readings I like classics like Le Moitre D' Arthur, or something like that,
most present books are re-writes of old one which has a more poetic writing style before... I also read those that are actually given to me, most recently, "who moved my cheese", "the secrets of the bible code"... Im a reader... I read a lot...
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colonialAngel posted this at 20:44 — 19th October 2005.
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Harry Potter(yeah i suck...lol)
to kill a mocking bird
da vinci code
pride and prejudice
mairving posted this at 20:56 — 19th October 2005.
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Funny my niece almost named her kid Atticus from To Kill A Mockingbird.
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tallon posted this at 02:59 — 20th October 2005.
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A Game of Thrones (1st book in A Tale of Fire and Ice)
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A Clash of Kings (2nd book, same series)
A Storm of Swords (3rd book, same series)
That's all they have out for that series right now, so that's as far as I can list
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Andromeda posted this at 04:30 — 20th October 2005.
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I have always been interested to Science book.. when I went to high school I became so
interested with love stories.. yeah libido at its work...
DC_Sara posted this at 17:03 — 23rd October 2005.
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I have read all the HP books and have loved them.
I usually read a lot of chick lit, although this is waiting for me to read this week: Memoir of a Geisha, they are releasing a movie soon about the book and I wanted to read the book first. Usually books are better than the movies in my opinion.
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jcprov21 posted this at 02:08 — 24th October 2005.
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