Books

[Jenny_HRO87]

finished "Revolutionary Road" (Richard Yates) today... well it was okay but not a book I would read twice...

[Azhiri]

I re-read Lolita this week and fell in love with Nabokov all over again.

[user472884]

Originally Posted by Azhiri

I re-read Lolita this week and fell in love with Nabokov all over again.

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[Azhiri]

Very good read, I was able to relate to the detachment from self and unwillingness to embrace femininity/feminine roles. A woman is a very normal, boring, functioning member of society; her equally boring boyfriend proposes to her. She agrees but becomes increasingly dismissive and disinterested in the wedding plans, as well as her daily life. She soon finds herself humanizing and feeling sympathy for food; this causes her to refuse to eat. As she becomes increasingly detached from reality and her own body, she realizes that society, and her fiancee, are metaphorically "devouring" her.

[user472884]

Few weeks ago I finished Frankenstein.
- I'm satisfied in that I now know the true story, and that I can now laugh at the green skin and lightning... but quite honestly I didn't care for the story. In its universe, the novel was written by some sailor trying to sail to the North Pole, who picks up Frankenstein floating on an iceberg or something... and the sailor proceeds to then memorize and write down verbatim the life story that Frankenstein just randomly dishes out to some random English sailors. And to add, I find it odd that he forgets to mention his love and his family... but he remembers word for word the Creature's entire monologue? And not only just his monologue, but the Creature's life story as well? The book really is about the Creature's experiences, not Frankenstein's or anyone elses...

So essentially we have a book that was written by an English sailor who wrote down verbatim the life story of a random Swiss guy which really is largely absent because he spends most of the time explaining again verbatim the life story of the Creature...

The book just reads like an 18 year old girl wrote it on a dare.

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Just finished My Ishmael.

I agree with most of the points made, but really you have to read it for yourself because everyone will receive something different out of it (which is actually such a significant plot point that it itself was the entire reason for the sequel for having being written)

[Taxi Driver Aaron]

I like reading books by philosophers like Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Kuhn.

[mzracing76]

My Favorite Books:

Jeffery Deaver's "Lincoln Rhyme Series Novels" - very exciting Crime Mysteries
Andy McDermott's "Mystery Novels" - indiana jones types (takes place in France, Europe)
David Gibbon's Mystery Novels - another indiana jones mystery type writer

BOOKS:
COLD MOON (Jeffery Deaver)
Atlantis (Andy McDermott)
Atlantis (David Gibbins)
Blue Nowhere (Jeffery Deaver)
The Broken Window (Jeffery Deaver)

JEFFERY DEAVER = is one of the best crime mystery writers I ever read. most his books are told thru a CRIME DETECTIVE (mostly Lincoln Ryme) thru "Series" Novels.

...or basically any book written by those authors !!!

[travisv10]

I recommend the Hunger Games series.

The movie's coming out March 23rd, too MIDNIGHT PREMIERE HERE I COME

[Jenny_HRO87]

last books I read:​

• Trainspotting - really impressive and really really good novel!
  
• the Inkheart Trilogy by Cornelia Funke - German book series... I don't know how popular it is in foreign countries, but it must be... at last they made a movie out of it... nice to read.
  
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - well the first book. I wished for it for Christmas because someone recommended it to me and I liked it but then I discovered that the Hitchhiker's Guide is the first of a trilogy of 5 books (trilogy of 5 books lol) so I had to lend the 2nd from the library and it looks like I have to buy the other 4 too because I simply can't have Part 1 if I don't have the others. Right now I started with the 2nd book and several times I already died of laughter... I saw the movie ages ago I can't remember if I liked it because it was pretty weird... perhaps I'm going to watch it again when I finished the last novel. But luckily I also can't remember the end of the movie either, the final solution.

and I'm quiet sure I'm going to re-read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles very very soon...

[lefty12357]

I re-read The Hound of the Baskervilles last fall. I always loved that story.