Books

[Srbski-kralj]

Yeah i found Dantes Inferno to be a nice read. Yeah i love the books relating to the age of Knights, and Templars and all their mysteries.

[Jenny_HRO87]

Oh I love books...

some of my favourites... I guess I'll miss a lot...

Harry Potter 1-7 by JK Rowling
Twilight-Saga by Stephenie Meyer
--> definitly my favourite books!!! But to be honest Stephenie Meyer can't really beat Mrs. Rowling! I mean the Love Story from Twilight is awesome (and a girl thing I guess but HP is a much more complex series...

other favourites (no ranking):

Travel around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Angela's Ashes, 'Tis and Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
Nowhere in Africa / Somewhere in Germany by Stefanie Zweig
All Quiet on the Western Front and The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque*
Naked Among Wolves by Bruno Apitz* (people shall never forget)
The Diary of a Young Girl/Anne Frank*
*(I don't know how popular are these books over in the US...)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
Making history by Stephen Fry
Atonement by Ian McEwan (I was so depressed after I finished it... I cried 10 minutes)
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Lord of the rings, The Hobbit
I also like the Sherlock Holmes' stories and a lot of novels by Agatha Christie...
And believe it or not... I like Faust by Goethe... and Romeo & Juliett by Shakespeare is good too...

I started right now with "About a boy" (I try to read it in english)... and after this I'll read Kite Runner

there are many books, but my fav are: harry potter (all)
Lolita
Illuminati
Sakrileg

[wasabi622]

i suggest all of you to check out Michael Crichton.
hes the guy who wrote the books for Jurassic Park, Congo, and is also the creator of ER.

his more modern book is about Global Warming. its a fiction novel, but has some intresting facts, and he never really shows if he believes in global warming, but doesn't deny it either.

very neutral writing.

[The Gate Keeper]

I'm reading The Divine Comdey but I kinda got half way through Inferno then I kinda cant find it

[fsquared]

Originally Posted by wasabi622

anyone remember the title for the russian book that lolita was based off of?
it'll be an intresting read, i think.

Not sure what you mean exactly. Nabokov (a native Russian speaker but who I think also learned English and likely French as a child) wrote the book in English originally. He did base the first half off of an unpublished short story of his called Vulshebnik ("The Enchanter"). Also, there are some who claim that it might have been inspired by a 1916 short story called Lolita by Heinz von Eschwege.

Way in the old corners of the forum, from 2007, there is a thread about Lolita here:

http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/show...nabokov+lolita

I'd like to read Douglas Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach". It's been on my queue for longer than I care to admit.

[Jess]

I used to be an avid book reader of sorts, but now I'm into audiobooks.

Three of the books that I'm currently listening to in my ipod:

• Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus - By Dr. John Gray

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - Narrated by Michael Sheen & kate Beckinsale

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - Performed by Jeremy Irons

[Plaz]

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway... my fav book of all time...

[Ruroshen]

Originally Posted by HRO87

But to be honest Stephenie Meyer can't really beat Mrs. Rowling! I mean the Love Story from Twilight is awesome (and a girl thing I guess but HP is a much more complex series...

Amen, sister! Testify! Though I have to admit that Harry kind of annoys me a bit, especially in the latter half of the series. I'm more of a Hermione geek. As far as I'm concerned, every book in the series could be renamed "Hermione Granger and her Much Less Interesting Friends".

Originally Posted by HRO87

The Diary of a Young Girl/Anne Frank*
*(I don't know how popular are these books over in the US...)

I don't know about the US, but a lot of us up here in Canada have actually read this in high school (or at least had to while I was still in school...which was awhile ago). It really had a major impact on me when I read it in Grade 10, and again when I reread it for the first time last summer.

Originally Posted by HRO87

I started right now with "About a boy" (I try to read it in english)... and after this I'll read Kite Runner

About A Boy is actually my second-favorite Nick Hornby book after High Fidelity, and is a much better book than the Hugh Grant movie they made from it. The way it ends is totally different from the movie, and isn't as painfully schmaltzy.

Originally Posted by Jess

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - Narrated by Michael Sheen & kate Beckinsale

Really? Huh. That's a pairing you wouldn't expect. I could listen to Kate Beckinsale read the phone book, though...

Originally Posted by Jess

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - Performed by Jeremy Irons

Ooo, now THAT would be interesting. I'll definitely have to keep an eye out for this one. Thanks for the heads up.

[Jess]

Originally Posted by Ruroshen

Really? Huh. That's a pairing you wouldn't expect. I could listen to Kate Beckinsale read the phone book, though...

Ooo, now THAT would be interesting. I'll definitely have to keep an eye out for this one. Thanks for the heads up.

I agree I could listen to Kate read anything and find it very interesting. By the way just in case you didn't know Michael Sheen will play 'Aro,' the leader of the Volturi in 'New Moon', the next movie in the 'Twilight series'. Michael Sheen.