I like the book your display pic is.
Have you read the Percy Jackson Series? Or The Hunger Games Series? Or I am Number Four?
Well I can’t really decide on my favorite so here’s a few.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hunger Games is great!
I just read The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It’s originally in Spanish but I read it in English and loved it.
And the Harry Potter series is a contemporary classic, if there is such a thing.
If on a winter’s night a traveler — by Italo Calvino (Italien novelist), translated into English.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_on_a_…
“Quote: The Telegraph included it in 69th place in a list of ‘100 novels everyone should read’ in 2009”
It’s great!
69th place….xD Of course. (jk)
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The kite runner — you’ll love it!
The alchemist
The one..by Paul Reed; am reading this right now…it’s soo intresting:)
Let us know if you think of any good ones:)
oftheday wrote:
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
Zirbel wrote:
Italo Calvino
I have read ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino. Interesting.
ALSO:
Robert Fulghum: All I Really Needed to Know I Learnt in Kindergarten
Michael Ende: Momo [he also wrote the NeverEnding Story]
Herman Hesse: Siddhartha
Erich Fromm: The Art of Loving [psychoanalysis]
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince
aww! I will definately read “The little prince” aww sweet:)
Not least:
“The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran.
A small booklet written in a biblical language but much more intelligent than the whole big bible.
A sample (one of his best):
“And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, ‘Speak to us of Children.’ And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.”
You’ll find it also online:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole…
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris is great, especially if you like short stories
Princess K wrote:
The kite runner — you’ll love it!
The alchemist
The one..by Paul Reed; am reading this right now…it’s soo intresting:)
Let us know if you think of any good ones:)
Hi Princess K. The Kite Runner, I love it. I have read it for three times. Two times read the English version, one time Chinese version. And the movie version was taken picture in my hometown Xinjiang. And Khaled Hosseini’s second book A Thousand Splended Sun is great too.
I will read the other book you recommended, it is nice to sharing feelings after reading.
Qajs1 wrote:
Have you read the Percy Jackson Series? Or The Hunger Games Series? Or I am Number Four?
No, I haven’t read the books you mentioned. I will check them out. Thanks.
o0o0o wrote:
I like the book your display pic is.
I love One Flew Over The Cuccoo’s Nest. The movie is also great.
Thanks guys, I guess I have some books to read for next months. I will tell my feelings when I finish a book.
Ali-A wrote:
Princess K wrote:
The kite runner — you’ll love it!
The alchemist
The one..by Paul Reed; am reading this right now…it’s soo intresting:)
Let us know if you think of any good ones:)
Hi Princess K. The Kite Runner, I love it. I have read it for three times. Two times read the English version, one time Chinese version. And the movie version was taken picture in my hometown Xinjiang. And Khaled Hosseini’s second book A Thousand Splended Sun is great too.
I will read the other book you recommended, it is nice to sharing feelings after reading.
Hey, Tell me about it, that book is soo good! LOL I have had to get a double copy of it.. cos it was so great and I thoroughly enjoyed it:)
Yeah, am meaning to read his second book, “A Thousand Splendid Sun”. Yes, sure definately read the other book I recommended…I know u’ll love it:)
Let us know what you think of the books:)
The Alchemist will be my first book to read then when I get back to home. I will tell you my feelings when I finish it. I have the feeling I will love it, because you are so sure about it, and you love The Kite Runner too. Thanks Princess K.
For now I am reading The Choosen by Chaim Potok, I am absorbed by it very much.
Hahaha..bless you:)
Yeah am good like that;) my senses are picking up lol
Happy reading:)
Speak-by Laurie Halse Anderson
Gary Paulsen’s Brian Series
Hatchet (1987) (Has an alternate ending which makes a continuity with Brian’s Winter)
The River (Hatchet: The Return) (1991)
Brian’s Winter (Hatchet: Winter) (1996)
Brian’s Return (Hatchet: The Call) (1999)
Brian’s Hunt (2003)
Qajs1 wrote:
69th place….xD Of course. (jk)
Which is the book’s name and outhor’s name, please?
I wish I can read all of the books.
It is not that easy to find a book for me at this corner of this world. Some can’t find at all, the ones I found so slow in delivery. After long days of waiting todat I am beginning with reading The Hunger Games.
Alim-Abla wrote:
It is not that easy to find a book for me at this corner of this world. Some can’t find at all, the ones I found so slow in delivery. After long days of waiting todat I am beginning with reading The Hunger Games.
Awesome! I hope you like it.
I just finished The Hunger Games. This is the first science fiction I ever read. It is great. I found the other two seriece of this book, I am gonna read them two. Thanks for recommending. :)
Princess K wrote:
aww! I will definately read “The little prince” aww sweet:)
Today I read The Little Prince. I love this little book. There is a story about a rose in this book. I like it most. It says all the roses in the world are a like. If one is special because you tamed it. You watered it. You talked to it. I always thought which girl will be my perfect one. Now I have the answer. Whoever I choose, If only we love eachother, and tame eachother that will be the one.
Alim-Abla wrote:
Princess K wrote:
aww! I will definately read “The little prince” aww sweet:)
Today I read The Little Prince. I love this little book. There is a story about a rose in this book. I like it most. It says all the roses in the world are a like. If one is special because you tamed it. You watered it. You talked to it. I always thought which girl will be my perfect one. Now I have the answer. Whoever I choose, If only we love eachother, and tame eachother that will be the one.
Thank you for sharing this:)
Thak you for recommending this great book.
This is a very good ‘return to childhood’ type of book. So refreshing.
In a very similar vein, I recommend: Momo, by Michael Ende.
Alim-Abla wrote:
I just finished The Hunger Games. This is the first science fiction I ever read. It is great. I found the other two seriece of this book, I am gonna read them two. Thanks for recommending. :)
:D Yay! I’m so happy you enjoyed it. They’re also turning it into a film, which could be good.
Yeh, I watched the trailer of it, it seems a great movie. I am expecting it.
randomchatsmith wrote:
This is a very good ‘return to childhood’ type of book. So refreshing.
In a very similar vein, I recommend: Momo, by Michael Ende.
Momo, I will read it. Thank you for recommending.
Some extracts from that book. http://www.generationterrorists.com/q…
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“So… you like it here, do you?”
Momo nodded.
“And you want to stay here?”
“Yes, very much.”
“I mean, shouldn’t you go home?”
“This is my home,” Momo said promptly.
“But where do you come from?”
Momo gestured vaguely at some undefined spot in the far distance.
“When were you born?”
“As far as I can remember… I’ve always been around.”
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“How old are you really?”
Momo hesitated. “A hundred,” she said.
They all laughed because they thought she was joking.
“No seriously, how old are you?”
“A hundred and two,” Momo replied, still more hesitantly.
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In [Beppo’s] opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.
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