I have just finished reading

Philippe Claudel's "La Petite fille de Monsieur Linh"

Not sure if it's been translated in English yet. I've only read one other
book by him called "Without Me", which was even better than this one,
but both are really nice.

Not outstanding, but very accurate and delicate short novels presenting
the human condition. They're like miniature paintings, both focussing
on a man who lost his wife or family and who's now in his search of or
already clinging onto reasons to live on.


Anywho, enough bookclubbing, tell us what you're reading. Perhaps you
can give me a few ideas for what I should pick up next.

I've also just recently read Annie Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain"
in preparation for the movie since I heard so many good things,
about both the book and the movie trailers.

It's a cool little story that one, quite intense and sad too

mark haddon - the curious incident of the dog in the night-time

I'm wondering if anyone read "The Fifty Year Sword" by Mark Z Danielewski.

I'm thinking about asking this for christmas but I'd really like to know
a bit more about it before I put it on the list since it's $ 30,-

Now, having read and nearly gone insane from reading "House of Leaves", I
do think it's probably a good book but I'd just like to know what it is about
and if it's comparable to his debut novel.

SammiJ said:

I keep hearing and reading about it. Is it any good?

I can't seem to get interested in reading, anymore.

I'm almost done with THEY POURED FIRE ON US FROM THE SKY - The true story of three Lost Boys from Sudan. By: Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng and Benjamin Ajak with Judy A. Bernstein.

I can't wait to finish. They have a DVD out on this as well and I want to see it.


Incredible book. All of the things that thousands of kids had to deal with is just heartbraking. I can't believe this still goes on to this day.

M
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please people, if you tell us what you're reading,
let us know if it's any good, and if not, why not
etc.

that would be a great help in picking a book to
read next.

Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes by Bishop Jogn Shelby Spong
From Publishers Weekly
Building upon his earlier conclusions that Jesus' Jewishness is the key to understanding Jesus' life and work (This Hebrew Lord), Spong contends that the failure to read the Gospels as fundamentally Jewish impoverishes many traditional Christian readings. Tracing the history of New Testament interpretation, Spong demonstrates the tendencies among Christian interpreters to read the Gospels as documents addressing primarily an audience of Greek Gentile Christians rather than as narratives connected to the broader history of Judaism. Spong relies on a wide range of New Testament scholarship to argue that the form and content of the Gospels reflects not Greek influence or concerns but a peculiarly Jewish outlook on matters of religion and culture. Thus, for Spong, the Gospels are neither objective accounts of historical events nor biographies of Jesus but midrashim, or interpretive narratives, connecting the life and work of Jesus of Nazareth to the history, literature and religion of Judaism. For example, he isolates the symbolic roles that certain characters from the Hebrew Bible, like Elijah and Joseph, play in transmitting the story of Jesus to a Jewish audience. While Spong's conclusions about the value of reading the Gospels through Jewish lenses are neither new nor exciting, his forceful readings of the Gospels and his imaginative speculations about biblical figures are sure to provoke heated discussion among Christian interpreters.

IstenSzek said:

I found this a great vacation read last summer. Not too heavy, a bit mysterious, and very heartfelt.

IstenSzek said:

i like it so far, especially the unconventional beginning.

IstenSzek said:

I enjoyed it very much.

Felt like trying to break Harry Potter 5, after having seen the movie of number four...

Before that? Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility Of An Island. I am such a meeloper...

A really bad thread about (s starting his own website or some shit like that.

"Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul".

Cute stories in this book, plus the kitty on the cover looks like a cat my parents used to have.

Lars,

I went to Waterstones yesterday and I could cry. So many boosk I wanted to take home...



But nooooo.

And the COmplete Calvin & Hobbes is SO beautiful...

I just finished reading "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk and am still picking through "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote. It's a great book, just very long...

IstenSzek said:

Oh you bitch! I hadn't heard about this and I just found out it's only available in Holland and there were only 1000 copies printed or some shit!

Get me a copy for Christmas!

I am reading J.R. by William Gaddis. It's about a young boy who becomes this financial tycoon by taking advantage of free offers through the mail, manipulating stocks and such. It's very funny.

madartista said:

i'm not sure if i'm liking it too much
i'm just about over half way
it's good, the plot's crazylike jus cuz of the main character...

SammiJ said:

I really like that book

TMPletz said:

Have you read this one?


it was only 39 cents at my safeway

charlottegelin said:

I've seen the movie many times, but never read the book. I should do that someday.

The Elements Of Ritual by Deborah Lipp

HamsterHuey said:

well it's not bad to be a meeloper if the product (book, cd, dvd) is
a very good one.

especially in our country, i admit, a lot of the time the books and
albums that sell best are absolutely horrible trifle. but once in a
while there's something actually very good that gets the attention,
if only for a little while, from the public at large.

Houellebecq's a great writer. I haven't read Island yet, but I have
read "Elementary Particles" and "Platform", which were both really
good books.

What is "Island" like? What's it about? You're making me want to go
out and buy it now, just by mentioning it!

Dus dat maakt mij de grootste meeloper

I'm re-reading "Seduced by Moonlight" by Laurell K. Hamilton, as preparation for reading the new novel in the Merry Gentry-series.

HamsterHuey said:

Bol has the Complete Calvin & Hobbes too. and if you
order it from them, it will give you one or two months
time before you pay it.

I do that all the time. Although, you have to make
sure to pay in the end cuz otherwise they will put
you on their blacklist.

~beentheredonethat~

TMPletz said:

I'd post it to you but I think I chucked it out a long time ago it wasn't bad.

Nothing right now.....feel like reading a good book