We have had Book Club and What Book are you Reading right now..

But I would really recommend Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden... I thoroughly enjoyed it. Steven Spielberg is making a film of it which will be released in 2005.

i liked memoirs of a geisha. Though i was really disappointed that...SPOILER COMING
















she got together with the Lizard man. It made it a bit sickly sweet for me.

TheFrog said:

Urgh, yes, but Lizards and Frogs... ? I wouldnt get together with either..


Another one I gotta recommend, which I have done so already here is... The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Bluest Eye -Toni Morrison.

Read it 3 years ago, loved it.

The Seven Daughters of Eve (forgot author's name!)

Whether you agree with the evolution theory or not, still a very fascinating read on a scientist's account of his break-through controversial findings concerning the different origins of mankind.

anything by Yukio Mishima

SOON I will be done for school and able to read for pleasure again!

until then, I have no recommendations...

REDFEATHERS said:

Me neither. Frogs suck.

ArdeoTheMerciless said:

MarySharon said:

glad 2 c someone else appriciates the dude's literature

REDFEATHERS said:

No.

Cloudbuster said:

thats coz u cant read. u illiterate fool.










i know the irony of you posting on the org

ArdeoTheMerciless said:

I appreciate all kind of litterature.


and here's my recommendation:

Howard Butten: When I was five I killed myself

(and anything by Maya Angelou)

REDFEATHERS said:

liked that one very much too

Damage by Josephine Hart. I have recommended this book several times and no one has been disappointed (either that, or they are very convincing liars).

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris is a must too.

I'm reading (or starting to read) The Five People You Meet In Heaven, by Mitch Albom.



Can't necessarily reccommend it yet, but I'm reading it.

jillybean said:

i looooove the movie "Damage", but have to admit i haven't read the book. i'll check it out!

and anything by David Sedaris is brilliant.

I'm currently reading "Giovanni's Room," by James Baldwin.

I would recommend House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski, it was recommended to me here by Istenszek! Where is that boy??

It's a horror book, but so much more. One of the most interesting books I have ever read.

I Loved both Giovanni's Room and Memoirs of a Geisha.

Right now I'm reading Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. GREAT BOOK!!!

I'd recommend the book I'm reading now. Atonement by Ian McEwan. It's a slow start but it's very enthralling. Something bad has happened but I won't say what!

Any SF fans in here ?

Peter F Hamilton - Reality dysfunction

Neal Stephenson - Snow crash

Quite a read (understatement) but you'll loose yourself in their stuff

odd thomas~ Dean Koontz

Tad Williams - Otherland (a serie of 4 books)

I'm reading it now for the second time. Its a bit hard in the beginning because it has 'round 5 stories running though eachother that in the end come together.
It's a wonderful mix of fantasy, sf, culture and even a bit of history.

she's come undone - wally lamb

the shadow of the sun - ryszard kapuscinski

uncle sam's plantation - star parker

look them up to get good descriptions. i'e just started the 2nd two but they are already very interesting and insightful. the first one is one of my favorite books ever, if not my favorite. you would never know the author is a man...he has the character of this little girl/woman down perfectly. an absolutely brilliant read!

oh, and notes from underground by dostoevsky is amazing.

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2the9s said:

God, yeah that's an incredible piece of work. I've read a lot and I would call that one of the most innovative, original books that I have read in any genre.

If I had to recommend a couple of books, I'd plump for



or



or, of course

Whateva said:

It's a book ive been struggling with 4 nearly a year now, Im VERY intruiged by it (the 1st few chapters with the guy in the War and the dreams of the giant and the bird were WELL freaky!!!) But the intertwinging of the stories put's me off my pace somewhat. But Im determined 2 get there, as Im sure it's all 4 a very good reason. I MUST be interested in it - I bought the rest of the series and Im only quarter of the way thru that 1st book!

The Top three books Ive read are:
3: Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg
(Just an amazing piece of work u can totally lose yourself in. Quite amazing. In not a huge lover of 'fantasy' type novels, but this is SO immersive, u can't help but be drawn in2 it.
One of those rare books u can pick up again and again, and it will still work its magic.

There are a number of other books in the series, all very good, but the 1st is a richly detailed world - with at times, a distinct Indian sub-continetal flavour. Quite different 4 a 'fantasy' novel. I think people would be pleasantly surprised by it.

2: 'The Dark Tower' series by Stephen King
Not a big fan of His other stuff, as good as he is, a lot of his writing leaves me cold - but my cousin introduced me 2 the 1st novel, 'The Gunslinger' many years ago, and I've been hooked on this truly wonderful and unique series ever since:

...it's amazing. REALLY different 4 King.
If I HAD 2 pick one of the books as a favourite, I think Id go with 'Wizard & Glass'...
I cant wait 2 get my hands on the final few new books before He retires...(Im waiting on the paperback editions currently)

1: The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
I got SO wrapped up in this book, that I couldnt WAIT 4 my working day 2 end so I could go home and go 2 bed early 2 read it! In fact, it was THAT good that I when I neared the end, I didnt wanna read the last chapter, cuz I knew that would be IT. When I finished it, I cried. No book has ever affected me, and touched me so much.

...But it isnt without hope. There is much 2 find within its pages. What is amazing about the whole book is the way it is constructed, u start out reading what u THINK is the story, then it begins 2 twist and turn. BY three quarters of the way through, u will suddenly realise that there are a number of different ways 2 read the book (or rather read IN2 the book) and this throws the story's dynamic off in2 wild territories 4 your mind 2 ponder on. It's truly great stuff from a writer at the peak of his powers. And if that wasn't enough, it's based around a true story - which I'd say look in2 AFTER u have finished it. Im SO glad I was given this little gem, it's truly one of the best gifts I've ever recieved, and it made me remember just how FUN reading could be - by using that thing we all have called 'imagination' - In this day and age of TV, I fear we are slowly allowing that 2 fester and rot.

I recommend this book 2 everyone I can who appreciates a good story, it is nothing short of fantastic. I defy u not 2 engage with it!



Here's a brief synopsis:
The narrator of The Night Listener is Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio storyteller who has risen to national fame in San Francisco. Having just separated from his husband of ten years, Noone is adrift in pain and confusion when he receives unexpected comfort from a thirteen-year-old fan - Pete Lomax - in Wisconsin. He learns of Pete's existence when a publisher sends him a book the child has written about the unimaginable sexual abuse he has suffered, his consequent struggle with HIV infection and his new life with a psychologist named Donna, who has become his foster mother. Deserted by his lover and companion of ten years, Noone is now at a strangely vulnerable point in his life. Pete, wise beyond his thriteen years, becomes a sort of surrogate son to the storyteller through a series of long distance phone calls. But, just as the clouds begin to part for Gabriel, a question arises that casts doubt upon the very existence this miracle child. Desperate for the truth, Gabriel begins an odyssey that will throw his own stormy relationships - familial, romantic and erotic - into sharp perspective. A personal saga that turns into a mystery that turns back into a personal saga again, The Night Listener keeps us guessing as it as it keeps us reading. Along the way Maupin brilliantly explores the question of how we tell stories, and to whom, and why...

ANYONE ELSE READ THIS?
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