Istoryan Readers: Book reviews and recommendations~

[MrBiddle]

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anyone read this?

what's the twist ending? :P

[MrBiddle]

The Dennis the Menace graphic novels
by

Hank Ketcham.

very simple linear drawings and very witty one-liner captions.

[dessay]

just finished reading The Alchemist...

and i agree it should be part on anyone's favorite novels...


The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a good read too... thought provoking and disturbing.

[anniepetilla]

fight club - chuck palahniuk
the tesseract - alex garland
the drifters - james michener
tess of the d'urbervilles - thomas hardy
100 yrs of solitude - marquez
lord of the flies - golding
1984 - orwell
we the living - ayn rand
ambot oi, so many favourites... most asimov, allende,palahniuk, garland,gaiman
hahaha. almost all! and almost all genres exept sappy love stories and steele/devereux and them books with muscular long haired men holding half naked swooning women.

drooling. pahiram naman. read coraline already? loved the sandman. loved tom.hate steele.

personal favorite: noli me tangere translation by de guzman--the more archaic the sentence structure, the more appealing it is. gorgeous prose. favorite chapter: elias. also dubbed as the Lost Chapters. the pages not originally included on the first printing of the manuscript.

[angelfyre]

books by:

jk rowling [of cors!]
dan brown
sidney sheldon
stephen king
isaac asimov
robert ludlom
robin cook
anne rice
edgar allan poe
edith hamilton's mythology
various new age books
the alchemist
those poems by pablo neruda
the art of war by sun tzu
...and many more. lost count.

[oliver_g0110]

Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels
Belljar - Sylvia Plath
Arial - Sylvia Plath
Run away Jury - John Grisham
Rainmaker - John Grisham
Exorcist - forgot the author

and many more... but these stuffs really blew me away!

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[BayouPinoy]

The Prophet- K. Gibran
The Fountainhead-Ayn Rand
Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls-E. Hemingway
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek-A. Dillard

It has been a while since I read a book, but the above short list summarizes what I thoroughly enjoyed reading. I read The Fountainhead in high school by accident--I was requested to return it to somebody. Out of curiousity I read the first page, then the 2nd, until I just couldn't put it down. The Dillard book was a requirement in a graduate course I snuck into. I ended up really liking the book. And Hemingway, what can I say, I love his books...

[MrBiddle]

I love Tag-Lish. Nagsi-***... Magmi-make love lang tayo sa hangin, etc

You can't say those two in Cebuano without using the vulgar term in the dialect or say it in English nalang.

fighter kaayo libroha.

[pnoize]

there is a reason why this book was written in tag-lish. it was meant to make the reader feel as if he / she was just talking to a friend or listening to a lecture by ricky lee.

[MrBiddle]

there is a reason why this book was written in tag-lish. it was meant to make the reader feel as if he / she was just talking to a friend or listening to a lecture by ricky lee.

that's why i love it