yay, kris, when you finish, i'd love to borrow it. i bike a lot and since it's not hazardous enough in vienna, i will listen to cd's while i bike... or somesuch.
I finished reading a collection of essays by the late Karl Popper in a paperback edition entitled "Conjectures and Refutations". I would only recommend reading it if you were able to understand every pronouncement made by Lawrence Fishburne in the three "Matrix" movies.
I liked Shipping News too, but I read it a while ago and forget the specifics of why I did.
I'm reading John Le Carre's Absolute Friends. Am mired down by long rants, might not make it though to the end.
I finished reading both of Yao Ming's books. Before you judge the book at least read it. One is called "The Tao of Yao" the other is called "Yao A Life in Two Worlds" (or something like that). Both great books I like the second one better though because if those are Yao Ming's words then he has spoken well about himself about China and his background. If you're not a basketball fan you don't need to be because it's more than just basketball and that's what the second book entails.
finished
God Save the Sweet Potato Queens
and
The Sweet Potato Queens Big Ass Cookbook and Financial Planner
on the weekend.
Now I'm on to Great Fortune, the epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent. It was Pulitzer prize finalist. We'll see. It's not nearly as "real" as any of the sweet potato queen books.
Been awhile:
I'm doing two now:
Friday Night Lights in paper
A Walk In The Woods on CD
I just finished, in sequence, John LeCarre's Absolute Friends, Nancy Taylor Rosenburg's Sullivan's Law, and Lorenzo Carcaterra's Paradise City. (You can tell I've hit the grocery store bookstall).
I barely made it to the end of Absolute Friends, which seemed an excursion into LeCarre's mental terrain, all characters with a similar voice whatever their position in the plot. The end held some interest.
I hope to remember next time not to buy a N T Rosenburg book - for me her writing and characters are too stiff; it reminds of another writer I find that way, Linda something, a woman who writes about a woman prosecutor.
Paradise City - I liked it, will try to pick up more of his books when I am in a best seller thriller type mode (rare), even though the violence is so forthright.
Hey guys, what do you think would be the best victorian era novel to read for my english class? Something not too long preferably, but a good interesting read that has a clear theme in it.
How about some good Dickens;
the battle of life
haunted man
or
christmas carol
just a few suggestions
I agree re Dickens. Probably the most accessible Victorian novelist. "Oliver Twist" is a good place to start...
Well I finished Seymour Martin Lipset "Political Man". Amazing book. It certainly gave me some insights and it certainly informed me about the changes in American society to this point.
Now I'm giving my brain a much-needed rest. "Weapons of Choice - World War 2.1" by John Birmingham, an Australian novelist noted for his first so-called slacker cult classic "He Died with a Falafel in his Hand" (which I haven't read). This one (Weapons of Choice) is an alternative history story. A Naval task force travels from 2121 to 1942 and mixes it with the Imperial Japanese Navy in WW2.
Not a leisure book, it's a part of studies. Anyways here goes... "Dream of the Red Chamber." By Tsao Hsueh-Chin. I haven't finished reading the book yet. I should be 1/3 through it soon though.
Sex, Sex, and More Sex-Sue Johanson
I'm reading Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson
State fo Fear - Michael Crichton seems too serious to offer this forum discussion but is very good and a rapid read because you want to know what happens. Three men on the bummel is funny too.
One book though from the thirty or so I've read so far this year has to be
Drum Rolll 'We need to talk about Kevin ' Lionel Shriver...
A shocking beautifully written body blow of a book . It left me feeling physically bruised incredible :wink:
I've finally got round to reading A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth - thoroughly enjoying it.
The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America by Margaret Hope Brown. Very interesting addition to my knowledge of the history of the US and the UK during the 1600s.
Still reading Friday Night Lights, but I'm listening to Ambush At Fort Bragg a novella about a producer.
Dream of the Red Chamber... as an assignment... the names make the story all the more complicated... ugh... some of it is interesting though.
