I am a devoted bookworm from a long line of bookworms on both the maternal and paternal side. Which means I read everything in sight. My favorite books are fiction, and I like SF, Fantasy and Historic Fiction and Humour.
My favourite authors are :
James H Schmitz
Lois McMaster Bujold
Steve Miller & Sharon Lee
Patricia Briggs
Roald Dahl
Terry Pratchett
Authors whom I wouldn't read if I was stranded on a desert island for ever and ever with only one book and no chance of rescue.
hmm the only book that i liked from all the books that i read in school was 'OF MICE AND MEN' i think.
lol i cant remeber any books that i read but i do read books. lol
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Three simple rules in life:
1) If you do not go after what you want, you will never have it
2) If you don't ask, the answer will always be no.
3) If you do not step forward, you'll always be in the same place
Hey, isn't Neal Stephenson the guy who wrote Snow Crash. You get more adrenaline from reading one of his books than from being in a plane crash. (I think, though I haven't been in a plane crash for ages and can't be sure)
Same author. I haven't read any of his other books, but I certainly will have to.
If you're interested in history and have a spare six months, deffinetly read the baroque cycle. 3000 pages long, but well worth it.
I'm reading a book on Peter Jennings... A Reporter's Life: Peter Jennings. It has quotes about his life from his friends and family. It's such a awesome book..and makes me really miss his reporting so much more.
That reminds me, the books (especially the first) by John Simpson, the premier BBC foreign correspondent, are excellent.
hmm the only book that i liked from all the books that i read in school was 'OF MICE AND MEN' i think.
lol i cant remeber any books that i read but i do read books. lol
Hey i was gona mention 'Of Mice and Men' lol we had to read that for our GCSEs back in school yeno that was a really cool book we also read 'An Inspector Calls' I actually really enjoyed them and would recommend them all thing is we covered them in soooo much detail so i dunno if it would be the same for others reading them, tho they're very well known throughout the world
Things i'd say don't waste your time on is shakespeare and Boewulf (mind you i think i was only put off coz of the way my english teacher read it to us in year 7... man he just had this really drony voice that was so without expression and went on in the same never ending tone and sounded like sum one was turning sum sort of invisible volume control up and down...bad experience lol)
Things i'd say don't waste your time on is shakespeare and Boewulf
Don't waste your time at school, anyway. Shakespeare and Beowulf are both great, but compared to today's writing they're very hard work, even if you can understand them. To get anything out of them, you really have to want to read them.
But anyway, neither are meant to be read. They're meant to be performed. Go see a shakespeare play, or a reading of Beowulf (which is a warrior's epic, meant to be sung in a mead hall with plenty of interruption, freestyling and exaggeration) and you'll see them in a completely different way.
aw lol you in the US right? And you agree that its a hell here right? And you hate school books right? Aww ur such a me
ya i wanna get my arabic skills better too. Inshallah i can become a hafith then quran would be my first (and ONLY) memorized book
Do you like islamic books?
Any favorites?
sorry im getting back to you so late....busy with memorizing the only book worth memorizing and tryin to learn the beautiful language it was brought down in....
yea i love Islamic books!!! sorry had a moment there lol...i havnt really bought any..yet that is nsh ALLAH i will..i usually surf the net,ive learned more the last couple of months about Islam then i have in my life..its sad but im glad ive tured my lif around,i was really never too bad but u no how america is,nothin is a big deal,big sins are treated as if they were nothing...but which books do u suggest i read
I highly doubt it lol... maybe Boewulf but I definately stand by what I said regarding Shakespeare
My fav Islamic book is 'Stories of the Prophets by Ibn kathir' their stories are truly amazing and generally stories of the companions of the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) and great women of Islaam they're stories are really moving and have loads of lessons to be learnt. These are the tue role models of Islaam.
I think books are among the most important things that humans have, and we should regard them with care and respect as a medium. Some of the most important things I've learned have been from books, and I couldn't imagine being cut off from everything they offer.
The two writers I most enjoy are W. Shakespeare and James Joyce. It would take me a long time to describe all the things that make them so special, but in a nutshell it's their total mastery of language that draws me in. The works of these two men contain probably the largest vocabularies of any writers in English, maybe in any language at all. They are capable of being profound, cathartic, deeply funny, and a lot more besides.
It's strange how your reactions to a book can change with time. I remember reading 'Of Mice And Men' at school and hating it for being the dullest thing in the world, but when I read it later on the writing just blazed off the page. It's a very good story about friendship, which is the main reason why it'll be on school English syllabuses for the foreseeable future.
Harry Potter was tite dont even lie if u say its not cool ur jealous
And Kite Runner was a good book.
Those are the only 2 books Ive read in the past 2 years ( Besides Quran) but they were pretty sick.
I hate Shakespeare I just use sparknotes.com to get by in school
yes, kiterunner was very good. so was his 2nd one, a thousand splendid suns.
i just finished reading my first (adult) book written in comic book form. i bought it because i loved the movie (which is an animated film).
percepolis by marjane satrapi.
it's autiobiographical - the authour grew up in iran, first under the shah, then through the revolution then through the iran-iraq war. it is told from the view point of a child and young girl.
i can't praise this book enough. it's about an iranian and life in iran (and later in exile). but it is much more universal than that - it's about the human spirit under tyranny. it contains much sorrow and also great humour as you see the world through the eyes of this kid, who actually sees the world like many, many kids.
the movie is very close to the book, but the animations are sooo beautiful. (it's almost entirely black and white). oddly enough, animation and all - it was the most "real" movie i have ever seen.
these days i don't read nearly as much as i used to - probably because i read too much on the computer.
each man thinks of his own fleas as gazelles
question authority
I dont know why, but the book that I really love to read is "Road to Mecca" by Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss).... just love it...
And the book that I hate the most is "Hikayat Hang Tuah" (Stories of Hang Tuah). Hang Tuah was a Malay legendary warrior.. Why I really hate the book:
1) It's written in Classical Malay, which I couldnt understand about half of it.
2) The stories are mostly too mythical...
3) I was forced by my Malay Language teacher to read it for exams..
4) It's too thick.
betul ker...i think is hard in malay literature...i last time have a component literature from B.M...and lotsa novel to read for malay language exam...really making me crazy...! pening...
Hey i was gona mention 'Of Mice and Men' lol we had to read that for our GCSEs back in school yeno that was a really cool book we also read 'An Inspector Calls' I actually really enjoyed them and would recommend them all thing is we covered them in soooo much detail so i dunno if it would be the same for others reading them, tho they're very well known throughout the world
Things i'd say don't waste your time on is shakespeare and Boewulf (mind you i think i was only put off coz of the way my english teacher read it to us in year 7... man he just had this really drony voice that was so without expression and went on in the same never ending tone and sounded like sum one was turning sum sort of invisible volume control up and down...bad experience lol)
yeh we had too read that for our GCSE
btw i dont even like shakespeare lol.
but we had to read romeo and juliet lol that was soooo boring. the teacher always shouted at me when we get to do shakepear's work.
Three simple rules in life:
1) If you do not go after what you want, you will never have it
2) If you don't ask, the answer will always be no.
3) If you do not step forward, you'll always be in the same place
u find it boring aww it was sad. did u watch the film?
Three simple rules in life:
1) If you do not go after what you want, you will never have it
2) If you don't ask, the answer will always be no.
3) If you do not step forward, you'll always be in the same place
^Yep, we watched it at school when we finished reading the book... and yeh it was pretty sad when that guy killed Lenny (that was his name, right?), but it really is not my type of genre...
Oh, how could I forget The Outsiders, that was the best book we ever read in school!
format_quote Originally Posted by czgibson
It's strange how your reactions to a book can change with time. I remember reading 'Of Mice And Men' at school and hating it for being the dullest thing in the world, but when I read it later on the writing just blazed off the page. It's a very good story about friendship, which is the main reason why it'll be on school English syllabuses for the foreseeable future.
Man, how long has this book been on the syllabus??
The people in our class laughed at that part for some reason!
yea we also had to read it and it will be on the syllabus fpr as long as people read..its so fresh in my head cuz i jus got done readng it this past semester...everyone has to read it uring their 11 grade year...the only book we didnt read was "kiterunner"..i watched the movie,i know it was on the syllabus but idk y they took it off
by the way i hate harry potter with a passion,oi wouldnt sit that epic if i got paid...plus i heard due to the magic n stuff we"re not suppose to read it.ALLAH(SWA) Knows best
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