Books you love or hate

[Danah]

have anyone read Victor Hugo's novel "the miserable"?
its soo amazing.....actually it made me cry when I reached the end

 

[Muezzin]

, only a few though.

Fortunately, Shadows of Mindor does not require you to have read the other bazillion books in the Star Wars series. So look out for it in your library

right it NOW muwezzyn, NOW
how many pages:?

Well, novels aren't measured in pages - they're measured in words. And they tend to contain around 100,000 of 'em. Which is... slightly daunting.

Still outlining the dang thing. A couple of plot points (and, heck, an entire character or two or three) may alienate certain demographics, however. Oh well.

if its anything like your coconut story it'll be great inshallah

Jazakallah and inshallah.

have anyone read Victor Hugo's novel "the miserable"?
its soo amazing.....actually it made me cry when I reached the end

'Les Miserables' is another classic to add to the ole' reading list. Might as well bung 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' on it, too.

 

[alcurad]

I know Muezzin, I didn't think you knew

never did finish les miserables-Arabic translation-, too depressing or something like that.

 

[Danah]

'Les Miserables' is another classic to add to the ole' reading list. Might as well bung 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' on it, too.

what is the 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' about?

 

[alcurad]

a hunchback in notre dame,,what else

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/hunchback/summary.html

 

[Raizins]

what is the 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' about?

Isn't it about a gypsy falling in love with a hunchback? >< I watched the Disney movie aaaages ago.

 

[Muezzin]

Isn't it about a gypsy falling in love with a hunchback? >< I watched the Disney movie aaaages ago.

In the Disney movie the ugly hunchback heroically saves the beautiful gypsy, who promptly marries some handsome blond guy.

Moral of the story - don't judge a book by its cover, kids. But if it's physically unattractive, you shouldn't marry it.

It was all downhill after Aladdin and The Lion King...

 

[Danah]

have anyone read (Al Shi'a wa Al Sunnah)....for Ehsan Ilahi Thaheer....he was a Pakistani guy, was really brave in dawah and in revealing all true facts about Shi'a
I rly recommend everyone here to read it

 

[Danah]

a hunchback in notre dame,,what else

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/hunchback/summary.html

Oh yeah now I remembered that story....I remembered I saw it as a cartoon story when I was a child....thanks for the link

 

[crayon]

Anyone here a fan of Virginia Woolf???

I read her short story "the Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection" today.
I think I'm in love.
I'm trying to get it online, but I can't seem to find it anywhere!

I've also seen "the Hours", a film in which 3 different stories revolve around her novel, "Mrs. Dalloway", and loved it.

I love the way she writes. Plus I have a slight obsession with stream of consciousness writing, and she does it so well.

 

[seeker-of-light]

i like books for the most part
however there are a few that my teacher made us read in class, which i absoultly hated to read'one was called "the chocolate war" and the other was called "the lord of the flies"
for me it was for a class project so i couldnt get out of reading them, but if anyone ever asks you to read them just for fun....DONT!!!

 

[Tony]

i like books for the most part
however there are a few that my teacher made us read in class, which i absoultly hated to read'one was called "the chocolate war" and the other was called "the lord of the flies"
for me it was for a class project so i couldnt get out of reading them, but if anyone ever asks you to read them just for fun....DONT!!!

But Lord of the flies is excellent. People try to read more poetry, classics, modern o any other. True beauty of words are in poetry.

 

[Musaafirah]

No fingerprints by Sona Mahtani.
First in a series of books called the Bijlee series.
It was an okayish read considering it was written in 1993 and based on the recession with purely fictitious characters.

 

[crayon]

Ulysses by James Joyce, anyone?

 

[Layla454]

Ulysses by James Joyce, anyone?

I was thinking of getting it but didn't in the end.

 

[crayon]

I was thinking of getting it but didn't in the end.

I was reading about post World War I literature yesterday, and how everyone was disillusioned, and how the novels and poetry of that time reflected that.. It sounds so interesting! Ulysses was mentioned as an example, as was "the Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot, which I'm going to read online inshaAllah.

 

[Layla454]

I was reading about post World War I literature yesterday, and how everyone was disillusioned, and how the novels and poetry of that time reflected that.. It sounds so interesting! Ulysses was mentioned as an example, as was "the Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot, which I'm going to read online inshaAllah.

The 'Waste Land' certainly reflects the emptiness that people experienced after the First World War. Its pretty long though!

 

[crayon]

The 'Waste Land' certainly reflects the emptiness that people experienced after the First World War. Its pretty long though!

Yeah, it's reeeally long, I've skimmed it over.. I'm saving it for when I've got a lot of time in my hands, so I can read it slowly and fully appreciate it.

 

[Layla454]

Yeah, it's reeeally long, I've skimmed it over.. I'm saving it for when I've got a lot of time in my hands, so I can read it slowly and fully appreciate it.

'Birdsong' is another book set around that period of time too

 

[crayon]

'Birdsong' is another book set around that period of time too

Just googled it, sounds great! Apparently it's a trilogy as well.. Definitely check it out inshaAllah.:thumbs_up