Books you love or hate

[chacha_jalebi]

There's a nuclear war and some British evacuee kids get plane-wrecked on a remote island where they build a society that eventually falls apart into barbarism, highlighting the absurdities of militarism and hatred.

i love you for the sake of Allah (Swt)!!, you male mermaid

although i wouldnt call it barbarism, it was just a bit of fun espeically when they throw the boulder over piggy and he dies

 

[Fishman]

i love you for the sake of Allah (Swt)!!

That's a very nice thing to say brother...

you male mermaid

That's not so nice... laying:

although i wouldnt call it barbarism, it was just a bit of fun espeically when they throw the boulder over piggy and he dies

Yup, spearing people whilst chanting about violence and death sure is ace! I for one believe that what society needs is in fact a bit more of this virtuous and innocent behaviour if we wish to coexist with eachother peacefully!

 

[Ali.]

SPOILER REMOVED!

Who's gonna' read the book now you've spoiled it? Edit your post immediately!

 

[chacha_jalebi]

erm fishy fishy was that sarcasm i smelt, cough cough post edit couugh cough

ali ali ali my good man, we all watch cricket, when we know someone is goin to win or lose so isnt that kind of a spoiler :embarrass

lol and thats only one part of the book, its a kool book inshallah i wana read it again

 

[crayon]

Here is a list of novels that many readers have enjoyed - perhaps you might find something to your taste there. It says 'Cool reads for cool teens', which is slightly patronising, but, really, these books could be enjoyed by people beyond teenagerdom as well.

I've read the first 3, liked them all.

 

[highlander]

guys I feel old...

Only one of you enjoyed W. Shakespeare and James Joyce? And how about poetry? Noone reads/likes poetry anymore? How about Fleur du Mal i had to study it in French lit and i hated it at that time, just to find out few years later how great it was.
My all time favourite- Portrait by Joyce and Ulysses (only first vol),
Taming of the shrew- w. shakespeare
faulkner- the sound and the fury,
100 years of solitude- marquez

 

[Fishman]

guys I feel old...

Only one of you enjoyed W. Shakespeare and James Joyce? And how about poetry? Noone reads/likes poetry anymore? How about Fleur du Mal i had to study it in French lit and i hated it at that time, just to find out few years later how great it was.
My all time favourite- Portrait by Joyce and Ulysses (only first vol),
Taming of the shrew- w. shakespeare
faulkner- the sound and the fury,
100 years of solitude- marquez

Poetry is cool, but not the weird gangsta rap stuff that people write round here...

As for Shakespeare, he's probably a good author, I'm just not mature enough yet to enjoy it. I find the language hard to understand as well, it makes reading quite difficult.

 

[highlander]

I heard few pretty good "gangsta' " poems, Im not alot interested rap and r&b so i just heard, appreciate and forgot them. But i remember they were qute vivid and real. Aaa, I liked few of Eminem's lyrics. Does it count?

As for W. S., I'm sure the beauty of his lyric is not going to fade, again, the topics he chose for his stories will always be "contemporan" regardelss how many centuries pass by.

 

[czgibson]

Greetings...

guys I feel old...

Only one of you enjoyed W. Shakespeare and James Joyce?

...and hello there.

And how about poetry? Noone reads/likes poetry anymore?

"Great thing of us forgot!" (See if you can spot that one kay

There's no doubt about it, poetry, as traditionally understood, is not read as widely as it has been in the past. At one stage, it was the main form for serious writing in English, at the time when prose was for namby-pamby hack writers. Still, it depends on what you mean by poetry. Is it a linguistic form, intended to be heard more than read? Partly, yes, which is why I believe that today's poetry can be found, among other places, in the lyrics of popular songs. It's pretty much taken for granted that the verbal outpourings of rap music bear more than a passing resemblance to poetry. One of our greatest living poets agrees (see here). People are still getting their poetry fix, just in different ways than they have in the past.

My all time favourite- Portrait by Joyce and Ulysses (only first vol),

Very good choices. I would say that, since I can do nothing but shower with praise the entirety of Joyce's written work.

Why just the first volume of Ulysses, out of interest?

Taming of the shrew- w. shakespeare

:?

Peace

 

[mediadave]

As for W. S., I'm sure the beauty of his lyric is not going to fade

And then of course there are Shakespeare's wonderful Sonnets

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

 

[czgibson]

Greetings,

Good to see Sonnet 130 getting an airing. If you're reading it for the first time, make sure you read right through to the last two lines - they're important.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

Here's what some of the unusual words mean:

dun (l. 3)- brown
damask'd (l. 5) - coloured
reeks (l. 8) - stinks
go (l. 11) - (in this case) walk
she (l. 14) - (in this case) woman
belied (l. 14) - lied about

Peace, and enjoy.

 

[highlander]

Happy you guys agree....

Great thing of us forgot!- You must be reffering to a great quote from...king lear when he forgets about Lear and Cordelia...I might be old but I only forget what i read an hour ago, not what I read in Youth days.

Ah and yes you are right Dave, let us not forget the sonnets.

 

[highlander]

Gibson, its a beautiful one. My fav is sonnet 75 though...though I cannot express exactly why, maybe for the simple reason that I got it right from the first time, and i didn't have to read it 10 other times to get glipses of the million senses.

Some people manage to memorise holy books, others poetry...strange world we live in... I wonder if there are some here who know by heart a poet's work as religiously as their faith scripture- whether islamic, christian, hindus etc.

I hope I am not offending anyone but sometimes poetry becomes so beautiful- also if it incoporates an epic segment- that it becomes religion- e.g. Ramayana &Mahabharata.

 

[truemuslim]

lol to kill a mockingbird. :raging: by the title. hell no. by the way my brothers described it , hell hell hell no. by the fact u read it at school...:X not gonna comment on that one (it would be safer for the forum )

Ima try that book yall talked bout...forget the title already, something bout a dog and night...

one question before i waste time... Issit anything like those loser doggy books where a kid saves up to buy a dog, the dog goes thru alot, the kid goes thru a lot, tear tear, doggy dies, kid grows up, the end?? coz if so, ew.

you kno, every single book i have ever read in my life, i had to skim thru it, all of it. so a total i read like 10/200 pages and if its for school, just google a summary * note: dont always rely on it, the teachers have eyes on ur computer!!

why do ppl read anyway? this is why people got movies now

 

[Ali.]

one question before i waste time... Issit anything like those loser doggy books where a kid saves up to buy a dog, the dog goes thru alot, the kid goes thru a lot, tear tear, doggy dies, kid grows up, the end?? coz if so, ew.

Nope.

I'll give you a quick summary:

It's basically a boy's investigation to find out who killed a dog near where he lived, but not just any boy, this boy has Aspergers Syndrome, and the way the book is written raises awareness of the syndrome and allows you to understand how people with Aspergers think, and how they'd act around strangers, etc. etc., it's really interesting once you get into it, and that doesn't mean skimming the whole book!

 

[Re.TiReD]

Greetings,

Good to see Sonnet 130 getting an airing. If you're reading it for the first time, make sure you read right through to the last two lines - they're important.



Here's what some of the unusual words mean:

dun (l. 3)- brown
damask'd (l. 5) - coloured
reeks (l. 8) - stinks
go (l. 11) - (in this case) walk
she (l. 14) - (in this case) woman
belied (l. 14) - lied about

Peace, and enjoy.

I sutdied that at school. Pfft I prefer Benjamin Zephaniah

Happy you guys agree....

Great thing of us forgot!- You must be reffering to a great quote from...king lear when he forgets about Lear and Cordelia...I might be old but I only forget what i read an hour ago, not what I read in Youth days.

Ah and yes you are right Dave, let us not forget the sonnets.

Ahh Good Ol' King Lear....studied him last year

lol to kill a mockingbird. :raging: by the title. hell no. by the way my brothers described it , hell hell hell no. by the fact u read it at school...:X not gonna comment on that one (it would be safer for the forum )

Lol sis its a raddd book :shade:

Here is a list of novels that many readers have enjoyed - perhaps you might find something to your taste there. It says 'Cool reads for cool teens', which is slightly patronising, but, really, these books could be enjoyed by people beyond teenagerdom as well.

I only read 4 from that list :muddlehea

 

[truemuslim]

Nope.

I'll give you a quick summary:

It's basically a boy's investigation to find out who killed a dog near where he lived, but not just any boy, this boy has Aspergers Syndrome, and the way the book is written raises awareness of the syndrome and allows you to understand how people with Aspergers think, and how they'd act around strangers, etc. etc., it's really interesting once you get into it, and that doesn't mean skimming the whole book!

kwl. ok ima try nd read it. if the first 4 chapters are boring...:thumbs_do

sounds interesting tho

now what was it called?

 

[Ali.]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.

 

[truemuslim]

thats the title or the summary????? Ooh wow. umm....thank u

 

[Ali.]

^ It's the name of the book, yeah.