Books you love or hate

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czgibson said:
Greetings,

I'm currently reading Herman Melville's Moby Dick and it's an absolute belter so far. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to see the extraordinary effects the English language can be used to create.

Peace
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It's excellent, isn't it? I found the opening act, so to speak, rather funny in places. Queequeg's shaving habits. :)

I need to move on to Conrad or Woolfe for my next classic...
 
Lately I've read the Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Awesome story! The Three Mustekeers was okay,. but not as good. Some parts I found very hard to come to grips with (like how casually people duel to death over the smallest thing, the way all the mistresses are married women etc!)

Also read Lord of the Rings. Took ages because I'd stop reading at all the boring parts, but I loved it over all!

Oh, and Twilight. How I wish I hadn't wasted $17 on the worlds most over rated story...

I've also read some delightful childrens books by Diana Wynne Jones from the Chrestomanci series. Very nice, but a bit too childish for my liking.

czgibson said:
If you want to find a way into some of the older texts that are out there in English Literature, you could try Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (which is much more than a children's book)
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I actually tried reading that a few days ago. I gave up pretty soon though... it was just boring. And there was no dialogue!!!

or Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (which also might not be quite what you expect).
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I've really been wanting to read that...

سلثتحعرين!;1077509 said:
But i am also a fan of fanfiction. I love to read peoples talents.
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Wow, me too! :-[ Never thought I'd meet someone else... :D It's to find ones that are well written though.
 
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hmm, for most muslims the qur'an is very important, I don't think we need to stress that in every post though. I myself don't love the qur'an, nor do I hate it, it's a holy text that is to be studied and contemplated, not an object of love or hate, nor something to be read like a novel which is mostly the point of this thread..I think..
^off topic, no offense intended :)
 
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Well, the Quran is a book, and the thread is about 'Books you love or hate', so it's fine. :)
 
ok i've heard of this twilight.. and Harry Puttar is ok... dont kill me... but JK R didnt make a nice 19 years later in the last book... ok i'll stop talking about HP now... :ermm:
 
sevgi said:
Twilight should die. So should Harry Potter.

Just die. Die. Die. Die.
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Nice. Bit morbid aren't we?

Personally, I hate the craze surrounding the series Harry Potter and Twilight. But the books themselves are exceptionally written
 
Mujahidah4Allah said:
ok i've heard of this twilight.. and Harry Puttar is ok... dont kill me... but JK R didnt make a nice 19 years later in the last book... ok i'll stop talking about HP now... :ermm:
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I defo agree there. But the 19 years later section was written before the first book. So you can raelly telling her writting ability had progressed and matured since then.
 
oooh i didnt know that... but one thing i have to say is why she never mentioned , unless i didnt read the book properly... about that veiled place in the Ministry which Sirius died in... u knw?

wa/salam
 
Mujahidah4Allah said:
oooh i didnt know that... but one thing i have to say is why she never mentioned , unless i didnt read the book properly... about that veiled place in the Ministry which Sirius died in... u knw?

wa/salam
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Oh yeah. . . I can't really remember to be honest. I think it is the "after life". Like sirius fell into the next world and couldn't get back. I think she didn't stress on an explanation too much because it's mixing magic/fantasy with religious beliefs. So it's dodgy ground and mixing genres :)
 
Anyone read "the time traveler's wife"?
Love it.

"Stuff white people like" is very amusing. Not literature material, but amusing. Reading it made me feel so whiiite!

"the glass castle" was a nice, well written, wacky memoir..

Anyone read Joyce's "a portrait of the artist as a young man"? Is it any good, I've been wanting to read it for a while now..
 
I think I'll have a gander at 'The Time Traveller's Wife'. The book that is, not Doc Brown's missus.

Anyone like Palanhiuk's stuff?
 
^Nope, haven't read "Fight Club", but I have seen the movie.
 
We choke is supposed to be really. . . ew. lol It was recommended to me but it has Shaitaan all over it
 

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