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Originally posted by rubyriva i just finished reading and highly recommend yann martel - life of pi and if you enjoyed the davinci code and are interested/curious about reading more on the knights templar, conspiracies, etc., then i highly recommend reading umberto eco - foucalt's pendulum. it starts a little slow, but stick with it, it's great! i really enjoyed the davinci code and foucalt's pendulum really helped me to be realistic about all of the 'what ifs' introduced by dan brown. next up is john grisham - the last juror for a light and entertaining summer read.

Thanx, ruby!

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Originally posted by rubyriva next up is john grisham - the last juror for a light and entertaining summer read.

Thats next or second next on my list.

Just these 2:

Iron John - Robert Bly

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover - Robert Moore & Douglas Gillette

Was in Barrie over the weekend and bought 4 novels at Chapters... actually, I was so lucky bc they had a deal going on, buy 3 get 1 free! I didn't even know, I just happened to decide to LIMIT myself to only purchasing 4 novels.

Hahahah, ask the girl I was with, I had a stack of 13 I was trying to decide between... and fuck was it hard! FAR TO HARD!!

Ended up buying:


Jennifer Fallon - TREASON KEEP (Book 2 of the Hythrum Chronicles)

George R. R. Martin - A GAME OF THRONES (Book 1 of A Song of Ice and Fire Saga)


John Case - THE SYNDROME and

John Case - THE 8TH DAY

Okay I just finished reading Portrait of a Killer, and I wasn't really impressed with the ending. As I mentioned before, I kind of enjoyed the book, but I didn't really like how the author jumped around a lot. The end I was really disappointed in though. The book is about Jack the Ripper right, and proving who he is. Well listen to what the last part of the book is (don't worry, it doesn't give anything away really)...it talks about how the guy who was Jack the Ripper, his wife died, and he didn't really marry her for love. Well he creamated her and was going to bury her by their house and have a nice ceremony and put a gravestone down with all this shit on it. What he did? He had a gravestone put down, with nothing special like he said (her family had to do it afterwards), and then during the ceremony, instead of burying her, he threw her ashes into the wind, which was blowing in such a way that the ashes blew all over the faces of her family.
I think that's pretty disturbing, but like I just didn't like how it ended on that note. I thought it would be something about how he was Jack the Ripper, and that the case was closed or something like that. Maybe it's just me.

Now I just started reading this other book...Itty Bitty Lies by Mary Kay Andrews. It's a girlie book, an easy read, and pretty good so far, (I'm about 100 pages in). It's about an OC type community and how all these couples are splitting up, and how everyone's trying to pretend that their families are perfect and not as corrupt as they actually are. When the husband of the main character takes off with all her money, she makes up this "little" lie about how he died. It seems like it'll be pretty funny. One thing I notice, they have a lot of commercial names in the book, like always mentioning McDonalds, Coca Cola, Home Depot...that kind of stuff, I just found it odd.

Sorry if this is long and babbly...I'm a little bit high!

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Originally posted by k@tie awwww you're too sweet!! to be honest, I don't know everything I will need, because I have to do it through correspondence it's so much harder because I have to teach myself everything, and can't ask an english teacher for help. And what do you need to know about Scott Fitzgerald? I just may be able to help you! ^_^ I'm not doing that language book YET, but I'm sure I will have to do it at some point during my course. UGH I hate correspondence!! If anyone wants to do my English credit for me, I will give you $20!!! p.s. Requiem for a Dream is supposed to be amazing. I hope to read that one too sometime

The book requiem for a dream, is the movie Requiem for a Dream based on it?

I like books which are sort of based on real facts but which twist the real facts a bit and create fiction out of them. For example, Dan Brown's the Da Vinci Code. In the book Dan Brown picks up on Christianity and its history and twists it completely to make an amazing fiction out it. After reading the book, I got really inqusitive about what the truth about this whole thing is - the people, the cults, the secret organizations, the rituals etc etc. I found it great reading and thought provoking.

Can you guys think of any book like that? I would love to pick up one of those types.

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Originally posted by adityaindian The book requiem for a dream, is the movie Requiem for a Dream based on it? I like books which are sort of based on real facts but which twist the real facts a bit and create fiction out of them. For example, Dan Brown's the Da Vinci Code. In the book Dan Brown picks up on Christianity and its history and twists it completely to make an amazing fiction out it. After reading the book, I got really inqusitive about what the truth about this whole thing is - the people, the cults, the secret organizations, the rituals etc etc. I found it great reading and thought provoking. Can you guys think of any book like that? I would love to pick up one of those types.

All of Michael Crichton's latest are like that. He does years and years of research before his next novel is released (kinda annoying when you're waiting 2-3 years to read his next novel! )

I think you'd really enjoy PREY and his most recent, FEAR. They are so bloody facinating and intruiging. You'll love them I'm sure... where he takes his novel is mindblowing! Trust me, you'll have a hard time wanting to put them down!

Also is his 3rd most recently novel, TIMELINE (but do not let the movie jade you, it's an awesome novel, the movie really wrecked if, IMO)

I'm almost finished Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone" (an Oprah selection). It's a moving read. You can get really emotionally involved with Dolores, the main character. Disturbing and explicit at times, though. But really good. Just finished the sequel to "something borrowed" called "something blue". Really great books, too! I remember something borrowed was a little slow to get into, but again, you either really love or hate the characters, and the second book puts you into the other ones shoes. I love how authors can make you love and hate a character, and how they redeem themselves. Like the Shopaholic books. Becky Bloomwood I can relate to, yet she drives me crazy!

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Originally posted by muzzybear I'm almost finished Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone" (an Oprah selection). It's a moving read. You can get really emotionally involved with Dolores, the main character. Disturbing and explicit at times, though. But really good. Just finished the sequel to "something borrowed" called "something blue". Really great books, too! I remember something borrowed was a little slow to get into, but again, you either really love or hate the characters, and the second book puts you into the other ones shoes. I love how authors can make you love and hate a character, and how they redeem themselves. Like the Shopaholic books. Becky Bloomwood I can relate to, yet she drives me crazy!

My friend totally loves the Shopaholic books! How are those? Like what are they about?

Also, Wally Lamb...there's another one I read by Wally Lamb, and was also in Oprah's selection...dammit what's it called? It's about two twin brothers, and one is schizophrenic. I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE! That's what it was...read that if you haven't already!

I'm reading tons of books this summer. Two in particular that I'm enjoying is.....

The Ecology of Commerce.....awesome book that opens your eyes to exactly what we are doing to this planet.

The Puppet Masters: Spies, Traitors, and the real forces behind world events.............great book, basically explores the history of spying and secret intelligence.

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Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~* My friend totally loves the Shopaholic books! How are those? Like what are they about? Also, Wally Lamb...there's another one I read by Wally Lamb, and was also in Oprah's selection...dammit what's it called? It's about two twin brothers, and one is schizophrenic. I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE! That's what it was...read that if you haven't already!

Ooh, thanks for the other Wally Lamb one.

Becky Bloomwood/Shopaholic, let's see... she overspends, and hates her job. She's very frusterating, because as you're reading you're like "no no!" But she redeems herself and is very endearing. Great books! The author just came out with a new one, too!

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Originally posted by muzzybear Ooh, thanks for the other Wally Lamb one. Becky Bloomwood/Shopaholic, let's see... she overspends, and hates her job. She's very frusterating, because as you're reading you're like "no no!" But she redeems herself and is very endearing. Great books! The author just came out with a new one, too!

Hmm sounds like it'd be a really fun read!
You should check out the other book I was talking about that I'm reading now. It's by Mary Kay Andrews, and it's called Little Bitty Lies. She has two otehr books out that I guess are like it too. But it's definatly a fun book to read, I just can't put it down!

I used to love the fluff books like the shopaholic series but now I find there is way too much of it at the bookstores. Every single book seems like sex and the city meets ______.

I'm actually reading plays these days and just finished up Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by tennessee williams. Any recommendations for what to start next?

My true love is and probably always will be Russian Lit. I've pretty much read most of Dostoyevsky's and Tolstoy's works. Love em!

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Originally posted by riskytrader I used to love the fluff books like the shopaholic series but now I find there is way too much of it at the bookstores. Every single book seems like sex and the city meets ______. I'm actually reading plays these days and just finished up Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by tennessee williams. Any recommendations for what to start next? My true love is and probably always will be Russian Lit. I've pretty much read most of Dostoyevsky's and Tolstoy's works. Love em!

I'm a huge fan of Russian lit, too! War and Peace was ok, loved Anna Karenina.. Haven't read Lolita yet, tho. My favourite was Crime and Punishment. I hear that freaky bastard Crispin Glover was in a film or made for TV version of it... would love to see it! He's so weird!

Have you read the screenplay for Angels in America? I was in an acting class and did the part that Mary Stuart Masterson played.

Just got this one today:

>Fire in the Belly - Sam Keen<

I read the DaVinci Code and it is a very good book I love the way he twists his information around which could be wrong but it still makes me wonder about everything in life...
anyways a little while back I picked up the biography on CHE I started reading it but a few days later my brother ended up stealing it from me he moved to london and took it with him, he currently changed his status to kingston once again and now I have my book back. I have been meaning to read it but I havent got a chance to just yet....anyways I want to finish this one before I pick up another.....

K just finished "A Single Step" by Heather Mills McCartney, and what a great read! She's had quite the life.... who'd have thought she'd go from living on the streets to marrying England's Top Beatle (arguable)!

I just started reading "edison's eve... A magical history of the quest for mechanical life" and funny, but in the introduction it has a quote from Umberto Eco (mentioned above)!

I just bought Porno by Irvine Welsh yesterday...it's the follow up to Trainspotting. I'm almost finished reading Little Bitty Lies, and hope to be starting that soon. I love working at the University Bookstore, b/c we get amazing discounts on brand new books. I got 4 books yesterday for 7 bucks!

Was watching CBC's The Hour with Georgie Porgie last night and saw this 21 year old kid who just published his second book:

"Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future" by Ben Shapiro.

I'd probably check that out...very interesting insights; kid goes to Harvard and seems pretty bright. He talks about a million miles an hour.

http://benjaminshapiro.com/book.html

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Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~* I love working at the University Bookstore, b/c we get amazing discounts on brand new books. I got 4 books yesterday for 7 bucks!

*jealous*

Well, I just killed another novel a week ago, "The Syndrome" by John Case. Fascinating! He's just an awesome thriller author!

Now I'm onto "The 8th Day" by John Case as well. It already looks interesting. The start has me intrigued -- I have a hunch this one's gonna be excellent and fast-paced. Very hard to put down! Cannot wait to start reading more of it... gotta focus on some other stuff for the next month or so though, so I prolly wont get through it anytime soon right now.

Hows everyone else's reading coming along? You finish all those books Lisa-Loo?? How was Porno!? Wish I could get such good deals on books like you. Im gonna have you buy books for me in the future now! And you can totally just mail them to me or just bring them to TO when u come up! ... that's completley a wicked-ass idea!!!! Whuddaya think girl....?!?!?!

Summer's almost over kids! this sucks

Jamie.

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Originally posted by Jem_hadar Hows everyone else's reading coming along? You finish all those books Lisa-Loo?? How was Porno!? Wish I could get such good deals on books like you. Im gonna have you buy books for me in the future now! And you can totally just mail them to me or just bring them to TO when u come up! ... that's completley a wicked-ass idea!!!! Whuddaya think girl....?!?!?!

I havne't finished all my books yet. I'm hoping to finish the one I'm reading before I go on vacation...it's called, How I Paid for College.
I haven't read Porno either yet, I want to watch Trainspotting right before I read it. Even though it doesn't really have anything to do with it, just the same characters, I want to watch it first. I may bring that with me to Hawaii. I want to have 2 fresh new books to bring with me.
I'll buy books for you, and mail them to you...but I'm charging crazy interest!

>The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People<

Guess I can be highly effective without snorting Ritalin..

I am reading "The Gift of Fear:Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence" by Gavin de Becker. Obviously it's about violence (mainly against women) and talks about how women need to learn to trust their intuition.
The author is an expert in predicting violent behaviour and says "True fear is a gift". The best chapter deals with a woman who was in her apartment building and a stranger who says he lives in the building too needs her help. He ends up raping her and she recounts to the author how she knew from the first time she saw this guy that he was going to rape her because he was so persistent but did it in a charming way.
Chapter 4: Survival Signals is great! It really gives you insight into people's motives and you soon realize you know more than a few people who fit the description.

Anyone with any interest in science simply MUST read Bill Bryson - Short history of nearly everything.

The book covers a lot of ground from "How was the universe formed?", to "How was the mass of the earth first calculated". It tells the story of Einstein, Newton, and many other often unknown scientists who are responsible for the state of science today.

Usually science books are dull, and full of very low level explanations that require deep knowledge of the subject. Not this one ! If you like science, or interested in history - you will find difficult to put this book down until you finish reading it.

Incredible book !

Plato: The Republic

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