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[babydoc_vic]

Currently reading 2 books (I am on holidays!)
No Logo by Naomi Klein - fascinating read about the evil's of mega-corporations and how they got to be that way (bit scary hey Josh?)
The Prozac Backlash by Joseph Glenmullen MD -about little publicised side-effects of SSRI's, why they are often inappropriately prescribed,and alternatives
Two all time fave books would have to be
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - a rousing comedy about heaven, hell and the apocolypse
The Ecstasy Club by Douglas Rushkoff - a tale of the eventual descent into chaos of a well-meaning commune of ravers

 

[MíkeySåmmy]

Horsey - good on ya for starting another book thread.

I agree - NO ONE should see the lord of the rings before reading the book. it is the classic of all classics. ive read it twice now, and i dont think it would ever lose its magic no matter how many i read it..
anyway .. current book is :
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
- "tells the magical story of the Buendia family, who love, lie, fight and rule for a century in Macondo, their settlement in the South American jungle."
the style of writing is amazing.. particularly seeing as though it has been translated from Spanish i think.. look im not a great book reviewer but this one is really really good.. its based on the history of this town, and the history of many generations of the main family. if anyone has read The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende, this is in a similar theme, but much more mysterious, more supernatural, and intriguing..
here i found a pretty good review here :

The mythic village of Macondo lies in northern Colombia, somewhere in the great swamps between the mountains and the coast. Founded by Jose Arcadio Buendia, his wife Ursula, and nineteen other families, "It was a truly happy village where no one was over thirty years of age and where no one had died." At least initially. One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles, through the course of a century, life in Macondo and the lives of six Buendia generations-from Jose Arcadio and Ursula, through their son, Colonel Aureliano Buendia (who commands numerous revolutions and fathers eighteen additional Aurelianos), through three additional Jose Arcadios, through Remedios the Beauty and Renata Remedios, to the final Aureliano, child of an incestuous union. As babies are born and the world's "great inventions" are introduced into Macondo, the village grows and becomes more and more subject to the workings of the outside world, to its politics and progress, and to history itself. And the Buendias and their fellow Macondons advance in years, experience, and wealth . . . until madness, corruption, and death enter their homes. From the gypsies who visit Macondo during its earliest years to the gringos who build the banana plantation, from the "enormous Spanish galleon" discovered far from the sea to the arrival of the railroad, electricity, and the telephone, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's classic novel weaves a magical tapestry of the everyday and the fantastic, the humdrum and the miraculous, life and death, tragedy and comedy--a tapestry in which the noble, the ridiculous, the beautiful, and the tawdry all contribute to an astounding vision of human life and death, a full measure of humankind's inescapable potential and reality.

 

[GhOst]

book threads get me everytime.

one of the best baits to get me reeled in.
most of my fave authors have been mentioned. but quite a few of them have been coming up with new stuff, happily for me.
Anne Rice is carrying on with the vampire series, altho i still think her Mayfair witches 3 part series has no equal. Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson have started a sequel series after Frank Herbert's Dune.
noone has mentioned Orson Scott Card... he rocks

. hes also started a parallel series to his beloved Ender's Game saga.
i wish someone would do the same for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
i find that there are some styles of writing that i just dont really enjoy. this could be controversial, but i didnt enjoy Lord of the Rings and Good Omens. nothing against the storylines, which i think are fantastic, its just the writing style and expression. i love Terry Pratchett on his own, but not combined with Neil Gaiman. maybe it was my mood at the time, maybe i'll give it another go when exams are over.

maybe its me being nitpicky.

 

[tari_aja]

here are my fav books, haven't been doin much reading lately, but i would reckomend all of these.
* awareness - anthony de mello
* one flew over the cuckoos nest - ken kesey
* boy - raul dahl
all classics in my eyes
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Tari aja the cat

 

[[awake]]

right now, im about 1/2 way through 'the dharma bums' by jack kerouac. good book, i didnt like the last book i read of his tho 'on the road'.. but picked this up anyway and im glad i did. before that i also re-read 'the animal farm' and actually understood & enjoyed it this time round.