Literature Thread

[Gollevainen]

We have had threads about music and computer games so it made me wonder, could we have a little thread about books as well. Now, I wont expect any 'intelingent' literacy critisism, simply listing what sort of books do you guys have read and what sort of literature you are find of...other than the Clancy's Bear nd Dragon, which get rather devastating 'reviews' from you few weeks back So give recomendations or wanr about falling into some commercial traps or declear me as bookworm, anyhting...or if you dare, hint that you have good manuscript hidden deep in your tablejar

Anyway, im more of sci-fi and high fantasy for myself, political thrillers and detective storyes are just too 'real' for me. Lately I have mostly readng some Tsugarski's brothers novels, Stalker expecially remained to my memory as one hell of a book...lot better than the movie. Also Robert Holdstock's Myhtago Wood could be mentioned as one of the best books I have read lately.

 

[isthvan]

Well I basically read any book that I can get in my hands… Classical literature, SF, fantasy, thrillers, military history books… Because of job I don’t have too much time lately for reading but I usually manage to read 2, 3 books a month…

Last 4 books I read were:
“Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho
“Starship Troopers” by R. A. Heinlein
“Gestapo” by Sven Hassel
“Stardust” by Neil Gaiman

 

[Finn McCool]

Goll and I have similar tastes...I like sort of metaphysical books, some of my favorites are anything by Ray bradbury, The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis, the Ender's Game Series, The Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allen Poe sgort stories, basically anything. And non-fiction.

 

[Obcession]

Here're a few books I recommend: (yes, I do read)

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein is ok so far, I haven't finished reading it.
The Holy Bible - unknown, and which is probably not relevant.
Lord of The Rings, The Silmarillion, Book of Unfinished Tales etc... of J.R.R. Tolkien's works.
Curse of the Mistwraith - Janny Wurts (I think?)
Oliver Twist - I have no idea, never bothered to check.
How the Steel is Tempered - No idea, never bothered to remember it because his name was like 7 Chinese syllables (I've read it in Chinese, but it's available in Russian and English as well).
And of course, the most renouned of all, the Art of War by Sun Tzu.
Thirty Six Strategies - a collection of 36 strategies. Often published together with the Art of War.
The Little Red Book (quotations from Mao) - I'm not saying you should believe it or treasure it, I'm saying you should study it in further understanding the Cultural Revolution.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - very nice epic.
A few of Shakespeare's plays wouldn't hurt either, but it depends on your taste. I'm currently studying R&J in ELA...

 

[SteelBird]

Do you guys read Chinese novals?

I was a book fan in my teenage, but I became lazier when I got older and older. but I did read a book recently, it took me about one month to finish it. "尋秦記", the book title seem translate into English as "Back to the past". The book generally talk about a guy who is from the special force, experienced a lab test and was sent back to the past -- the Qin dynasty. In the ancient time, he acted himself like a people of the Qin, and never mentioned about his true back ground. The "future" is transperant to him, and he acted accordingly, and always succeeded. He experienced how the Qin was founded up, he even brought up and helped Ying Zheng (Qin Shi Huang) to found up the dynasty. He leaved the Qin for the North of Great Wall (塞外), and led a peaceful life there after defeating all the traitors.

Currently I'm reading another book which I bought a few days ago, it costed me US$14, cheap? The book's title is "Microsoft C# Programming", anybody's interested in it?

 

[KYli]

I had read 尋秦記 many years ago, but it only took me few days. When I am a teenager, i loved to read. Since my Chinese is no good back then, I made myself to read as many Chinese books as possible. My ESL teacher was not too happy by then, she told me I should read more english books rather than Chinese . I knew she is right, but nevertheless I ignore her opinion like all teenagers were.

I think I had read over a thousand chinese novels or maybe more, mostly fictional but in the later years I spended more times on historian and science books. Eventhrough nowadays I don't read as much, but I still try to read few books a month. Since over the years I become a fast reader, it didn't took much of my valuable times .

 

[isthvan]

Joust finished “Criptonomicon” by Neal Stephenson… Great book, probably best book I read in last few months. I joust have to recommend it to you guys… Read it and you won’t be disappointed…